Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — For the last month or so, the Polson Fairgrounds has been home to Indian National Finals Tour Rodeo contestants and high school rodeo competitors with horsetrailers parked around the arena and oats and bales of hay to feed the animals. The only bales visible at the fairgrounds on Sat...
POLSON — Local high school rodeo athletes did well at the Polson High School Rodeo held at the Polson Fairgrounds on Sept. 15 and 16. Junior high competitors who won were: Willy Lytton, Polson - Junior High Rookie All-Around Cowboy Adriana Johnson, Polson - Junior High ...
POLSON — “There’s still an achievement gap between Native American students and other students,” Julie Cajune said. Cajune was one of the keynote speakers at the 2012 Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Pupil Instruction Day at Polson High School on Sept. 14. Mike Jetty a...
More than a plane ride, a helicopter jaunt and a six-hour bus ride separate the upper Amazon Basin in northeast Peru from Polson. Polson attorney Tom Kragh said on a 1-to-10 scale of remoteness, villages there are an 8. But villagers are in touch with the outside world through shortwave radio tow...
POLSON — A van driven by Diane Lum jumped the curb and went over the rail from the top parking lot to the bottom parking lot at the KwaTaqNuk Resort and Casino on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 15. The vehicle went straight down, tilted and leaned against against the walkway. The Po...
MISSION VALLEY — The line at Eagle Bank was long on Sept. 12 as members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes received their payouts from the Salazar settlement. On April 11, the federal government announced settlement of the Nez Perce Tribe, et al, v. Kenneth L. Salazar, Secretary of the I...
Three fires currently are burning on the Flathead Reservation, according to Devlin LaFrombois at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Division of Fire. On the south fork of the Jocko River, the Whitehorse Lake fire is the largest of the three and had burned 230 acres as of Sept. 15. Mollma...
POLSON — A vacant house at 111 Third Avenue E. burned on Monday, Sept. 10 at approximately 10:40 p.m. Polson City Fire Department, Polson City Police and Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies and extinguished the fire. Polson Fire Chief John Fairchild determined the fire was suspicious in nature, and it...
POLSON - Election Day is coming on Nov. 6. This year the ballot for Lake County voters will be two pages long, one page double-sided. The polls will be open beginning at 7 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m. With a long ballot comes larger lines at the polls, so Kathie Newgard, Lake County electi...
POLSON — The Polson firefighter pager tones went off at about 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 31 as 16-year-old Cash Sisler was hanging out in his living room. Lake County dispatch relayed reports of a tree on fire at Camp Marshall on Melita Island Lane. Since Sisler’s mom is the caretaker at Camp Mar...
