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Sanders County athletes are switching gears to spring sports. But a few select athletes got to dust off their sneakers for another battle on the basketball court in state all-star play. Seniors Payton Frields of Thompson Falls and Lindsay Laws of Plains played in the Treasure State Classic March 15-17 in Billings. The tournament is for Montana seniors. Frields was one of 10 players selected from nine Western B division teams. Laws played for the Western C division team, which was chosen from 30 teams. Laws also played in the Mission Valley...
Weather always seems to play a role in the start of the high school golf season each spring. This year is no exception. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawks were set to start their season Saturday at the Hamilton Golf Club, but weather delayed the tournament. Instead, the Blue Hawks will begin play Tuesday, April 3, at Hamilton. Coaches Mike Bates and Gary Thompson said it's always something at the start of the golf season in western Montana, whether it be rain and flooding or snow still on many of the...
The Plains-Hot Springs Little Guy wrestlers competed at the Western Championships in Kalispell, with Kyle Lawson bringing home the championship in the Junior-120 bracket.Lawson pinned his first two opponents before beating Peyton Hicks of Corvallis in the semifinals with a 5-1 decision. For the championship, Lawson out-wrestled Trent Wilson of Polson 2-0. Coyle Nagy finished in second in the Junior-105 bracket, and Benedict Waterbury was fourth in Junior-126. Will Tatum took fourth at Middle-166, losing the consolation final to Dylan Whitten...
When you finish the season on top, you keep on wrestling. Thompson Falls eighth grader Trae Thilmony won first place at the Western Montana Championship wrestling tournament last weekend, and now he and four teammates are on the road to Iowa for a national event. It’s almost 1,400 miles from Thompson Falls to Des Moines, Iowa. The Thompson Falls wrestlers (Thilmony, Roman Sparks, Elijah Ratliff, Kaleb Frank and Jase Sorenson), along with Coach Mike Thilmony, are making the trek this week for the National Schoolboy Duals. The group will drive t...
Anglers are reeling in the lake trout on Flathead Lake during the 2018 Spring Mack Days Fishing Event. After two weekends of competitions, 9,528 lake trout have been entered in the competitions. That is about a thousand less than the same time last year. The 2017 spring total after the same number of days was at 10,577. Saturday was a blustery spring day for the anglers, with cold wind, rain, snow, rough water, and fish that quit biting. The high-dollar fish (one tagged for $10,000, three at $5,000 and five at $1,000) have not yet been caught,...
For the Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition (KFSC), it’s been a long, winding, and sometimes bumpy road. There are still curves ahead, but the path is getting wider and smoother, paved by support from diverse and sometimes surprising sources. In the past few months, the Coalition has gained the support of county commissions in both Lincoln and Sanders County, Montana, in which the majority of the Kootenai National Forest (KNF) lies. The Lincoln County Commission signed a Memorandum of Agreement with KFSC in late November of 2017, and the S...
Within a few seconds of meeting Karen Dwyer, it is easy to determine that she is full of life and certainly embraces adventure. Who would expect anything else from a gal who was born and raised in Montana? The small town of Opportunity, Montana was blessed the day Dwyer was born. She joined a family of five; father, mother, two older brothers and an older sister. She claims being the youngest is "a much better position to be in...most of the time anyway." Dwyer's father was a chemist, proudly...
GETTING ARTSY - Evidence has shown how powerful immersing students in the Arts is in developing learners of all ages, according to educators at Dixon School. Art Mobile of Montana paid the small school a visit last week and staff reported that "what they learn truly feeds into all content areas, and well beyond the school experience."...
