Articles from the September 12, 2019 edition
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 37
Trout Creek Bridge repairs planned
Traffic on Highway 200 north of Trout Creek, along mile marker 28, will be impacted next summer and the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is letting the public know early. The Clark Fork River bridge will undergo construction in 2020....
By 
Plains Grange to close its doors for good
by Ed Moreth A Plains organization is closing its doors after 82 years of service to the community. Plains Grange No. 101 held its final official meeting at its hall last Tuesday. The grange will use...
Ransomware affects T. Falls school district
Ransomware impacted the server at Thompson Falls Schools last week and the school and law enforcement agencies are working to resolve the problem. The event was discovered last Wednesday, September 4. The school contacted local law enforcement, who t...
County, BCBS team up for mobile vaccination clinics
Sanders County Public Health joined with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana this week to promote offer a convenient way for parents to get their kids vaccinated. With school starting, the Blue Cross...
Our Viewpoint
Last weekend while we were enjoying some Thompson Falls Youth Soccer, there were a couple local women at the tennis courts next to the high school. But they weren't playing tennis. The women were playing pickle ball. We were impressed that people...
Demo start time a bad change
I hope that whoever decided to move the 2019 Sanders County Rodeo start time back to 7 p.m. was sitting in the west-facing bleachers between 6 p.m., when many people arrive, to 7:30, when the sun went behind the hills. We were scorched and blinded...
Street Smart
Winston Churchill said, “If you’re not a liberal at age twenty, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at age forty, you have no brain.” I’d amend that and swap the word “experience” for the word “brain.” My last three columns were an a...
Remember When?
5 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 4, 1969 COUNTY ASKED TO BACK RETENTION OF TRAINS Sanders County residents who use the Northern Pacific Railway Co.'s Mainstreeter passenger trains Nos. 1 and 2 are being u...
Question of the Week
BETTY CAMULETTA, Plains –”Yes because they have been playing all these years. Kids need to get tougher. We are making babies out of them.” OSCAR READ, Thompson Falls – “Just teach them not to collide with their heads.” DARIN McELMURRY, Thompson Fa...
Sheriff's Log
Sunday, September 1 Traffic complaint, Moise. Motor vehicle crash, Plains. Fire, Hot Springs. Motorist assist, Plains. Neighbor playing loud music and screaming in driveway, Paradise. Disturbance, T. Falls. Animal, Plains. Motorist assist, T. Falls....
Justice Court
Montana Highway Patrol Joshua Dudley, 34, driving a motor vehicle while privilege is suspended, $285. Ronald Delorto, 46, seatbelt violation, $20. Terra Fields, 37, day speeding, $20. Christopher Stockdale, 51, speeding in restricted zone, $85. Shilo...
Not guilty plea in theft charge
A Thompson Falls woman entered not guilty pleas in District Court on Tuesday to one count of felony exploitation of an older person, incapacitate person or person with developmental disability and one count of felony theft. Charging documents allege...
One more smooth road in Plains
It's now a smooth ride through Plains - for about 500 feet on Willis Street, which was repaved and reopened for traffic last week. For much of the 12 miles of roads through town, it's still a bumpy...
Miss Montana flight cancelled
UPDATE: The Miss Montana visit to Thompson Falls has been cancelled. The historic airplane is flying a humanitarian mission to the Bahamas. The Sunday event at Thompson Falls Airport will be rescheduled. ________________________ The historic...
TF senior named National Merit semifinalist
Thompson Falls High School senior Ethan Brown has been named a semifinalist in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Brown is one of approximately 16,000 in the country and 44 from...
Stanley "Barney" Borninkhof
Stanley “Barney” Borninkhof (1941- 2019) of Roundup, passed away at home Aug. 28. Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Nancy; siblings, Beverly, Shirley, Wesley and Angie; children, Jennifer Borninkhof of Great Falls, Marty Borninkhof of Col... Full story
Marvin Loren Olson
Marvin Loren Olson, 58, was tragically taken from this life on July 26, 2019, on Highway 44 near Rapid City, South Dakota. He was riding home on his prized Harley Davidson motorcycle when the... Full story
Francis Marion Craig
Francis Marion Craig, age 83, passed away peacefully at his home in Thompson Falls, Montana, on the evening of September 4 after fighting a hard battle against re-occurring cancer for the past two... Full story
Donna "Red" Cross
Donna "Red" Cross, 10/9/42 - 8/29/19 Donna left this world quickly and peacefully on August 29, 2019, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center following a massive stroke. She will be remembered for her... Full story
Mary Ann (Latz) Thompson
Mary Ann Thompson passed away August 30, 2019, in Plains, Montana, at the age of 92. She was born April 22, 1927, in a two-room house in Jump River, Wisconsin, to John and Lillian Latz. She lived... Full story
Keeping it Green
Spontaneous Construction returns Saturday, Sept. 14, to Missoula’s Home Resource. Designed to inspire a culture of re-use with a free, engaging community activity, Spontaneous Construction, of “SponCon,” has become an annual Missoula tradition for 1...
'Just a real good donut'
The lost art of old-fashioned donut making is alive and flourishing in Thompson Falls as Papa's Donuts opened its doors recently. For more than two decades Doug Miller has been planning his donut maki...
CFVH long term care presents annual car show
Not being able to walk didn't stop residents of the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Long Term Care from venturing into the parking lot Saturday to take in the Wild Horse Plains 4th Annual Car and Bike...
