Articles from the April 5, 2018 edition
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Crews work to produce better trees
It doesn't matter if it's a fire, a drought, beetles, or some type of disease, it's the role of the Plains Ranger Station's Genetic Restoration Program to keep the woods from disappearing. That's...
EGGSELLENT ADVENTURES
Despite the freezing temps and wind chill, warm-fuzzy feelings were present at the Trout Creek Easter Egg-stravaganza. "We have some pretty tough Montana kids. We had over 240 kids registered – j...
Plains has big plans for annual festival
Members of the Plains Business Association have big plans for Plains Day this year, including making the annual festival a three-day event and including nearly 20 events scattered over the weekend of...
Changing of seasons brings out the bears
Bears are emerging from dens across northwest Montana, and residents are reminded to remove food attractants from their properties to avoid conflicts. Montana is home to grizzly bears and black bears...
Our Viewpoint: Agencies work to keep county safe
Area agencies are making an effort to share knowledge and strategies for keeping Sanders County safe. City and county law enforcement agencies are working with local schools, starting conversations about preventing incidents and preparing action...
Montana Viewpoint: A wink and a nod
Political wisdom; “Never put in writing what you can communicate by speaking, and never speak when you can make your point with a wink and a nod.” Which is worse, Russian interference in American ele...
Clark Fork deserves protection
Proposed copper mines in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness area. Why would anyone harm the best we have in our Northwest corner? A beautiful high mountain paradise, full of wildlife, birds, flowers, trails that leave a big Wow! Pristine streams of...
Something's been lost in translation
Editor, In our Constitutional Representative Republic [not Democracy as popularly misunderstood due to decades of disinformation] we use the democratic process of citizen vote election of representatives. By Constitutional mandate all elected...
Remember When
5 YEARS AGO • APRIL 6, 1948 GUNDERSONS SELL SKOGMOS Sale of the Skogmo Clothing store to a new, still-to-be formed local corporation effective April 20 was announced Tuesday by owners Gary and Betty Gunderson. Stockholders in the new corporation wil...
Question of the Week
ERIN WILSON, Trout Creek – “I would say probably for the House of Representatives. I think that society is not being represented accurately. There is too much self-interest. I’m an independent, fiscally conservative voter. I vote the issues, not the...
Sheriff's Log
Ambulances: Noxon, 5; T. Falls, 8; Plains, 4; H. Springs, 4; Dixon QRU, 1. Sunday, March 25 Domestic dispute, H. Springs. Erratic driver, driving slow, Hwy. 200, Plains. Jewelry missing from vehicle, Plains. Property damage, neighbor cutting trees,...
Justice Court
Montana Highway Patrol Shane Ellis, 40, $20, seatbelt violation. Michaela Lerch, 18, $65, speeding in a restricted zone. Adam Davis, 35, $20, seatbelt violation. David Swope, 33, $20, seatbelt violation. Gabriel Gamboa, 15, $20, seatbelt violation....
Dog, trainer are 'natural champions'
"Connie Gunderson is a once-in-a-lifetime student," says local dog trainer Jan Manning. Gunderson and her dog, Mel, recently accomplished something none of Manning's students have ever done, "and...
Republicans vie for precinct committee posts
With the filing deadline past for local and state elections and the June 5 primary a couple months away, the Republican and Democrat Central committees are also in the midst of electing precinct committee members. Bobbi Christenson with the Sanders...
TF students get boost in reading
Thompson Falls students in kindergarten through sixth grade are getting a little extra encouragement in reading. The Running Start program, sponsored by the Thompson Falls Woman’s Club, began this week with the students at Thompson Falls E...
Gregory A. Johnston
Gregory (Greg) A. Johnston of Cody, Wyoming died March 28, 2018. Greg was born in Hot Springs, Montana on March 22, 1953 to Ed and Lucy Johnston. Greg was raised in Thompson Falls, Montana where he at... Full story
Free diabetes class available for seniors
Diabetes affects people of all ages, but it occurs more often in older adults. According to the American Diabetes Association, more than one in every four Americans over the age of 65 has diabetes. Managing diabetes can be tough, but support from...
Not your parents' pinewood derby
For the second consecutive year Charlie Woolley nabbed top honors in the pinewood derby competition at the LDS Church in Plains. With his "Lyman #2," Woolley was undefeated in his five heats with his...
Plains/TF district plans area burning
The Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District plans on prescribed burning in several areas when the correct conditions are met, either this spring or in the fall. Planned prescribed burn units are a combination of those created by timber harvest activiti...
Dixon stampede fun run set for Saturday
The town of Dixon is preparing for a stampede of bison this Saturday – or so the event’s name suggests. The stampede is actually the 4th Annual Bison Stampede Fun Run that invites area runners, joggers, and walkers to help raise money for imp...
Lady Hawks to enjoy softball getaway
Call it weekend softball getaway. The Thompson Falls Lady Hawk softball team will be on tour this weekend, heading to Anaconda for a game Friday afternoon and then staying the night before heading to...
Who stole our defense?
For a while there, Michele Bangen thought she was watching a bad movie and not witnessing her Plains-Hot Springs Trotters playing a softball game. It all happened in Florence Thursday during the...
Thinclads off and running
The track and field season got off to a running, jumping and throwing, and oh yeah, vaulting start at the Jim Johnson Invitational in Frenchtown March 27 and three of Sanders County's four high school...
Nothing but positive
Montana-bred but Iowa-tested. Five of Thompson Falls' best youth wrestlers competed for Montana teams in a national duals tournament in Des Moines, Iowa last week, and coach Mike Thilmony, who...
