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Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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…

Updated 10 years, 1 month ago
COLUMN: A good day to meditate on evil and righteousness

Today is Easter, a remembrance of the resurrection of Jesus, and a reminder of God’s boundless love for mankind, but it is also just four days after the brutal attack in Brussels that took place on March 23 — a rem…

Updated 10 years, 1 month ago
TERRY COLUMN: Weathering early spring practices

You’ve heard the old adage.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
COLUMN: Flathead Journal 2.0 coming Monday

Twenty-five years ago, I was the wire editor at the Daily Inter Lake, and watched the launch of a brand new publication called the Flathead Business Journal.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Relax, let's watch some basketball

Very little work will be done today.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
COLUMN: Shutting down free speech in college - and in politics

When I was trudging through my high school years, one thing that kept me going was the vision of “higher” education — the belief that once I got to college, I would be surrounded by intellectuals engaged in lively …

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Brock Osweiler heads to Texas - was it the right move?

Everything’s bigger in Texas.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
Youth extols value of Scouting

Jake Wilke is no tenderfoot when it comes to Scouting. He’s been involved with the Scouts program for almost six years now, first as a Cub Scout and now working on his second-class Boy Scout rank with Troop 1903 in…

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Pirates plan to pillage Class A crown

Polson is close.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
Ice fishing's over; time for open water

Well, the 2015-16 ice fishing season has seemingly come to an abrupt close, after not much of a start.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
COLUMN: Minus the memories, Mom is still Mom

Conversation with Mom has become more difficult in recent years as the agonizingly slow effects of Alzheimer’s disease continue to disassemble her memory one neuron at a time.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
COLUMN: Romney trumps Reid with tax attack betrayal

Hypocrisy, thy name is Mitt.

Updated 10 years, 2 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Falling down a Big Mountain

I’m not a skier.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
Quilters add comfort for teen shelter

Some local quilters are feathering the Sparrow’s Nest of Northwest Montana shelter being built in Kalispell.

Updated 10 years, 3 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Bracketing through the motions

No teams will be eliminated from this weekend’s District 7B tournament.