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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 10 years, 4 months ago
COLUMN: 'Flathead News' is the story of our remarkable citizens

Two important things are happening in my life today.

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
COLUMN: Lottery woes and Norwegian stamina

Thank goodness a trio of lucky players finally won the $1.5 billion Powerball drawing so we can all get on with our lives. I’m not a gambler, but I succumbed to the office pool for the now historic largest lottery …

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Chopping down the chants

It’s inescapable at any sporting event.

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
COLUMN: New approach may be needed for bucket biology

Bucket biology. That term strikes fear into the heart of local fish managers.

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
COLUMN: 'It has nothing to do with being a Muslim' and other liberal fallacies

On Thursday night, Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett was sitting in his patrol car when a man dressed in Muslim garb walked up to him and fired 13 shots through the driver’s side window.

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
COLUMN: Family gets suite treatment

There was room at the inn this Christmas for one young family at the Holiday Inn Express in Kalispell.

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
Three tips to proper sonar use

If there is one thing that most ice anglers will agree on, it is that a quality sonar unit will help you catch more fish. I am not talking about those anglers (and you know who you are) who insist they do not need …

Updated 10 years, 4 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Breaking out of the break

Two weeks is a long time to go without games.

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
COLUMN: Trump vs. the machine: Three hu-u-ge stories

Despite Time magazine missing the story (surprise!), Donald Trump was the man/person/celebrity/politician/comedian/revolutionary of the year for 2015.

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
COLUMN: 'Affluenza' a symptom of sick society

I’ve been following with great interest and even greater disgust the case of the Texas teenager whose defense for killing four people in a drunk-driving accident was “affluenza” — he was too rich to know right from…

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
COLUMN: Big hunting meeting coming up on Jan. 9

If you are a hunter, mark Jan. 9 on your 2016 calendar.

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: College football playoff has terrible timing

There’s a limit to my fandom.

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
COLUMN: Christmas pageantry, American tradition and a dose of common sense

"That touch of red on the clown’s nose makes it look just right, doesn’t it, dear?”

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
COLUMN: 2015 was a thankful year to remember

I doubt many would disagree that on a global scale 2015 had more than its fair share of bad news.

Updated 10 years, 5 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Glacier's elite running out of room

The Glacier High School Wall of Fame has a growing problem.