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If you have bought or sold property in Sanders County, you have a little piece of Lynne Burns with you. Burns was the plat clerk in the Sanders County Clerk and Recorder's Office for almost 22 years. She retired in 2013, and passed away in November of last year after a battle with an incurable nerve disorder. Burns's presence can still be felt when you walk into the plat room at the Sanders County Courthouse. The books of plat maps are organized and maintained just as Burns kept them. Tracy Vani...
Volunteers last weekend might have made a small dent in "Project Clean-Up Days," but they got a big appreciation for their efforts, according to Plains Mayor Dan Rowan, who coordinated the project with council member Sandy Chenoweth. About 50 volunteers Friday and Saturday went to the homes of two dozen residents to clean up yards, mow lawns, and haul away unwanted materials cluttering the neighborhoods. By 5 p.m. Saturday, the town lot across the street from the fire department had a stack of...
It was only a little over two months long, but the Lady Hawks' return to the playing fields of competitive softball is the story of a lifetime. And although the Thompson Falls girls lost their play-in game to the Western B-C tournament 16-14 to Troy Tuesday (May 15), and their beloved assistant coach Randy Pirker, who was making a heroic last coaching stand, to cancer Friday, the season was a memorable one for all involved, coach Jared Koskela said. Pirker, who guided the Lady Hawk softball prog...
The Thompson Falls boys won fourth and the Lady Hawks fifth at the Western B-C divisional track and field meet in Frenchtown last week. Coach Trenna Ferris was grateful to her team after her first year at the helm of the Thompson Falls track and field program, and not just to the ones who will be moving on to this week's State B meet in Laurel Friday and Saturday. "I congratulate all the athletes that made it to the State competition, what an accomplishment!" she said. "I also want to...
In Class C, only the best of the best even get the opportunity to move on to the State C track and field meet. Proving to be among the best in the west, the Plains Trotters scored 38.5 points and placed seventh and the Horsemen tallied 30 points to also win seventh in team scoring at the Western C divisional meet in Frenchtown Thursday and Friday. Plains coach Denise Montgomery, her assistant coaches James Jermyn and Rheanna Fultz, and the Trotters and Horsemen who earned their way will now part...
Little big team. The Noxon Red Devil track and field teams, not big in numbers but long on talent and desire, accorded themselves quite well at the Western C divisional meet in Frenchtown, as the Devil boys scored 44 points to end up in a tie for fifth place with 14C champion Charlo, and the Lady Devils scored 9 team points to finish 12th in the Western C. Levi Brubaker and Rylan Weltz were the most productive point-scorers for the West End kids. A force in the jumps most of the season,...
It has been a great run so far; why should the fun stop now? The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters fought back from the very precipice of elimination to win third place in the Western B-C divisional softball tournament last week and will now play in the State B-C tourney in Belgrade beginning Thursday at the Belgrade Softball Complex. Coach Michele Bangen and her never-say-die Trotters will open the tournament facing the Huntley Project Red Devils, the No. 2 team from the Eastern B-C divisional, at 2...
Only four-strong, the Thompson Falls golfing team made quite a splash at the State B golf tournament at EagleRock Golf Course in Shepherd May 15-16 as three of those four Hawk golfers earned All-State B honors and the other, a rising freshman, finished well. Falls seniors Dylan Beckman and Elsie Brown capped brilliant prep careers by repeating as All-State B performers. Beckman carded a 76 on the first day and a 79 on the second to finish alone in fourth place with a two-day total of 155, while...
Hot Springs junior Tyler Carr won fourth place in the 110 meter hurdles at the Western C meet and will be the only Savage Heat thinclad to compete in this week's State C meet in Great Falls....
Over the Hill golfers may have strolled onto the grounds of River’s Bend Golf Course with their eyes wide open Monday morning, but they ended up going at it blind. Using a blind draw format to choose partners, 32 Over the Hill golfers attacked the Bend in impromptu teams of two and Gary Thompson and Dave Garr shot a 73 in the day’s best example of the blind leading the blind. Feeling their way around the Bend with the next best round of 76 were Mike Smith and Dave Petteys, and Lana Nolen and Jenz Jantzen were next with an 84. Not using Bra...
Shanks a Lot golfers moved back into the league lead as Bear Muscle Fitness shot the low team gross and One Shy of a Six Pack the low team net in Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Dave Garr shot the night’s low gross of 39 and Steve Fairbank the low net of 28. Fairbank’s fine round helped the Bear Muscle team, which also includes Cody Mosher, John Mosher and Steve Anderson, shoot the low team gross of 170, while Garr’s round helped his One Shy teammates Scott Garr, Shawn Wilkenson and Sam Burt shoot the low team net....
Members from the Free Cycles bike shop in Missoula met with children in Hot Springs to teach bike safety and the mechanics of what it takes to build and maintain your own bike. There was a total of six classes during the school day Monday for children in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Several bikes that were brought in for donation but Free Cycles members took this opportunity to demonstrate how to repair the bikes and they were able to be returned in working order. Eric Leutzinger, who has...
Thompson Falls High School physics students put their skills to the test last week at Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho. The students, from Doree Thilmony's physics class, competed with other high schools in the contests for measurement and roller coaster building. The measurement contest consisted of measuring applied physics to amusement park rides. Students were required to determine g-force on roller coasters, as well as centripetal acceleration and tangential velocity, speed, and other measure...
