Bruce Moats
May 6, 2024
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Rediscovering home: Spread a little joy
This column is going to be different.
Rediscovering home: Court decides Brady dispute
Micah Allard’s personnel file will remain expunged of the allegations that led to his firing by the former Mineral County sheriff, according to a court ruling filed last Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. (Judge Shane Vannatta was working late.)
Rediscovering home: Mineral County's 'Brady' lawsuits
Police officers consider “Brady cop” a bad word.
Rediscovering home: Local law enforcement
Law enforcement was light for those growing up in Superior in the 1970s.
Rediscovering home: Cedar Creek gold rush
Wouldn’t you know it, with the dearth of women living in the gold rush that rushed up Cedar Creek two would get in a fight over one man.
Rediscovering home: The story behind the repair work at Nine Mile Bridge
The bulldozers pushed scrapers until full of rock and dirt. The material was then hauled off to be used for fill on other sections of the new Interstate 90.
Rediscovering home: The county fair
Nothing has changed during my time away as much as the Mineral County Fair.
Rediscovering home: Superior Ranger District
Ranchers carefully select their herds for the best genetics. Who knew that the Forest Service does much the same with trees.
Rediscovering home: Superior's pool
The Mineral County Pool in the Park recently took a jump off the “high dive.”
Rediscovering home: Keeping '54'
Gusty winds set the butterflies free. But “54” is safe at home in Mineral County.
Rediscovering home: Summer events
The land had grown deep green alfalfa. Now it hosts the white elegance of the LDS Church, which on this day played host to the soulful rhythms of Hannah Jackson.
Rediscovering home: Superior school board
Excuse the pride that surged through my chest as Superintendent Logan Labbe led me through the entry to Superior High School gymnasium.
Iron Mountain Road update
Cutting across steep mountain slopes on the south side of the Clark Fork River, the road is formally called the Iron Mountain/Cyr Road. But my family and friends called it by a less imaginative name, “The Road Behind the Mill.”