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  • Hot Springs votes on staffing changes

    Shannon Brown|Apr 18, 2024

    The Hot Springs School Board met last Wednesday to vote on positions for the next school year. Nineteen positions for the 2024-25 school year were approved. Principal Byron Woods K-12 principal position was eliminated, as well as one elementary teacher position. Sixteen returning teachers were approved including the counselor position. One position of a non-tenured teacher was discussed regarding her plan to complete her certification as a licensed educator for the high school. The board approved the position with one trustee against. In the...

  • Fair board addresses arena safety

    Ed Moreth|Apr 18, 2024

    The Sanders County Fair Board monthly meeting last week started with a Plains woman placing dozens of scraps of metal on the tables in front of the board members. "This could potentially cripple a horse," said Jolene Burke of Plains, referring to a large piece of metal that she and Kristy Sheehan, the fair manager, found in the dirt of the fairgrounds main arena a week earlier. She had bags of metal pieces, from a fraction of an inch to one that was nearly two feet long. She told the board that...

  • CROSSWORD SOLUTION

    Apr 18, 2024

    SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. SSE 4. PER 7. ABN 10. PIX 11. ARE 12. COA 13. FRANC 15. RAD 16. ASHER 19. ABSCISE 21. CONSUME 23. NEMESIS 24. OPTIMUM 25. RETE 26. AAHS 27. GENESES 30. THIMBLE 34. AKA 35. AAR 36. PEGASUS 41. BOURBON 45. BURY 46. ARNE 47. IMPANEL 50. SADNESS 54. SCANDAL 55. ENRAGES 56. MISDO 57. ABM 59. AMEER 60. HOW 61. BEE 62. PES 63. ANN 64. INN 65. EDT SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. SPASM 2. SINCERE 3. EXCISES 4. PARESES 5. ERA 6. REDCOAT 7. ACANTHI 8. BOSSISM 9. NAHUM 13. FAN 14. RBE 17. EMU 18. REM 20. SITE 22. OPAH 27. GAP 28. EKE 29. NAG 31. BAB...

  • Plains musicians entertain big crowd with spring concert

    Ed Moreth|Apr 18, 2024

    More than 160 people showed up at the Plains School Spring Concert last Tuesday in the school gymnasium. The hour-long concert featured the high school choir, the junior high band, the high school band, and special performances from a "Percussion Ensemble" by seniors Brenden Vanderwall, Sam Feliksa, Joe Martin, and junior Izzy Bakker, a foreign exchange student from the Netherlands. The four also entertained the crowd with an unusual percussion piece called "Klickety-Klack," which involved a...

  • PERFECT SHOT

    Annie Wooden|Apr 18, 2024

    Blue Hawk senior golfer Theo Nygaard (right) decided to keep the action going on Saturday after the Plains golf tournament. Nygaard came home in the afternoon to play at River's Bend with his teammates Aubrey Baxter and Cael Thilmony. Nygaard, who celebrates his 18th birthday this week, got a hole-in-one on No. 8 at his home course, putting the ball in from 173 yards with his 7-iron....