Insurance concerns grow with fire danger

ST. REGIS - Homeowners in one St. Regis housing development are worried after one of their neighbors was denied renewal of their insurance policy because the provider told them they were in a high wildfire risk area.

Community Notes

Adult Softball

Forest Service begins prescribed burns in Mineral County

MINERAL COUNTY – Forest Service personnel were busy last week taking advantage of weather conditions that allowed them to perform a prescribed burn near St. Regis as part of an ongoing effort to reduce fuel loads on forested land in Mineral County.

Plains races to success at Eureka Time Trials

EUREKA – The Plains Trotters and Horsemen track teams got their season underway at the Eureka time trials last weekend.

MCSO sells drug dog

MINERAL COUNTY – The Mineral County Sheriff’s Department has sold its drug and police dog, according to the department.

Savage Heat light up track at first meet

HOT SPRINGS – Athletes battled the biting wind and spitting rain to run, throw and jump their way to the top. The Hot Springs Track and Field team traveled to Ronan on Saturday, March 29 to compete in their first track meet of the season.

MCRAG provides update to county commissioners

Balenger files for back pay

Forest Service stays busy

MINERAL COUNTY - There may have only been two small fires in Mineral County as a result of a lightning storm last Monday night but that doesn’t mean Forest Service personnel aren’t remaining vigilant.

Fire danger raised to very high

MINERAL COUNTY – The fire danger status in Mineral County was raised to very high last week and officials are considering enacting Stage 1 Fire Restrictions as early as this week.

Commissioners discuss grants

SUPERIOR – In their weekly meeting Friday, the county commissioners reviewed the draft for a letter to support a possible application for the Prevention Partnership Grant and Alcohol Compliance Grant.

Fire danger raised to high in Mineral County

MINERAL COUNTY - The U.S. Forest Service upgraded the fire danger in Mineral County from moderate to high last Friday in response to a combination of factors that lead officials to make the change.

Old Schoolhouse Rock Car Show visits Superior

SUPERIOR – Perfect weather drew hundreds of people from all over Mineral County and beyond for the annual Old Schoolhouse Rock Car Show.

School addition opens

PLAINS – A line of people led down the hallway of the Plains school as attendants waited to witness history. A dream that begin in the early 50s finally came to fruition – the grand opening of the new school addition.

Looking back

A few years back I was in an old working class neighborhood of Great Falls, walking down tree lined avenues that must have been something a few years back. But now the houses needed paint and lots of other things besides. Most of the residents seemed to have lived there for some time, and as I walked along I realized that once upon a time, this had been the realization of the Great American Dream for these folks; a secure job, their own house, a pretty yard, maybe even a flower garden. Not a lot to ask out of life. Not then, anyway, and now it was fading away.

Balenger's termination letters to be released

Big Sky Singers to perform at Spring Gala

Vintage car show returns to Homesteader Days

HOT SPRINGS- The turnout was impressive for the car show during the 64th annual Homesteader Days celebration in Hot Springs on Saturday. Around 30 owners displayed their vehicles for judging in an event that has been absent from the festival for several years.

Trotters track finds stride

PLAINS – The Plains High School Track and Field team traveled to Ronan for their first meet of the season. As the returning state champions, the Trotters had a lot to live up to in the face of their competitors.

Money in politics is destroying our democracy

David Brat, the upstart Tea Party candidate who scored a stunning victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor won in part by carrying a simple message;  “The crooks up on Wall Street and some of the big banks—I’m pro-business, I’m just talking about crooks—they didn’t go to jail, they are on Eric’s Rolodex.”