Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The Polson School Board of Trustees meeting on May 10 packed about 40 bodies into the district office conference room. Many of the teachers and staff members were at the meeting to hear Superintendent David Whitesell unveil his leveling or reconfiguration idea for School District #23....
Candidates for the state legislature are grappling with medical marijuana issues as more Montanans become patients and caregivers. When the 2011 legislature convenes in January, legislators will address areas from the patient approval process to caregiver regulations. In this article, local candidates discus...
POLSON — During a visit to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock presented Jenifer Blumberg with a 2010 Crime Advocate of the Year award. Blumberg is the CSKT grants manager for the Victims Assistance Program and executive director of DOVES. DOVES s...
ROLLINS — Twelve candidates came to talk about the issues at a forum sponsored by the Women of Rollins at the Rollins School on May 6 at 6:30 p.m. Participants were: Garth Cox, Democrat, and incumbent Janna Taylor, Republican, running for House District 11; Paula Holle, Democrat candidate for ...
POLSON — The latest public meeting to solicit public comment on medical marijuana zoning regulations for Polson was held on May 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. Even though medical marijuana is a hot topic in Polson, only about 16 community members attended the meeting held on the third floor of the Lake County C...
POLSON — About 40 Polson School District #23 employees, both certified and classified staff, assembled in the Linderman School parking lot from 4 to 6 p.m. on May 7. Teachers and classified staff were there to support the Polson Classified Employees Association. The PCEA is negotiating with th...
POLSON — About 20 vendors made the opening day of the Polson Farmer’s Market a success on May 6. The Farmers Market set up in its new location on 3rd Ave. West between 1st Street W. and Main Street. Goods from artisan breads to purses to jewelry to soap to quilts to plants to pens were for sal...
IRVINE FLATS — “Does branding hurt?” “What kind of cow are those red ones?” “What’s the hawk’s name?” “Why is that baby cow getting a shot?” These questions are just a sampling of the hundreds of questions s...
David “Dave” Basta had a recurring dream about an airplane crash and a pilot ending up in an underground cavern. It was a good story so he wrote a novel about this dream and titled his book “The Underside of the Mountain.” Part of the appeal of this novel is that Basta is a pilot a...
POLSON — The Polson Middle School Jazz Band under the direction of Bob Mazurek provided some lunch music for the Polson Kiwanis on April 29. Mazurek and his students came to thank Kiwanis for a $1,000 check to be used to buy instruments and music for the program. Kiwanis member Janet Vail chipped in...
