Winter storms, freezing temperatures hit county

Plains school board consider new boiler options

Edward Burnham

Jerry George Shinnick

Bigfoot becomes talk of Hot Springs

Bigfoot is real.

Alberton community gathers in support of family after fire

Domestic violence grant gets renewed

A show of good faith

ST. REGIS – In a great show of employee relations, Tricon Timber has offered a number of support options to help the 90 employees, who were recently laid off, get protections while they are unemployed.

Upcoming app brings history closer

MINERAL COUNTY – History buffs will be able to explore the county’s history in a new way soon, as a mobile app designed for historic tourism launches featuring various sites around Mineral County.

Flu season comes to county early

MINERAL COUNTY – Flu season seems to have come to Western Montana early this year and the Mineral County Health Department is offering vaccines in an attempt to limit spreading the virus.

37th Annual Pilot Search Clinic

MISSOULA—The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) Aeronautics Division’s 37th annual Pilot Search Clinic was held on Saturday and Sunday, Sep. 12th-13th. The clinic was based out of the airports located at St. Ignatius, Superior, Hamilton, Stevensville, Rock Creek, and Seeley Lake; and covered the mountainous terrain surrounding Missoula.

Program teaches science through art

PLAINS - Second graders at Plains Elementary School are learning about science in a unique way this fall, after their teachers were awarded a grant to bring integrated arts education to their classrooms.

Estelle M. Wiltzen

PLAINS - Estelle M. Wiltzen was born August 22, 1927 to John Malaterre and Genevieve Ladoucer Malaterre in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. She spent her childhood in North Dakota and met the love of her life, Harris Wiltzen in Deering, North Dakota. They were married on August 22nd, 1946 and moved to Missoula, Montana where Harris went to the University of Montana. Their 6 children were all born in Montana, and they moved from Missoula, to Circle, Scobey, Malta and finally, to Plains, where she passed away on September 9, 2015 shortly after her 88th birthday and after 69 years of marriage to Harris.

Operation Christmas Child

SANDERS COUNTY - During the Sanders County Fair the Community Congregation Church hosted its “Operation Christmas Child” booth, which was used as a staging ground for children to make Christmas shoebox presents that will be shipped around the world to needy children.

What has become of the fair?

September 3, 2015

Charlene Eitelberg

Charlene (Sherry) Eitelberg of Plains Montana passed away peacefully August 27th 2015 at home with family by her side. Sherry was born in Missoula Montana September 9th 1947 to Les and Arlene Sanders. She married Terry Eitelberg April 18th 1967 from which union came two children James and Jason.

Mineral Community Hospital leads community-wide effort to help families and students

MINERAL COUNTY - What started out as an idea among the employees of Mineral Community Hospital (MCH), evolved into a county-wide program to help our children, parents, teachers and school administration start the 2015-2016 school year with a little less ‘sting’ on their wallets.

A message from Sen. Jennifer Fielder

SPECIAL NOTE TO READER: Recently I released the article below to the Sanders County Ledger with the headline “Feds won’t let state put wildfires out”. The Ledger retitled my article, “Feds don’t help firefighting effort”. This is an egregious misrepresentation of the content of my article (which, you can see below, in no way indicates that the feds are not helping firefighting efforts). Of course, the federal government has hundreds of firefighters and support contractors working the fires, many putting in valiant efforts to combat the blaze. My column points out, factually, that the federal government will not allow state firefighting aircraft to work on putting out the fires. With the state’s help, some of these fires likely could have been extinguished before they grew out of control, as the state of Montana has a stellar track record for stopping wildfires before they exceed 10 acres in size.

Woodcarver known for specialty

PLAINS - How many people can say when they were a 10 year old they found a life passion that would bring them recognition throughout the United States even from the President? When Henry Larum, a typical adolescent who looked up to his older brother, was 10 years old, he found that passion.

Drought conditions persist

SANDERS COUNTY – As warm temperatures and dry weather conditions continue to be the norm across northwestern Montana effects of the drought conditions are impacting Sanders County.