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This year's Sanders County Fair is going "to be the greatest show on earth," according to Randy Woods, chairman of the fair commission and his first fair as a member of the board. Melissa Cady, hired as the fair manager in May, also believes the 2019 fair will be one to remember. "It's going to be an amazing fair," said the Thompson Falls resident, who added that there's going to be a wide variety of food and commercial vendors and some new rides from the fair's second-year carnival, Paradise Am...
School reunions often include celebrations of 50 or even 60 years. Getting to 100 is a major milestone. On Saturday, the Dixon School celebrated 100 years of educating students. Hundreds of graduates, teachers and community members joined the celebration. The day kicked off with a pancake breakfast at the senior center, put on by the local firemen. About 20 classic cars and trucks gathered on the lawn near the basketball court for a car show. Joyce Decker Wegner is a retired Lake County...
Don’t let what has been a slow fire year turn into a late intense one. The local 2019 wildland fire season has been a relatively quiet one, and local officials would like to see it kept that way through the final stages of what is normally fire season in these parts. “There is still a chance for fires, the forecast calls for hotter and drier conditions through the rest of the week,” Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District Fire Management Officer Scott Schrenk said Monday, “and we have had a lot of human-caused fires this summer. “With the fair...
Work continues on the Highway 200 project east of Thompson Falls. However, crews will not be working over the Labor Day weekend. LHC, Inc., the contractor for the project, said that crews will be off the road by noon Friday and will resume work on Tuesday....
School has started and competition begins this weekend for local fall sports teams. This weekend is the Sanders County Fair and Rodeo. It's a busy time of year for local kids — and parents. 4-H members work on projects throughout the year. Feeding pigs, working with their horses and perfecting their woodworking skills takes a lot of time. Most spend their year working on record books in preparation for the fair Labor Day weekend. Helping them out are those 4-H parents. There always seems to be a mad rush the week of fair to finish projects for...
Dear Editor, I can see with the recent “barking ordinance” why there is a sudden fear of barking dogs. It has been argued both ways to great length. As a dog parent I see it as yet another hurdle to cross having a dog while I also remember my pre-dog days and how barking dogs were annoying. I decided against reaching out for the offered help on barking because I disagree with any negative training methods. I have rescue dogs and without knowing their full history, I will not subject them to shock collars or risk an allergic reaction with the...
After 77th Division, I applied to and was accepted into Metropolitan Division (Metro). Metro was a phenomenal place to work and afforded me the opportunity to work dozens of different jobs without leaving the Division. Metro is primarily a crime suppression assignment, but is also home to SWAT, K9 and the Mounted Unit. Metro has citywide responsibility and platoons are sent to work areas as the needs arise. We spent the bulk of our time patrolling Central, South Central, and South Los Angeles....
19 PUBLICATION OF WESTERN SANDERS COUNTY This publication was recently donated to the Old Jail Museum COMMUNICATION The Western Union has a number of local offices that provide worldwide telegraph service. The Mountain States Telephone Co., a part of the Bell System, furnishes a recently and completely modernized and expanded local and long distance service with seven digit dialing. F.M. Radio is used by a number of businesses and governmental agencies. In addition to A.M. radio, good TV reception is readily enjoyed in much of the region...
CORY TROYER, Thompson Falls — "I go because I like to go to the rodeo.” CENA BEENE Thompson Falls – “We have been going to the Fair for 22-24 years. We sell hats. We like the family atmosphere." PATRICK WALT, Thompson Falls – “I go to participate with my church. And in the bingo. I read the Ledger every week.” JENNIFER THOMPSON, Thompson Falls – “I have five kids ages 13, 6, 4 and 3. They all love anything that goes fast and makes you dizzy.” GERRY GREEN, Noxon – “We like to see the livestock and like eating elephant ears.” LAURA WALTON, Pl...
Sunday, August 18 Property found. Fire, T. Falls. Other law violations, T. Falls. Motor vehicle crash, Paradise. Disturbance, Plains. Motor vehicle crash, Heron. Disturbance, Heron. Abandoned vehicle, Plains. Animal, Hot Springs. Monday, August 19 Disturbance, T. Falls. Child custody issues, Plains. Welfare check, Trout Creek. Theft, checking status of missing records, Noxon. Motor vehicle crash, Hot Springs. Motor vehicle crash, T. Falls. Parking problem, Plains. Tuesday, August 20 Coroner call, Plains. Motor vehicle crash, Trout Creek....
Sanders County Sheriff’s Office Samuel Deluna, 40, driving a motor vehicle while privilege is suspended, 4 days jail; operating without liability insurance, 1st offense, 3 days jail. Daniel Fetveit, 21, day speeding, $200. Joseph Marple, 80, improper passing, $85. Doreen Brown, 77, day speeding, $20. Johnathan Tifft, 28, criminal trespass to property, 10 days jail; criminal possession of dangerous drugs, 1st offense, 10 days jail. Motor Carrier Services Patrick Mata, 52, operating with expired registration, $85. Montana Highway Patrol Ryan R...
The story continues for the tree featured in last week's Sanders County Ledger. When the last cut was made, David Reedy of Internet Kitchen in Thompson Falls counted the rings. "While possibly being the largest in Thompson Falls," Reedy said of the Cottonwood tree, "it certainly wasn't one of the oldest. I did a careful ring count on the base of the tree and counted the core plus 68 rings and this year's growth. I put the tree at 70 years old; likely planted in 1950." Reedy said the rings were...
The Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce welcomed new teachers in the school district during the chamber's August luncheon last week. "We welcome all the new teachers and we applaud you for coming to Thompson Falls," said chamber member Rita Lundgren of Lundgren Chiropractic and Wellness Center. Amber Yates is a new kindergarten teacher in the district. The first-year teacher from Ennis has a special connection with another new hire. Band and music teacher Neil Harbel noted at the luncheon that...
The Western Sanders County TV District announced changes in the programing schedule. The Spokane stations, Heartland and Family are no longer available to rebroadcast from Clark Mountain. Currently, they have been replaced by a PBS-East feed and FNX (First Nations). At Green Mountain, KHQ, SWX-WA and KSPS are available. KSPS is broadcast on the UHF Channel 15 so there is a short distance transmission. According to a TV Board spokesman, the Board will apply for two more frequencies to the Federal Communication Commission. Since there is...
Plans have evolved for the former Masonic Lodge building in Thompson Falls to convert into a school. Facture Academy, an affiliate of Acton Academy based out of Austin, Texas, will begin classes for first through eighth grades this fall. Shannon Doherty of Facture Academy has scheduled an informational open house for September 3 at 6 p.m. at 214 N. Columbia Street in Thompson Falls, the new school's location. "School will start as planned on September 4 and enrollment will be open throughout...
First impressions can make or break someone. It appears Noxon students' first impression of their new superintendent was a good one... maybe even one for the books. Wednesday marked the first day of school for Noxon's 2019-2020 school year, and it was a warm one; temperatures reached near 100 degrees. Thankfully, Noxon School Superintendent Jonathan Martin arranged for NWBounce of Post Falls, Idaho, to deliver four large inflatable water slides to the school to start off the new year. "We're...
A retired professional baseball player took time out while visiting Plains friends to sign autographs at the Amundson Sports Complex Saturday morning. Dick Green, who played 12 years for the Kansas City Athletics and the Oakland Athletics, signed autographs and told baseball stories to nearly 20 people for just over an hour at Field 3. Green was visiting with his friend, Denny Miller of the Miller-Burgess Ranch, and was asked to make himself available for autographs. The 78-year-old Green said...
Though Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has not been detected in any deer in Sanders County, "it's something we need to take seriously." That was the sentiment of Neil Anderson, Wildlife Program Manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) Region 1. Anderson spoke to about 30 residents in Trout Creek last Wednesday to talk about the CWD cases in the Libby area and what hunters here can do to help stop the spread of the disease. Anderson said there have been six confirmed cases of CWD in deer...
It's seasons greetings as the fall high school sports seasons begin this week across Montana. These are greetings not for the seasons that come with Christmas every year, but for the fall sports seasons that also appear annually, only around Sept. 1 rather than during the holidays. But it is like the holidays for high school sports fans who have now gone months waiting, without any official games, matches or meets to watch. In the annual early Christmas present to all prep sports fans in Montana...
Let’s talk about sports in-laws. From one end of Sanders County to the other, these relatives by marriage, and blood, are huge impact players in the coaching world around these parts. Let’s start in Plains with head football and girls basketball coach Eddie Fultz, who is married to Rheanna (Rhe) Padden, who is sister to Lisa (Padden) Mickelson, the new junior varsity volleyball coach for the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks. This makes Jake Mickelson, the athletic director and head boys basketball coach at Thompson Falls and husband to Lisa, spo...
Just a different kind of tee for two. The locally famous group of gregarious golfers known as the Over the Hill gang went at each other with a friendly game of two-person scramble at River's Bend this past sunny Monday morning. Playing the two-person format the best, Al Luckow and Darrel "Torgy" Torgrimson captured first place honors with a 24, followed by the Ron Belger-Chuck Manry duo who scored 25 and the Larry Eddy-Dennis Gripp combo who totaled 26. In other play of the day, Sam Bernhardt...
One more round of golf will settle it once and for all. Sparky’s Gutter Time golfers held on to first place through the last week of the second half of regulation play and have forced a playoff with first half winners Double H Dirt Works. That Tuesday night golf grudge match was set to be played earlier this week. Bear Muscle Fitness golfers Steve Fairbank, Steve Anderson, Cody Mosher and Ricky Hagedorn shot the low team gross of 179 and Double H Dirt Works linksters Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee, Russ Yeager and Jake Helvey posted the low team n...
It was the Wild Coyotes in the beginning and it is the Wild Coyotes in the end. The Wild Coyotes claimed the 2019 Wednesday Night Men’s League crown last week by winning the second half of season play – after winning the first half as well – at River’s Bend. The Coyote quartet of Gary Thompson, Kevin Sparks, Scott Pardee and Howard Morkert put a ribbon on the season by gunning down the low team gross of 168. Ron’s Running Dinos quartet of Bruce Sterling, Darrel “Torgy” Torgrimson, Dan Kier and Mark Terrazas shot the low team net of 141. Kier co...
Heat rises. A fact of science taught in every school everywhere, the Heat rising in Hot Springs right now refers to something else other than the laws of physics – this is the laws of athletics. Fresh off a third place finish in last year’s District 14C volleyball tournament and with virtually everyone back from that team, coach Alisha Pablo and her girls are busy getting ready for what they hope will be a banner year. “We are pretty excited,” Pablo admits. “We have a lot of returning talent and the girls are hungry for more. They are ready...
Start slow and finish strong; that is the way the Plains Trotter volleyball team has played these last few years. Coach Jesse Butcher and her Trotters have struggled out of the gate somewhat the past several seasons, but always seem to be playing their best when it means the most – at tournament time. Last fall at the District 14C tournament in Hot Springs, the Trotters, after a mediocre regular season where they showed flashes of brilliance but seemed to lack consistency, swept to the conference championship. After no other team had d...
