When asked to recall some standout memories from his 25 years as the owner of Wild Horse Hot Springs, Denny Larson jokingly asked if those within ear shot had a few hours to spare.
When asked to recall some standout memories from his 25 years as the owner of Wild Horse Hot Springs, Denny Larson jokingly asked if those within ear shot had a few hours to spare.
On an unusually warm, 70-degree spring day in early May, around 20 students clad in wetsuits and drysuits willingly submerged into the still freezing Alberton Gorge on the Clark Fork River. With waters already past flood stage at 20,000 cubic feet per second — a unit used to determine river …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Snow and wind didn’t stop Mineral County residents from “walking the plank” into freezing water to raise money for a new pool in Superior on Sunday, April 28. The Mineral County Community Foundation (MCCF) raised $4,800 during their Walk the Plank fundraiser at Eva Horning Park. The funds will benefit …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
There is a famous painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin called Vision after the Sermon, also known as Jacob Wrestling with the Angel. Barbara Beckwith, the art teacher at Stillwater Christian School, dims the lights so the students can see the painting more clearly projected to the front of …
Grade-school students gathered around bubbling tanks in the St. Regis science classroom as Brooks Sanford dumped about 250 of squirmy orange alevin into the water from a net container. Alevin are newly spawned trout still carrying their yolk sac. Some students squeal with delight as they drop down into the …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Student athletes from Alberton and Superior met in the Superior High School gym on Wednesday, Nov. 14. They gathered with family and friends to celebrate their accomplishments during football and volleyball seasons. The boys ended their season 6-4 with a playoff game in Great Falls. The girls were District 13C …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Alongside Quartz Creek Road at the Tarkio exit, a small table covered by a white canopy was set up next to a refrigerated truck. A sign with purple and pink letters reads, “Mushroom Buyer Jessica.” Jessica Cruz, along with her sons Timo, 16, and Lucas, 11, and her Asian partner …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Once again people descended on the St. Regis Community Park to enjoy three days of bargain hunting as the Annual St. Regis Flea Market went into full swing. This event, called Montana’s largest flea market, brings in approximately four thousand people, said one of the coordinators, Anita Bailey.
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Hundreds of grade school students strapped on their tennis shoes and geared up to participate in the Annual Mineral County Fun Run. It was held in Superior on May 9 and kindergarten through sixth-graders looped their way around Clark Fork and Osprey Drive near the Mineral Community Hospital. Kindergarten through …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Final Four-legged fever hit Mineral County last week as donkeys hit the floor boards in the St. Regis gym. The junior high school class brought the floppy-ear critters to town through Donkey Sports Inc. as a fundraiser where students and staff from St. Regis and Superior faced-off for braying rights.
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 7 YEARS AGO
A few green plants have already sprung up past the charred earth of the Sunrise Fire, which burned just 13 miles east of Superior. On a sunny autumn day, the black soil is littered with tiny rusty pine needles in areas where a few still cling to the half-burned trees. …
VALLEY PRESS-MINERAL INDEPENDENT | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
It’s not often that you see two players on opposing teams lay down next to each other after a hockey game and make snow angels on the rink — but then again the Flathead Valley Women’s Hockey League is not an ordinary league.
Two tango instructors from Missoula have been working to increase the number of dancers and enthusiasts in Northwest Montana, and their work is starting to pay off in the Flathead Valley.
Here along the Continental Divide in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on wintry mornings, the horses accepted their saddles and chilled steel bits fatalistically.
In the early morning light, a group of riders and their horses take off across a sweeping green landscape under a perfectly clear blue sky. The scene is idyllic. It is the living incarnation of the Montana dream, and every year guests make their way to the McGinnis Meadows Cattle …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Naomi Berenice Proud celebrated her 100th birthday Thursday with her favorite boiled cake, a trumpet rendition of “Happy Birthday” and the company of friends and a lot of fun memories.
Inside the small octagon of Montana State University’s recently opened camera obscura installation, as a curious group gazed up at the live image projecting onto a scrim above their heads, an inquisitive voice rose from the darkness.
"Kersplash," "Whee!" "Wow" and "Cheers!" were some of the sounds heard last weekend as 23 North Idaho College employees, guests and recreation interns enjoyed a raft trip on the Wallowa and Grande Rhonde rivers in Northeast Oregon.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
In her autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou shares something she learned from a woman named Bertha Flowers, who once told the young girl:
