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13 YEARS AGO • JULY 21, 1948 NEW MOTEL The new Falls Motel, located one-half block off the highway west in the city limits, is now open to the public. It is one of the finest, with eight double unit sleeping rooms, all modern and electrically heated and the quarters are nice and roomy. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore, the proprietors, have their living quarters and office in the first unit. Moores are to be congratulated on completion of their fine establishment. 64 YEARS AGO • JUNE 9, 1960 PICNIC PEST Ants aren’t the only uninvited guests that appear...
Ambulance: Plains, 9; Hot Springs, 5; T. Falls, 5; Trout Creek, 3; Noxon, 2; Dixon, 2; Heron, 1; Paradise, 1; Lonepine, 1. Monday, August 5 Fire, Trout Creek. Livestock, Trout Creek. Civil attempts. Road hazard/blockage, Noxon. Animal other, T. Falls. Threats, Trout Creek. Suspicious activity, Hot Springs. Suspicious activity, Plains. Suspicious activity, Heron. Road hazard/debris on road, Noxon. Motor vehicle crash, Plains. Welfare check, T. Falls. Tuesday, August 6 Suspicious activity, Trout Creek. Trespass, Hot Springs. Motor vehicle crash,...
At the age of 93, Jimme Lee Wilson, retired rancher, passed away quietly at his home in Santa Barbara, CA on August 1, 2024, where he and his wife Carolyn lived for the past six years. Jimme was born in Billings, MT, May 21, 1931, to Paul and Catherine Bender Wilson. He later graduated from Laurel High School in 1949, and played in the East-West Shrine Football Game his senior year. In 1949, he enrolled at the University of Montana where he played center and linebacker for the Grizzly football t...
The members of the Plains School took less than 30 minutes to approve two new policies and this year's school sports handbook. Some residents have questioned why the school had no dual sports policy, such as the one Thompson Falls has on hand. The Dual Activities Policy and the Activities Fundraising Policy were both unanimously approved by board members Ellen Childress, Monica Weedeman, Lana Dicken, and chairman Beau French. The two policies were written by the school's new athletic director,...
Michael Feiger, District Ranger for the Cabinet Ranger District, gave a briefing to the Sander County Commissioners on last regarding wildland fires and other forestry concerns for Sanders County. Logging projects with timber sales and vegetation management were on the agenda. Recreation, wildfire and prescribed burns were updated. Feiger said the Tuscor project is a big accomplishment. “The decision was signed July 28 to put the project up for bid and it was advertised on August 8 of this year. This brings the project, from inception to f...
The Sanders County Fair is less than two weeks away, but it looks like it’s going to be packed with fun activities, food and sights, according to Kristy Sheehan, the fair manager. The fair this year will perhaps for the first time open with a concert for the first night entertainment event. Country singer and songwriter Levi Blom will kick off the fair on Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m. in the fair’s main arena. Tickets for the Butte resident are $20 for bleachers and $25 on the arena floor in front of the stage. With this year’s theme as “Hors...
Members of the Plains Town Council unanimously approved the hiring of a contractor to decommission and demolish the old sewage lagoon last Monday at City Hall. Olympus Technical Services of Helena won the bid to dismantle the old wastewater treatment plant at the end of Helterline Drive with its bid of $71,670. Olympus Technical Services was one of five companies, including one from Sanders County, to bid on the project, said Mayor Joel Banham. The liners from the old ponds will be removed and...
The ladies had another stunning day of golf with Kim Pardee and Kim Sparks earning the low team gross score with 99, while Marshanna Drop and Doree Thilmony got the low team net score with 66. Doree Thilmony proved her skills getting the low individual gross score with 45, with Katie Miller getting the low individual net score with her 32. Kayla Mosher earned closest to pin on No. 1, Kim Pardee had closest to pin on No. 2, and Danice Toyias earned closest to pin on hole No. 8. Ruth Kronfuss showed her skills earning the long putt on No. 3 and...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. FMC 4. PSI 7. TEG 10. LAO 11. ABN 12. ANA 13. STILL 15. RAD 16. CALLA 19. TACTILE 21. INKBLOT 23. PESETAS 24. COLLAGE 25. SISE 26. EPEE 27. DETESTS 30. SESSILE 34. ALA 35. RAN 36. SIDECAR 41. PASSAGE 45. ARNE 46. IMAM 47. POURING 50. SALAAMS 54. PANACEA 55. CHALLIS 56. BRICK 57. TAI 59. BLOAT 60. THE 61. TAN 62. LEI 63. YET 64. ARE 65. ERN SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. FLICS 2. MALTESE 3. COLITIS 4. PARESES 5. SBA 6. INDICES 7. TACKLES 8. ENABLES 9. GALLA 13. STP 14. TAE 17. LOG 18. ATE 20. LAST 22. NOPE 27. DAS 28. ELI 29. TAD 31. IRA...
Trout Creek will come alive Saturday and Sunday for the 44th Annual Huckleberry Festival. The fun-filled weekend includes a pancake breakfast, fun run, booths, vendors, live entertainment, an auction and more. The theme for this year’s festival is “It’s a Purple Party!” The logo was designed by Juanita Gambrel of Thompson Falls and features a bear jumping into a pool of huckleberries. Crowder Design of Thompson Falls adapted the logo for shirts and other festival swag. The Trout Creek Rural Fire Department kicks things off Saturday morning...
Cody Allen Allestad made his initial appearance before Judge John Mercer on Tuesday, entering not guilty pleas to two felony counts of strangulation of partner or family member, two misdemeanor counts of partner or family member assault, and one felony count of partner or family member assault. Judge Mercer set the jury trial for December 2. According to the filed affidavit, on July 7, Sanders County Sheriff's deputies Devin Wegener and Patrick Barber responded to an address in Plains, where the reporting party advised that her daughter had...
Ambulance: Trout Creek, 6; T. Falls, 6; Plains, 5; Hot Springs, 5; Dixon, 1; Heron, 1; Camas Prairie, 1. Monday, July 29 Inmate transport. Civil attempts. Trespass, Dixon. Officer flag down, Plains. Civil attempts. Trespass, Plains. Trespass, Plains. Motor vehicle crash, T. Falls. Assist miscellaneous, Noxon. Motor vehicle crash, Plains. Intimidation/harassment, T. Falls. Request for welfare check, Heron. Motor vehicle crash, Plains. Livestock, Paradise. Tuesday, July 30 Business contact. Disturbance, Dixon. General animal call/complaint,...
Water may be a hot commodity in Montana, increasingly so during these dry summers and low snowpack winters. Sanders County residents who own property on the Flathead Reservation also must adjust to changing water restrictions. Ranchers concerned with irrigation restrictions in the Hot Springs area are faced with even more restrictions according to Koshon LaCounte, the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project North Division Supervisor. He said availability of water has affected allotments this year. “Winter has not replenished the water. It carried o...
The Montana Department of Revenue (DOR) will soon be distributing its second round of property tax rebates to eligible Montana taxpayers as part of a property tax relief package signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte in 2023. The property tax rebate is a rebate of up to $675 of property taxes paid on a principal residence. To qualify, you must have owned and lived in a Montana residence for at least seven months of 2023 and paid the property taxes on that residence. Properties owned by an entity and irrevocable trusts are not eligible for...
July was a sudden scorcher! The meteorologist seems to have the best job on the planet, as he has been paid to be pretty egregiously incorrect quite often this season (apologies to any meteorologists out there). May the huckleberries be benefitting from these last few nice rains. As to the real estate market, the inventory is still growing, but it is still at a much slower rate seasonally. Those low interest rate loans are hard to part with when you have to start over with a much higher rate. The sales were down for both land and homes for the...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. RABBIS 7. SALINE 13. MADEIRA 14. ABALONE 16. AB 17. ANALOGIZE 19. DA 20. HINDS 22. AUG 23. EAGER 25. DEUS 26. SATES 28. CRAN 29. ISM 30. RAM 31. DKG 33. ORE 34. EXEC 36. ROGUES 38. ACRIS 40. WUNDT 41. BRAVED 43. MAID 44. RUT 45. TAR 47. PON 48. HUS 51. ESOP 53. BASAL 55. TONE 56. AARON 58. PIP 59. SAGER 60. SD 61. SATIRICAL 64. AU 65. TEHERAN 67. SARCASM 69. SERAPE 70. TRIAGE SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. RABIES 2. AD 3. BEADS 4. BINS 5. IRA 6. SALAAM 7. SAGGED 8. ABI 9. LAZE 10. ILEAC 11. NO 12. ENDEARED 13. MAHDI 15. EARNEST 18. OUT...
A quick thunderstorm last Wednesday resulted in a handful of wildfires throughout Sanders County. In the Plains-Thompson Falls Ranger District, the Silcox Park Fire just north of Thompson Falls was caused by lightning. The Forest Service reported that the fire creeped into piles of debris, but crews worked quickly to contain the fire at about half an acre. Another fire in the Thompson Falls area was also caused by lightning. Multiple resources, including helicopters, responded to the Wilkes...
The Hot Springs School Board last week set a date for the latest effort to pass a levy in the school district. The board last Wednesday voted to once again ask voters to approve a levy of $183,000 for the general fund. On July 11, a judge approved a petition by a school board member asking for the May 7 election to be voided. Five days later, the school board met and voted to call for a special election in accordance with the order by Judge John Mercer of the 20th Judicial District. Last week, the school board voted to have the new election on...
Republican congressional candidate Tim Sheehy made a visit to Thompson Falls on Monday. The Senate candidate spoke to more than 150 people at the Thompson Falls Senior Center. There was standing room only in the senior center as Rep. Paul Fielder of Thompson Falls introduced Sheehy. "Usually these meet and greets are held at Minnie's and have up to 25 people. We got a good turnout for you," Fielder told Sheehy. Sheehy joked that his last name is also his pronouns. "I've been a 'she-he' for 38...
A bison cow and her calf stop for a drink in Mission Creek at the Bison Range....
Last week, we installed a new sign on the front of the Ledger building. We make signs, banners, photo canvases and other items in our print shop, and our work can be seen all over town. However, the front of our own building lacked adequate signage. Someone I know who drives through town several times a week asked me recently where the Ledger was. That got me motivated to create our new sign. It only took me seven years, but now no one can say they didn't know where we are. We also recently branched out in our offerings. In an effort to...
I asked a friend of mine if he had ever known a man named Bat O’Callahan who lived in Trout Creek years ago and was married to my good friend Jessie O’Callahan. Whether that marriage ended because Bat left town or died I never did know, but since Jessie had remembered him so fondly I thought he must have been a good man. “Yeah, I remember him,” my friend said. “He used to drive home from the bar, pull off the highway onto Swamp Creek Road, turn off his car right there in the middle of the inter...
There is a saying… “You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.” As Thompson Falls mayor, I do have actual facts about Wild Goose Landing contrary to some comments I’ve been made aware of on Sanders County 411. Northwest Energy has an easement signed December 2023 by Northwest Energy and the City. Thompsons Falls Public Works had maintained Wild Goose until this year. There are copies of the easement and all correspondence between the City and Northwest Energy for anyone who would care to view it. Happy to clarify any que...
I spoke with Sanders County Sheriff Fielders yesterday (July 18, 2024). The conversation concerned dispatching the ‘tax-supported’ Community Ambulance Service to emergency 911 calls within the Heron Rural Fire District boundaries. This has been a divisive issue in the Heron community for a couple of years. Last year, the sheriff halted dispatching the Community Ambulance in favor of a ‘privately owned’ ambulance in Heron, much to the dismay and anger of many Heron citizens. Sheriff Fielders told me that there were a few more ‘hoops to jump t...
The state of Montana has been “renting” our waters of the Clark Fork river from Thompson Falls to the Idaho border to Avista energy. With the two dams that they built, the Noxon rapids and Cabinet Gorge, placed 18 miles from each other. I’m not sure if somehow Montana has lessened it’s water protections or if the Avista cooperation has changed somethings with the way the operate but our river is rapidly turning into a sludge pond. There are dead fish all over the shore. The fear of being contaminated with toxic chemicals is very prevalent. Stag...
