St. Regis senior Connolly earns Gaylord Green Scholarship

Gaylord Green lived in Haugan and graduated from St. Regis High School in 1958. He received an appointment to the Air Force Academy where he graduated with a degree in engineering science, followed by a master’s in aeronautics/astronautics at Stanford.

Scary Halloween stories keeps readers up at night!

Search continues for missing Mineral County woman

According to county Sheriff Mike Toth, 33-year-old Rebekah Barsotti and her dog haven’t been seen since the afternoon of Tuesday, July 20.

Support group started for grandparents raising grandchildren

In Montana, more than 7,400 grandparents are raising their grandchildren without parental involvement. These children come to them because of family crisis and the relative parents are often ill-equipped to deal with the emotional, physical, financial and social hardships of raising children “a second time around”.

Sanders County 4-H hosts leadership camp

4-H leaders from around the state converged on Thompson Falls High School over the weekend for a Rec Lab hosted by Sanders County.

Over the edge and 30 feet down

There are a lot of questions that go through your mind when you are paddling the last three feet toward the edge of a 30-foot waterfall in an 8-foot, 6-inch-long kayak.

New Plains store equips rock hounds

Mining is a whole lot of knowledge mixed with a helping of persistence and topped off, often, by good old fashioned luck.

Wild Sustenance: Innovative course introduces UM students to hunting

As a salmon pink sunrise bathed the nearby Rocky Mountain range, a group of University of Montana students gathered, bundled against the chill, with their instructors and two eager pointing dogs for an introduction to upland bird hunting.

Hunters have many choices for game processing

With archery season starting and the general rifle season opening day on Saturday, Oct. 21, for so many people, the best season of the year is almost here.

Aussie thoughts with Erin-Jay

(EDITOR’S NOTE: New monthly column edition where Erin-Jay not only continues her Aussie Adventures, but has now included an “Aussie Thoughts” opinion column about other news from around the world)

Christensen heads to Carroll for track and basketball

For the past several years Katelyn Christensen has been a Hot Springs High mainstay and standout athletically and academically.

Community Notes

The Mineral County Performing Arts Council Spring Gala will be held March 16 with “West My Friend” with music ranging from indie-roots to chamber folk. This quartet brings an acoustic blend of instruments and four-part harmonies. Tickets are available by calling Mary Jo Berry at 822-2213 or Cathy Kuhl at 822-4801, Castles Grocery or MCPAC members and includes the concert and dinner.

Rappin' cowboy stops in Hot Springs

The unlikely combination of country music and rap was brought to Fergie’s pub in Hot Springs on Thursday evening.

Ladine Pidgeon

Our angel passed on to join her family and the Lord on Sept. 14.

Rally held to head off sewer project in Paradise

With horns blaring and banners fluttering in the evening wind, anti-sewer protesters took their cause to the streets Saturday night in Paradise.

Mineral County holds 4-H beef weigh-In

Another sign that spring is close is the 4-H beef were weighed and measured at the Mineral County Fairgrounds last Sunday.

COLUMN: Take it slow

My old guy is about to emerge.

Counties pressured to object to CSKT Compact

As the deadline approaches to file objections to water rights claims set out in the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes-Montana Water Compact, some local officials are considering the effects of the landmark deal.

Groups band together to help reforest Sunrise burn area

Looking over the terrain of Sunrise Mountain swaths of black tree stands are a stark reminder of the wildfire that ravaged the area last summer. The fire chewed through 27,000 acres which was primarily Lolo National Forest Land. The area is a mix of conifer forest on steep mountainous terrain and affected a number of drainages including Trout, Cougar, Verde, Sunrise, Meadow, and Quartz Creeks.

Scientist tests Thompson water

Along the banks of the Thompson Falls Resevoir Thursday, University of Montana Geomorphologist Johnnie Moore bent down to take several sediment samples from the property of Thompson Falls resident, Jon Sonju. Moore was searching for contaminants that washed downstream from the Milltown Dam, breached last March. Sonju, a geologist, invited Moore to test the sediment after he noticed a green discoloration of the water near his home at the edge of the river. Moore has conducted previous research in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey and PPL Montana, which owns the Thompson Falls hydroelectric dam on the Clark Fork River.