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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…
My decade of dance aerobics
One of the instructors at my gym recently resurrected her old dance aerobics class — 2000s-era music and moves — for a Saturday morning class. I decided it would be fun to go, having been “into” dance aerobics for …
My decade of dance aerobics
One of the instructors at my gym recently resurrected her old dance aerobics class — 2000s-era music and moves — for a Saturday morning class. I decided it would be fun to go, having been “into” dance aerobics for …
Ice fishing tourneys
Well, as we move into February, the ice fishing season seems to be holding on, if only barely. Still many lakes, especially the larger ones that are either still not frozen or if they are it is marginal ice. Many o…
Tired of winter? Go jump in a lake
I’m here to state the obvious: winter makes people crazy.
Tired of winter? Go jump in a lake
I’m here to state the obvious: winter makes people crazy.
The metrics of shoveling snow
Due to circumstances beyond my control (weather and a clogged fuel line in the snowblower), I’ve been required to shovel every inch of this winter’s snowfall, one shovel at a time.
What's in a (cow's) name?
It’s funny how memories are jogged. Sometimes all it takes is certain smell, photograph or conversation for some past part of your life to bubble back up to the surface.
Time for 'tip ups'
For today’s column, I will assume that many readers may have a very basic knowledge, or need a refresher on the many different types of “tip ups” there are. For starters, a basic tip up consists of a frame of some …
Always the next big thing
I got an unexpected introduction to yet another new technology recently.
Pulling the trigger doesn't always make a great hunt
Last November was a transitional point in my adult life.
2020 trends include bionic kitties, 'flexitarianism'
Now that we’ve all survived the holidays and have plunged into a new year and decade — the “Roaring ’20s” — I feel compelled to share some information I’ve uncovered about what we can expect in the way of trends in…
Hunting season not the end of fishing
Happy Hunting!
When scents make sense
Many anglers in many parts of the angling world would never dream of leaving the dock, stepping onto the river bank or even taking the kids to the trout pond without some kind of scent or attractant to help seal th…
Turnover times...
When we hear the word turnover, especially in the fall, it usually means someone coughed up the ball.
Take care when headed out on ice
The early arrival of frigid, winter weather signals an early ice fishing season across most of the West and Midwest, a condition that has hardcore ice anglers very excited.