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New team members at your local Lynn’s Dakotamart
When shopping at Lynn’s Dakotamart in Faith, you will see a few new faces to welcome to our community. Christina Sullivan was born in Colville, Washington, moved to Phoenix Arizona and grew up there. Christina previously worked in management for Walmart for 2 years and worked at Lincoln Silver...
Rediscovering home: Superior's pool
The Mineral County Pool in the Park recently took a jump off the “high dive.” Everyone who first braved a leap off the approximately 10-foot-high diving board at the old pool in Superior before it was taken down, knows what a celebrated milestone it was. MCPIP has left the umbrella of the Mineral Community Foundation and created its own non-profit. The five-year effort to bring back the pool reached a key milestone: Preparing to hire an architectural/engineering firm to prepare preliminary plans for the pool. Cheryl Crabb of the MCPIP explained that getting to this point is huge as...
Four-day hoops camp held in Thompson Falls
It was hard to tell who was having a better time and liking basketball more at the Thompson Falls Basketball Camp this past week, the more than 100 kids or the staff of former Blue Hawks players. Both groups clearly had a great time at the camp, headed by T Falls basketball coach and activities director Jake Mickelson. This was the 12th year Mickelson and T Falls have hosted the basketball camp for these age groups. The four-day camp, held in the TFHS gym Monday through Thursday was a hit however you looked at it. “I really had fun,” said Louis Hannum who...
'Passing league' gets kids on football field during summer
Several years ago, eight years by his reckoning, Superior High football coach Jeff Schultz was looking for a way to keep football players active in the sport during the off season.The result: what could be described as a giant gathering of players from throughout the “neighborhood” who take part in a “five players on five players”, no pads, passing only game. Like a neighborhood pick-up game run amok. Throughout the month of June, Schultz and his Superior Bobcats, along with players from as many as 10 other schools, gather in Superior Monday nights for the “Passing League” unofficial set of games. Much like...
Hoop fest draws hundreds of ballers to Plains
If you are an ardent basketball fan who wandered up Montana 200 near the Plains Airport, you most likely did a double-take or pinched yourself to make sure the site wasn’t a dream.What your eyes would have gazed upon was a roundball fan’s dream come true...the 2024 Wildhorse Sports Association’s Three-on-Three Shootout hoop fest, a gathering of 73 teams and nearly 300 players, along with hundreds of fans from throughout the area. During day-long tournament, a substantial financial boost was raised to keep the site of the event, the Amundson Sports Complex, one of the best outdoor sports venues in the...
TALENT SHOW
There were acrobatics, a lion, fire, unicycles and smiles and cheers from circus fans of all ages Saturday in Thompson Falls. The Culpepper & Merriweather great combined circus returned to Thompson Falls on Saturday with two shows for community members. The circus comes to town every two years and is sponsored by the Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce.
Hoopsters gather for Plains 3-on-3
More than 300 adults and kids gathered on the tarmac of the old Plains airport on Saturday for the 8th Annual Wildhorse ShootOut 3-on-3 basketball tournament. It was near nonstop action as the crowd cheered for players of the 73 teams that registered for the tournament at the Amundson Sports Complex, including a dozen teams from Sanders County, said Erika Lawyer, who coordinated the tournament put on by the Wildhorse Sports Association. WSA is the nonprofit organization that runs the sports complex. The double elimination tournament ran from 9 a.m. to nearly 4 p.m., when the Money Ballers of Lake County defeated the 406 Destroyers of Missoula 9-6 in the championship for the third- and fourth-grade level contest.
Plains council approves contract for third well
The Plains Town Council held a special meeting Friday to discuss the contract for the town's new well, which will be located at the corner of Kruger Road and Upper Lynch Creek Road. Cold Water Drilling and Pumps out of Arlee was awarded the contract for $79,030. The town approved...
Montana State Sponsors Geospatial Skills Camps In Eight Rural Communities
BOZEMAN – Science teacher Doree Thilmony jumped at the chance when she learned last fall that Montana State University could help her put on a summer camp to teach geospatial skills in her rural community. "I teach drones, so I know they are used a lot for mapping," said...
Montana State sponsors Geospatial Skills camps in eight rural communities
BOZEMAN — Science teacher Doree Thilmony jumped at the chance when she learned last fall that Montana State University could help her put on a summer camp to teach geospatial skills in her rural community. “I teach drones, so I know they are used a lot for mapping,” said...
Plains to drill new water well
Plains Council members unanimously voted to drill a new town water well at a special town council meeting last week. During the special session, council members reviewed the proposed drilling contract from Wet Water & Environmental Technologies, that is based out of Kalispell. The company is an environmental, engineering and geoscience consulting firm that designs projects that include site development, utility master planning, distribution systems, wastewater treatment and local utility development. The well will be drilled by Coldwater Drilling and Pumps out of Arlee. Water & Environmental Technologies will manage the project on behalf of the Town of Plains. The location of the well will be near the intersection of Kruger and Upper Lynch Creek roads. The cost of the project will be $79,030 which includes engineering design, drilling and site cleanup. Drilling is expected to start within the next month. The new well project, expected to be around 200 feet deep, will be deeper than any of the town’s previous wells. The idea of drilling an additional water well was first conceived by previous Mayor Dan Rowan.
Is anybody out there? Radio operators use field day to test equipment
Ham radio operators from around Western Montana spent last weekend practicing their trade during the 2024 American Radio Relay League Field Day in Thompson Falls Power Park. Radio equipment for the weekend exercise was supplied by members of the Clark Fork Valley Amateur Radio Club. The field day, held during the fourth full weekend in June, is the most popular amateur radio event in the U.S. and Canada. First envisioned in the 1930s as an event to evaluate the field preparedness and emergency communications skills of early amateur radio communities. Field Day has evolved into the largest on-the-air operation of the...
State funding supports Superior pool project
On the first day of summer, Superior's Pool in the Park committee received a nice splash from the Montana Department of Commerce. They are one of eight Montana towns, cities and counties who will share more than $317,000 of grant funding to help plan significant community development projects. The funding is through Commerce’s Community Development Block Grant Planning Grant program. The Town of Superior will receive $39,500 of CDBG planning grant funding for a preliminary architectural report for the Town of Superior’s swimming pool.Brogan Keenen, vice president of Pool in the Park which is a nonprofit 501C (3), explained that this...
Legals for June, 26 2024
ANDREW A. GEORGE George Law Firm, PLLC 210 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 234 Missoula, Montana 59802 Telephone: (406)728-4310 Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MINERAL COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICKY EUGENE FENSKE Deceased Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP- 24. 05 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to...
Custom Solutions can't be beat
The Custom Solutions team of Doug Fisher, RT Brown, Bob Brown and John Owens combined for the low team gross score at the River’s Bend Golf Course with a 170 last Wednedsay. The First Security Bank team (Bill Nolen, Michael Scharfe, Ben Mummert and Mike Thilmony) came through to get the low team net score with a 146.
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