Clark Fork Valley Press | Mineral Independent

November 10, 2021 midnight

St. Regis resident hand crafts wood furniture

With an eclectic work portfolio including anything from laying carpet to being a seamstress for a T-bird and Mustang dealership installing upholstery, Elledge has always stayed sharp working with her hands and found joy in creating things.

September 30, 2010 11:18 a.m.

Plains runners excede hopes

Wow, what a day! That’s the thought that kept coming back into my mind as the Plains Cross Country teams made their way back from the Ronan Invitational cross country meet this past Saturday. Coming into the meet, I had been careful not to get my hopes up. The training load for the team had been pretty significant during the past couple of weeks; and, many of the kids on the team had been fighting colds or minor illness. But, on a bright and sunny day, the kids more than exceeded my expectations. With five high school boys and three girls competing, personal records (PR’s) were set or equaled by six of the athletes.

June 10, 2020 3:41 p.m.

Hiawatha Bike Trail provides a family challenge

Midway into the one mile-and-one-half long, cold, pitch-black, and muddy Taft Tunnel it started: My 10-month-old son was not happy.

October 18, 2010 11:14 a.m.

Shocked by disrespect

On Saturday, Oct. 9 at 1 p.m., in the Mineral County Military Cemetery in Superior, Montana, I laid my father to rest. He was a WWII Veteran who was wounded on D-Day and also in the Battle of the Bulge. My father was later awarded the Bronze Star.

May 23, 2019 12:51 p.m.

County show patience about barking dogs

I had the opportunity (as did you) to attend the May 9 Sanders County commissioner’s meeting on ordinance # 2019-01: an ordinance to control barking dogs within Sanders County and to establish procedures for enforcement.

January 24, 2024 midnight

COLUMN: Summer daydreaming

It was just a few weeks ago that I was pondering winter and wondering why it hadn’t arrived in this neck of the woods.

October 8, 2010 11:42 a.m.

Candidate qualifications

A recent story in the Clark Fork Chronicle called into question Marcia Boris’ qualification for the office of Mineral County Attorney. If the reporter of that story had asked me if Marcia was qualified, my answer would have been “yes, most definitely” on two bases:

October 15, 2008 midnight

Hunting alone for the first time

My oldest son, Rob, was born in April ‘86. We started hunting together that fall. Bundled in a snowsuit, he’d ride along in a backpack, lulled to sleep by my stride.

January 13, 2010 midnight

Through rain, snow, sleet and shine

Summer Crosby

June 26, 2013 9:59 a.m.

After the Gold Rush

In 1931, fifty years after a gold rush brought over 10,000 fortune seekers to the Cedar Creek area of Superior, Gus and Fern Gildersleeve began building their mine on land near the original claims. What began as Depression-era subsistence mining has blossomed into one family's legacy of mining for four generations in Superior.

April 3, 2015 6:22 p.m.

Answer to taxpayers

By Rep. Nancy Ballance

March 25, 2008 midnight

Thanks for 'looming recession, highest ever gasoline prices

We have a lot to be thankful for. Here are just a few things I'm going to give thanks for starting with the June primary this year.

November 27, 2019 7:22 p.m.

Superior Student Spotlight: Trey Vaughn Green

Name: Trey Vaughn Green

January 30, 2013 9:20 a.m.

Keeping in touch with Rep. Pat Ingraham

Our Speaker of the House, Mark Blasdel, began this 63rd Legislative Session by saying he wanted to make the session more about work, and less about political games. In the early days of this session, we heard addresses from Senator Max Baucus and Senator Jon Tester that echoed that same call.