Superior News

SUPERIOR, Mont. - An Amtrak report that the Hiawatha passenger rail route would cost $1 billion and lose $30 million each year "wasn't what I was hoping to hear," Sen.

Stang, a Democrat, served as a Mineral County commissioner for 18 years, from 1991 through 2008.

The Alberton Food Bank will be open from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. every second and fourth Wednesday.

Montana town listed as federal Superfund site Superior and Mineral County officials petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to make the Montana community a Superfund site after a 2002 quick response team from the EPA found widespread contamination of high levels of lead, arsenic and other toxins left over from decades of operations of the ...

Also, EPA is proposing to add 10 other sites to the list. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country.

Two state representatives received an award Wednesday for their work in supporting public health care.

Congressman Denny Rehberg will be back on the road next week ready to hear more ideas from Montanans on the contentious health care issue.

The owner of a Superior pawn shop says someone burglarized their store late Monday night and took several expensive items.

The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroups hosts its first annual community potluck and party Sunday Aug.

The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroups hosts its first annual community potluck and party Sunday Aug.

U.S. EPA ANNOUNCES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANT AVAILABILITY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Region 8 has received a Letter of Intent from the Mineral County Chamber of Commerce to apply for a Technical Assistance Grant for the proposed Flat Creek/IMM Superfund site.

Gordon Hendrick told the Chronicle Tuesday that he will not run for re-election in 2010.

The Bald Hill Fire is now 100 percent contained. Firefighters with the Lolo National Forest spent Friday night battling the lightning-caused fire between Superior and St.

Firefighters were busy Friday night, battling a new lightning caused fire between Superior and St.

I am not a member, only a supporter of MCPAC. When the people first gathered to discuss and create this group .... Mineral County Performing Arts Council....I doubt very much if they had any idea of the highly acclaimed and superb quality performers that would grace the stage to share their talents with the people of Mineral County.

Rep. Denny Rehberg announced his congressional field representative, Larry Anderson, will be conducting traveling office hours in Superior, Thursday, July 23, at 10:00 a.m., at the Mineral County Extension Office, 301 2nd Street.

LOOKING for a friend that moved from Superior Montana about 10 years ago - living with her daughter posibly.

LOOKING for a friend that moved from Superior Montana about 10 years ago - living with her daughter posibly.

A downloadable print-quality version of the statewide ads and Community Briefs is available at http://www.clarkforkchronicle.com/dow...onicle.pdf . Alberton American Legion Post 131 meets at 7:30 p.m. every first Thursday of the month at the Alberton Senior Center.

A man will serve nine to 12 years in prison for aggravated vehicular homicide in a motorcycle crash that killed woman in Cheyenne last September.