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Students at Thompson Falls Elementary School recently completed the Running Start program, sponsored by the GFWC Thompson Falls Woman's Club. Kids completed logs of their reading through the month of April. Each sheet filled with chapters or books read entered the student into a drawing. Collectively the students read 3,511 books or chapters during April. Cory Kump's fourth grade class topped the list with 756 books or chapters read. Prizes for the event and an ice cream party to close out the...
A Thompson Falls man pleaded not guilty to a drug charge in 20th District Judicial Court on Tuesday. Wesley Palmer faces a maximum fine of $5,000 and up to five years in prison on the felony charge of criminal possession of dangerous drugs. Palmer was charged after a bag of what was thought to be meth was found at the Wild Coyote outside Thompson Falls in July 2018. Police reviewed video footage from the establishment, which allegedly shows the bag falling out of Palmer's pocket when he got up from a gambling machine, according to charging...
An estimated 400 people turned out for Saturday's seasonal grand opening of the National Bison Range, which included the 19-mile Red Sleep Mountain Drive and the visitor's center. The visitor number nearly doubled on Mother's Day. "It was a pretty good opening day. We had a steady stream of people here all day," said Vanessa Fields, the acting manager for the National Bison Range, which gets an average of 180,000 visitors a year. The majority came from Sanders, Lake and Missoula Counties, but...
The Sanders County Commissioners are considering an ordinance that would help control barking dogs in the county and establish procedures for enforcing the rule. County Commissioner Tony Cox said that people have complained to the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) about nonstop barking dogs. The County Attorney, Naomi Leisz notified the commissioners that there is a law that the county could use, but it was not ideal. The proposal was then made for a local ordinance. The commissioners held a public hearing on May 2 and then another m...
In hopes of making a positive impact before they graduate and leave, Trout Creek eighth-grade students are hard at work raising funds to improve their school. Colton Wormwood and Serenity Barrus collaborated to raise over $1,600 so far...and they are still going strong to raise even more. According to the duo, they made 20 Yardzee (yard-size versions of the Yahtzee game) sets and raised $600. They also raffled off a cord of wood which raised $1,000, and they raised money by managing a concession...
On to bigger and better things. Not in the game for team glory this season, two Thompson Falls High School golfers with lofty individual expectations, junior Ethan Brown for the boys and Megan Baxter for the girls, were competing at Canyon River (girls) and the Ranch Club (boys) courses in Missoula early this week hoping to earn honors at the two-day State B tournament. To be played Tuesday and Wednesday, results from the State B were not available at press time. Although coaches Mike Bates and...
The final meet of the track and field regular season, the Bigfork Invitational actually served as more of a preview rather than a grand finale. With all of the Western B teams in attendance in Bigfork Saturday, the Thompson Falls track and field teams took advantage of the opportunity for one final tune-up against the same athletes they will go up against this week. Well, almost all the same athletes anyway. "It's always interesting to see what kids, who may already be state-qualified,...
Now it is all about keeping the momentum going – and taking that momentum with you all the way to Belgrade. The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters completed regular season play with three wins last week, avoiding a potential play-in game earlier this week and advancing on to the Western B-C divisional tournament in Anaconda this weekend as the No. 2 seeded team. The Western B-C tourney starts Friday and runs through Saturday in Anaconda, with the top four teams then moving on to the State B-C t...
It wasn't the ending the Lady Hawks truly wanted, but it really wasn't that bad either. Coach Jared Koskela and his Thompson Falls Lady Hawks completed season softball play with a 13-3 loss to Loyola in Missoula in a Western B-C divisional tournament play-in game Monday. Although the Lady Hawks lost their chance to play more in this week's Western B-C tourney in Anaconda, they gained some self-respect from the competitive loss to Loyola, and also from a 9-6 loss to Plains-Hot Springs in...
The Trotters and Horsemen are moving on to the next track and field meet, and this one is the Western C divisional event in Missoula Thursday and Friday. The Western C will be held in conjunction with the Western B at Missoula Big Sky. Coach Denise Montgomery's athletes punched their tickets to Missoula with placing efforts in the District 14C meet last week in Missoula, also at Big Sky. The 14C meet was run concurrently with the District 13C meet in similar fashion as to how this week's action...
The Savage Heat are rising to the occasion as the Western C track and field meet arrives. The Western C divisional meet will be held in conjunction with the Western B at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium at Big Sky High School in Missoula Thursday and Friday. Tyler Carr and Katelyn Christensen were the big point-winners for the Hot Springs track and field teams at that same facility in the District 14C meet in Missoula last Friday and Saturday. Hot Springs’ boys scored 53 points to place fourth and the girls racked up 39 points to f...
Not so fast, Double H Dirt Works, Shanks a Lot golfers think they know their way around River’s Bend just as well or better than you. Shanks a Lot team members Dave Garr, Charlie Hooten, Rusty Haggard and Jens Jantzen posted the low team gross of 180 last week to catch up to and pass Double H Dirt duffers Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee, Russ Yeager and Tom Kirkland for the league lead in Tuesday Night Men’s action at the Bend last week. Undaunted by Shanks a Lot’s strong round, the Double H Dirt guys did post the low team net of 156 as Scott Parde...
The hunting at River’s Bend was good last week as the Wild Coyote pack of feral duffers bagged the low team gross of 176 to move into first place in Wednesday Night Men’s League standings. Gary Thompson, Howard Morkert, Ty Pardee and Scott Pardee were the four golfing for Wild Coyote last week. Hagedorn Land Surveying team members Rick Hagedorn, Paul Flemmer, Bernie Groshong and Chuck Manry joined forces to post the low team net of 142 as Flemmer shot the low individual gross of 41 to lead his quartet. Jody Doyle earned low individual net hon...
In the end, the plan has come to pass. All season long, Noxon coach Matt Havens has been aiming his track and field team towards the post season, the time of year that means the most. And, lo and behold, his Red Devil boys and girls saved some of their best efforts of the season for the best time – the District 14C meet in Missoula last week, the first level of post season competition. “Great efforts all the way around, all the kids had to really work to place at districts,” Havens said, “and the boys end up winning second and the girls t...
Former Plains track and field star Carley VonHeeder won third place and Big Sky All-Conference honors in the javelin at the Big Sky Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Dornblaser Field in Missoula last week. A junior at Montana State, VonHeeder pitched the spear 151 feet, 4 inches on her very first attempt and then watched that mark stand up the rest of the way to earn her first Big Sky placing medal. Several other Plains alumni women also competed in Missoula as Hailey Phillips ran the 400 meter hurdles for Montana State and Kayla Holmes...
When it comes to sunny mornings at River’s Bend, like most Monday mornings during golf season, there is nothing better than being part of the Over the Hill gang. Gathering at the Bend’s scenic nine for another go at golfing fun, 32 par-seeking players went at it again this past Monday morning and another great time was had by all. Leading the charge around the Bend, Mike Gillmore shot the low gross round of 42, while John Beckman and Christy Beaty factored in their handicaps to arrive at the best low net rounds for the Hill-folk men and wom...
Despite the recent surge of warm weather throughout Sanders County, mountain snows linger above the Clark Fork River west of Thompson Falls....
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks invites anglers and other interested parties to participate in a survey regarding changes to the 2020 fishing regulations. The survey is available at http://fwp.mt.gov/fish/publicComments/regsScoping.html. The survey is part of a public scoping process to review fishing regulations and identify potential issues with fisheries. This review happens every four years. “Public input is vital to crafting fishing regulations,” said Eric Roberts, FWP fisheries management bureau chief. “We evaluate how a regulation may i...
