COLUMN: Coach Bandel

Come with me now to a mystical place not many get a chance to experience. It is a place of anxiety, joy, happiness, anger, frustration….the gauntlet of human emotions.

Western Montana lions offer unique hunting experience

High in the snow-covered mountains along the I-90 corridor houndsmen across Mineral County run Forest Service roads with hunting partners and their dogs, scanning for mountain lion tracks and ready to set their canines loose on a fresh cat trail.

Covid is ruining my sports world

This past week was one for which I had been waiting many agonizing months. Sports, live sports, lay before me.

Young wrestlers take to the mats for practice

Nick Ianniello

Sheriff's Office dispatch a rewarding and challenging job

Each week the Mineral Independent publishes the Mineral County Sheriff’s Report to help people paint a better picture of what deputies are doing during their shifts.

West End fire crews get hands-on training

Training exercises can be ho-hum when it’s the same routine or project time after time.

Grainry celebrates 4-year anniversary

The Grainry in Plains is celebrating its 4-year anniversary and are planning on expanding into a new wing in the next couple of weeks.

Hot Springs Lady Heat still own the court

Matt Unrau

Spotlight on the Arts: Kaylee Warta

Spotlight on the Arts: Kaylee Warta

Archery hunters eagerly await elk season opener

At 6:31 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 5, location bugles will pierce the predawn air.

Sanders County schools prepare for worst-case scenarios

Emergencies in Sanders County school can take many forms varying in severity and impacting students in different ways – from natural disasters and threats of violence to medical issues.

Reporters Notebook: Historic tour of Cedar Creek a real Montana treat

One of the items on my bucket list is to hike into as many of the lakes in Mineral County as possible. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but wasn’t sure where they were located, or how hard it would be to hike into them. When the Mineral Community Hospital offered free hikes with Jim Cyr as the guide, I jumped at the chance.

Television: Will it stay or will it go?

I’m seriously thinking about giving up on an old friend I’ve had since I was probably four or five years old.

Now what...

What if?  Where would we be today?  What if in 2008 the McCain/Palin ticket had garnered the 53% plurality from the 62% of eligible voters in American instead of Obama?  Just think about it.  Where would we be today?

St. Regis student receives 'Youth Achievement' award

After living in foster care for six years, 19-year-old Kaitlin Jackson has begun her journey to help other youth who are in the same system.

Taking on the boys

Plains graduate reflects on wrestling career, ready to wrestle in college

In the sport of wrestling, the field is dominated by the boys and Crismore sticks out like a sore thumb, stuck out so much that she was offered a scholarship to wrestle on an all-female college team in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Voter pamphlet for Plains Board Trustees

The Plains School would like to introduce you to the candidates that are running for the School Board Trustee positions in the election on May 5, 2008.

Outdoors: Hunting Moose

If moose meat was money and moose tags lottery tickets then Laurie Johnston has won the lotto not once, but twice.

Superior girls heading into divisional playoffs

The Superior Lady Bobcats took third this last weekend in districts and will play at noon on Thursday of this week. The girls are hosting volleyball divisionals for the district.

Men or Worth come to Superior

The Irish Scottish folk music duo, Men of Worth will perform at the Superior Elementary School Gym on Friday March 15 at 6 pm.