Opinion
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Opinion: Christman recalls flood
The Great Flood of 1964 had a profound effect upon my life. In fact, in my stories of “Tales of a Misspent Youth,…
Griz gas and porkypines
A classic George Ostrom column, from June, 1989...
Sympathy
A classic George Ostrom column, from May, 1989...
Summer of parties in the North Fork
Normally, when I turn in a column, I tend to forget about it and seldom read it again – even when it appears in the paper. If I ever to go back to it, it is likely to be at least months, and sometimes years later. …
Thoughts about school bond
For those of you that are new to this area in the last 5-8 years, we have a nice school in Hungry Horse that we moved students from and into Columbia Falls due to low numbers in the Columbia Falls schools. Now we a…
Dundas fundraiser a big success
Sometimes bad things happen to good people, real bad things to real good people. This summer we learned that our friend, Mark Dundas, was going to face a battle with leukemia. We were all as shocked as he was, sinc…
Opposes subdivision
On Sept. 10, 2019 the Columbia Falls City-County Planning Board approved a request for a Planned Unit Development and Major Subdivision, known as The Benches. This subdivision would create 48 single family resident…
Open spaces disappearing
Today I went for a walk. I walked on my sister’s property along the west fence line of the proposed Benches subdivision east of Columbia Falls. I followed a game trail through the thick cattails growing higher than…
Weathering storms
A classic George Ostrom column, from February, 1989...
Thoughts on Inside Road
Until this summer, I could not imagine missing an entire summer on the North Fork. Then it happened. I missed my first Interlocal, even though when I heard about it, there were no surprises.
No headline
With regards to the recent school bond ballots you have received, I would like to make a pitch for voting “yes,” in favor of this bond. Like many of you, I had really hoped we could upgrade the Ruder and Glacier Ga…
Get out the vote
Many constituents didn’t know what to think about the all mail ballot for the School District 6 bond issue in Columbia Falls. It is the first mail-in ballot in our school district, though several districts across t…
Airstream Blues
You see some interesting things waiting in line at the entrance to Glacier National Park. A couple of years ago I saw a bus with a brake problem that was spewing black smoke and looked like it might catch completel…
Legion says thanks
We want to thank the generous support from the Flathead. Kind people at the Heritage Days 19th annual Car Show showed their support at the BBQ by donating much-needed to the groups we support. We were able to furni…
Please return the bin
Several years ago, the residents of Glacier Hills, a community within Martin City, realized that actions needed to be implemented to make the entrance to Glacier Hills safer.
Now is the time to build
For a decade or more our Montana legislature has grappled with the increasing need to renovate both Romney Hall on the MSU campus in Bozeman and the Montana Historical Society museum facility in Helena.