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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…
The bullets kept dodging me
The third time's the charm.
Peddle. Paddle. Repeat.
Each day was as perfect as the last and they called to me like sirens.
For Pete’s sake, build a bridge
When I started working at the Northwest Montana History Museum I began to hear the name Pete Skibsrud. At first he merely sounded like a man about town.
Opening day his finally here
Opening day. Those words have an almost sacred meaning if you are one of the 100,000 or more Montana resident hunters and thousands of non-resident hunters that will be welcoming the opening of the general rifle se…
Season of the stink bug
Around this time of year, every year, stink bugs seemingly come out of the woodwork and begin appearing in every room in the house, on the house, and floating aimlessly in the atmosphere.
Lessons come over water, wood
"You look like you need to go to the hot pool," the woman said as she bobbed toward me. She beamed a smile, her face edged in white curls.
Celebrity concierge for a day
A close friend and fellow rowing club member of my oldest brother’s came out from Cincinnati to visit a couple of weeks ago, the first time he’d been to the Flathead Valley.
The sky is never the limit
It set the astronomy world on fire.
‘Those summer days’
These summer days have been abundant with the places, smells and tastes that come to mind whenever I think of summer.
Life extends past remote control
My dad taught me how to change the oil in a car when I was a teenager. A lifelong gearhead, he finally admitted after we groveled around on our backs in the driveway, that I “ought to just start going to one of the…
Montana elk management
The best part of Northwest Montana’s archery hunting season for elk will come in two weeks when bull elk will lose much of their normal caution and instinct for survival during the peak of the annual rut.
Timeless tales and other worlds
I was one of the 10 million, even though I never started watching the original series, but probably will sometime in the future.
Building up beats tearing down
My brother and I were pressed into the project: schlepping buckets of plaster chunks, clearing out crawl spaces and Brasso-ing doorknobs.
Early fall hunting, fishing awaits
For the outdoor person or family, the coming weeks will offer many more outdoor recreation opportunities as the summer season winds down and we move into early fall hunting.
The little, level trail that keeps on … climbing
I got more than I bargained for a couple of weeks ago when a good friend and I made plans for a Saturday morning hike.