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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…
Spring baseball has arrived for Glacier, Flathead
It’s been a long time coming for baseball players in Kalispell.
Giving Together: Giving today, investing in tomorrow
On summer evenings in the Flathead Valley, the hills come alive with music as families and friends gather for Glacier Symphony Night at Rebecca Farm.
Full Count: Have to ask, Will it play in Meridian?
When we sit back to watch the Big Sky Conference absorb another lopsided loss at the NCAA Tournament — Idaho's men play Houston at 8:10 p.m. local time Thursday on that channel we watch once a year, TRUTV — we can …
'Megafires' spark fresh thinking
Surrounded by forest, we should get fired up about fire.
Full Count: Bulldog spirit exemplifies young squad
When we last checked in with Bob Bolam and the Whitefish girls basketball program, they were on the verge of breaking a state tournament drought in 2021.
Full Count: Masters class in making a big comeback
Maria Phelps discovered her talent in the 800 meters too late to excel at it in high school — she was already chucking the javelin, hurdling and jumping (trip…
Bob Weir tribute hit all the notes
A few weeks after Bob Weir died Jan. 10, I went to “A Grateful Gathering" at the Montana Tap House to pay my respects, alongside many others.
Full Count: None of this should seem at all radical
Bobby Kennedy, the freshly-minted head football coach of the Montana Grizzlies, had some highlight moments during a Thursday press conference ahead of the star…
Giving Together: Strong nonprofits make strong communities
On a recent afternoon in Lakeside, volunteers at West Shore Food Bank moved briskly between shelves lined with canned vegetables, pasta and hygiene products.
We heard the call of the wild
No one understands this better than wildlife biologist Diane Boyd, who came to Montana from Minnesota in 1979 and started with one collared wolf in the North Fork. After decades in the field and watching the gray w…
Full Count: Zip-lining to near glory off African coast
One of the coolest things about “Trainer Games” for Dan Holguin, the Kalispell resident who competed in the reality show competition, was what he was able to do after it wrapped last May.
Column: Fastest retirement I ever saw
Let me see if I have this right.
Dance the winter blues away
It took a lot of cajoling of my lazy self to travel up U.S. 93 on a gray weekend morning in mid-December, but I finally made it to Afrofusion. I may never miss it again.
Full Count: O'Connell the Pioneer finds way home
Mike O’Connell’s first steps toward becoming coach of the Kalispell Lakers American Legion baseball team began in a roundabout way: He was asked for candidates.
Giving Together: Caring for seniors
A senior citizen found himself staring out the window of his Flathead Valley mobile home, unable to step outside after a medical event left him in a wheelchair. What he needed most wasn’t medicine — it was a ramp