Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — “Colonel was the best horse I ever owned,” Jim Eichhorn said. And Eichhorn might have ridden a few horses to compare to Colonel, an appaloosa, since he turned 100 years old March 21. He gave up training horses at age 97. His granddaughter, Jackie Trujillo, invited friends of ...
POLSON — Using the whiteboard in council chambers, Polson City Manager Todd Crossett took the mayor, city commissioners and audience back to their school days when he facilitated a discussion on impact fees at the March 19 city commissioner meeting. Impact fees have been a hot topic for the commissi...
Chokecherries, junipers, serviceberries, buffalo berries, Douglas fir — these are just a sample of the native plants and trees being grown in the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal greenhouses on old Highway 93 near the Division of Fire headquarters and in Ronan. The Pablo greenhouse has a capa...
POLSON —“It’s my first year at Jump Rope for Heart,” Hazel Kujala said, hopping with excitement. “My favorite is mousetrap. Eight-year old Hazel is a third grader, and she joined 74 other Linderman students for the 17th annual “jump” March 7 in Linderman gym. W...
POLSON — One of the questions was, “Mr. Brookman put 63 books on seven shelves. He put the same number of books on each shelf. Which number sentence shows how many books Mr. Brookman put on each shelf?” To answer, the contestant had to decide whether to divide, multiply, add or subtract ...
POLSON — A three-hour standoff at a Kings Point home on March 12 ended with no one injured. The incident began when Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call of an abandoned vehicle half on, half off King’s Point Road at about 2:44 a.m. Deputies attempted to contact the vehicle&rsq...
POLSON — Is Envision Polson the same as the Greater Polson Community Foundation? How does the $100,000 Orton Family Foundation Heart and Soul Community Development Grant fit in with GPCF and Envision Polson? Can anyone in Polson get involved? These are questions community members may be looking for ...
POLSON — The joke goes that there are two seasons in Montana: winter and construction, and construction on Phase 2 of the Skyline Project is tentatively scheduled for July. It will last until September 2013 with a four to five-month winter break, according to Paddy Trusler, chair of the Lake County Com...
PABLO — The Montana Districting and Apportionment Committee is responsible for mapping new legislative district boundaries to reflect population changes identified by the 2010 census, according to Jim Regnier, chair of the commission and former Montana Supreme Court Justice. On March 14, the MDAC he...
POLSON — The first the Polson community heard of School District Superintendent David Whitesell’s resignation was at the March 12 school board meeting. When the trustees came back from executive session, Chair Caryl Cox said the board had reached a tentative agreement with Whitesell on his hum...
