ARTICLES BY KYLE SPURR

County rings in New Years

Locals around Mineral County rang in the New Year Dec. 31 with dancing, music, a potluck dinner and even some karaoke at two community events.
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Health Clinic construction in final stages

The construction of the new medical clinic in St. Regis is reaching its final stages and the finishing touches should be done by the end of January to early February.
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Mineral County sports year in review 2011

Winter sports season 2010-2011
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Forest service to rule on 'Olympian' trail

A decision on a project that would open what will be called the Route of the Olympian is coming closer.
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Bids come in for new firehouse

Superior Fire Chief John Woodland received 12 bids from various general contractors last Monday for work on the new firehouse.
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FedEx truck driver sentenced

Missoula County District Court Judge Dusty Deschamps sentenced New Jersey truck driver Sergey Buslayev Wednesday morning to 10 years in Montana State Prison for negligent homicide. Buslayey, 57, lost control of a FedEx tractor-trailer combination driving towards an accident scene on Interstate 90 in 2008, killing a volunteer firefighter.
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Semi tips over on I90

A semi-trailer traveling eastbound down Interstate 90 tipped over Saturday morning. At approximately 8:30 a.m. rescue crews were called out to the scene.
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Geraldine/Highwood knocks out Alberton

In sports, it is difficult to beat an opponent twice in the same season. For the Alberton Panthers varsity football team, that trouble came true.
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Duo performs for county

With a dimming of the lights, Colin Ross and Mig O’Hara preceded to turn the Parkside Baptist Church in Superior Wednesday night into a speakeasy in the 1920s. That is, when the duo played their more blues and jazz influenced music. Throughout their concert, they also played a variety of …
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Repository in progress

State and town workers along with interested community members took another tour Thursday afternoon of Flat Creek, where a repository is in the process of being built.
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Trucker drives wrong way down Interstate 90

A Wild Bohemian Carries truck driver faces three felony endangerment charges for driving his semitrailer in the wrong lane of Interstate 90 Halloween night, making on-coming traffic narrowly swerve out of the way.
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Woodard sentenced to 55 years

Michael John Woodard, who pled guilty to deliberate homicide August 24 for killing his ex-wife Kelly Dube-Woodard, has been sentenced in Mineral County District Court Wednesday by District Court Judge Karen Townsend.
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Fall Bazaar supports local help line

Various local vendors lined the inside of the 4-H building at the fairgrounds in Superior Saturday for the forth-annual Fall Bazaar.
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Autumn beginnings in Superior

Superior kicked off the autumn season Saturday afternoon with the second annual Fall Festival outside the old school house.
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Volunteers keep community warm

Over the past 12 years, members of the Superior Community Church and local volunteers have labored to give back. Their work consists of sawing, cutting and stacking firewood.
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