Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Linderman Elementary School Principal Steve York will be leaving School District #23. York’s last day will be Jan. 22, and he starts his new job at the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) on Feb. 1. York’s title at OPI will be Deputy Director/Assistant Superintendent of Educational ...
Faith Rowold, daughter of Pastor Paul and Donna Rowold of Polson, is in Prague, Czech Republic, after being denied entry to Israel. Rowold had been a volunteer with the Lutheran Church in Jerusalem for the past two years. Rowold, 27, was returning to Israel from the Czech Republic with her partner, Jared ...
POLSON — “Jump over the enemy,” Monte Yellow Bird, Sr., said, quoting his uncle. The “enemy” is someone who tells you you can’t achieve or become whoever you would like to be, Monte told a group of fourth graders. Monte, an internationally renowned artist, and his wife ...
Paul Fugleberg started pounding out stories for newspapers on an old manual typewriter 57 years ago, although now he writes on his computer. Fugleberg selected columns and stories he’d written on either his typewriter or his computer over his long career, selected photographs to accompany them and publ...
VALLEY VIEW — “I was really surprised I won,” Jarrett Richey said. “I was thinking that the sixth grade student would win cause she’s older. Richey, an exuberant fourth-grader from Valley View School, drew a tepee, a campfire, trees, the horizon, skins drying and an eagle fly...
POLSON — The library at Linderman Elementary School was jam packed on Jan. 11 for the Polson School Board meeting. School district employees, administrators, parents and community members gathered at the meeting for a chance to speak their piece on proposed administrative changes for the remainder of t...
VALLEY VIEW — A ranch kid, Payton Fitzpatrick cleans stalls at his parents’ barn, deftly forking horse manure into a wheelbarrow while simultaneously talking about his interest in bull riding. He’s a talented bull rider, too. In November, Fitzpatrick placed second in the third annual Nor...
POLSON— Aja Starkey, a Polson Middle School 8th grade student, represented Montana and the Bozeman Track Club on Dec. 12 at the 2009 United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships. The meet was held in Reno, Nev., at Rancho San Rafael Region Park. A...
POLSON — Benny’s mom craved French silk pie and banana cream pie when she was pregnant. So, Benny might like cream pie, too, when he gets old enough to eat pie. Benny’s full name is Benjamin Louis Reed, and he was the first baby of the year at St. Joseph Medical Center. Benny wa...
POLSON — An accident early Tuesday, Jan. 5, “made a drive-in out of the Regatta restaurant” according to Polson Chief of Police Doug Chase. At about 3:30 a.m. Chris Nyland of Brainerd, Minn. was headed north on Highway 93. Nyland’s wife was asleep in the vehicle. Police belie...
