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Giving Together: Turning Tax Season into Opportunities for Students
On a spring morning in Kalispell, a group of elementary students huddle around a table, testing a small robot they…
Thousands of teammates, pupils and Ws
Gary Evans, the unheralded (and unpaid) pitching coach for the Glacier Wolfpack, figures he’s played alongside a thousand different fastpitch players.
Curiosity brings lives to light
The Great Falls native took off to teach in Shanghai motivated by the notion that “the world isn’t as scary as the nightly news makes it out to be.”
Pass the WD-40
It’s springtime in the Flathead! For the outdoor minded resident, we have a host of options for outdoor fun.
At curtain, I’ll fake Manhattan
Flathead Valley opera fans have it pretty good.
Lions 9 has roared into first season
There are some understandable and ongoing concerns from American Legion coaches about the addition of baseball as a Montana High School Association-sanctioned sport this spring.
86th mission lasted 1,881 days
Tom was my grandmother’s favorite relative judging by the clippings she displayed wherever she lived.
2023 elk hunting regs in Montana
Montana is usually ranked as one of America’s best elk hunting states. Deer, antelope, mountain sheep, game birds and numerous other wildlife species are the annual targets of over 100,000 Montana hunters.
Slayer plays the mall
The first time I ventured to the community chess club in the Kalispell Center Mall, the adults outnumbered the kids and just a game or two was under way.
Flathead alum Osweiler seeks happy campers
Second-year Flathead football coach Caleb Aland figured it couldn’t hurt to reach out to Brock Osweiler, the former Braves quarterback who ventured onto an NFL…
Wolf management
Our legislators are busy at work trying to save Montana taxpayers some money.
Rounding up trophy runs of Wolfpack, Bravettes
Recency bias is a thing, so I have a couple things of note after watching the recent State AA basketball tournaments last weekend at the Butte Civic Center.
Kalispell, are you ready to walk?
Use it or lose it, right?
Hard Knocks, Golden Gloves under (sky) lights
Before he racked up a 9-4 record as a professional fighter, Jesse Uhde honed his skills at a place called Kalispell Boxing.
Tourism gives us the FITs
This time of year finds us hunkered down, but the travel pros are revving up, hoping to capture the FITs of the future.
7 years later, the Wildcats break through
The Columbia Falls Wildcats’ boys basketball team is 14-3, and if you think they’ve fattened up on Class B competition, we have some context.