Friday, March 30
Singing her heart out
Ruth Pratt sings with the Coeur d'Alene Big Band during Saturday's March Gala.
Moving with the big band sound at March Gala
New building for Superior Fire Department
The concept design for the new Superior Fire Hall that will be built behind the old schoolhouse.
Superior Fire Hall close to construction
All that remains
Snow falls on the remnants of a house on Diamond Match Road that was destroyed in a fire.
Superior home completely destroyed in fire
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cat saved by Plains Volunteer Firefighter
Jon Knoepke of the Plains Volunteer Fire Department rescuing a cat from a burning trailer home in Plains belonging to Robert Carolyn Mize.
No one seriously injured in Plains fire
Thursday, March 22
Defying the Odds
Mark Heppe as he runs the marathon portion of the Canada Ironman in August 2008.
Mind over Matter
Mark Heppe, M.D. of Plains knows what it is to rise up.
A quilt was saved
Ruth Winkler talks about her quilt that she saved from the fire that destroyed her house last week.
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 the quilt worked so hard on it and if there was one thing I thought to save from that fire – it was that quilt.”
De Borgia gets the Irish Spirit
Kiki Trayer, 4, of De Borgia shows her Irish spirit Saturday at the De Borgia Schoolhouse St. Patrick's Dinner.
Mineral County goes to Ireland
DE BORGIA - Those who came out to the De Borgia Historic Schoolhouse Saturday had the lucky chance of being Irish Saturday in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.
The Fab Five
Ashley Blaylock, Cary Chamberlain, Kelsey Stenberg, Malinda Steinebach and Kaitlynn Koke, who all played for the Senior Wester Conference C All Star Team.
Superior's Fab Five
Friday, March 16
Recalling the incident
West End Volunteer Fire Chief Bruce Charles recalls the incident in May that nearly left him injured or dead.
Incident Leaves Lingering Questions
Pleading Not Guilty
St. Regis Volunteer Firefighter Gary Dockter pleads not guilty at his preliminary hearing.
Volunteer Firefighter Pleads Not Guilty to State's Charges
Thursday, March 8
Fighting fire
Plains-Paradise Rural Fire District and Plains Volunteer Fire Department work to contain large flames at a house fire Thursday evening. The fire was reportedly caused by a faulty space heater.
Fire blazes residence
2011-2012 Noxon Red Devils
Back left to right: Banks Stocking, Travis Tammaro, Jordan Eichert, Middle left to right: Bradley Fitchett, Brent Wilson, Johny Carter, Neal Jopling, Austin Tucker, Brandon Piazzola, Tyler Piazzola. Front left to right: Oliver Grupenhoff, Tanner Tammaro, Colton Kardokus.
Red Devils unlikely journey comes to a close at state
Last year at the end of a 7-22 season, Noxon head coach Mike Tessier said next year the team would go on a major run. With only two graduating seniors, he had good reason to be optimistic. When Noxon lost their opening game of the divisional round, nobody would have predicted the type of run Mike Tessier and his team would have.
Hot Springs Shooting Range
On of the shooting stations under construction at the future site of the Hot Springs shooting range.
Shooting range construction underway in Hot Springs
If you live in Hot Springs and you want to practice at a shooting range, the closest one is in Plains about 24 miles away. For those in Hot Springs seeking a local shooting range, there is a project underway to build one.
Homemade Ice Cream
Laurel and Meara Schmiedbauer demonstrating how to properly make homemade ice cream.
Duct Tape Wallet
4-H student Nicole Rehbein demonstrating to the judges how to make a wallet out of duct tape for her presentation at Hot Springs High School.
4-H competition begins at Hot Springs
For members of 4-H in Sanders County, Sunday marked the final hurdle in a long climb to prepare for the 4-H demonstration competition
Wednesday, March 7
Future clinic
Pictured above is the tentative illustration for the future Hot Springs Clinic. Once the paperwork is sent off, construction will be set to begin.
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.
Giving blood
Mark Sheets of Thompson Falls prepares to give blood Thursday in the Thompson Falls High School gym. With his donation, Sheets earned his 5-gallon pin from American Red Cross.
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. Sheets has been donating his own blood to American Red Cross ever since.
