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Tracksters tune up at Kim L Haines meet
That was, in basic terms, a clean-up, rest-up and tune-up weekend for area Class B-C track and field teams as post season playoffs get underway this week.One of the biggest meets of the year, the Kim L Haines (KLH) Invitational meet, highlighted the last track events of the regular season for this part of Montana, with teams from Drummond and Broadwater flexing their team potential.Broadwater’s girls won the KLH team title, while Drummond captured the men’s crown.Superior’s boys finished fourth in the KLH standings, scoring 41 points with their deep, multi-event lineup.Hot Springs’ boys finished ninth among 21 schools in...
Copperheads take one from Trotters
The unofficial score: Anaconda 1, Plains 0, Mother Nature, 1-1.And in the end, Ma Nature was the big “winner” Saturday as Anaconda’s Lady Copperheads came to town and scored a 19-4 win over Plains. A second scheduled game, against Deer Lodge, was rained out by the nature lady as heavy, off-and-on showers swept through the Plains area.Anaconda broke loose for six runs in the top of the first inning at Plains field. The Lady Copperheads pounded out five hits in the first inning in their opening turn at the plate.However, Plains came back in the bottom of the first with...
Crash reported on eastbound I-90 near Superior
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Department of Transportation reports a crash is blocking eastbound I-90 at milepost 34, near Superior. The extent of the blockage is unknown. The crash is located 0.75 mile west of Junction Montana 135-Saint Regis-Exit 33.
Plains’ Alexis Demming competes at 'Top 10'
It is billed annually as the “Top 10” track and field meet, a measuring stick event featuring the top 10 performers from throughout Western Montana in track and field events.And while the meet is typically dominated by Class AA and A schools, athletes from small Montana high schools have an opportunity to shine against the best in the state regardless of class.And for local standout track and field athletes like Plains’ Alexis Demming, there are no doubt some extra eyes on a handful of Class B and C standouts this year.Demming, the defending state girl’s discus champion from last year,...
Plains girls finish 3rd at ARM track meet
Host Whitefish swept the men’s and women’s team titles at last weekend’s ARM track meet, while the Plains women continued their impressive run in the women’s title chase.Whitefish won the boys team crown with 126 total points, easily outdistancing second place Bigfork, which amassed 98 points. The Whitefish women compiled 167.5 points, well ahead of runner-up Columbia Falls.The Plains women, meanwhile, led by another double weight event sweep by junior Alexis Demmng, placed third in the women’s team standings with 62 points, many of them via Demming’s first place showing in both the discus and shot put.Demming is the defending...
Legals for May, 1 2024
MINERAL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PUBLIC HEARING FOR A PETITION TO ABANDON A PORTION OF AN ALLEYWAY, LOCATED BETWEEN LOTS 1-7 OF BLOCK 5 AND LOTS 1-5 OF BLOCK 8, IN THE CROW’S NEST TOWNSITE, BOOK OF TOWNSITES NUMBER 7 HAUGAN, MT The hearing will be held on May 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM in the Commissioners Conference Room, located in the Courthouse Annex, 300 River Street, Superior. Richard D. and Kathleen J. Underwood, owners of Lots 1-7 of Block 5 and Lots 1-5 of Block 8 of the Crow’s Nest Townsite, Book of Townsites Number 7, DO HEREBY REQUEST...
Thompson Falls-Noxon co-op softball team wins four straight
Momentum with post season play on the horizon is always a good thing.That being said, the Thompson Falls-Noxon co-op softball team has a good thing going.Assuming they beat Whitefish on Monday afternoon, the red hot Lady Hawks will have reeled off five lopsided wins in a row, with four games left in the regular season.A four-game sweep this past week of Troy, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Anaconda and Deer Lodge, along with a likely road win over Whitefish, and the Lady Hawks will be rolling along with an 11-3 season record.They completed the week’s “quad-win” this past Saturday, dodging heavy rain...
Spotlight on the Arts: Serenity Barrus
“Spotlight on the Arts” by The Paradise Center honors and encourages students in the arts by highlighting their talent and acknowledging the support they receive through their schools and teachers.Students involved in music have many avenues to achieve their goals. “A road less traveled,” but taken by some students, is the pursuit of perfecting their voice. Serenity Barrus is one of those. A 19-year-old senior at Thomson Falls High School, she is not just a singer, she is an opera singer with a long-term desire to perform professionally. It is no surprise to learn that her favorite musical era is...
Tigers golfers win on home course
Apparently, St. Regis golfers like home cooking.The Tigers boys blistered the Trestle Creek Golf Course on the edge of town for a 345 team total over the 18-hole layout to clinch the team title by a wide margin over runner up Thompson Falls, 345-397.With senior Jack Connolly leading the way with a 79, the Tigers pulled away from T Falls on a cool, windy day that eventually gave way to bright Montana sunshine.Meanwhile, in the girls’ competition, Thompson Falls carded a team score of 464 to best three other schools with enough golfers to qualify for the team chase. Second...
PHOTO: Fire safety meeting
Dave Brink and Cindy Peterson held a class in the old DeBorgia School on creating defensible space around your home before the fire season begins. Included in the free class was information on trees (including fruit trees), shrubs and other perennials that thrive in the west end of Mineral County. Both Brink and Peterson are with the MSU Extension Office out of Montana State University with Peterson being a Forestry Specialist Associate.
PHOTOS: Superior T-ball sluggers
PHOTOS: Superior T-ball sluggers Sometimes doing the robot helps you make it to second base. Henry Crabb on the Blue Team for Superior's T-Ball throws in the some style Thursday night at Timberman Park. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan) Who's running to third, Gavin Steele is heading for home, and I don't know what the third baseman is digging in the dirt for. T-ball can be quite a riot! (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
St. Regis star John Pruitt signs with Rocky
One of the greatest challenges facing small town athletes who aspire to move on and continue their sports careers in college is that the small number of students at many B and C schools do not typically produce college-level competitors.Or so they think.And St. Regis High could easily claim to be the leaders of the pack in producing quality where quantity is lacking.The latest example is the signing this past week of St. Regis all-around athlete John Pruitt to a scholarship and a spot on their “developmental” team, aka JV.Widely regarded as one of the best players in the area,...
Mixed results for Superior tennis team
It was a mixed bag for the Superior tennis team this past week.Not so much in results as the Lady Bobcats kept dispatching the majority of players they faced in Philipsburg and Mission last week.But the makeup of the teams they played and mostly defeated consisted of girl and boy players from both of those schools.With not enough players available for a legitimate high school tennis match, Mission and Philipsburg recruited some male student players to fill in their depleted ranks.Mother Nature finally stepped in and halted the match with a Superior duo ahead in the last doubles match before...
St. Regis senior Connolly earns Gaylord Green Scholarship
Gaylord Green lived in Haugan and graduated from St. Regis High School in 1958. He received an appointment to the Air Force Academy where he graduated with a degree in engineering science, followed by a master’s in aeronautics/astronautics at Stanford. He had a successful career in the Air Force. Green had a major role in ending the Cold War and he is credited with inventing the Global Positioning System (GPS). “I received no money from that [creating the GPS] other than my Air Force salary as those were my Air Force assignments,” he humbly shared. “After my Air Force retirement, I made...
Baseball co-op Red Devils fall to Ronan, Frenchtown
It was an overcast, chilly day in the Northwest corner of Montana...perfect weather for baseball?Depends on your point of view.But with rain wreaking havoc on spring sports schedules in the first half of the 2024 season, getting a game or event in is a victory in its own right.Nonetheless, while the rain held off, the new kids on the block got in some innings and experience, two things the new varsity baseball players from the Noxon-Thompson Falls co-op team need more of.Tuesday the Red Devils traveled to Ronan for a make-up game that was canceled earlier this month and fell...
Softball Game Preview: Thompson Falls Plays at Home
Thompson Falls is 2-7 against Plains-Hot Springs since April of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawks will be playing in front of their home fans against the Plains-Hot Springs Horsemen at 3:00 p.m. Thompson Falls will be looking to keep their five-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
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