Columns
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Northern Pike: Love or hate?
Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing.
Dealing with dementia: Don't be silent
I read with great interest a story a co-worker of mine, Carol Marino, wrote and was published in Thursday’s Daily Inter Lake.
Tourist for a day, or two
The past few weekends I’ve been going on day trips fit for a tourist.
COLUMN: Inspired hires, garden spots, sticker shock
After seeing the bill for Bruce Barnum’s beer garden extravaganza — $14,448, for 2,064 beers — I can only think: Why didn’t Jerry Glanville think of this?
Are wolf, bear regs really needed?
With the end of summer and the fall season here, all of us living in bear country must be aware of how bears, both black bears and grizzly bears, are on a relentless search for food or calories in order to survive …
Ironing out life’s wrinkles
I'll never get used to wrinkles, even as a fashion statement.
COLUMN: Milestones reached 24 hours apart
Two night games and 200 wins.
Memories of Sept. 11, 2001
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I was at work at my hometown newspaper, the Courier-Express in DuBois, Pennsylvania.
Fall is here and it's time to hunt
If you are a hunter like myself, most of us feel we are entering the best three months of the year.
Salsa Saturday
Last weekend I indulged myself by sleeping in as long as I felt like, following a week or more of hosting a houseful of company.
COLUMN: Highlighting a not very long ago era
It has been 20 years since the Montana Grizzlies won the Football Championship Subdivision title, and that’s a decent interval even if, at least for me, it has gone by in a blink.
How to cook a squirrel
During my 26-plus years at the Daily Inter Lake, I’ve gotten a lot of unusual calls from Flathead folks on a number of topics.
Elk management a hot debate
So, with great elk hunting, what are the issues that cause heated discussions? In just four words, availability of bull elk.
COLUMN: Crosstown foes start football anew
There’s a new coach on one side of town, the dean of AA football coaches on the other, and Alex Cummings and Grady Bennett have something in common: They’re going to be starting a passel of sophomores.
A sentimental final journey to Montana
As we made plans last spring for my mother’s funeral, we were lucky enough to find a florist in Cincinnati who was able to provide flowers as Covid-19 closed businesses and the availability and transport of myriad …
Swing your partner round and round…
Square dancing was a rite of passage in middle school.