Articles with the Tag: Polson
The Mission Valley Mariners gathered momentum with an undefeated romp through district tournament, rolling into Great Falls last Thursday for American Legion State A Tournament. After hitting their way through the losers-out bracket, the Mariners won state 13-4. Prior to the state tournamen...
POLSON — At their July 16 meeting, the Polson City Commissioners scheduled a budget public hearing for Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. They also unanimously approved a resolution, authorizing the sale of city-owned property. According to city attorney James Raymond, the matter was housekeeping regarding...
POLSON — “I got cherries up my nose,” Brianna Stone told Jackie Cripe, co-owner of Jackie M’s Footwear, after the 7-to-13-year-old pie-eating contest. She wasn’t the only competitor who ended up with the red fruit up their nostril or on their face. Keaton Pierce won the 7-and...
POLSON — Rides in a 1967 tank used in the Vietnam War were popular with kids at the Miracle of America Museum’s Live History Days on July 21 and 22. Although the tank can rumble along at 40 miles per hours, Gil Mangels, Miracle of America Museum director, kept it slower. Kids also could ...
POLSON — More and more storefronts in downtown Polson have “for rent” or “for sale” signs posted in their windows. In the downtown business district from Highway 93 to Third Avenue West and from First Avenue West to First Avenue East, there are 17 spaces for rent, according t...
Summer is racing by, and soon workers will be picking Flathead cherries, and stands around Flathead Lake will be selling the sweet, cold fruit. Cherry junkies are excited for the first fruit. Ken Edlington, who’s on the board of directors of Flathead Cherry Growers Cooperative, said his best guess w...
POLSON — Flathead cherry season is just around the corner. While the sweet fruit is not ripe yet, giant red cherries hanging from a yard boom in front of the Miracle of America Museum on Memory Lane greet visitors driving into Polson. Gil Mangels, president of the executive board of MOAM, said, &ldq...
POLSON — Cherry pies, cherry art, cherry pit-spitting and a cherry stem-tying contest are only a few of the foods and events planned to celebrate cherries for the Flathead Cherry Festival on July 21 and 22. “We are going to have Flathead cherries,” Boone Goddard, cherry festival steering...
POLSON — Polson Running’s fourth annual 1776 Firecracker Fun Run was a great success, thanks to everyone in the community who participated. Wearing their red, white, and blue and running shoes or flip flops, more than 70 runners came to run, walk or ride. The weather was perfect, and everyone, yo...
Editor, This Sunday morning, just before going to church and listening once again to what Jesus taught, this short news account hit me like a ton of bricks. A video has surfaced showing a U.S. helicopter crew member in Afghanistan singing “Bye-Bye Miss American Pie” before blasting a ...
