Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The Polson City Commissioners voted not to renew Polson City Manager Todd Crossett's contract at their Dec. 3 meeting. Crossett’s contract requires that the commission notify him six months before the June 15 contract date if they intend not to renew. The vote was close, at fo...
It was 10:30 p.m. late in October when local businessman Dennis DeVries received a call from the Federal Emergency Agency. By 12:30 a.m., he had a plane ticket to New York City. DeVries had signed up to be a FEMA worker a couple of years earlier. Photos and stories about Hurricane Sandy and her ...
POLSON — During a five-day road trip around Western Montana, the negotiating teams for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana and the United States brought the proposed Water Rights Compact to Polson and solicited comments and questions at a meeting on Nov. 28. From Polson...
The Lake County Justice of the Peace race was unusual this year as 12 candidates threw their hats in the ring. Former Justice of the Peace Chuck Wall resigned after the primary election, opening the position to candidates. Arlee Attorney Joey Jayne, won with 2,142 votes, and Rick Schoening was secon...
Former Ronan High School Principal Sandy Welch, who finished second to Denise Juneau in the race for Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction, plans to request a recount. After Montana’s election canvass on Nov. 27, Welch had five days to request a recount. To qualify for a recount, an ele...
Think of every rotten kid you knew in school: the tripper, the booger-flicker, the slugger or the bully. The Herdmans are all those kids rolled into one nasty family. They are characters in “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” playing this weekend at the John Dowdall Theatre. It&r...
A little girl, about 4 years old, came into Share the Spirit with her mother several years ago. The child wandered into the toy room, and she was “in total awe of a whole box of crayons, not just one or two, but an entire box of colors, which she had never seen before,” remembered Toni Krebsbach ...
POLSON — With Christmas coming soon, community members are putting up lights and decorations and thinking about shopping. Even though holiday cheer is making people smile more, Polson Police Chief Wade Nash has had several complaints about parked vehicles full of garbage or garbage piled in fr...
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, the days following Thanksgiving, have become the year’s biggest shopping days and a jumpstart for the holiday season for retailers. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, was a heavy shopping day for Americans. Nationwide, a quarter of...
POLSON — Commissioner Todd Erickson gave an overview of the positive things happening in Ward 1 during the city commissioners meeting on Nov. 19. Some of the items he mentioned were a retail and online quilting machine business had filled the old Eddie’s Drug space; the facade of The First Res...
