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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 12 years, 2 months ago
Special coach transforms teen

Piles of snow plowed and shoveled alongside driveways and sidewalks and stuffed into center lanes on city streets may be a flickering memory for the Flathead, but our winter playground provided some lifetime memori…

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Three more weeks of basketball

The whirlwind high school basketball season came to a fantastic close this weekend. Just in time for another fantastic basketball postseason.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Bigfork boys healthy, rested for state play

The most accomplished team in Montana is entering the state basketball tournament healthy and rested.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Idiomatic expressions reflect our geography, 'Dontcha know'

My husband has a favorite saying for when he hasn’t accomplished much during the day: “I feel like a pea picker with a hole in his sack.”

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
A Constitution more or less for the trampling

Too bad we spend so much time yelling at each other about which political party is right and which party is wrong. Too bad we get so easily distracted by the slogans and the backslapping. Too bad that myopia is the…

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
March (fishing) Madness is now in full swing

March fishing in Montana means you need to be ready for anything.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Polson film festival a big hit

Not only does Polson’s Flathead Lake International Cinemafest have an ideal acronym, “FLIC, ” but it’s become an ideal new venue for national and international indie film producers to showcase their talents.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Split tourneys a chance to focus

For Cary Finberg and the Columbia Falls basketball teams, two trips to Great Falls are certainly better than one.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Snow creates flooding woes for ice anglers

Where is global warming when we need it?

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Right now, it's all about ice fishing

Welcome to Howe’s Fishing — both a column title and a question.

Updated 12 years, 2 months ago
Youth, 11, a volunteer whirlwind

Bailey Lake isn’t the typical 11-year-old. When she’s not going to school, dancing with her dance team or managing her own 4-H projects, this young volunteer keeps busy making the world around her a better place.

Updated 12 years, 3 months ago
Sauerkraut: 'An ambrosia of mankind'

James Perez sent me an email last week that started like this: “Sauerkraut deserves more attention.”

Updated 12 years, 3 months ago
How about 'shared responsibility' for freedom - period!

You have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi: She was dead-on accurate when she claimed Congress had to pass Obamacare before we would find out what was in it.

Updated 12 years, 3 months ago
Despite setback, the FCC's snout is under the tent

Chalk one up for the good guys — well, sort of.