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Plains School asks voters for funding
No one from the general public showed up for the Plains School levy forum, but that didn't seem to bother Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Walsh, who held the get together specifically to answer questions...
Our Viewpoint: Doby deserves a day, too
Most people know that April 15 is tax day, but it’s also Jackie Robinson Day, commemorating when Robinson broke the “color barrier” in baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. On April 15, every baseball player wore number 42, Robinson’s jersey...
FIELD DAY AT TFHS
The Thompson Falls Lady Hawks took first place at the Thompson Falls Invitational at Previs Field last week where more than a dozen schools threw, jumped and ran for the farthest, highest and fastest...
Plains-TF district welcomes new ranger
The U.S. Forest Service Plains-Thompson Falls Ranger District has a new leader, and he's no stranger to the workings of the woods. Curtis Rintz has worked in the forests, deserts and high mountains...
A union of Q and U
The average age of people getting married in the United States was early 30s, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but last week's wedding at Plains School might throw a wrinkle in their statistics....
Plains Schools seeks $100,000 levy
Plains School is asking for a $100,000 levy this year in an effort to recruit and retain qualified teachers and staff and to help better fund classroom programs. “Our levy is for learning,” said Dr. Kathleen Walsh, the school superintendent, who add...
Plains creates pool board
A Plains pool board was officially established last week in an effort to make the operation of the E.L. Johnson Memorial Pool more efficient this year. Five community members volunteered to be on the...
MASTER CLASS
Plains resident Tom Collins gives a special carving class to Plains High School students Emory Erchanbrack, a senior, (left) and Izzy Bakker, a junior and a foreign exchange student from the...
Fair board addresses arena safety
The Sanders County Fair Board monthly meeting last week started with a Plains woman placing dozens of scraps of metal on the tables in front of the board members. "This could potentially cripple a...
Plains musicians entertain big crowd with spring concert
More than 160 people showed up at the Plains School Spring Concert last Tuesday in the school gymnasium. The hour-long concert featured the high school choir, the junior high band, the high school...
Pinwheels bring awareness to abuse
More than 300 colorful pinwheels fluttering in the wind on the lawn at Clark Fork Valley Hospital might not halt violence against children, but hospital staff hopes they will attract enough attention...
SPRING GRAZING
Elk stop grazing to take a look at a possible predator in a wooded area about six miles west of Plains. The herd of about 80 elk soon dashed away. As spring progresses, the bulls will soon be...
Plains soccer hosts jamboree
More than 60 soccer players from five different U11 and U10 teams gathered at the Amundson Sports Arena for the Plains Jamboree and the first games of the spring season. The rains stayed away, but...
Young wrestlers honored
The Wild Horse Little Guy Wrestling Club in Plains had its annual after season awards ceremony at Plains School Thursday to recognize the feats of its team. The biggest award — the 2024 Wildhorse Little Guy Wrestling Kenny Lee Marjerrison Award ...
New location for Plains antique business
It was only 200 yards from door to door and it took only about three weeks for the 16 vendors of Wild Horse Mercantile to move the hundreds of thousands of items to their new location, but they are...
More eggs, hunters in Plains
The Plains Community Easter Egg Hunt was bigger than ever with a larger area and a record number of eggs and egg hunters. For the second consecutive year the annual event was held on the Saturday befo...
Hawks start season with a pair of wins
The Thompson Falls Lady Hawks started the softball season on fire by defeating their first two competitors with the mercy rule, dispatching Troy and Plains in a week's time and in five innings or...
Clark Fork loses exhibition to Polson
The Clark Fork Soccer Alliance girls are looking to settle a score against the Polson FC players during the regular season after getting beat by them in an exhibition game last week. The U18 girls...
Adults have super time at prom
A group of local senior citizens had the chance to go back to school, relive the days of their youth, and dance to the music of their generation, including a 102-year-old woman who spent a lot of...
Plains JH students share stories
It was students teaching students last week at Plains School where a group of seventh graders read stories to elementary students and showed the younger kids their writing styles. Sixteen students from Kati Mitchell’s Keyboarding and Computer Applica...
Lack of players ends Plains baseball season
High school baseball season had hardly started when the Plains team was finished. The team folded last week because of a lack of players, said Principal Ryon Noland, who added that it was not an easy decision. He said he met with school board members...
Wrestlers compete in state finals
The Linderman gymnasium was wall to wall wrestlers and fans Friday and Saturday for the 2024 Montana Western Montana Championships, where almost 600 wrestlers from 34 Montana teams and one Idaho team...
Veteran recounts time as POW
A man who was a prisoner during the Vietnam War certainly had a captive audience last week as guest speaker at Whitepine Grange 102. The room had a stillness of quiet for nearly 1.5 hours as Navy...
OPEN WATER
A trumpeter swan paddles through broken ice at a pond on the Holland Ranch north of Plains....
