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Plains couple runs popular Island Noodles stand
Since its launch, Northwest Island Noodles has become a beloved fixture at local farmers' markets, festivals, and community events, winning Best of Flathead in the food truck category for multiple years. With just two options — vegan soba noodles and teriyaki chicken soba noodles — the menu is straightforward, allowing the chefs to master the art of the wok stove. “The menu was very intentional,” said owner and operator Debby French. “We are able to provide a fresh noodle batch very quickly. We can feed a lot of people very quickly, which makes us very popular at big music festivals when...
Trotters volleyball improves to 7-0
To say the Plains High Trotters volleyball team is playing well would be like saying the surface of the sun is hot.Understatements on both subjects. For the Trotters, it was another week and more match victories. They won three matches this past week to run their season mark to 7-0. This past week’s victims included St. Regis (3-0), Arlee (3-0) and Darby (3-0) Their broom budget is being tested with all the sweeping going on. The Trotters began the week with a road trip to St. Regis, where they faced the Lady Tigers. They jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead in the first...
Legals for October, 2 2024
PUBLIC HEARING MINERAL COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH October 11, 2024 The Mineral County Board of Health will meet on Friday October 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM in the Mineral County Commissioners Meeting Room in the Courthouse Annex located at 300 River Street, Superior, Montana. There will be a Health Department Update and Discussion. If you have any questions or would like a copy of the agenda, please email mccommissioner@ co.mineral.mt.us Published in the Mineral Independent on October 2, 9, 2024. MNAXLP __________________________ LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE ESTATE OF TWYLA LEE SMITH, DECEASED MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT...
Laura Acker honored as Parent Educator of the Year
Laura Acker grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was the tenth of 11 children. She and her husband, Josh, moved to Alberton in 2004 and she is a parent educator with the Mineral County Health Department. “We are so proud of Laura and her accomplishments! She has been an integral part of the growth of the home visiting program in Mineral County over the last ten years. The impact Laura has had on the families she works with is immeasurable,” beams April Quinlan, Parents as Teachers Program Supervisor. The Mineral County Parents as Teachers (PAT) program started in 2012. During the...
Bobcats beat host Plains, 60-28
It’s probably enough to make a grown football coach get misty-eyed: running backs with track speed and wrestler physicality.Those would not be tears of anguish in the eyes of the Superior High football coaching staff. Misty eyes can also be the product of happiness. And after watching his Bobcats beat host Plains 60-28 Friday night in Plains, Superior head coach Jeff Schultz could be excused if he did have tears of joy in his eyes. But Schultz should probably get used to it, with only one of those speedsters in his senior year, Trizten Avilla. The bulk of the young Bobcats will...
Bobcats volleyball team falls at Mission
Not only did the Superior Bobcats volleyball team run into the conference co-leaders this past week, they also had to deal with a power outage. So it went for the Bobcats as they continue to seek their first match win of the season. They began the week Tuesday with a road trip to St. Ignatius where they were lost in three sets to the Lady Bulldogs. This past Thursday, they were scheduled to play a match in Troy, but an electrical power outage to the Troy gym wiped that match out, albeit temporarily. Then, this past Saturday, they hosted the unbeaten Eureka and...
Rediscovering home: The Bellevue Hotel gets a new life
The iconic lady on the hill is full of life once again.Not hotel guests this time, but a family of seven. The Bellevue Hotel had served guests from its perch on the hill along Mullan Road and the Milwaukee Railroad since 1908. The doors were shut in 2001. The visual progress injecting life back into the landmark, after years of erratic remodeling, has captured the community’s attention. “People are always asking about it,” said Isaiah McGuffey, who owns the property with his wife, Becky. As McGuffey explains it, the grand dame fell into his family’s hands about four years ago. McGuffey entered into...
Seeley-Swan outlasts Tigers on homecoming night
Speed, it has been said, kills. When you add power to velocity, it often creates some intense collisions.Such was the case on a splendid, sunshine-bathed day when two of the top Western Conference, 8-player football teams collided in St. Regis. The outcome was some banged up, dazed players on both sides of visiting Seeley-Swan's 40-18 win over St. Regis’ Tigers this past Saturday. Seeley came in with an unblemished, 4-0 victory and first place in the conference for their meeting with St. Regis, which was 3-1 overall and 2-1 in league play. And, to add to the already glorious day, it was Homecoming in...
Hot Springs posts another shutout
There is an interesting parallel between nature and Montana 6-player football. Even if the day starts out cloudy, the sun will come up. If it doesn’t, none of this will matter. And, even if the season gets off to an unusual “cloudy” start, Hot Springs will field a good football team. To wit: after a 0-2 start to the season, the Savage Heat are on fire, again. Friday Hot Springs scorched White Sulphur Springs 59-0 on the Hornets home field, boosting the Heat to 3-2 on the year and running their scoring streak over the past three games to 154-0. Zero, as in...
Lady Tigers get volleyball win over Victor
After losing to unbeaten Plains this past Tuesday, the St. Regis Lady Tigers were looking for a solid volleyball win. They got all they were looking for in their tough, 3-2 match road win over Victor two nights later. The first set was competitive from start to finish, with Victor getting off to an early 5-3 lead, then watching as St. Regis knotted the score at 5-each. The score went back and forth most of the set and was tied again at 20-20 before the Lady Tigers were able to separate themselves from Victor on their way to an opening set 25-21...
Kvelve's Comments: The half-way point
This time fly's thing boggles my mind. Lots of things boggle my mind, but this one gets special attention from the neurotransmitters. Here it is, the first week of October and half the fall sports season is history. And what a first half it has been for local teams, and what a second half it could be. If I had to pick a “big” story in the first full month of the season, it would be the youth movement, and in particular, the number of outstanding eighth grader to sophomore athletes there are on the bi-counties' two cross country teams. The biggest story may...
Hawks shut out Anaconda, 28-0
After a grueling and challenging beginning to the 2024 season, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks return from playing four of their first five football games on the road. To set the table for the return to home cooking, the Hawks shut out Anaconda 28-0 this past Friday ahead of two straight home games in their near future. First things first. T Falls struck first against the Copperheads, scoring on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Kaiden Robins to Michael Koskela in the first part of the first quarter. The PAT attempt failed, but the Blue Hawks took a 6-0 lead. Before the first quarter...
Lady Savage Heat sweeps Two Eagle River
It was a mixed bag of matches for the Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat volleyballers, who won two matches and lost one this past week. And the one loss, 3-1 at Valley Christian, was a hard-fought battle that could have gone either way. The Heat opened their week this past Tuesday with a home match versus the Flathead Valley Home School group from the Kalispell area and won 3-1. The Heat then traveled to Missoula where they dropped a 3-1 decision to the Lady Eagles of Valley Christian. Hot Springs wrapped up a busy week with a 3-0 sweep of winless Two Eagle...
Lady Hawks win third straight
The Thompson Falls Lady Hawks are on a volleyball roll. This past week they won a pair of Western B conference matches to increase their winning streak to three and boost their season record to 5-3. Friday the Lady Hawks swept Arlee on the road, then returned home Saturday and swept Darby. Thompson Falls has not lost since their epic, five-set loss to Sanders County rival Plains, which is still unbeaten on the year. The rematch of that match is set for Oct. 15, in Thompson Falls. Meanwhile, the Lady Hawks began their week with the win over Arlee, which slipped to 0-10...
Mission, Arlee football pick up victories
Mission improved to 3-1 on the year with a 44-14 victory over Charlo in eight-man football action on Friday, Sept. 27. The Bulldogs racked up 32 points in the first quarter and led 38-6 at halftime.Mission improved to 3-1 on the season while Charlo fell to 0-4.Arlee picked up its first league win of the season, downing the winless Troy Trojans 16-14 on Friday, Sept. 27 in eight-man football action. The Warriors are now 2-3 on the year. Bulldog Iyezk Umphrey captures the ball at sunset during last week's game against Charlo. (Christa Umphrey photo) Mission's Titan Mansel and Mack McDonald take down Charlo's Tien Weatherby during last week's game between the valley rivals. (Christa Umphrey photo)
Soccer teams face tough matches at Columbia Falls
With just one match this week in their inaugural varsity season, the Thompson Falls-Plains co-op Blue Hawks continued to build on improvements they have seen. Next will be that elusive first victory for both the boys’ and girls' soccer teams. With their entire schedule being against established high school varsity programs, progress has come in player improvements over the season. The boys team lost to Columbia Falls, 9-1, while the girls dropped a 9-2 decision to the same school this past week. For the girls, they were once again stronger in the first half than the second, as the Lady Hawks got a pair...
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