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The City of Thompson Falls received one bid for the Thompson Falls pool project At the Thompson Falls City Council meeting on Monday, Mayor Jerry Lacy said that one bid was received for the project. The bid came in at $163,00, which was higher than the $150,000 anticipated. The city received a grant from Montana State Parks earlier this year for $75,000 and the city had to come up with $75,000 in matching funds. City Clerk Chelsea Peterson said that following donations have been received: $25,000 from the Frisbee Morbella Foundation, $5,00...
After honoring one of their own with a moving tribute, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks went out and put a 62-0 whipping on the visiting Victor Pirates at Previs Field Friday. Now 2-0 overall and 1-0 in Western C conference play, coach Jared Koskela and his brand-new 8-Man Hawk football team will get a chance to see how good they really are when they take on the giant-killing Clark Fork Mountain Cats, quite possibly the hottest 8-Man team in Montana right now, in Alberton Friday night. The Mountain...
Assistant coach Mike Thilmony has been elevated to the head coaching position for the Thompson Falls High School wrestling program, the Thompson Falls School Board announced Monday. “Mike has a strong wrestling background, he’s a hard worker and I’m excited to have him continue to be part of our program,” TFHS Superintendent Bill Cain said. Thilmony replaces Ian Taylor, who recently stepped down from the post. Thompson Falls officials will now concentrate on finding an assistant coach for the program before the wrestling season begins in a fe...
Playing effective volleyball is all about finding your rhythm. When the serves are singing, the bumps shots are going where they are directed and the ball is thumping the floor to a steady beat from the kills shots, volleyball teams can orchestrate beautiful music together. Still searching for the perfect tempo, the Lady Hawks hit some high notes and low notes in Western B net action last week. Hitting the low notes, the Hawks were swept 25-15, 25-13, 25-9 by powerful Florence in Florence Thursd...
Troy, Troy and Troy again. The Noxon Lady Red Devils will get their fill of the Troy Trojans on the volleyball court this week, playing the Trojans at Troy Thursday and hosting the Troy girls in Noxon next Tuesday. In between those net dates with Troy, coach Teri Wilkinson and her Devils will entertain Charlo Saturday. Featuring two freshmen (Emily Brown and Avery Burgess) in the starting lineup, the Lady Devils have a decidedly youthful look to their lineup. Wilkinson said Noxon is in a bit of...
Heading into the 2019 volleyball season, the Hot Springs Savage Heat girls were among the District 14C league favorites based on the returning talent from last year's team. Then along came another talented player in the form of 5-9 Lily Winn, and coach Alisha Pablo and her Savage Heat went from being solid contenders to being solid favorites in the 14C net wars. Evidence of how dominating the Hot Springs girls can be was on full display in Noxon Thursday as the Heat swept the hometown Lady Red...
It was a stag party at River’s Bend Monday morning as the Over the Hill gang’s men went a round without the presence of any ladies. With the fairer sex no where to be found, the Hill men were free to let it all hang out on 9-9-19, and hang it out there they did. Grabbing the all-men’s day competition by the throat, Dave Garr shot down the low gross round of 40, while Don Hansen factored in his handicap to arrive at the low net of 30. In hole play, Hansen made good with the shot closest to the pin on No. 2 and smacked the long 70+ drive on No...
The first home win is always a sweet one. Coach Jesse Butcher and her Plains Trotters kicked off the home portion of their 2019 home volleyball schedule with a 25-19, 25-22, 25-21 win over Sanders County rival Noxon in Plains Saturday. The Trotters will now play four matches in the space of eight days. That stretch of matches was set to begin with a match against Troy in Plains last Tuesday (results were not available at press time), the Trotters will visit Hot Springs for a key District 14C match Thursday, Plains will take on Clark Fork...
For Thompson Falls cross country runners and their fans, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Running into the heart of their 2019 schedule, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk harriers have the opportunity to compete in two of the better races of any season this week – the Rebecca Farms Invitational in Kalispell Saturday and the Thompson Falls Invitational at River's Bend golf course Tuesday. The Falls Invite is scheduled to begin running at 2 p.m. Sept. 17. The Hawks kept busy last week by ru...
Now that Sunburst’s bubble has been burst, it’s time to take aim at the Rebels. The Hot Springs Savage Heat burned Sunburst 52-6 in Sunburst Friday and will take their 2-0 non-conference record into battle this week with the likewise 2-0 Shields Valley Rebels in Hot Springs Friday night. For argument’s sake, the Savage Heat were ranked No. 3 among all Montana high school 6-Man teams in the most recent 406mtsports.com football rankings while Shields Valley checked in at No. 9. Which clearly makes this marquee matchup a key early season game...
Head east young men, and don’t stop until you reach faraway Reed Point, just this side of Chicago, uh, maybe we mean Billings. Fresh off an easy 64-7 season-opening win over the visiting Heart Butte Warriors last Friday, coach Bart Haflich and his enterprising Noxon Red Devil football team will now travel some 400 miles one way to go and play the Reed Point-Rapelje Renegades in Reed Point this Friday. At least the Devils do not have to go the extra 30 miles or so they would have been required to travel had the game been in Rapelje (...
The Sanders County Fair Board held a special meeting Sunday morning in an effort to clear up payment disputes concerning the demolition derby. Fair Board Chairman Randy Woods of Hot Springs called the meeting because he wanted to get people involved with the derby paid as soon as possible. The demolition derby, held on the last evening of the fair, is the fair’s biggest draw. It utilizes the Plains Lions Club and volunteers to help pull off the event. This year the fair sold 3,100 tickets and fetched $75,000, an increase from 2018, according t...
