🌱 Why a Trout Creek senator’s lottery appointment is now under legal scrutiny

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• Why a Trout Creek senator’s lottery appointment is now under legal scrutiny

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Cooler with occasional rain, with a high of 53 and low of 36 degrees.
• Thursday: Cloudy with a few showers, temps: high: 47, low: 28.
• Friday: An afternoon shower in spots, with a high of 48 and low of 26 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Judge rules state Commerce director appointment unlawful (ktvq.com) — A Trout Creek–area state senator’s 2024 appointment to lead the Montana Lottery is among several past moves now under scrutiny after a Helena judge ruled the governor’s latest Commerce director pick unconstitutional. The decision, which is being appealed, could affect how future governors tap current lawmakers for powerful state posts and may indirectly shape how state agencies serving communities like Trout Creek are led.
   

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Wednesday April 22

• Canvas & Cookies Paint Night Fundraiser
  Noxon School Noxon, MT 59853
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Thursday April 23

• Golf - Gary Thompson Invite
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Thompson Falls, MT
  10:00 am

Friday April 24

• Arbor Day Observation
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Thompson Falls, MT 59873
• JH Track @ Plains
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Plains, MT
  10:00 am
• Softball vs MAC
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Thompson Falls, MT
  2:00 pm
• HS Baseball @ Mission
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls St. Ignatius, MT
  3:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Track @ Columbia Falls
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Whitefish, MT
  10:00 am

Monday April 27

• Softball @ Plains
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Plains, MT
  3:00 pm

Tuesday April 28

• Golf @ Eureka Indian Springs Invitational
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Eureka, MT
  11:00 am

Wednesday April 29

• JH Track @ Frenchtown
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Frenchtown, MT
• Golf @ Eureka Wilderness Club
  Thompson Falls Pub Schls Eureka, MT
  11:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Family Dollar posted a job opening for Customer Service Associate I in Thompson Falls. Apply here.
• Soliant Health posted a job opening for Occupational Therapist in Thompson Falls, MT in Thompson Falls. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Trout Creek here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Kalispell

• Mountain Time Moshing (flatheadbeacon.com)
• Legals for April, 21 2026 (dailyinterlake.com)
• Montana GOP asks court to strike down entirety of Gianforte-backed property tax law (nbcmontana.com)

Whitefish

• At Whitefish Animal Hospital, Homegrown Staff Build Lifelong Connections to the Community (flatheadbeacon.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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