Articles with the Tag: Polson
RONAN — The National High School Rodeo Association boasts 12,500 competing student athletes each year in more than 1,100 sanctioned rodeos. Each month, the organization awards one male and one female athlete the title of student athlete of the month. This title carries with it a Professional’s Ch...
POLSON — When Standing for the Fallen and Magazines for Troops were both spreading the word about their causes at the Polson Flathead Cherry Festival, Standing for the Fallen’s USMC Sgt. Chuck Lewis decided to split the donations he gathered with Magazines for Troops. The funds will be used to pa...
POLSON — School District 23 has a new superintendent. Linda Reksten, Ph.D., comes to Polson from the Butte school district. After a tumultuous year of administrative and school board upheaval, Reksten has her work cut out for her. Her first message to the administrative team and to the publ...
POLSON — Coming to Polson from Forks, Wash., Rex Weltz is the new principal at Polson High School. He’s familiar with the area since he grew up in Noxon, attended Western Montana College and taught in Hamilton before moving to Alaska in 1999. He’s also a fan of the Western A Conference. ...
POLSON — “It’s a year for positive change,” Josh Preiss said. Preiss is Linderman Elementary School’s new principal, and he has big goals for Linderman: academic growth and achievement and a positive climate in the building. “My approach is very positive and proactiv...
Here in the Mission Valley during the months of April through September, we experience a large population increase. This time of year, response time is very critical to all volunteers in the fire service. Recently, we have gone on calls and have had a very hard time just getting through the traffic. In the f...
POLSON — The Polson school board approved the 2012-13 budget at their Aug. 13 meeting. Dr. Linda Reksten, the new District No. 23 Superintendent, identified her focus areas for 2012-13. “I looked at a lot of information and talked to a variety of individual stakeholders,” ...
POLSON — Former Montana Supreme Court Justice Diane Barz is filling in for Justice of the Peace Chuck Wall after his resignation on Aug. 8. In a statement, Wall said, “Judges are - and should be - held to very high standards of conduct, both in their professional and personal affairs. One...
MISSION VALLEY — A strong storm system tore through the Valley late last Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, Aug. 15. The high winds caused a power outage, two boats to sink in Flathead Lake, several search and rescue calls and caused the West Garcon fire to double in size within a matter of hour...
With the West Garcon Fire now at 9,110 acres and 45 percent contained, crews continue to fight heavy fuels, mostly timber, and steep terrain to control the blaze. As of press time, the fire had moved north of Windy Gap and a few miles south and was burning in a big timbered basin, according to public informa...
