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I wasn’t sure what to expect at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Saturday at the Rex Theater, but I certainly wasn’t expecting to leave so inspired. The stories told in the 10 short films were ...
The Hot Springs, Plains and Thompson Falls track teams hit the road taking on the Bigfork invitational, with 13 total schools there was no shortage of competition. The Plans men varsity team took ...
The Plains Trotters hosted their games last week, starting on Friday with Mission-Arlee-Charlo (MAC) with the Trotters falling 15-4. They then hosted the Florence-Carlton Falcons on Saturday for a ...
Montana Republicans have made a few mistakes of late; what in baseball would be called “unforced errors,” meaning they were all avoidable. Last week the Montana Senate censured former Senate President ...
Robins and bluebirds have found their way back to our area, and the first green plants are working their way toward sunlight - It's spring! Many invasive plants take advantage of early spring ...
Dixon Public School has a unique way to get next year's kindergartners comfortable with the start of their school career. The grade school has a different system to conduct its annual Kindergarten ...
We are knee deep in the legislative grind now. By the time this lands in your paper, we will be in the home stretch. Appropriation bills, revenue measures and referenda will have either crossed to the ...
Plains teachers got a little help from the U.S. Army last week when two soldiers served as guest lecturers for science and history classes. Montana Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Steve Weber and ...
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), along with partner Hamilton Construction Company, will begin bridge preservation work next week on a Highway 200 bridge southeast of Noxon. The bridge ...
The Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen baseball team hit the road on Saturday to take on the Lincoln County Lions, falling 12-0. “We are a young team this year, even with our seniors. It's been years ...
The Wild Horse Plains Back Country Horsemen held an introduction class to stock packing for mules and horses at the Sheehan Ranch in Plains on Saturday. Five men and five women, including five from ...
A trio of bull elk stand in a field with Flat Iron Ridge in the background. Dixie Duncan captured the photo in the field of her parents, Dick and Tricia Vinson, on April Fool's Day.