CFVH works to reduce falls in older adults

PLAINS – Clark Fork Valley Hospital is reaching out to Sanders County residents with a free workshop called Stepping On. The workshop’s purpose is to help seniors prevent falls as they navigate their daily routines. The workshop will be held for two hours, every Tuesday, for seven weeks, at the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Conference Center (Building #1 on the Main Hospital Campus – at the end of Horizon Lane) beginning Tuesday, March 18th at 10:30 a.m. Contact CFVH Rehabilitation Services at 826-4821 to register or get more information.

Deanie French

Deanie French is absent from her body and therefore is present with her friend, Savior and God; Jesus Christ. Tuesday evening January 29, 2013 Virginia Dean French made a confident and peaceful journey into Heaven, as her family held her hand.

Mineral County law roundup

Fire, I-90 EB MM 76, French Town Units responded.

Montana Viewpoint: Vigilante justice

Can individual Americans, by claiming that they felt their life was in danger become judge, jury, and executioner and not worry unduly about the consequences?

Spawning the imagination Students get lively view of science from fish biologist

Grade-school students gathered around bubbling tanks in the St. Regis science classroom as Brooks Sanford dumped about 250 of squirmy orange alevin into the water from a net container. Alevin are newly spawned trout still carrying their yolk sac. Some students squeal with delight as they drop down into the pea gravel below.

Legals for January, 25 2023

Local agency now state approved

Choices for Change Counseling (Nancy M. Smith) has been certified as a State Approved Agency by DPHHS, Addictive and Mental Disorders Division. Choices has also been designated by the Mineral County Commissioners to receive 100 % of the Mineral County earmarked alcohol tax monies for the provision of chemical dependency treatment and prevention services in accordance with MCA 53-24-206.

Taft mountains hold 'secret' of missing cemetery

The mountains surrounding the legendary saloon town of Taft, Mont., holds a silent grip on its deceased residents. As the massive fires of 1910 swept through the canyons of Mineral County, the blaze took the town with it, including the cemetery. A cemetery with wooden markers which turned to ash and disappeared. Now, nearly 110 years later, the search is on to find the 72 buried souls lost to a century of forest growth and erosion.

Mineral Co. Commissioners vote to join passenger rail authority

The behemoth cost of the project is where most conversations of this venture ends.

Plains Council looks at water loss, parking, new equipment purchases

November’s Plains Council meeting addressed several important issues.

Authorities say Thompson Falls sex offender violated probation

A child sex predator is locked up in the Flathead County Detention Center after authorities say he violated his probation by viewing online pornography.

Mineral County Sheriff's Office calls

Mineral County Sheriff's Office calls

Mineral County candidates Q&A

Woman's Club gives back

New K-12 private school to open near Thompson Falls

It’s not just parents who are dissatisfied with public education these days. There are also teachers who want a better way for their students to learn.

Extension office declares 4-H member exchange success

Sanders County 4-H extension agent Juli Thurston is hailing the first 4-H member exchange a glowing success.

Dixon Melon Days provides entertainment for all

DIXON – In a “perfect melon year” with an abundant crop of mouthwatering melons, the annual Dixon Melon Days celebration hit the streets of Dixon on Friday, Aug. 23 and Saturday, Aug. 24.

Community Notes

Monthly community hearing services will be provided by the Hearing Aid institute at the Alberton Senior Center on June 14 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. which includes free clean and checks on all hearing instruments (Walk-in) and free check on ears for wax build up (Walk-in).

Mineral County Sheriff's Office calls

Mineral County Sheriff's Office calls

Lady Hawks go 1-1 at round-robin tourney

It was a mixed bag of results for the Thompson Falls girls basketball team during a round robin tournament in Anaconda/Deer Lodge this past weekend.