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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, 10 months ago
COLUMN: Asleep for the last 60 years? Wake up – and brace yourself

I turned 60 last week, which got me thinking — not about myself and the many changes I have been through in six decades, but about the nation’s fundamental transformation in that same time span.

Updated 10 years, 10 months ago
Fishing and freedom go hand-in-hand

As I write this, our county is considering a ban on fireworks due to dry, fire-prone conditions.

Updated 10 years, 10 months ago
OPINION: John Roberts: Worst chief justice ever?

I’m giving the chief justice of the United States the benefit of the doubt by including a question mark in my headline. There have certainly been bad chief justices before, and bad decisions rendered by probably al…

Updated 10 years, 10 months ago
Kidney Classic features softball for a cause

The Kidney Classic Co-Rec Slow-Pitch Softball Tournament held earlier this month at the Conrad Complex in Kalispell raised $3,905 for the local Dialysis Clinic Inc. Patient Fund.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
TERRY COLUMN: Patience pays off

Patience has paid off for Joe Pistorese in his baseball career.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
Manitoba lake teems with big northern pike, walleyes

 Last week, JoAnn and I returned from three weeks of fishing and vacationing with family and friends in Minnesota and Canada.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
Buddy was a good dog

Two weeks ago my brother and sister-in-law posted a photo of Dad’s dog on Facebook, alerting the family that Buddy had passed away.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
A day to be proud - and to remember

Happy Father’s Day!

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
TERRY COULMN: Time with Dad, time well spent

The round started off good enough.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
The answers are blowin' in the wind…

In my last column, I talked about how the lack of normal runoff was impacting several of our fisheries.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
Marchers aim to foster child abuse awareness

Cheryl Hodges wrote recently to share her appreciation for the organizations and individuals who helped her organize the local Million March Against Child Abuse.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
Port insecurity: Is it going to be terminal this time?

One of the many times I deservedly poked a stick in the eye of President George W. Bush (yeah the Republican one) was when his administration tried to put the United Arab Emirates in charge of major shipping operat…

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
Fish tales and the rest of the story

I’ve returned from The Last Frontier with a new moniker: The Halibut Queen.

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
OPINION: Wake up and smell the chaos

Keeping track of the decline and fall of Western civilization is a thankless task, but someone’s got to do it. Fortunately, the Internet has made it relatively easy to monitor the speed and scope of the suicidal pl…

Updated 10 years, 11 months ago
Take advantage while the fishing is hot

Spring fishing is HOT!