Articles from the May 2, 2019 edition
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Restaurant dream coming true for couple
Sometimes you just have to follow your dreams. After driving by the closed Thompson Grill restaurant almost daily, Todd and Ronda Wakefield of Thompson Falls decided to make Ronda's dream of owning a...
Karate club holds first tournament
The Blue Heron Karate Academy held its first tournament last weekend, which may have been the first ever karate tournament in Plains, said Jason Williams, the club's "sensei," and creator of the...
Hawks host Gary Thompson Invite
Maybe it was the power of Gary that kept the dark clouds away. The first-ever Gary Thompson Invitational high school golf tournament was held under threatening skies at River's Bend Saturday and it...
View from the Sidelines
There will always be a place for Randy Pirker at the Field of Dreams, and now everybody will be able to see where Pirk’s Place is each and every time the Lady Hawks play in Thompson Falls. The Thompson Falls High School administration has okayed t...
Hawks corral Ennis Mustangs
And then there was victory. Locked into the ultra-tough Western B-C division this season with hardly a break between games with quality teams, the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks stepped out of the...
County's best test Top 8, Top 10 meets
Sanders County athletes enjoyed a great Top 8 meet in Eureka last Tuesday, April 23; and one standout from Noxon, triple jumping sensation senior Levi Brubaker, set a new season-best mark for all Mont...
P-HS's slow season starts speeding up
It’s been a relatively slow fastpitch softball season for the Plains-Hot Springs Trotters so far. Things are about to speed up significantly for coach Michele Bangen and her base-stealing, hard-hitting Trotters as the Plains-Hot Springs girls face t...
Thunder and lightning
There was thunder, there was lightning, it may have been a little bit frightening. And, oh yeah, there was precipitation too, some of it in solid, icy form, and a not-so-comfortable cold wind. It all...
Men of Wednesday back on River's Bend
The men of Wednesday night are back. The Wednesday Night Men’s League golfers attacked soggy River’s Bend with a par-breaking vengeance last week and Hagedorn Land Surveying (the quartet of Rick Hagedorn, Bernie Groshong, Ryan Ostwald and Paul Flemme...
Sparky's gang grabs early Tuesday lead
Sparky’s Gutter Time took the early league lead as Shanks a Lot golfers shot the low team gross of 180 and Sparky’s duffers calculated out the low team net of 144 in Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Rusty Haggard, Dave Ga...
2019 Sanders County Junior High Track Meet Results
BOYS A DIVISION 1, Plains, 158; 2, Thompson Falls, 121; 3, Noxon, 38; 4, Hot Springs, 24; 5, Dixon, 0; 5, Trout Creek, 0 100 M Dash: 1, Gary Bradley, Plains, 13.31; 2, Breck Ferris, Thompson Falls, 13.58; 3, Gage Hendrick, Noxon, 14.55; 4, Austin...
Business brewing in Thompson Falls
After more than 25 years, the Black Bear Inn in Thompson Falls is opening to the public. Daniel Moore and Marlaina Mohr purchased the Black Bear in April 2018. One year later, the first new business i...