Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Baby boomers are aging, and as they age, eye problems often surface. Macular degeneration and glaucoma are two common diseases and can lead to low vision or blindness, although older people are not the only ones dealing with the problems. To provide a forum for these folks, the Mission Vall...
The first Creator’s Game lacrosse camp brought kids, lacrosse sticks, gloves, pads and water bottles from around the area to Salish Kootenai College campus on Friday and Saturday. The Creator’s Game, as the Iroquois call lacrosse, demands respect for the Creator, according to Delmor Jacobs, Ca...
POLSON — Polson Education Association president Matt Bishop presented a request from Chris Bumgarner, who will be retiring from the Polson School system, for an extension of his retirement benefits at the June 12 school board meeting. Bumgarner, a music teacher at Polson High School, will be a...
POLSON — Inviting people to come in and talk about their concerns, Ward 1 City Commissioners John Campbell and Todd Erickson met with constituents on June 12. About 15 people came to visit with Campbell and Erickson during the open house format from 6 to 8 p.m. Many had questions, proble...
POLSON — Easels, palettes and paintbrushes were visible all around the area as 19 artists gathered for the 2012 Reservation Views Plein Air Paint-Out from June 14 to 17. The artists turned in their work, a culmination of four days of painting, on June 16, according to Mary Kelley, who along with Kel...
POLSON — The Fourth of July is coming soon, and so is the annual fireworks display. The Marine Corps League Hellroaring Detachment 1041 raises money to fund the Roman candles, rockets and bursts. The League spent Saturday on U.S. Highway 93 and Main Street in Polson collecting from passing motorists...
DAYTON — Sepp Holzer is one of the gods of permaculture. The Austrian farmer and teacher raises fruit trees, vegetables, nuts, mushrooms, fish, pork, poultry, bushes, shrubs and vines, even lemon trees, at about 5,000 feet above sea level in the Austrian Alps. His family farm is called the Krameterhof,...
POLSON — “Is there anything falling down?” “No,” Polson High School principal Rob Hankins said. Hankins was referring to the rumor that “the high school roof is falling in.” There had been leaks, Hankins said, with water running down over a locker and from t...
POLSON — The sun shone on Saturday morning, and local pilots flew with young passengers ages 8 to 17 as part of the Young Eagle program. Brianna McGuinness was one of the Young Eagles. She enjoyed the flight and had questions for pilot Carmine Mowbray about the compass and magnetic north. A...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Flathead Joint Board of Control water rights subcommittee released a proposed draft agreement between the FJBC, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe and the United States of America to the public for comment on May 31 This piece of the total water rights negotiations deals w...
