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.
It takes an army - of volunteers
Every day in every season, volunteers troop through the Flathead helping nonprofit organizations continue their missions of serving the needs of this community. Here are just a few on the frontlines:
An education in how things went so wrong
A defense of the regular season
It’s tournament time again in Montana.
What's a quinzee? Now I know
Ole Netteberg, an effervescent fellow Scandinavian from Minnesota, sat down beside me at a Whitefish Planning Board meeting not long ago and asked if I’d ever heard of a quinzee.
As we go over the cliff, just who is in the driver's seat?
A final crosstown for ever-dueling best friends
Caden Harkins remembers well the first time he matched up against Eric Seaman. He recalls even more clearly how he felt about his opponent afterward.
Plowed path is put to good use
It’s said that if you want to survive and thrive in the Northwest winters, you need to find an outdoor activity you enjoy … and then get outdoors.
Our society's tragic sickness can't be fixed with Band-Aid
It is natural in the wake of any tragedy to ask questions, to seek answers, to place blame, and particularly to ask how a similar tragedy can be avoided in the future.
Flathead's Thompson has built - and maintained - a dynasty
There’s only one thing in sports harder to obtain than success — consistent success.
Pressure's on to use Instant Pot
Let me preface this confession by saying my husband is a very thoughtful gift giver. Sure, his gifts tend toward kitchen gadgetry, and their might be a slight ulterior motive in his selections since he likes to dab…
FEMA FLIP: Maybe Whitefish Energy wasn't so bad after all!
Whitefish Energy probably won’t say so, but the power contractor won vindication of sorts last week when it got a shout-out from a FEMA official for its work restoring power in Puerto Rico.
Flathead's Vasquez a picture of persistence
If you’d asked Flathead senior Trae Vasquez two years ago where he’d be today, his answer would’ve been on top of the world — or at least the state.
Good Stuff is 'right stuff' for many maladies
Michael and Maranda Johnson, co-founders of The Good Stuff Botanicals in Creston, are out to heal the whole community … one baby bottom at a time.
Why would a journalism school be afraid of free speech?
If there are two institutions that should support free speech without reservation, they would be journalism and higher education.
Time to separate contenders from pretenders
There comes a time in every season when teams are exposed.