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  • Young Bloods blast Bullets in 37th Keg Bowl

    John Hamilton|Jan 4, 2018

    The Young Bloods ran away from the Silver Bullets 66-20 Saturday in the 37th playing of the Keg Bowl at the old mill site just east of downtown Thompson Falls. The 2017 Keg Bowl was played in about a foot of crusty snow with temperatures hovering around the 20 degree mark. After snow flurries added to the ambiance of the game throughout the first half, the second half was played under gray but dry skies. Possibly much more important than the final score anyway, all money raised from this year's...

  • Sanders County sports resume right where they left off in '17

    John Hamilton|Jan 4, 2018

    It doesn’t seem all that long ago but 2017 is history now and it is time to start writing the book of 2018. The 2017-2018 prep sports seasons resume this week after the holiday hiatus with a full slate of basketball games and wrestling matches. In basketball, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys and Lady Hawks got a jump on everybody else in Sanders County with a pair of games with teams from Missoula Loyola Tuesday, as the boys hosted the Rams and the girls played the Sacred Heart Breakers in Missoula that evening. Results from those games w...

  • White turkeys have a unique history

    Shana Neesvig|Jan 4, 2018

    Even though the holidays are over you may still be looking at that one turkey, the turkey that stands out above all others in the rafter (proper term for a group of turkeys). Not because it is big, feisty or fanning, but because it is…white. Some may think this is because the turkey may have some genetic mutation leading to albinism, but that is not the case. These turkeys are from a whole different lineage. According to wildlife biologists, they are actually domestic turkeys whose demise started as early as 25 A.D. when Native Americans in M...

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