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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…
As summer wanes, fall hunting season beckons
I love summer. I love fishing with my boat. I don’t know what is more challenging — catching fish or trying to understand my electronic fish-finder.
COLUMN: A primer for Republicans on how to lose elections
COLUMN: Crash landing at mutton busting
Standing outside the wind-swept rodeo arena at the Flathead County Fairgrounds on Thursday night, a joke kept popping into my head.
It's a full moon: fear or fever?
Like many anglers, I am always working on that “edge,” where I am in a constant state of anticipation of the next “killer day” of fishing.
COLUMN: Auf Wiedersehen, Mr. Klassen
The older you get the more inevitable it becomes that people you know and love are plucked away by death.
COLUMN: Carrying a burning passion for news too far?
Usually when I “make the front page,” it means I am designing tomorrow’s paper and building the page for our Daily Inter Lake readers, but two weeks ago, I actually made the front page the hard way — I was in the n…
COLUMN: Help on the road is invaluable
Recent headlines in the Inter Lake show folks in Northwest Montana still know how to be Good Samaritans.
COLUMN: 'Mediagate,' the scandal you won't hear about on cable news
In the last two weeks, it has become obvious that a political scandal is unfolding which exceeds in scope anything seen previously in our country’s 240-year history.
COLUMN: Imitate a perch to get whitefish
It’s been almost 10 years since the last great year for limits of whitefish on Flathead Lake. There are some fish being caught out on Flathead, in fact in lots of places, just not the numbers we grew so used to dur…
TERRY COLUMN: Welcome back to our cyclical sports
Welcome back to our cyclical sports
COLUMN: Trip down memory lane takes a detour
My mother-in-law has been visiting for a few days, so the dinner-table conversation invariably has been dominated by reminiscing about my husband Tim’s childhood days.
COLUMN: Tower of Babel, a warning for the Information Age
COLUMN: Boating - and boats - keep getting bigger and better
Wow, summer fun in the Flathead! During the last few days, the weather has been perfect for enjoying the hundreds of lakes and streams of Northwest Montana.
COLUMN: Woody Weekend a major success
The Flathead Valley has been drawing some wild weather cards so far this summer but that didn’t put a damper on Whitefish Woody Weekend V.
COLUMN: Trump's vision of hope looks dark to media elites
The word of the day is “disconnect.”