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Columns

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Updated 4 months ago

A modern arsenal for ice fishing

The recent cold weather has been very welcome for those of us that like to ice fish.

Updated 2 days, 3 hours ago
Spring is gopher season

For the outdoors person, springtime is here and rapidly moving forward towards summer.

Updated 6 days, 3 hours ago
Hard work makes for good music

Last fall a visitor came to see the Northwest Montana History Museum’s new exhibit on logging and related industries, then offered to play us a soundtrack.

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
Troy softball: Driven to new heights

The coach drives the bus, the third baseman throws lefthanded and the first baseman has only been hanging around the diamond for three seasons.

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
A breakaway roper and her horse

When her horse, Monty, reared back in the breakaway roping box and pinned Anna Tretter to the back wall, the needle swung to “big mistake.”

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Noon shore lunches

Boy, I am hungry for a good meal of deep fat fried fish filets.

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Not so fast with the 'swan song'

Before I heard wildlife biologist Dale Becker’s talk, all I knew about trumpeter swans came from an East Coast writer who had never seen one.

Updated 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Things continue looking up for Phelps

Jack Phelps’ time through the 200 meters at the Iceberg Invitational on April 17 was 22.57 seconds, which tells you that the Columbia Falls sprinter can fly.

Updated 1 month ago
Montana values, transcribed

People want all the freedom they can get.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Hunting regs are getting more complex

Many hunters like fall as their favorite time of the year because of the hunting season.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
I am here not to bury Donovan

On Nov. 25, 1985 a youngish reporter, in his Monday duties writing about Griz football for the Montana Kaimin student newspaper, traipsed into Larry Donovan’s office.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Is there an O-lineman in the house

Dillon Botner felt he had a good reason to step away from football after a senior season in which he made three starts on the offensive line: Med school.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Nonprofits bank on doing good

In 2023, the state's nonprofits paid out more than $3.6 billion in wages, accounting for 12.6% of all wages paid statewide.

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Unnecessary boat tax

My old friend George Ostrom, one of Montana’s best-known newsmen, liked to say, “No man’s life or liberty is safe when the Montan Legislature is in session.” A proposed new tax on Montana boat owners seems to meet …

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Columan: 'Only Game in Town' turns 20

This coming Sunday at Bozeman’s Historic Ellen Theatre, at 1:30 p.m. in its upstairs ballroom, Wally Kurth and Montana PBS will present a viewing of Class C: The Only Game in Town.

Updated 2 months ago
Column: Vegas lights and press box fights

The passing of Norm Clarke, the eye patch-wearing Terry native who spent a lifetime in newspapers, has brought a flood of eulogies and remembrances from across the state and country.