Hungry Horse News garners writing, photo awards

by Hungry Horse News
| June 21, 2017 7:50 AM

The Hungry Horse News won two photo awards and editor Chris Peterson won the Mark Henckel Outdoor writing award in the annual Montana Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper contest.

Peterson’s photo of a chipmunk poking its head out of sign in Glacier National Park won for best feature photo and a picture of a family of mule deer in Glacier National Park won best news photo in the Division II category. He won the Henckel award for a piece on a 100-mile hike through Glacier Park.

Peterson also won for best sports feature story for a piece on the 1970 football team and best sports page layout. Designer Jessica Harmon won for best merchandise ad and Shawn Winthrow won for best sponsor page ad.