Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
PABLO — Music pumping from an iPod helps the Two Eagle River Lady Eagles warm up before volleyball practice begins. It’s a joyous practice even though they are a small squad — 11 girls — and several of the girls have never played volleyball before. Ranging from high school se...
POLSON — With coneflowers, lavender and other native plants growing on the corners of Polson’s Main Street and shiny new benches, waste receptacles and bike racks, the Polson Community Development Agency’s Streetscape Project has made a lot of progress in downtown Polson. But with ...
PABLO — Mars, the red planet, and Western Montana are literally worlds apart, but Dr. Tim Olson, a Salish Kootenai College physics professor, and two of his students, Noel Stewart, Browning, and Judy Hudgins, Ronan, are helping bridge the gap. They are at the National Aeronautic and Space Administratio...
Greg Hertz, Republican, and Bud Koppy, Democrat, are running for the House District 11 seat in the Montana State Legislature. A Kyla resident, Koppy (pronounced with a long o) is a 69-year-old widower with five children, 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Koppy moved to Montana in 1967 bu...
POLSON — Fourth-grader Jason Buffington’s poster of an apple tree’s cycle of life won the 2012 Montana Association of Conservation Districts poster contest after first winning the Lake County contest. His bright poster will be entered in the national contest. “From soil to sp...
POLSON — “It’s not a rebuilding year, it’s a reloading year,” said Jess Kittle, Polson High School boys soccer coach. Kittle, his assistant coach Mike Moll and volunteer coaches Chris Moore and Dane Huyser have five seniors on their team. Senior James Larson is...
POLSON — The competition is good-natured, but it’s there as the Polson High Schools girls practice soccer at Linderman field. Head coach Michael Hewston and assistant Jose Franco focus on competition and how each individual player is improving. With eight girls on the team, who ...
Teepees facing east along the Flathead River caught the morning sun and the calming burble of the water. Although the scene might have unfolded hundreds of years ago, pickups, a couple of camper trailers and blue plastic traps hinted at a modern camp. But the camp, sponsored by the American Indian Institu...
PABLO — Grades were changed back to the way they were originally issued by the instructor of record after a several months of investigation into altered grades at Salish Kootenai College. The marks for “13 students had been raised to allow them to enter the nursing program,” according to Sa...
POLSON — Polson City Commissioners approved Resolution No. 1033, adopting a budget for the City of Polson for fiscal year 2012-13. including medical mills. The resolution allowed the city to impose 5.5 mills for permissive medical mills, at a value of $9,248 per mill, which will generate approximate...
