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Explore Daily Inter Lake Columns featuring local sports commentary, outdoor adventure stories, lifestyle tips, and community perspectives from Northwest Montana.

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Giving Together: Supporting those who care for others

For many caregivers in the Flathead Valley, caring for a loved one with dementia can become an around-the-clock ro…

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
COLUMN: It's a dog's life for Minnesota mayor

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
COLUMN: Who's scarier? Republicans or refugees?

A family of six Congolese refugees arrived in Missoula last week to begin their new life far from the Tanzanian refugee camp where they had lived for many years.

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
COLUMN: Glacier looks to continue unprecedented success

Even as the world continually changes, some things remain the same.

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
As summer wanes, fall hunting season beckons

I love summer. I love fishing with my boat. I don’t know what is more challenging — catching fish or trying to understand my electronic fish-finder.

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
COLUMN: Crash landing at mutton busting

Standing outside the wind-swept rodeo arena at the Flathead County Fairgrounds on Thursday night, a joke kept popping into my head.

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
It's a full moon: fear or fever?

Like many anglers, I am always working on that “edge,” where I am in a constant state of anticipation of the next “killer day” of fishing.

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
COLUMN: Auf Wiedersehen, Mr. Klassen

The older you get the more inevitable it becomes that people you know and love are plucked away by death.

Updated 9 years, 9 months ago
COLUMN: Carrying a burning passion for news too far?

Usually when I “make the front page,” it means I am designing tomorrow’s paper and building the page for our Daily Inter Lake readers, but two weeks ago, I actually made the front page the hard way — I was in the n…

Updated 9 years, 10 months ago
COLUMN: Help on the road is invaluable

Recent headlines in the Inter Lake show folks in Northwest Montana still know how to be Good Samaritans.

Updated 9 years, 10 months ago
COLUMN: 'Mediagate,' the scandal you won't hear about on cable news

In the last two weeks, it has become obvious that a political scandal is unfolding which exceeds in scope anything seen previously in our country’s 240-year history.

Updated 9 years, 10 months ago
COLUMN: Imitate a perch to get whitefish

It’s been almost 10 years since the last great year for limits of whitefish on Flathead Lake. There are some fish being caught out on Flathead, in fact in lots of places, just not the numbers we grew so used to dur…

Updated 9 years, 10 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Welcome back to our cyclical sports

Welcome back to our cyclical sports

Updated 9 years, 10 months ago
COLUMN: Trip down memory lane takes a detour

My mother-in-law has been visiting for a few days, so the dinner-table conversation invariably has been dominated by reminiscing about my husband Tim’s childhood days.