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Thompson Falls was blooming with festive spirit last Saturday. Thompson Falls Community Trails hosted their annual Trick or Treat, Move Your Feet fun run, which was followed by the Thompson Falls Chamber's Fall Festival at Ainsworth Park. Fun run organizer Kathy Conlin said the event, which started and ended at NorthWestern Energy's Power Park, saw 41 participants. The top male finisher was Alessi Rolando, who crossed the finish line in the 5K run in 20 minutes, 52 seconds. Sarah Polmounter was...
Fred Young Park had a lot of spooky celebrities – monsters, zombies, werewolves, dinosaurs, and vampires, and plenty of hot dogs, compliments of the Plains Lions Club, which has put on their Halloween Weenie Roast for more than 60 years. Lions member Marvin Tanner guessed there were more than 150 people at the annual event, which included roasting hot dogs over an open fire and costume contests for kids and adults. Some banded together for a group theme, such as the Rehbein family, who d...
7 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 31, 1951 LOGS TO GO THROUGH WEEKSVILLE RAPIDS About 700,000 feet of sawlogs are to be put through the Weeksville Rapids on the Clark Fork River near Plains soon by Thompson Falls Lumber Co., it is reported by Arden Davis, superintendent. The logs are to be floated through a few at a time to avoid jams on the jagged boulders in the river and then will be caught in booms below to be towed by Terry Payne down to the sawmill, a distance of about 20 miles. Tows of 10 to 15 miles on the river are not uncommon for the c...
Bebe Townsend, Thompson Falls - “I say any time before Thanksgiving is too early.” Terry Holo, Trout Creek - “Before Thanksgiving!” Lisa Smith, Thompson Falls - “I think its too early before Halloween.” Beth CaRter, Trout Creek - “Right after Halloween is way too early.” Betty Jo Handford, Thompson Falls - “After Thanksgiving is a good time for Christmas decorations.” Kathleen Mathers, Plains - “I think it’s too early to put up Christmas decorations any time before Thanksgiving....
'Tis the season to be spooked and what better place for it to happen than at a funeral home, including a skeleton hearse driver. For the last 12 years, the owners of Sunset Hills Funeral Home and Crematory in Plains have opened up their business to provide residents a chance to get out of the cold and have some treats. "It was a great night full of fun and interesting costumes and smiling faces. It was great to see so many families come in together and parents enjoying it as much as the kids,"...
Ready to start the holiday season by getting creative? The theme for the annual gingerbread contest, sponsored by the Sanders County Historical Society Old Jail Museum, is “Christmas is Coming.” Think about adding some spice to the holiday season by participating in the 24th annual competition, which will be part of the Thompson Falls Christmas on Main Street celebration December 4 and 5. “You’ll find a festive escape from the hustle and bustle of the shopping season, exploring at your own pace numerous creations,” museum officials said in a...
The Thompson Falls Woman's Club (TFWC) celebrated a landmark occasion last Thursday at the Old Jail Museum in Thompson Falls. 2021 marks the 100-year anniversary since the chapter became a member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC). The women's community organization has spent the last 100 years serving Thompson Falls and Sanders County by supporting school programs, youth sports, the public library and many other organizations. The group has also provided several scholarships...
Eleven-year-old Sydney Evans of Gardiner, Montana, (left) and 9-year-old Kylee Cahoon of Charlo pose with pumpkins they harvested from Karval Pickering's pumpkin patch in Paradise. The girls harvested 319 Baby Boo and Jack Be Nimble pumpkins and donated 100 to the Plains Woman's Club's pumpkin decoration event, which will be held at the VFW in Plains on Halloween from 4-6 p.m. It took the two girls, along with Ashley Alder of Moiese and Marie Evans of Paradise, about two hours Saturday to...
3 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 8, 1981 HUNTERS SCORE WELL OPENING DAY Weather was considered to be the key factor and Mother Nature cooperated as hoped, to make the opening day of the 1991 big game hunting season one of the more successful on record. Although counts were overall not as high as recent opening days, the number of elk reported was nearly double that of last year and rumors were plentiful about downed animals and animals in hunting camps, which sprang up virtually wherever a tent could be pitched, or a camper parked. With two consecutive n...
STEVE PERKINS, Thompson Falls - “The frontier days. No technology.” KATHY BUCK, Thompson Falls - “The 50s. I love the music. It seemed a lot simpler then.” KYLI GIFFIN, Thompson Falls - “The renaissance. The outfits, the modesty of the clothing and the respect.” ROBYN OXFORD, Thompson Falls - “The renaissance.” GRANDMA JO, Noxon - “The wild west because I love horses.” SANDY DAVIS, Noxon - “When Columbus came over. I would like to see how the clothes and food were made....
This time of year draws many out into the wilderness for hunting, fishing, hiking and more, especially in Sanders County. It is easy to lose track of time and one’s whereabouts due to the surrounding natural beauty, loss of light late in the year and enrapturement in what one is doing. This is the time when accidents happen, and people find themselves lost in the wilderness. The National Park Service estimates that over 2,000 people get lost per year in North America, and many Search and Rescue (SAR) professionals say that number is far g...
Jacqueline Carlson and Kasal Chea of Thompson Falls welcomed daughter, Calliope Michelle Carlson, Monday, October 4, 2021 at 5:37 p.m. at Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains. She weighed six pounds, three ounces. Maternal grandparents are Mary Ewing of Elkhart, Texas and Randy Carlson of Thompson Falls. Maternal great-grandparents are Carolyn and Bruce Adams of Elkhart, Texas. Welcome, Calliope.... Full story
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. SAC 4. FAN 7. CRO 10. ADH 11. OCA 12. HEN 13. COBRA 15. RET 16. ARISE 19. STEEPLE 21. IGNEOUS 23. CORNEAS 24. ORGANIC 25. AARE 26. NEED 27. OCCLUDE 30. SESSILE 34. AHA 35. RAN 36. SIDECAR 41. CASCADE 45. CIRE 46. ALAY 47. BATHTUB 50. SAVABLE 54. PRAIRIE 55. IRONIES 56. MANDA 57. CAN 59. RIDGE 60. KNT 61. CIO 62. EDD 63. SAE 64. ANS 65. DEY SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. SABER 2. ADRENAL 3. CHAPEAU 4. FORSEE 5. ACE 6. NATIONS 7. CHANGES 8. REREADS 9. ONION 13. CSC 14. OTO 17. SUI 18. ESC... Full story
The Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring their first Fall Festival on Saturday, October 30, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Ainsworth Park in Thompson Falls. The event will feature vendors with baked goods, crafts and other items. There will also be activities, games and prizes for the kids. “The chamber is excited to offer a safe, festive event for families this weekend,” said Annie Wooden, secretary of the chamber. “We have over 15 vendors and some great activities planned.” Children are invited to come dressed in their costumes for a p...
This Plains High School teacher isn't taking a nap on the school lawn, he's teaching his physics students how to use a clinometer, an instrument to measure heights of tall objects such as buildings. For Carl Benson's class, the students worked as a group to determine the height of the gymnasium, which is 15 meters - just over 49 feet. In November, the students' egg projects will be dropped from the gym roof. They received materials for the protective egg casings last week and will start...
This year’s Trick or Treat, Move Your Feet will be Thompson Falls Community Trail Committee’s fourth annual 5K run and one-mile fun run/walk. The festive Halloween-themed event will take place on Saturday, October 30, and runners of all paces are welcome. “The event will be a celebration of the scenic, user-friendly trail system and to help raise funds for trail maintenance,” Kathy Conlin, event coordinator, said in a press release. The event starts and ends at NorthWestern Energy Power Park at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Pond Street. ...
Montana history is ripe with stories of the many families who braved the elements and trekked northwest into the mountains. These hardy folk sought to colonize the wild, and to scratch out a living from it. Many of their descendants still call these mountains home, and teach their children to hunt, just as they were taught to, and their parents were taught to. These traditions live on in several families throughout Sanders County, and many names like Hill and Bierwagen still come to mind when...
Every year Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) teams up with Avista and the University of Idaho to gillnet and capture numerous fish from the Noxon and Cabinet reservoirs for analysis. This partnership program has been happening for over 20 years and aims to add information to the toolbelts of fisheries biologists. They use this data to monitor fish health, mercury contamination, fish numbers and other stats. According to fisheries biologist Jason Blakney with FWP in Sanders County, this...
4 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 8, 1981 FALLS SANDERS FAMILY STEEPED IN HISTORY Talking with J. Byron Sanders is like reading the rough draft of a history book. The stories haven’t been organized yet, but they sure are interesting. Sanders, who lives on Harlow Road, is related to Colonel Wilbur Fisk Sanders, after whom this county is named. He isn’t sure what the relationship is, adding that his father explained it to him but he has forgotten. Byron Sanders was born in the Bitterroot in 1908. He spent his boyhood there, working on the family farm....
Robert Foreman, Thompson Falls - “To actually go to Alaska and go on a moose hunt.” Tyler Battles, Thompson Falls - “A caribou hunt in Alaska.” David Spratley, Thompson Falls - “I would like to go on a grizzly hunt here in northwest Montana.” John Bennett, Thompson Falls - “Mountain goat somewhere here in northwest Montana.” Gin Weber, Plains - “Elk hunting in Whitepine, where my father shot three elk one season accidentally back-to-back on a hunting trip. My dream hunt would be to bag one there also.” Seth Alexander, Thompson Falls - “A...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. HIATUS 7. STALIN 13. PALMATE 14. PARADED 16. IR 17. ELEPHANTS 19. MI 20. MELBA 22. TAR 23. SETAL 25. AMIA 26. METES 28. SETA 29. SSB 30. MAT 31. SIB 33. LOT 34. EDAM 36. RECEDE 38. SARAN 40. RAGES 41. ERASES 43. PARR 44. CAT 45. TAT 47. MAR 48. ARE 51. UPON 53. CARAT 55. SPED 56. LARID 58. BUR 59. AAHED 60. AH 61. CRABBIEST 64. VA 65. ROSEATE 67. SATIRES 69. SORTED 70. ARISES SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. HAREMS 2. IL 3. AMEBA 4. TALA 5. UTE 6. SEPTET 7. SPARES 8. TAN 9. ARTS 10. LASES...
Sanders County awoke to frigid temperatures Monday morning. Frost clings to a fenceposts and spider webs at a field in Whitepine....
The Paradise Center is a place of education and history, but last weekend it was the site of thievery, bribery and even murder. Throw in a ghost and the vivid imagination of a writer, and people had the chance to see the latest play of the Paradise Players. It’s been two years since the Paradise Players have had the chance to take to the stage and the first time for Kathleen Hubka to direct the troupe with a rendition of “Seven Keys to Baldpate Inn.” “They were pretty amazing. They were very re...
6 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 22, 1916 NEW POST OFFIICE OPENED The post office was moved Sunday from Weber’s Store (now the laundromat) to the rooms formerly occupied by A.S. Ainsworth, which have been fitted up especially for the office. Being more centrally located and nearer to the railway station, the new office is an improvement. Mr. Moser, who was recently appointed postmaster by President Wilson, has been a resident of Sanders County for 24 years and of Thompson Falls for six years. He was sheriff of the county for two terms. Since his r...
Angela Pesqueira, San Jose, California - “I would think it would be an amazing experience that one would have no words for, although I feel more comfortable with my feet planted on the ground.” Del Smith, Plains - “No. I wouldn’t want to blow up.” Alice Uribe, Plains - “I don’t think I have no business going to space.” Darcy Farlan, Thompson Falls - “No! The trip going into space would be fabulous, it’s just that return trip.” Malachi Grounds, Thompson Falls - “No, because I’m afraid of heights!” Gary Hensley, Thompson Falls - “No, I wou...
