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Company faces fine after muddy water spill into creek
Schellinger Construction has been issued a $15,000 fine for accidentally sending muddy water into Garnier Creek on…
Wednesday conversations: Ivan O'Neil
When Ivan O’Neil was in his mid-teens he lied about his age to work for the Forest Service. He was 15 years old in 1944, but there was a war on and so they hir…
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Leota “Dutch” Porteus
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Virginia Lois Mohr
Winter lecture series begins Thursday at Conrad
The Glacier Institute presents their three-part 2017 winter lecture series at the Conrad Mansion in Kalispell this Thursday. Doors open at 6 p.m. for coffee an…
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A film on climate change is screening at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish on Monday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. “Before the Flood”, presented by National Geographi…
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The following football players were named academic all-state for the first quarter: Dakota Bridwell, Trevor Hoerner, Austin Green, Ben Windauer, Parker Greene, Michael Hoerner, Logan Bechtel, Trey Gates, Drew Morga…
Swimmers do well at Cat-Dog meet
The Columbia Falls boys took second and the girls took fourth at the Cat-Dog Swim meet in Whitefish Saturday at the Wave.
Cats get second win of the year as they drop rival Bulldogs
It’s always nice to get a win. It’s even better against the Bulldogs.
Grapplers drop Polson
Columbia Falls wrestlers beat Polson in a dual last Thursday, but had a tougher time at the Jug Beck Rocky Mountain Classic in Missoula Friday and Saturday.
Cats speech, debate, on a roll heading into divisional tourney
With five speakers taking first place finishes and a host more placing in the top echelon at Ronan last weekend, the Columbia Falls speech and debate team is rounding into form as it hosts the Western A Divisional …
Wildkats pound Bulldogs, now 9-0
The Columbia Falls girls basketball team hammered Whitefish on the road last week, 66-22. The Wildkats were led by Peyton Kehr with 17, followed by Cydney Finb…
Leading Interior is a great honor and responsibility
As a son of a plumber and a kid who grew up in a small timber and railroad town next to Glacier National Park in Montana, I am humbled to be the President-elect’s designee for Secretary of the Interior. I am also h…
About a friend
I have never questioned it, I just took it for granted as a natural part of my life. Do not know exactly why or how it happened, but 75 years ago when I came down from the Hog Heaven Hills to attend Flathead High I…
Fishing through the decades
When I was a boy there were two kinds of fishermen on the North Fork. Fly fishermen were probably mostly interested in cutthroat trout that were primarily caug…
Beautiful cold and bacon grease
For the past week or so the weather forecast has said something like this: Bitterly cold, lows 8 to 20 below zero.