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A 70-mile parade of heroes supporting Special Olympics
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Some are heroes for what they have done to overcome difficulty. Others for being willing to take on difficulty to help or support someone else. All were on display at the Sanders County 2019 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, helping to raise funds, awareness and excitement for the county’s qualifying athletes to compete next week in the Special Olympics State Games in Great Falls.
Honey bees display intrigues Plains kindergarten students
“When I say BZZZZZZ, it makes my tongue tickle!”
Cabinet District collaborative projects moving forward
The Cabinet District of the Kootenai National Forest has produced a string of successful forest projects over recent years, according to leaders of the Cabinet Forest Collaborative (CFC), a local citizens group.
Sanders County girls excel in T-Falls
The Sanders County girls teams, like their boys teams, showcased their ability to the rest of the competition at the Montana High School Association Class B-C track meet Tuesday afternoon at the Thompson Falls Invite.
MCT's 'Gulliver's Travels' seemed different somehow
Nearly 50 Plains students performed in and helped produce Missoula Children’s Theater’s (MCT) wild, space-travel odyssey version of “Gulliver’s Travels” last Saturday.
Rep. Gianforte visits St. Regis and promotes telecommuting
In a reserved corner at Jasper’s Restaurant in St. Regis, U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., met with Mineral County officials to discuss current Montana proposals on Tuesday, April 16.
O Sole Trio gets rave reviews at Paradise Center
We all know the way to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice. But how do you get from Carnegie Hall to Paradise? Through the Sanders County Arts Council.
Plains softball, baseball, T-ball, soccer ready to roll
Wildhorse Sports Association is excited to be gearing up for the Spring 2019 sports season. This spring will see U8, U10, U12 and U14 softball girls take the fields. Cuteness in oversized T-shirts will be showcased with two T-Ball teams of boys and girls, as well as a Minors team, Majors team and a Babe Ruth team of young boys from Plains and the surrounding area. Soccer also showed growth this year and has a co-ed U10 soccer team, a girls’ U11 and boys’ U11 soccer teams as well as a boys’ U14 team, girls’ U15 team, and a co-ed U18 team.
Project ASCENT get kids 'in touch with nature'
Project ASCENT is ascending — like a rocket. The non-profit to help kids learn to enjoy the outdoors seems to have found a sweet spot in the hearts and minds of Sanders County and is surging into action.
BackPack Program seeks donations
According to the Montana Food Bank Network, nearly 1 in 6 children in Montana live in a food-insecure household. That means 42,480 children in Montana may not know where their next meal is going to come from.
Mineral Community Hospital receives new portable X-ray machine
Patients at Mineral Community Hospital will soon benefit from studies using the latest in X-ray technology made possible through a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Rural Healthcare Program.
A reporter's farewell: 'My Swan Song'
This issue of the Mineral Independent will be my “Swan Song.” After this, I will be heading into a new adventure where I will be moving to Conrad with my significant other, Gus Chambers. For those unfamiliar with the small town, it is located one hour north of Great Falls. There we have a nice farm house with 20 acres in the middle of an alfalfa field!
T-Falls starting out fresh on boys' team; girls have more vets T-Falls boys' track rebuilding, Lady Hawks shows balance
Thompson Falls has a handful of returning state meet qualifiers heading into the eventual opening of the 2019 track and field season.
Flatiron Quilting Guild celebrating 30 years at show
For three decades, the gifted hands of the Flatiron Quilting Guild have pieced and stitched love for their fellow community members into quilts that have greeted babies, warmed families, and comforted cancer patients. The upcoming Flatiron Quilting Guild Quilt Show, Saturday, April 13, is a real credit to the persistent community contributions and artistic skill of the Guild members.
Plains High School senior Paulsen wins Duck Stamp competition
Malachi Paulsen certainly has an “eye for art.” When he picks up a graphite, color or charcoal pencil, it seems like magical things happen.
Legislative Report
We still have a few house bills that will be worked across to the Senate soon. The committee meetings have been going late to take care of business. There will still be a few bills dropped in the house hopper before the deadline.
Expect traffic delays I-90 rehab project in Mineral County begins April 1
The Montana Department of Transportation is rehabilitating I-90 between St. Regis and Superior. The project begins 1 1/2 miles east of St. Regis and ends approximately five miles west of Superior near the Dry Creek Road Interchange (Exit 43).
Skatepark and more planned for Alberton
Ever since 2016, members of the PEAK Foundation in Alberton have dreamt of renovating the town park. Now, their dream will come true with an official ground breaking in early June. Armed with a $10,000 grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation, the money can be added to the pot to fund the project. Once they reach $150,000, Montana State Parks will match that amount dollar-for-dollar to complete the $300,000 renovation.
Trout Creek teacher is featured at Blackfoot meeting
With a “passion for technology and for thinking outside here and now into the future,” as Daisy Carlsmith of Trout Creek puts it, she and a team of collaborating educators in western Montana have developed a highly successful non-profit to facilitate professional development on a host of topics for educators.
Thompson Falls Council votes 3-2 to create two new sewer districts
Plains and Paradise are not the only Sanders County towns with sewer and water treatment plant woes. Thompson Falls is going through its own throes.