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It was a big time for little guys in Superior Saturday when hundreds of boys and girls gathered for a day of battle on the wrestling mats. It was the first Little Guy Wrestling match of the season with nearly 275 grapplers from Plains, Hot Springs, Thompson Falls, Mission, and Superior, the host of the mixer, getting the chance to show their meddle. The competition ran from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. with four to six matches going on simultaneously. For many, it was their first time to face off with...
The Plains Town Council meeting last Monday started and ended with a bit of controversy with relative calm in between. Even before the meeting began, Plains resident Charles Bickenheuser stepped into City Hall's council room asking council to wait another month before appointing a council member for Ward 3, Seat 2, left vacant when Chris Allen was appointed interim mayor the previous month. Bickenheuser stated that there wasn't enough advertisement for the position and he'd like to have some...
Despite going through cancer treatment and a consistent icy reception from the Plains Town Council, one resident continues his efforts to help guide the town’s future, but to do so he’d like input from the community itself. As part of the town’s newly formed Community Council, Charles Bickenheuser wants to form a focus group from a sampling of the Plains population in order to get some insight into town residents’ experiences, hopes, likes, and dislikes of the town and its immediate surrounding area and how they’d like to see it grow. Bic...
PRE SPRING – With a bit of warm weather, the snow near a Swamp Creek stream momentarily recedes and water flows a bit faster....
The leadership of Joint Operation Mariposa (JOM) recognized several members and volunteers that have helped bolster and promote the program over the last year at a special banquet at the Butcher's Nook Friday evening. Dave Williams, the JOM president and founder, presented certificates to 17 people, including two children, for their help with various projects in 2022. The biggest accolade went to Ed Foste, a former board member and one of the founding members of JOM. "To all present and to all...
Fifteen Sanders County wrestlers are headed to state after qualifying at the Western B/C Divisional Wrestling Tournament last weekend in Pablo. Five Thompson Falls boys and two girls, along with six boys and one girl from Plains/Hot Springs, will compete at the Montana wrestling championships in Billings Friday and Saturday. The first round matches of the Western B/C Divisional Wrestling Tournament were held all day at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo on Friday with nearly 400 high school wrestl...
Freezing temperatures didn't stop a group of people from having a parade in Hot Springs Saturday. Even though it lasted less than 20 minutes, it was filled with color, character and enthusiasm. Led by a 30-foot dragon, it was the annual Lunar New Year Parade in Hot Springs based on the Chinese zodiac new year with an assortment of animated creatures. This was the Year of the Rabbit, said Laura Lanfear, who dressed as a monkey leading a marching band and one of the main coordinators of the event....
Kathleen Hubka had double duty in her last directing detail when she directed "Play On" and "Murder Most Foul" at the same time. The Paradise Players put on three performances of "Play On" at the Paradise Center last weekend. The play is about a play about a play centering around a playwright who constantly makes changes to the script, even up to the last rehearsal. It was the Paradise Players first play of the year, and it was well received. "I laughed till I had tears going down my face,"...
A group of Canada geese take a swim at sunset in Flathead River just east of Paradise Saturday....
The Paradise Players are up to it again - they're planning to make people laugh. Kathleen Hubka will be directing "Play On," a comedy written by Rick Abbott that centers around a community theater trying to put on a play, but the actors are frustrated by the writer, who interferes by continuously making changes and revising the script. The performance takes place at the Paradise Center at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Advanced ticket prices are $10 for adults and can be picked up...
Last week's wrestling mixer was a new record for the Plains grapplers, who chalked up 15 pins and a total of 17 wins at the Plains Quad, which included Powell County, Arlee and Darby. Nearly 40 wrestlers gathered at the Plains-Hot Springs meet at Plains Thursday evening for two dozen matches that lasted just over an hour. The Savage Horsemen took the first six matches in pins and had only two losses for the night. It was also senior night for four Plains boys and one girl. Each of them were...
Patrons of the Paradise Center will soon be able to visit every floor without having to trek up and down three flights of stairs. Volunteers finished framing two shafts last week that will eventually become ADA compliant vertical platform lifts. The vertical platform lifts are a type of elevator, a high-end wheelchair lift, said Rudi Boukal, one of four men, along with Dave Colyer and John Thorson of Plains, and Jim Hawley of Paradise, who spent about 150 collective hours constructing the...
It was the first Sanders County Fair Commission meeting of the year and the first time for newly elected Commissioners John Holland and Dan Rowan to attend a fair meeting. "I wanted to see what they were doing and what they had going in the works," said Rowan, the former mayor of Plains. Holland had been a member of the Plains School Board, which routinely had their meetings on the same night as the fair board's meetings. Both asked several questions of Melissa Cady, the fair manager, and Randy...
They might normally hang together, but when it comes to finding food deep below the snow, the senior doe lets the younger one know to go away....
Jillian and Parker Lee pose with their new baby girl, Remi Nicole Lee, the first 2023 child born at Clark Fork Valley Hospital. Remi came into this world on Tuesday, January 3, at 1:06 p.m. Dr. Richard Ingle was the obstetrician. Remi was born weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces and at 19.75 inches long. The couple has lived in Plains about 1.5 years. Paternal grandmother is Nancy Lee of Missoula. Maternal grandparents are Kurt and Sherrie Campbell of Missoula. Photo by Ed Moreth...
The Costner Care Family Clinic of Plains has added two additional staff members and might have another one coming in the spring. The clinic's newest member is Heath Gerig, who began work last Monday, bringing the clinic's staff to 10 at the Costner Care Family Clinic, located on Railroad Street on the west side of Plains. The 33-year-old Gerig is a family nurse practitioner specialist with 14 years experience in primary care, Covid ICU, cardiothoracic surgery ICU, and medical/surgical ICU, along...
It didn't take long for the Plains Town Council to unanimously appoint a temporary mayor to replace Dan Rowan, who was sworn in as county commissioner on December 29. Three residents applied for the opening, Mark French, John Roesler and Chris Allen. Allen, the council president, automatically became the interim mayor when Rowan became a commissioner in December, but it was the council's responsibility to select a permanent interim mayor last Tuesday at the first council meeting of the year....
It's almost an unofficial end to the holiday season when the Plains Lions Club retrieves its Christmas ornaments from Railroad Street. Steve Spurr, the club president, and Ben Miller of NorthWestern Energy spent just over an hour taking down the 28 ornaments on Sunday. Miller volunteered the company bucket truck to reach each ornament some 25 feet high on poles in downtown Plains, then handed each one to Spurr, who set them aside for club member Rick Powers to retrieve. They were done stowing...
Even in freezing temperatures, Baldy Mountain and the Clark Fork River can be postcard perfect....
It took the owner of Rocketman Pyros about two hours to set up his display, but only five minutes to run through the 550 rockets at Quinn's Hot Springs Resort to ring in the new year. More than 150 people attended the annual celebration in the resort's Paradise Hall Saturday evening. In unison, the group counted down the final seconds as Steve Underwood of Spokane, Wash., launched his fireworks show for his seventh New Year's festivities at Quinn's. The rockets went off one after another, rangin...
They probably no longer believe in Santa Claus, but that didn't stop him from showing up at the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Long Term four days before Christmas. Santa spent more than two hours visiting with the nursing home residents and staff and acute care patients last Wednesday. Kringle had his photograph taken with numerous staff members, patients and long term care residents during his visit. "The residents always love seeing Santa, that's why we try to make sure we have him visit each...
With temperatures dropping to 17 below zero, a white tailed doe comes up empty after plunging her head deep into the snow to look for food....
The American Association of Retired Persons - AARP - recognized a Plains couple for their volunteer work in the community with the prestigious 2022 Andrus Award for Community Service. John and Karen Thorson were honored for their volunteer work at the Paradise Center, a nonprofit entity that the Thorsons have been with even before it was created. Part of the award was a $2,000 gift to a charity of the Thorsons' choice, which was the Paradise Center. "Your tireless work with Paradise Center in...
There's something fishy happening at Plains High School, and the new science teacher is definitely involved. It's also been discovered that he did the same thing at his former school at St. Regis. Plains High School science teacher Brooks Sanford received about 150 Arlee rainbow trout eggs from Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks' (FWP) Jocko Fish Hatchery in Arlee in mid-November as part of a project for his sophomore biology and chemistry students, who will study the growth of the fish for the next...
The Plains Elementary School students went home on Friday afternoon leaving a simple and plain cafeteria behind, but when they got to school on Monday it was filled with colorful lights and decorations. Eleven teachers and staff members and one volunteer husband transformed the school lunchroom into a holiday haven Friday evening. The group waited for the kids to leave for the weekend before hauling in an assortment of store bought and handmade Christmas decorations into the school cafeteria....
