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The Cancer Network of Sanders County raised $10,950 to help cancer patients throughout the county with its "Fright Night" Halloween theme fundraiser at the Sanders County Fairgrounds pavilion Saturday night. Fifty people showed up at the four-hour event, which included a dinner, dancing, live music, a costume contest, and live and silent auctions. CNSC had no fall dinner fundraiser last year and raised nearly $30,000 in 2020, but the amount raised Saturday will go to help a dozen more people....
An Avista facility near Thompson Falls is being touted as a success in helping grow local bull trout populations. Avista has been capturing and tracking bull trout at the mouth of Graves Creek since 2002 using weir traps. In 20 years of improving the process to capture more fish, company representatives have also seen an increase in bull trout population. "It's nice to see that it's working and succeeding," Sanders County Commissioner Claude Burlingame said during a tour of the Graves Creek perm...
The students of Trout Creek School spent last week learning about safety. Students had the chance to learn about different areas of safety from representatives around the county including those from the forest service and Trout Creek Ambulance. Students also received a visit from detective April Phillips of the Sanders County Sheriff's Office. Last Thursday, Students spent the morning learning from members of the Thompson Falls Fire Department. Adam Anakalea, Scott Eldridge and David Eldridge,...
General hunting season is underway in Montana, and cooler weather greeted hunters in the northwest corner of the state. More than 1,700 hunters appeared at regional game check stations on Saturday and Sunday with mixed results. The overall number of hunters with harvested white-tailed deer and mule deer was slightly up while the number of elk was down compared to last year. The check station along U.S. Highway 93 near Olney saw the highest percentage of hunters with harvested game at 21...
How would you feel if you found that you and your water rights were the victim of a “Fraudulently derived, overreaching, unconstitutional water compact”? Pretty heated, I would guess, and rightly so if that were the case. The compact I am referring to is the Flathead Water Compact between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (CSKT), the State of Montana and the United States. Even though the compact is now law, there are many in Western Montana who think it...
Last week's Question of the Week in The Ledger was "who is your role model?" A young man named Nathan Stevens answered, "Superman." It made me chuckle, but it also made me think of a recent conversation about the wonder and innocence of the minds of children. This conversation I had recently centered around art. When you are young, it's just fun to be creative and make artwork. It doesn't matter what it looks like, everyone loves it and is proud of you. You experiment with all types of media and learning composition, but mostly you are just...
9 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER, 1932 LARSON’S CASH STORE Advertisement All brands Cigarettes – 15¢, 2 packages 25¢ - CAMELS, LUCKIES, CHESTERFIELD, OLD GOLD Lard, 8 pounds – 77¢ Blue Ribbon Flour, 49 pounds – 83¢ Golden Glo Butter, in cartons – 25¢ Cups & Saucers, white, $1.75 per dozen Glasses, 59¢ per dozen Wash boilers, heavy tin, copper bottom - $2.75 Clothes dryers – 98¢ Clothes Basket – 90¢ Wool Pants - $2.50 to $5.00 Wool Sox – three pair $1.00 Many other bargains which space does not permit us to advertise. 1932 DOLLARS TALK You can actu...
Editor, We have been fortunate to be friends with Colleen Hinds for over 45 years. Colleen is running for House District 13, and she is the best candidate for the job. Her decade’s long history as a nurse at Bonner General Hospital has showcased her compassionate nature and boundless work ethic. Besides being a good listener, she is intelligent, creative and understands the concerns of working class citizens. Colleen Hinds is the best choice to be our Representative from HD 13. Sincerely, Debbie and Dave Lyman, Heron...
There has been reference to the “Big Lie” leading to January 6, which refers to potential election fraud which has been neither proved or disproved to this day. But let’s talk more about big lies. To say January 6 was an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government is a big lie. It was a protest that went awry, minuscule compared to the BLM riots which lasted nearly a year costing many lives and millions in damages. To say January 6 was worse than 9-11 is a big lie. To say January 6 was worse than Pearl Harbor is a big lie. To say the Afgha...
Colleen Hinds will be an effective, hard worker for Montanans in her district. She will focus on issues important to Sanders County and Montana in general. Colleen has lots of energy, is easy to approach, positive and won’t waste valuable time on distracting controversies damaging to Montana citizens. Vote Colleen Hinds for HD 13. Steve Oswald, Thompson Falls...
Last week there was a letter to the editor regarding how the Waste/Water Treatment Plant sale of land was being handled, casting doubt on Mayor Dan Rowan’s character and ability to serve as a county commissioner. The mayor does not make final decision on any actions that affect the running of the town of Plains. That is done by the Plains Town Council. The town lost a significant amount of land with a change in the flow of the river at the waste-water treatment plant and we were advised to move it out of the flood plain by the Army Corps of E...
Kristen Wing, Thompson Falls - “It’s a privilege that people have died for.” Jonathan Lueb, Thompson Falls - “It’s a privilege many people don't have. If you don't vote change is in someone else’s hands.” Mindy Lyght, Thompson Falls - “It gives you the opportunity to know what's going on and to be able to weigh in on it. Also to get familiar with candidates.” Brittany Swartzentruber, Thompson Falls - “For people to have a voice…important in issues.” Margaret Juneman, Thompson Falls - “Extremely important, people have died to give us this free...
There are many bowlers in Sanders County who have accomplished amazing feats. Some have won state or national championships. Some have had his or her name on a plaque on the wall. But for Rita Harper of Thompson Falls, her amazing feat was when she started bowling. Harper had never bowled on a league until she moved to Thompson Falls in 2005. That year, she ended up as the Thompson Falls Rookie of the Year. She was 73 years old, the oldest rookie in Thompson Falls bowling history. Last week...
Bob Sink of Thompson Falls celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this month with a celebration at the Thompson Falls Senior Center surrounded by friends and family. Music was provided by Dave and Deb Oliver, Keith Meyers, Tina Fausett, Theresa McDonald and Ron Burghart. Sink even got up and played the fiddle for his friends and family. At his party, Sink played a fiddle that he acquired in 1942, when he was just 10 years old....
Robert John Reeser passed away at his home on October 20, 2022. He was born in Thompson Falls, Montana, April 29, 1939, and was raised in Tuscor, Montana. He married his high school sweetheart Barbara on July 1, 1956, in Superior, Montana. They enjoyed 61 years of marriage together. He started his working career with the railroad and moved into logging and was a logger for most of his life. Bob and his brother Ed ran a saw shop together in Belknap for many years. Shooting was his passion. He... Full story
Rosemarie (Bradetich) Bloom, 91, passed away peacefully October 18, 2022, at Clark Fork Valley Hospital with her family by her side. Rosemarie was born April 28, 1931, to John and Anna Bozich Bradetich in Sandpoint, Idaho. She was the seventh of eight children. Rosemarie attended high school in Sandpoint where she met her future husband, Roy Bloom. They were married January 22, 1949. Rosemarie and Roy, with their four children, moved from Sandpoint to Thompson Falls, Montana, in 1962. She was a... Full story
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The Hot Springs football team is going into the playoffs with another win under their belts. The Savage Heat welcomed West Yellowstone for the last game of the regular season on Saturday, beating the Wolverines 65-22. It was the highest scoring output this season for Hot Springs, with 10 touchdowns, and quarterback Nick McAllister reached the 1,000-yard mark for passing. "We had a lot of people sick this week but we were able to pull it together," senior Garth Parker said after the game. "We wer...
The Blue Hawks put forth an outstanding performance at the state cross country meet Saturday in Missoula. It was a rainy, cold and damp day, but perfect weather for running and personal bests for the Hawks. "The course was a bit slippery in spots, but well worth the cooler weather," Coach Sarah Naegeli said. The girls finished an impressive seventh as a team with sisters Ellie and Aubrey Baxter leading the pack. "It was certainly fun, nerve wracking and exciting to watch them compete. Not only...
The Noxon Red Devils were on the road Friday for their last game of the regular season, but the long road trip to Twin Bridges didn’t stop them from adding another win to their record. The Red Devils came home with a 54-14 victory over the Falcons. “It went really well,” Noxon Coach Lucas MacArthur said. “Twin Bridges has been getting better as the season has progressed.” The only scores allowed by the Noxon defense last Friday were in the second quarter. MacArthur said his defense was playing back rather than reacting to plays, but they quickl...
In one of the highest scoring games of the season for both teams, Plains fell in their final contest of the season at home Wednesday, 82-38, to the Darby Tigers. In the first moments of the game, Plains fumbled the kickoff return but then the Tigers also fumbled and Horseman Nicholas Hill picked up the ball and ran it back for a touchdown. Senior Mason Elliott followed it up with the conversion and Plains held the lead. Minutes later, however, Darby came back and tied the game. The Horsemen...
Rain, rain, rain. Lots of rain fell from the dark cloudy skies Friday and Saturday during the sixth weekend of 2022 Fall Mack Days at Flathead Lake. The fall fishing event sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes lasts until November 13. Anglers may enter at any time until the last day of the event. The events are used as a management tool in the effort to help native bull trout and westslope cutthroat in Flathead Lake. A total of 11,253 lake trout entries have been turned in, compared with 10,607 at this time in the 2021 fall...
This week, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks won their last game of the season against the Anaconda Copperheads. This was their first win of the season with a final score of 42-0. “When things click with this group they click really well. Everything we tried seemed to be coming together and the team was having fun with it. It was a great ending to an up-and-down season. We couldn’t have asked for anything better. The seniors deserved this lasting memory for all the hard work they have put in,” said Hawk head coach Jared Koskela. The Hawks had a rou...
The Thompson Falls Blue Hawks have had a successful volleyball season, but there’s one opponent who has managed to elude them all season, the Bigfork Valkyries. After falling to Bigfork in four sets at Thompson Falls earlier this season, the Hawks were looking for redemption as they traveled to the Flathead on Saturday for a rematch. Bigfork is undefeated this season and the Hawks were anxious to hand the Valkyries their first loss. Their valiant effort wasn’t enough, however, as the Hawks fell in three sets, 25-23, 25-23, 25-9. In the first se...
by Annie Wooden The Noxon Red Devils played their last home game of the season last Thursday, dominating Two Eagle River in three sets, 25-7, 25-16, 25-11. It was a night of celebration for Noxon as they recognized Breast Cancer Awareness Month in their pink jerseys and honored Aubrey Erwin and Emily Brown for senior night. In the first set of the evening, Brown served nine points in a row before Two Eagle River got a side out. The Red Devils made it through a full rotation before Brown served u...
