Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
VALLEY VIEW — A bunch of black cows drifted down the road next to Valley View School, casting the occasional non-judgmental eye on the students as they danced at Valley View’s first ever powwow. The powwow came about because teacher Carol Madden asked her student teacher Vanessa Sanchez ...
POLSON — At the Polson School Board’s June 8 meeting, Landon Godfrey and Shelley Quinn, who are employed at Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center, joined Tammy Kelly and Polson High School Principal Rex Weltz in a discussion about the hospital’s partnership with the high school to pr...
POLSON — Women on Target offers area women a chance to shoot different handguns, a rifle and even a shotgun, if they’re so inclined, under the instruction of 25 range safety officers and National Rifle Association members. The event will be held on June 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the P...
POLSON — Mark your calendars and dig out your dancing boots because the Mission Mountain Northern Rodeo Association Rodeo is coming Friday and Saturday, June 26 and 27. Don’t miss children beginning their rodeo careers riding big wooly sheep or mini bulls as performances start with the k...
WOODS BAY — The glistening lake trout Mary Kay Knofal held up to be photographed wasn’t the first fish she ever caught. “I love to fish,” Mary Kay said. At 88 she looked like she stepped out of a Harper’s Bazaar ad in a nautical outfit of a striped blouse and capris, a whi...
WOODS BAY — The glistening lake trout Mary Kay Knofal held up to be photographed wasn’t the first fish she ever caught. “I love to fish,” Mary Kay said. At 88 she looked like she stepped out of a Harper’s Bazaar ad in a nautical outfit of a striped blouse and capris, a whi...
Yamncut drummed and head dancers Linda King and Wilbert Michel Sr. led the Salish Kootenai College graduates of 2015 into the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on June 6, and Chief Cliff drummed them out into the world. Traditionally the women wear shawls, and the men wear vests during graduat...
PABLO — Twenty Salish Kootenai College nursing graduates marched into the Joe McDonald Events Center on June 5 for the pinning ceremony, ready to celebrate their degrees earned with hard work, late nights, endless studying, and sacrifice. “Sometimes we get so caught up in testing, class ...
VALLEY VIEW — Students and teachers poured out of the school building, running as fast as they could, zigzagging in all directions across the rainy, puddle-dotted playground. This isn’t usual school behavior, but it was on June 1 when Allen Bone came to Valley View School to work with st...
POLSON — With a voice roughened by emotion, Mayor Heather Knutson began the June 1 Polson City Commission meeting with a request that commissioners and attendees join her in a moment of silence honoring Commissioner Dan Morrison, who passed away last week. Then the commission dived into the ag...
