New CFVP reporter seeks adventure in Sanders County
A new reporter/photographer has arrived at the Clark Fork Valley Press, and he is ready for action.
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A community at its best
It is difficult to capture an event as broad-ranging and active as Plains Days in words. Throughout the community, from the fields to the streets, the gym to the golf course, the corners to the clouds, Plains abounded with laughter, good sportsmanship, generosity, athleticism, kindness, volunteerism, and fun.
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Plains Day will feature free plane rides for kids on Saturday
Know any kids, age 8–17, who might want to fly?
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Should barking dogs land you in the 'doghouse'?
If there’s anything a room full of Sanders County residents can agree on, it’s that our dogs are important to us. The May 23 county commission meeting to address a proposed ordinance about incessantly barking dogs was proof of that.
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Memorial Day flags erected in Plains
Those beautiful flags that pop up around Memorial Day in Plains every year do not just magically appear.
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Hacks and Blasts fill the spring air at Trap Club
The 19th annual “Hack and Blast” tournament — Plains Trap Club’s light-hearted kick-off of both the shooting range’s trap season and the golf season — got off to a jolly start. Fifteen teams from Plains and surrounding towns lined up to take their shots at the doomed clay pigeons. Hours …
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Sanders County Fair Board planning 2019 event
Some thought a miracle would be needed for the Sanders County Fair Board to pull off this year’s fair. With an almost completely new board and a new manager coming on just more than three months before fair time, it did seem like a daunting task.
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'Miss Montana' drops paratroopers, gives Plains a thrill
In a show of patriotism, skill and small-town devotion to honoring heroes of the past, the skies over Plains became a spectacular part of the “Miss Montana to Normandy” project Tuesday, May 14.
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Hot Springs, county rally to support Salmi family
When the normally bubbly, active 5-year old Harlee Salmi said she didn’t feel well and complained of a sore neck, no one could have known what lay ahead.
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Plains pool problems proliferate
You know how sometimes when you dig into a problem, it gets worse before it gets better? That is the case with the Plains swimming pool.
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A 70-mile parade of heroes supporting Special Olympics
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Some are heroes for what they have done to overcome difficulty. Others for being willing to take on difficulty to help or support someone else. All were on display at the Sanders County 2019 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, helping to …
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Honey bees display intrigues Plains kindergarten students
“When I say BZZZZZZ, it makes my tongue tickle!”
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Cabinet District collaborative projects moving forward
The Cabinet District of the Kootenai National Forest has produced a string of successful forest projects over recent years, according to leaders of the Cabinet Forest Collaborative (CFC), a local citizens group.
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County to help those behind on property taxes
Sanders County Treasurer Nichol Scribner wants to help people keep their mobile homes.
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Public-lands users and advocates share information in Thompson Falls
What do horsemen and hikers, educators and counselors, hunters and berry-pickers, loggers and home brewers have in common that brings them together? An appreciation for the wild public-lands legacy and recreational and economic opportunities our nation has gifted to us in this area, and to future generations.
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Patching up pool pipes in progress
The community of Plains worked hard to raise funds to repair the public E.L. Johnson Memorial Pool’s leaky pipes. They will be able to reap their reward by plunging in a restored pool the first week of June.
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Blackfoot Telecommunications now offers a streaming primer
Blackfoot Telecommunications helped take some of the mystery out of “streaming” and “smart TVs” and even how to watch good old-fashioned local TV in today’s era, with a first-ever “Understanding Streaming” workshop in Thompson Falls April 24.
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Cement truck flips west of Dixon Thursday; no injuries
A truck carrying a full load of seven yards of concrete overturned in the middle of Montana Highway 200 on Thursday morning, April 25 west of Dixon.
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Kindergarten Roundup 'eye opener' for youngsters
Some approached with circumspection, others with confidence or curiosity.
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MCT's 'Gulliver's Travels' seemed different somehow
Nearly 50 Plains students performed in and helped produce Missoula Children’s Theater’s (MCT) wild, space-travel odyssey version of “Gulliver’s Travels” last Saturday.
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No headline
The intrepid Sanders County Fair Board is quickly picking up steam. With mostly new membership and an acting manager, and with the help of experienced locals, they are pulling together contracts, agreements, sponsors, grounds maintenance, and all that’s needed to ensure another successful fair this year.
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Plains street conditions boil down to drainage issues
The streets of Plains are falling apart; there’s just no denying it. And, as with anything this big, the solutions are complicated and affect people’s lives.
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O Sole Trio gets rave reviews at Paradise Center
We all know the way to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice. But how do you get from Carnegie Hall to Paradise? Through the Sanders County Arts Council.
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New crew: Hot Springs FFA thanks Stockmen's Association
Three members of Hot Springs Future Farmers of America attended the April meeting of the Western Montana Stockmen’s Association to thank them for a generous $1,000 donation to their club.
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Bison Stampede raises funds for Dixon School
Sparkling spring morning, enthusiastic crowd, spirited runners, and mud — a great combination for the fifth annual Dixon Bison Stampede, bringing the community of Dixon together last Saturday.
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Project ASCENT get kids 'in touch with nature'
Project ASCENT is ascending — like a rocket. The non-profit to help kids learn to enjoy the outdoors seems to have found a sweet spot in the hearts and minds of Sanders County and is surging into action.
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CFVH Foundation Spring Gala April 13
Bring a date, or a passel of friends, for dinner and a show, to support the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Foundation. The Foundation Spring Gala is offering dinner and entertainment from national stage musician John Dunnigan, Saturday, April 13 at the Sanders County Fair Grounds Pavilion. Doors open at 6 …
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Flatiron Quilting Guild celebrating 30 years at show
For three decades, the gifted hands of the Flatiron Quilting Guild have pieced and stitched love for their fellow community members into quilts that have greeted babies, warmed families, and comforted cancer patients. The upcoming Flatiron Quilting Guild Quilt Show, Saturday, April 13, is a real credit to the persistent …
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CFVH open house introduces new surgeon, equipment
Clark Fork Valley Hospital takes its role as the community’s hospital seriously, and part of that is making it fun.
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Trout Creek teacher is featured at Blackfoot meeting
With a “passion for technology and for thinking outside here and now into the future,” as Daisy Carlsmith of Trout Creek puts it, she and a team of collaborating educators in western Montana have developed a highly successful non-profit to facilitate professional development on a host of topics for educators.
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Excitement builds as annual quilt show approaches
One of the premiere art events of the year, the 2019 Flat-Iron Quilting Guild Annual Quilt Show, is Saturday, April 13, in the Thompson Falls High School gymnasium. Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
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Thompson Falls Council votes 3-2 to create two new sewer districts
Plains and Paradise are not the only Sanders County towns with sewer and water treatment plant woes. Thompson Falls is going through its own throes.
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Renovated Whistle Stop is now Thompson Falls Laundry
When you think of a downtown renewal project, a laundromat might not be the first idea that comes to mind. But the Whistle Stop Laundromat is helping bring a fresh new feel to Thompson Falls’ Main Street.?
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4-H Competition Days finals
Kids these days. Seems like nothing intimidates them.
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DEQ presents update on salt in groundwater
How much headache can a simple pile of highway sand cause?
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4-H youth demonstrate talents and aplomb
The annual 4-H Communication Days kicked off last weekend in Thompson Falls and Hot Springs.
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Plains council faces tough decisions on sewer plant future
The Plains sewer lagoons are increasingly vulnerable to the encroaching Clark Fork River.
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Grizzly bear conflict-prevention specialist making a difference
Cabinet Resource Group (CRG), a grass-roots conservation watchdog group active since 1976 in northwest Montana, held its annual meeting Saturday, March 9 at Bighorn Lodge on the Bull River. The group uses this event every year to share issue updates with members, introduce like-minded groups in the region, give awards, …
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SC Fair manager McGuigan moves on after 52 fairs
Chris McGuigan missed a Sanders County Fair once. He was away to college in Wyoming. All 52 others in his life, he attended.
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New store brings warmth to lonesome Lonepine
On a bleak, winter drive down Highway 28 from Elmo to Plains, there is suddenly a small splash of color ahead in the gray. It is something you would take for granted in most places. But in Lonepine, a community about six miles north of Hot Springs that lost its …
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Snow blitz features 'Clayton Street Angel'
In a week where snow seemed to be the story in Sanders County, a severe outlook of neighborliness has broken out.
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Medicaid expansion allows hospital to improve offerings Program set to expire in July unless renewed by Legislature
Clark Fork Valley Hospital (CFVH) President/CEO Dr. Greg Hanson is enthusiastic when he explains how the Medicaid Expansion plan passed by the 2015 legislature has benefitted service and health outcomes in Sanders County, and its economic impact county- and state-wide.
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Brinson joins Plains Town Council
Plains Mayor Dan Rowan swore in newly-appointed town council member Mike Brinson during the February 4 regular meeting.
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Citizens learn how to have a voice at Legislature
The biggest questions from the audience at last Friday’s “Citizenship 101” workshop in Paradise were “How can we know what bills are proposed, which ones affect us, and when and how to comment on them” when there are thousands on the docket?
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SC Fair Board service 'labor of love' for Smith
Roberta Smith of Trout Creek has been on the all-volunteer Sanders County Fair Board for most of the past 18 years. One big reason is this: she loves fairs.
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Ze Merry Maries a capella group together for 10 years
“It all started with a story on NPR in 2008,” says Deb Achatz of Trout Creek, who first dreamed up the area’s long-time comedy a capella group, Ze Merry Maries. She was struck by a piece saying that performance art was not taught in schools as much as it used …
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County snowplow fire may cause some plowing delays
A fire starting in the engine compartment of a parked snowplow truck destroyed that vehicle and caused substantial damage to the Beaver Creek county shop building and other snowplows Sunday, Jan. 27.
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Jurek's ice sculptures bring attention to MT wolf issues
Josh Jurek has wolves on his mind.
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T-Falls Mayor Jerry Lacy steps in to 'keep things rolling'
When Jerry Lacy was appointed in November to fill the mayor’s seat vacated by Mark Sheets, he rejoined a team who had worked well together for years. He also inherited a veritable blizzard of projects to help steward through to their conclusion.
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Casen Kirland first baby of the year at CFVH
Although the New Year made its appearance several weeks ago, the first baby of 2019 born at Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains arrived on Jan. 24.
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Noxon fans celebrate child's liberation from chemo
Six-year-old Noxon first-grader Danni Hill is finally getting a chance to get used to feeling good.
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'Signs of life' in a Montana winter
Friends of Scotchman’s Peak Wilderness (FSPW) brought together 46 kids from Thompson Falls and Noxon seventh grades for their annual Winter Tracks festival. There was lots to be learned, and lots of fun to be had at North Shore Campground with stations featuring orienteering; bird behavior and identification; track identification; …
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Icy driveway causes man's death
“Extremely icy road conditions” contributed to the death of a 71-year-old Plains man near the intersection of Highways 135 and 200 in Sanders County Sunday afternoon.
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Council discusses sewage plans, repair needs for Old Jail
Plains Mayor Dan Rowan reported on the status of grants related to upgrading the sewer plant and fortifying it against the encroaching Clark Fork River at the Jan. 7 Town Council meeting.
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Sanders, Mineral county folk join rally for public lands
Among nearly 2,000 people who assembled in Montana’s capitol rotunda Saturday in Helena were at least a couple dozen from Sanders and Mineral counties, making their voices heard in support of federally-owned public lands in the state.
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Historic Black Bear Inn awakens
“The Bear is coming out of hibernation,” says Daniel Mohr, owner of the National Historic Registry-listed Black Bear Inn in Thompson Falls.
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Whitefish Credit Union welcomes new manager in Thompson Falls
Tim Ellis is a happy man.
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Sheriff Rummel looks ahead to new year
Sanders County Sheriff Tom Rummel begins his third term with a lot more resources than he had when he started.
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Blackfoot voice & data communications in western Sanders County restored
Blackfoot Telecommunications crews worked throughout the day New Year’s Eve to lay a ground-based cable restoring voice and data communications after a two-day outage to western Sanders County.
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Damage to Blackfoot line causes communications outage in western Sanders County
A large team of specialists, including cable and fiber-optic technicians and engineers, was assembling along the Clark Fork River on New Year’s Eve to solve a major communications disruption in Thompson Falls and west to the Idaho border.
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