Fire destroys 2 homes in Plains
Three minutes is all it took to destroy about everything two Plains families possessed in the world.
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Flying for flapjacks
Dozens of pilots from across the region touched down on the Plains Penn Stohr Field’s tarmac in search of some free pancakes Saturday.
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Piranhas on the prowl
The Plains Piranhas made a big splash in their first swim meet of the season, finishing in third place in front of the home crowd Sunday.
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Teaching a new line of work
For the past 15 years people have been coming to a little cabin nestled amongst the pines on the bank of the Clark Fork River near the border of Sanders and Mineral counties to receive guidance on how to be a guide.
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Ride'em cowboy
A Superior’s man attempt to win at the Hot Springs rodeo came up empty this weekend.
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The 59th Homesteader Days hits Hot Springs
The 59th Annual Homesteader Days went off without a hitch, according to event organizer Leslee Smith.
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Hard-hitting Harlowton sisters put on volleyball camp for Hot Springs
After going 20-5 last season and earning their first trip to the state championship, the Savage Heat volleyball team isn’t resting on their laurels. With the season still months away, most of the team spent last week in the gym taking part in a volleyball camp.
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Hundreds brave the cold to celebrate Plains Day
With activities starting near sunrise and going well into darkness, the 38th Annual Plains Day saw just about everything, except sunshine.
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Sawdust flies at crosscut
About 70 people gathered in front of the VFW Post 3596 to watch nearly 100 entrants try their hands at being lumberjacks for a couple of hours at the Plains Day Crosscut Competition.
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T-Falls students play in the rain
A little rain shower couldn’t spoil the Thompson Falls Elementary’s field day Thursday, in fact, for most of the kindergarten through sixth graders it only made the day better.
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Veterans gather for original Memorial Day
Long after all the baseball games had been watched, the barbecue grills cooled off and the camping gear stowed away from Memorial Day weekend, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3596 gathered at the Plains Cemetery for their annual Memorial Day ceremony.
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Lady Hawks lose heartbreaker in championship
The Thompson Falls softball team was one strike away from being crowned state champions, but let victory slip out of their hands on a rain-soaked field in Anaconda Monday, May 26.
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Noxon senior takes home silver
A Noxon senior saved her best for last, but missed out on gold by a blink of an eye at the Class C state championships in Helena last weekend.
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Plains sends five to finals at state track meet
All five Plains track athletes fought their way through the cold and wet weather in Bozeman this weekend to make it into the finals at the State B track and field championship.
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Veterans honor fallen brethren
The 75-year-old Army veteran led the procession of four volunteers, each with a bundle of miniature American flags in their arms, around the wet Thompson Falls VFW Cemetery with a sense of purpose as they placed the flags on the graves of our nation’s veterans.
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Plains youngsters hit the track
The annual Plains Elementary Track Day was held under gray skies and a constant drizzle, but that couldn’t spoil the elementary students chance to shine Thursday.
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T-Falls grab third place at state
Bluehawk senior breaks state record in pole vault
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Bobcat boys take 8 events
The Superior boys finished in first in eight of 17 events at the 14C District Track Meet in Polson Thursday to finish in second place and send 13 boys to the divisional meet.
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Three Cats advance to state
The Lady Bobcats had three single players finish in second, fourth and fifth place at the Southwestern B-C Divisional tennis tournament at Superior Friday and Saturday to earn a spot in the state finals.
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Lady Tiger duo advance to divisionals
The Tigers only brought two athletes to the District 14-C meet, but walked away from Polson Thursday with a first and second-place finish and both girls earning the right to move on to the division meet.
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County kids enjoy run in sun
The location of the third annual Mineral County five kilometer run may have changed from last year’s, but the results were about the same.
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Lady Panthers finish 3rd at districts
Alberton proved that experience can be overrated, with Panthers placing in unfamiliar events and two first-year Panthers walking away with first-place finishes at the District 13C Track Meet in Missoula Friday and Saturday.
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Over 500 Rubber ducks hit the St. Regis
The world’s fastest duck, the canvasback, can reach speeds up to 72 mph, which is about 70 mph faster than the winning duck at the 2008 Traveler’s Inn Duck Race Saturday, but one St. Regis woman could probably care less.
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All but Plains school levies pass
With a levy on every ballot in the school elections, the Plains High School and Elementary levies were the only levies to fail last Tuesday.
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Rehberg rallies local Republicans
U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg defended President George W. Bush and took aim at the two Democratic presidential candidates at the Sanders County Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Friday.
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Plains girls, T-Falls boys win county track meet
The junior high track season came to an end with the Trotters running away with both seventh and eighth-grade championships and the Bluehawks winning on the boy’s side at the Junior High Sanders County Track Meet Friday in Thompson Falls.
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Searching for names to honor dead
A Pablo family has finished cleaning up a Camas Prairie cemetery and now wants to make sure the people buried there are honored properly.
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Three county teams go to Seeley Invite
The Thompson Falls Bluehawks took command over the 16 other teams at the Seeley-Swan Invitational and cruised to a first-place finish Saturday at the Missoula County Stadium.
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Plains golfer wins T-Falls tournament
A Plains senior used a miraculous shot on the turn to win the Thompson Falls Invitational Saturday.
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Locals save woman stuck on train tracks at Plains
Plains locals came to the aid of a woman who had her walker stuck in the railroad tracks in the nick of time, pushing her out of the way of an oncoming train last Wednesday.
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Best of the west
A couple of sore shins couldn’t hold back an Alberton junior from out-distancing the best jumpers in western Montana last Tuesday.
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Two win at top 10 track meet
Two county track stars proved they could not only compete with the best track athletes western Montana has to offer, but they could also beat them.
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Old Man Winter isn't done yet
Just one week after the mercury levels in the thermometers reached the 70s and it looked liked spring had finally arrived in western Montana, Old Man Winter returned to Sanders County, leaving a blanket of snow on the ground and wreaking havoc on the sport schedule.
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Stakeholders get started on Cedar-Thom
If the Sanders Mineral Forest Coalition was happy with taking a big step forward by adopting their first project in Mineral County at their March meeting, they will now have to be satisfied with a slow laborious crawl if they want to see the project come to fruition.
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Gentleman, start your peddlin'
It may not be as well known as the Daytona Speedway and it may not carry as much prestige as the Brickyard in Indianapolis, but after five years, a 50-foot stretch of dirt in St. Regis is starting to be talked about in racing circles.
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Hot Springs suspends dogcatcher position indefinitely
The president of the Hot Springs City Council suspended the town’s position of animal control officer until a committee can be formed to review the town’s animal control ordinances and any complaints against the suspended dogcatcher can be resolved.
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Bluehawks finish at top of leaderboard in first tournament
They may not have won any green jackets for their play, but the games of the Thompson Falls boys’ golf team last weekend were nothing short of masterful.
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St. Regis launches into track season
A St. Regis eighth-grader got off to a fast start in the junior high track season.
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T-falls boys finish first in first meet
The Thompson Falls boys' track team hit the ground running. In the first track meet of the year they sprinted out in front of 17 other teams and scored 80 points to take home the Drummond/Alberton Invitational crown Thursday.
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Motocross racing returns to Plains
The constant revving of engines that could be heard echoing throughout the valley Sunday could only mean one thing - motocross has returned to Plains.
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Superior starts season strong
Boys finish third; girls finish in eighth
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Rollover shuts down highway
The driver of the semitrailer that rolled on its side, spilling its load of timber and shutting down both lanes of traffic on Highway 200 for about three hours last Tuesday, was able to walk away from the wreck unharmed.
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Hot Springs Fire Department saves The Running Iron
The Hot Springs Fire Department stopped a chimney fire from getting out of control and destroying The Running Iron restaurant early Thursday evening.
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Donkey Dominance
The old saying is stubborn as a mule, but after watching the players struggle with their animals at Donkey Basketball Saturday at Noxon, it was clear the idiom could just as easily be stubborn as a donkey.
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Track season off and running
For the past four years the local track teams have been using the John Jermyn Memorial Relay Race as a fun way to warm up for the real track season, but while the four teams competing at the Plains' event Thursday may of had fun, there was nothing warm about …
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Hot Springs chief of police put on leave
Hot Springs Chief of Police Tim Coleman was put on leave last week, but nobody is saying why.
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Kids hunt for prize eggs in Plains, Paradise
About 150 children carried on a long tradition of combing through parks in Plains and Paradise in search of the prize egg Easter Sunday.
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Plains boy qualifies for statewide geo bee
If any of the 100 students competing in the Montana National Geographic Bee should be able to locate Luck, a town in Polk County, Wis., with a population of 881, it probably would be the Plains eighth-grader competing in the bee.
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Man loses home, dog in fire
There were no injuries in a fire late last Monday on River Road West in Plains that burnt a house completely to the ground. But house owner Louis Johnston not only lost his home, but everything in it, along with his dog and $5,000 cash.
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Community brings a breath of fresh air to Plains
A little bad weather couldn't stop about 25 people from leaving their mark on the main street in Plains Saturday.
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Golf teams getting into the swing of things
The snow on the ground, frigid temperatures and cutting wind couldn't stop the Superior and St. Regis golf teams from breaking out their clubs last week, but as the golfers try to shake off the rust and adjust their swings from the long winter layoff, they will also have to …
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Firefighters attack the flames on River Road West last Monday.
There were no injuries in a fire late last Monday on River Road West in Plains that burnt a house completely to the ground. But house owner Louis Johnston not only lost his home, but everything in it, along with his dog and $5,000 cash.
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Trout Creek Robomaniacs make way to postseason
Football has the Super Bowl, baseball has the World Series, and Lego robotics has the High Tech Kids First Lego League Open.
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Alleged offender denies molesting daughter over 16-year period
THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. - The Heron man accused of molesting his daughter for 16 years finally took the stand in his trial on Friday.
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Hot Springs' historic season comes to halt at state finals
The Savage Heat's run to the state championship came to an end with two heartbreaking losses at the Class C State Championship at Belgrade last week.
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Hot Springs gets second police officer
Protecting Hot Springs from crime is no longer a one-man show.
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Nine Superior wrestlers take 1st at the Valley Tournament in Thompson Falls
The Superior Little Guy wrestlers heading into the Valley Tournament Saturday with new shirts, and while brandishing the large Superman “S” across their chests may not have given them the strength to leap over tall buildings in a single bound, outrun speeding bullets or stop a locomotive, but it did …
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Head-on collision kills couple
A head-on collision near Hot Springs on Highway 28 Tuesday killed a Vancouver, Wash., husband and wife and left a Plains woman in fair condition.
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State starts criminal investigation of co-gen
The Montana Attorney General has started a criminal investigation into whether the owners of the co-gen plant near Thompson Falls provided fraudulent information to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality in order to obtain a nearly $1.6 million reduction in fines for repeatedly violating air quality standards.
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Savage Heat season ends at divisionals
Hot Springs had a chance to win both of their games at the Western C Divisional Tournament, but couldn't close the deal and ended their season in Butte this weekend.
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County gets grant to help with timber jobs
Sanders County and Mineral County were amongst the seven counties to receive federal money to assist them in the transition of moving away from the declining timber industry and toward high-growth industries.
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Hot Springs girls Belgrade bound
Savage Heat goes 2-1 in divisionals to advance to the state tournament for the first time in nearly 20 years
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