Columns
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Fish management failures
Last week I drove to my cabin in the Thompson Chain of Lakes, planning to do some spring cabin chores and squeeze …
A belated pro debut for Guzman
In 2009 the Daily Inter Lake ran an article on a local boxing gym that featured, among others, an 11-year-old fighter named Dillan Guzman.
Picking a QB — it’s so 2003
That the Montana Grizzlies haven’t decided on a quarterback might seem news to some, as the squad prepares to open their season against Butler at noon Saturday.
Plots’ points send a message
My family often braked for graveyards in our decades of Montana adventures, and I fondly recall the first cross-country meet of the season in high school, which took place in an Anaconda cemetery.
Everyone's got a story to share
Emcee Barbara Schiffman stepped to the fore in the Arts & Technology Building at Flathead Valley Community College one evening last spring to announce the setup for that night’s “story concert.”
A title long coming; a little boost at end
You wonder how history might differ if Cary Finberg had been a teacher, which of course was the original plan.
Awaiting the return of Griz DOLA
The acronym used in the 2000s, when the Montana Grizzlies were blowing open lanes for the likes of Lex Hilliard and Chase Reynolds, was DOLA.
Turn and face the change
We can’t change the certainty of change. That’s the source of our frustration with it. It highlights our lack of control and the folly of foresight as it neatly sidesteps expectation.
In first summer, Stumptown sets fast pace
It was during the State A track and field championships, Memorial Day weekend, that Josiah Osborne said the quiet part out loud.
Getting in the game with trail cameras
I recently received a new issue of a bow hunting magazine. It included their annual review of new bow hunting gear. There were over 60 pages of new bow hunting…
We can see clearly now
For more than 50 years, travelers along U.S. 2 might have spied a bison in a plexiglass “tank” mounted atop a pole on the north side of the road where Kalispell gives way to Evergreen.
A dog-legged route to Saints’ Hall of Fame
Jim Mee’s original plan was to play on the hardcourt alongside Andy Garland, and it’s fitting that both the Libby Logger, Mee, and Sentinel Spartan are headed into Carroll College’s Hall of Fame in September.
Right to bear arms
Here we are in the middle of the Fourth of July week.
We craft the future to come
Any one of these things would make a community proud, and Kalispell got three new landmarks in six months.
A fishing lure junkie
As you read this column about fishing, my wife, son and friend from Kalispell will be on our way to Northern Manitoba for some world class fishing.
Rex, Pete and that elusive playing time
My iPhone, like many out there, is stock full of podcasts, and as I scrolled through the other day I found one I hadn’t finished.