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Who needs a prom when you can be the queen of your own dance? Sarah Detlaff made a date with destiny and, along with nine other Thompson Falls student-athletes, attended the Montana Powerlifting high school championships at Capital High School in Helena Saturday. And, although she gave up going to her last high school prom to attend the meet and the awards ceremony immediately thereafter, she ended up being crowned queen of the powerlifting ball in Helena anyway due to another dazzling lifting p...
The Plains track and field and golf teams have their athletes and coaches on board, now it is up to Mother Nature as to when the meets and matches can actually begin in snow-choked western Montana. In track and field, long-time head coach Denise Montgomery and assistant James Jermyn return to guide Plains and, in golf, Lisa Brown returns to coach the Trotters and on-again, off-again coach Don Stamm (who also had quite a career coaching Plains track and field as well as golf in the past) has signed on to once again coach boys golf. A...
Softball practice right now is not all that it could be, but it is what it can be. Reduced to working out indoors or in parking lots or other such snow-free areas, coach Michele Bangen says her Plains-Hot Springs Trotters are still getting the work they need to prepare for the rapidly approaching season. “We can still break it down and work on our mechanics – pitching, throwing, hitting,” she said. “We are having productive practices, we just can’t work on everything but are doing what we can.” Armed with an interesting mixture of experienced...
It may be hard to visualize it right now being as the greens and fairways are still blanketed in late-winter snow, but the high school golf season has already begun; albeit not out on the greens and fairways. “We haven’t been able to practice out on the course yet,” Thompson Falls coach Mike Bates said Tuesday. “But I noticed some open grass on the grounds at the junior high today, so we will go there and work on our chipping some.” Although the Hawks’ first scheduled match is the Florence Invitational in Hamilton on March 30, Bates says...
People had the opportunity last week to get a good meal, help a nonprofit organization and learn how a group of volunteers are helping the children of Sanders County. Between 70-80 people attended the Sixth Annual Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Chili Feed at St. James Catholic Church, raising $1,550 at the Thursday fundraiser. "It was way more than we expected and we raised a lot of money for a good cause," said Colleen McCarthy, the newest board member of the CASA, which covers both S...
The Sanders County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) announced today that an arrest has been made in the May 2018 homicide of Thompson Falls resident Matt LaFriniere. Sanders County Sheriff Tom Rummel released a statement today stating that Danielle Wood was taken into custody Wednesday morning and charged with deliberate homicide. Wood is being held on a $1 million bond, according to Sheriff Rummel. Wood and LaFriniere shared a child together. "I would like take this opportunity to thank the Department...
