Articles Written By: Caleb M. Soptelean
POLSON – After 34 years tending bar, Pete Terteling decided to put his knowledge to use as a business owner. He and his wife, Laurie Joyce, purchased Swanee’s Bar and Grill from previous owner Scot Swan on June 1. “He just decided it was time for him to have a place to put...
POLSON – Tim Brester was working at the old Ben Franklin store in 1995 when a friend told him about an EMT class. He took the four-month class and was hooked. “I went not knowing the depth of training and responsibilities that went along with it,” he said, adding that he fell in lo...
POLSON – Volunteering at the Polson Flathead Historical Museum is a labor of love for two dozen or so locals involved. Two of them were honored last week at an end-of-season get-together at First Presbyterian Church. Past president Bill Olson and manager Gay Cochran were presented gifts by board mem...
POLSON – Lake County Commissioner Bill Barron was recently named president of the Montana Association of Counties’ Executive Committee. The one-year term began when he was sworn in Sept. 20 during MACo’s annual convention in Bozeman. Barron, who has served on the Lake Coun...
POLSON – A 34-year-old St. Ignatius man was given a combined five-year deferred sentence last week for an amended charge of criminal endangerment and three violations of a protection order. James J. McGuire was given credit for 49 days in jail. Five counts of violating a protection order were ...
POLSON – A 30-year-old Ronan man was sentenced to 12 years in the Department of Corrections last week after his probation was revoked. Thomas Alfred Lozeau III was convicted on Sept. 12, 2006 of being an accessory to a bank robbery. His original sentence was 15 years in DOC with 12 suspended. ...
A tile mosaic project that involved more than 100 students was presented to the public on Sunday. The mural was a graduate-level University of Montana project for Cameron Decker, chair of the fine arts department at Salish Kootenai College. Polson High School art teacher Matt Holmes, a licensed t...
POLSON – Steve Stanley gave an update on the fire season and also talked about some up-and-coming things in an address to the Lake County Pachyderm Club last week. Stanley, the county’s emergency management director, said 1,147 acres burned in the county this summer, the largest of which was t...
POLSON – Polson has a new city commissioner, and she comes with plenty of experience. Jan Howlett was appointed on Sept. 18 to fill the Ward I seat of Todd Coutts, who resigned and moved to Missoula. The former Jan McCallum grew up on a ranch in Niarada and served one four-year term in the state ...
POLSON — A 28-year-old man initially held on a deliberate homicide charge has been released from jail, County Attorney Steve Eschenbacher said. Ryan Jerry Black was released Monday, Sept. 18, with a requirement that he wear a GPS monitoring device and not return to Lake County except to meet w...
