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Supreme Court largely sides with State in PL 280 ruling
“Justiciable” was the word floating around the Lake County Courthouse last Tuesday as Lake County officials looked for a ray of hope in the otherwise unfavorable Supreme Court ruling regarding Public Law 280.
Food bank seeks donations for new building
This weekend is possibly the time when more people come to County 54 with the Mineral County Fair taking place.
Study says there are too few homes for growing population
The rub, Horowitz said, is that Montana’s population increased by 10% between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. census data, while the number of housing units in the state grew by only 7%.

Richard Cary Benner
The only book that Dick ever read was the Bible, and he had it right on his table where he sat each morning.
Rodeo packs the arena at Mineral County Fair
Not many things in life say “summer” more than a rodeo.
Big crowds turn out for Cedar Creek history trip
Last weekend, the Cedar Creek Road outside of Superior might have had its first traffic jam since Adolph Lozeau spilled the beans about the gold strike that Louis Barrette, Basil Lanthier and he had up there in 1867.
Traveling artwork stops in Plains en route to D.C.
You could see and feel the emotion coming from Army Veteran Jim Layton as he stepped to the back of the Veterans Suicide Awareness painting and signed his name. He was doing so to honor a longtime friend and fellow veteran who recently took his own life.

Mineral County Community Foundation awards scholarships
At their April meeting, the board of the Mineral County Community Foundation made decisions on their 2022 scholarship awards.
Cedar Creek history project makes headway
The Cedar Creek interpretive sign project
Lady Savage Heat place 5th at Whitefish meet
So you dominate a track meet one weekend, what do you do for an encore?
Hot Springs' Christensen excels at Seeley-Swan Invite
There are plenty of local athletes who could lay claim to the unofficial “best overall athlete” in the Sanders and Mineral County areas.
Lake County presses state for law enforcement funding deal
Attorneys representing the Lake County commissioners sent a letter to Gov. Greg Gianforte last week in the hopes of finding a resolution to a longstanding dispute regarding costs of law enforcement on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Woodcarver Henry Larum is Plains' home-grown artist
Mounted on the wall in the Plains high school gymnasium is a large wood carving of a horse. Beside that carving is a plaque dedicated to the memory of Bev Minemyer, a Plains High School student who passed away from a brain tumor at the age of 15 in 1976.
Kids get hooked at Frenchtown ice fishing day
The weather was perfect with a robin’s egg, blue sky day for kids who went ice fishing at Frenchtown Pond on Saturday — many for their first time. The organizers of the event were happy and helpful as over 150 kiddos registered, some as early as 8 a.m.
Hunters help clear abandoned wire in Montana elk country
Plastics are destroying aquatic life in the oceans. Wind turbines are killing bats and birds that fly into them. And vacated wire is causing slow, painful deaths for elk on the Idaho-Montana state line.

FWP biologist: Feeding wildlife does more harm than good
With their big brown eyes with frosted eyelashes, snow on their face, steam vapor floating from their nostrils and snow up to their bellies, you want so desperately to help them.
Trotters hot streak ends at tough divisional tourney
They began the year struggling, then caught fire toward the end, winning eight of fourteen games in the last month of the 2023 Montana high school softball season.
Savage Heat track boats solid core of underclassmen
How do you replace two of the best athletes to don Hot Springs uniforms in recent memory? With a talented and eager group of youngsters.
Public Law 280 hearing draws some opposition
Two men who said they were members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes spoke Friday in opposition to two bills aiming to shift financial responsibility of overseeing felony offenses in the Flathead Reservation to the state.
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