Thursday, January 30, 2025

New fire plan explored

THOMPSON FALLS - The Sanders County Commissioners held a public meeting on Dec. 20 in which they met with fire behavior analyst Rick Carlson to discuss the fire plan draft for 2013.
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Plains Softball bounces back from Ronan with doubleheader

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Painting for a cause

Marla Brown-Robbins, an artist from Hot Springs, paints a glacier grizzly that was later auctioned for $800 at the RMEF banquet.
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Sanders County Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation banquet raises most funds in 5 years

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New Hot Springs Clinic construction set to begin

HOT SPRINGS – The construction of the new Hot Springs Clinic is anticipated to begin at the end of this month.
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Getting treated like a Rockstar

Karrie Shinnick sits in her private room at Rockstars Salon, where she offers services such as facials, waxing, eyebrow and lash tinting, and human energy chelation therapy.
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Rockstars Salon offers skincare enhancement

The largest organ of the human body, the epidermis (skin) is often the most neglected and abused with daily monotonous routines such as walking outside, but now area residents can look to remedy such damage and more with visits to Rockstars Salon in Plains.
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Meeting a piglet

Kaitlyn Ducept, 5, gets down with the piglets Friday at Dave Williams’ place as part of the Home Start Preschool field trip.
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Preschoolers meet piglets

PLAINS - Home Start Preschool students were tickled pink with meeting Dave Williams’ two female 3-month-old piglets Friday afternoon as part of a school field trip.
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Mind over Matter

Mark Heppe, M.D. of Plains knows what it is to rise up.
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Paradise reaches out to fire victim

“It wasn’t an old quilt that I grabbed, it was actually brand-new,” Ruth Winkler said. “The quilt is a collection of photos from all the plays I’ve done over the 20 years I’ve been doing them, and it means a lot to me. The girls who transposed the photos onto …
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Hot Springs Clinic has funding in place

It may be safe to say the Hot Springs Clinic will soon be reconstructed after months of fundraising and hoping.
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Local blood saves lives

Mark Sheets of Thompson Falls knows how donated blood saves lives. At age 16, a roof collapsed on top of him and among his many injuries, his femoral artery was severed. He would have died if not for receiving up to 5 pints of donated, matching blood following the accident. …
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Dianne Rummel formally charged

THOMPSON FALLS – Sanders County Clerk of Court Dianne Rummel was arraigned for criminal charges Tuesday in direct relation to allegations of theft, embezzlement tampering with county records and witnesses.
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