Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — At their June 4 meeting, the Polson City commissioners voted unanimously to approve a capital improvement reimbursement agreement with Cougar Ridge Development, LLC. The agreement will return $200,000 to the business for water system improvements. At a commission meeting on March 19, 2007, ...
Students come in many shapes and sizes, and some just don’t fit into a high school classroom with 25 other students. Whether this is due to family situations, illness, missing a lot of school, moving, employment schedules, social issues or challenging themselves, Polson High School students now have...
“It’s a good day,” Vernon Finley, Ph.D. and Kootenai language curriculum specialist said in his invocation at Salish Kootenai College’s 31st commencement. The graduates agreed with Finley as they followed grand entry leaders Octave Finley and Linda King into the Joe McDonald Health...
POLSON — “The tassel was worth the hassle,” LaiLa Skalsky said during her valedictory speech. Skalsky, Macall Banner, Riley Kenney, Kelsey Koberg, Clark Rubel, Michael Venters and Jaime Young were the seven valedictorians of the Polson High School class of 2012, and they all spoke during...
DAYTON — Former students at Dayton School experienced a blast from the past last week when they opened a 13-year-old time capsule. A tube of roll-on lip gloss, a toy Jeep Cherokee, a $2 bill, a pencil, a package of “Rugrats” fruit gummies and a tiny plastic horse were among the treasures se...
Usually students get their hair cut before graduation, but Ronan High School valedictorian Levi Talsma received a hair cut on stage during his valedictory address, courtesy of two classmates. Talsma donated his long brown hair to Locks of Love and wished his classmates good luck at graduation on June 3. A...
POLSON — Three candidates for superintendent of School District No. 23 will visit Polson on June 4, 5 and 6: Kelly Koppinger, Linda Reksten and Steve York. Koppinger currently serves as the superintendent of Dickinson Catholic Schools in Dickinson, N.D. He graduated from Dickinson State University i...
Why does the turtle cross the road? While this sounds like a joke, it really isn’t. Hundreds of turtles are run over each year on U.S. Highway 93 south of Ronan. Painted turtles, the only native turtle species on the Flathead Reservation, cross the road because their nesting ponds are on the east...
POLSON — Two candidates for administrative positions in Polson schools will be presented to the board of trustees on May 30, according to Bill Appleton, interim superintendent. Joshua Preiss will be recommended for the Linderman principal position. With seven years experience as a fourth grade teach...
POLSON — Commissioners okayed a three-year time extension request under House Bill 522 on the 146-lot Mission Bay Village phased subdivision at the Polson City Commission meeting on May 21. In a letter to the commission, Dennis Duty, managing member of Northwest Holdings, L.L.C., which developed Mis...
