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Ronnie Trentham wishes someone had told him about the dangers of chewing tobacco before it was too late. Trentham repeated that statement many times to students in Sanders County last week as he and Greg Bilby took their “Tobacco Tour” to Plains, Thompson Falls and Trout Creek. Trentham is a seven-time cancer survivor. “I was one of the happiest people you’re ever meet, but I had struggles with tobacco,” Trentham said. He detailed how his first cancer was found in his mouth, and the second in his jawbone. During that second battle, doctors t...
After years of preparation, research, organization and planning between the Thompson Falls School District, law enforcement and Sanders County emergency responders, a successful lockdown drill at Thompson Falls High School was implemented last week. School Resource Officer Bob Thornhill said that the greatest achievement may be the collaborative efforts between Sanders County emergency responders and the Thompson Falls School District. Although school teachers and staff have had prior training...
HELENA — The Montana House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2, which combines about $10 billion of state and federal funding for state agencies for the next two years. The bill passed with a vote of 54-45 last week and now moves to the Senate. House Minority Leader Rep. Casey Schreiner, D-Great Falls, along with every other House Democrat, voted against the bill. Schreiner said he’s opposed to the cuts to full-time positions in the state health and human services department and not appropriating the roughly $30 million for public pre...
Hattie Neesvig says if you're upset about a problem, you need to help be part of the solution. That's a pretty heft philosophy for any adult. Neesvig is just in seventh grade, and already has a passion for helping people. The Thompson Falls Junior High student has a jewelry business, from which 10 percent of the profits are donated to charity. Every three months, she chooses a different charity. The 13-year-old also collects books for children each winter, sewing book bags as well. Last winter,...
If there is strength in numbers, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk track and field teams should be just fine this spring. Armed with a large turnout of athletes – 24 boys and 17 girls have signed on for Thompson Falls track and field – second-year head coach Trenna Ferris and her forty-one strong team of runners, jumpers and throwers have been busy trying to practice their specialties in the face of late-winter weather that has forced many practice sessions indoors up to now. Improving weather ove...
The Hot Springs track and field team, after several weeks of weather-challenged practicing in the Spa City, will officially open the season in the Frenchtown Invitational April 6. Led by State C-qualifier Tyler Carr, the only Savage Heat thinclad to advance on to the State C meet last spring (in the 110 meter hurdles), coach Bethany White has a total of 13 student-athletes on board for this season’s campaign. In addition to Carr, Claire McAllsiter and Elena McAllister are Hot Springs’ other seniors, Cameron Stearns, Thea Weckerle and Ang...
Sanders County seniors Delaney Weltz of Noxon and Kassidy Kinzie of Plains have finally been honored as members of the Montana Class C All-State basketball team. With the announcement of their being added to the All-State C team coming late last week, The Ledger was unable to publish this story until receiving verification from Charlo Athletic Director Shane Bartschi, who was in charge of releasing the District 14C All-Conference basketball teams to the press. As a rule in Montana sports,...
Another year older and another year wiser, the still-young Thompson Falls softball team looks to be much more competitive this spring. Finally finding their field after late-winter storms buried it in snow, the 15-strong Lady Hawks have been busy practicing what softball they can where they can and are aiming to begin regular season play at Florence April 6. The Hawks, under then first-year coach Jared Koskela, struggled with numbers and experience last spring, but look to be much more competitive this season, Koskela said. “We are in a lot b...
Wrestling never sleeps, not for those athletes constantly striving to get better. Two of those kind of grapplers, Elijah Ratliff and Roman Sparks will be heading to Iowa this weekend for the Middle School and High School National Duals tournament in Des Moines. Four other wrestlers on the rise – Trae Thilmony, Weston Block, Hartleigh Block and Neala Block – will compete in the Montana Open at Metra Park in Billings this weekend. The National Duals bring together promising middle school and hig...
Already a week behind the curve thanks to the weather, coach Matt Havens and his Noxon track and field team is scheduled to compete in the Eureka Invitational in Lincoln County April 6. Originally slated to open the season at the Jim Johnson Memorial meet in Frenchtown this Friday, the Red Devil thinclads will instead start the season in Eureka as the Johnson meet has officially been canceled due to Montana’s late but great flurry of winter weather. Havens said seniors Levi Brubaker, Edison VanVleet and Delaney Weltz, and junior Rylan Weltz l...
