Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
It’s the quintessential western scene — cowboys on horseback roping and dragging calves to the branding fire. Calves are held down or “wrestled,” branded, ear marked, castrated if they are bull calves and inoculated, all in one seamless western ballet. Smoke from the scorched hide and...
POLSON — Fireworks caused a 5.5-acre fire near Polson hill on July 31 at about 7:30 p.m. With 10 to 20-foot-high flames subsiding to a five to six foot blaze, the fire burned up the dry grassy hill, but was stopped when it reached Long Lake Drive. Law enforcement had contacted residents in ...
DAYTON — A house located at 516 B Street in Dayton exploded about midnight on April 13, according to Karen Sargeant, Lake County Sheriff’s Office information officer. One in a row of four rental houses, the house was actively burning when Chief Cliff Fire Department responded, and they immediatel...
Local food — it just makes sense. Radishes, carrots and corn picked the same day they are sold and eaten. Eggs, meat and milk from ranches and farms in the Mission Valley are all processed locally and available from the source via farmers markets and grocery stores. With Farmer’s market ...
RONAN —Prototypes of CORE Motion’s gasless trimmer, hedge trimmer, blower and lawn mower were on display when Sen. Jon Tester visited Core Motion at Jore Corporation’s south campus on Saturday. CORE’s website explains CORE stands for Conductor Optimized Rotary Energy, “a cutting...
POLSON — It’s a first: four students from the Polson High School Business Professionals of America qualified to attend the National Leadership Conference April 25-29 in Chicago, Ill. To advance to national, PHS seniors Megan Pope, Clint Cooper, Kelsey Koberg and freshman Sam Heutmaker built ...
POLSON — The big news at the Polson School Board meeting on April 9 was resignations by Linderman Principal Heather Jones and Polson High School Vice Principal Brandon Thurston on April 9. Together with PHS Principal Rob Hankins, that makes four administrators, including Superintendent David Whitesell,...
About 70 percent of the inside work is completed at Mission Valley Aquatic’s building site, project director Tana Seeley said last week. With nice weather, workers can get rolling on the exterior of the building. Metal siding arrived last week, and windows should arrive soon. The outside block work ...
POLSON — Local resident Rory Horning filed suit last week in District Court against the City of Polson. The complaint alleges Horning was denied his Constitutional rights to peaceably protest governmental action, to participate in the operation of city government and to free speech. Horning is seeking ...
POLSON — This year marks 100 years since the RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. Known as one of the world’s largest peacetime maritime disasters, the supposedly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg at about 11:40 p.m. about 375 miles southeast of Newfoundland in the chilly waters of the Atlantic Oc...
