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Articles with the Tag: Polson

Safe driving class, toenail clinic coming to Polson Senior Center

POLSON — Silence is golden, unless you have a puppy. Then, silence is suspicious … very, very suspicious. I will take a hiatus from featuring our members who have made a significant difference. All of our members, of course, are important and contribute to our success. The bridge scores fo...

Flathead Lake Biological Station Open House to feature raptors, Monte, tours, presentations

    News from The University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station POLSON – The University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station invites the public to a free open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5. The station is located 17.5 miles north of ...

Missing kayaker's body recovered Missing kayaker's body recovered

  POLSON —  The body of missing kayaker Robert W. McDonald was found 2:45 p.m. Friday in Flathead Lake, just south of Big Bull Island.   Lake County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue boats and the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office boat, who were still out sea...

Flathead’s own passion fruit ripe, ready to harvest Flathead’s own passion fruit ripe, ready to harvest

Warm summer days ripened a variety of local  cherries just in time for the Cherry Festival this year, allowing growers and vendors to sell a portion of their crop downtown last weekend. Bruce Johnson, president of Flathead Lake Cherry Growers, a Montana Agricultural Cooperative, said that the grow...

Festival celebrates Flathead’s cherry crop Festival celebrates Flathead’s cherry crop

Tucked away behind a Main Street sidewalk, a bit off the beaten path, young entrepreneur Lexie Gauthier and her friend Anna Vert enticed thirsty Cherry Festival visitors to buy their lemonade. The homemade stand was somewhat shaded by an umbrella turned inside-out by Saturday’s wind gusts. The breez...

Pay dirt: Mud Run participants get down, dirty for good cause Pay dirt: Mud Run participants get down, dirty for good cause

Triathlete Rob LaBair slogged through last years inaugural mud run for a first-place finish. He had so much fun that he chose to help plan this year’s race. He collaborated with event organizer Lowell Tyler, and together they invented harder obstacles that mirror the Montana Spartan Sprint race the fri...

Baby on Board: Newborn arrives on transit bus Baby on Board: Newborn arrives on transit bus

ELMO — It wasn’t just the usual bus ride into town for Sharon Lee Buckskin last week. Nine months pregnant, she got on the DHRD Transit bus in Elmo on July 15 to go to Polson for some appointments, and when she got off the bus she had her newborn baby with her. Sharon’s baby, due July 22...

Polson school board raises salaries

POLSON — Polson school board trustees approved a 2-percent salary increase for non-represented employees and a 2-percent increase for administrators for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years. The teachers and the classified staff had not voted at the time of the meeting on June 14.  Polson Class...

Live History Days interests kids, adults Live History Days interests kids, adults

POLSON — It was a toss up with the kids who attended Live History Days whether riding the jeep with the attached machine gun, the tennis ball cannon or the motorcycle and sidecar was the most fun. Oh, and don’t forget the trains to ride and the helicopter and airplane to climb onto. One you...

Summer Theatre on the lake   Summer Theatre on the lake

POLSON – Port Polson Players in association with The Mission Valley Friends of the Arts continue their 39th season of Summer Theatre with John Mercer’s musical comedy “Who Gets The Lake Place?” The show opens this Thursday, July 24 and runs through Sunday. The show continues the follo...


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