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Apgar Lookout: This early season jaunt a great way to get in shape, with views
The Apgar Mountain Lookout Trail is one of those trails to hike first thing in the season because it’s easy to get…
Unhealthy Snacks
In this week’s newspaper we feature author Bob Love’s book, “Pathfinder” a fine collection of poems, stories and essays that Love has been working on for the past 50 years.
A longer way for a danish
It’s a long way to Tipperary and a pretty long way to the Polebridge Mercantile up the North Fork in Glacier.
History book now available
Lois Walker has done it again!
Now is time to prepare for wildfire
I don’t need to report that the North Fork was filled with smoke last week.
Get off my lawn guy
Well, I’ve stooped to a new low.
Thoughts on the rescue
Everyone in the North Fork followed the story of the young man lost on the Huckleberry Lookout Trail.
Saving money with chickens!
Like a lot of people trying to save a few bucks, I too, have turned to chickens.
Teachers on the front lines
School shootings and the bloody murders of totally innocent children and their teacher caretakers is a societal tragedy that Americans have become numb to. Without the common sense outlawing of the assault weapons…
How to swallow a snake, whole
So a few weeks ago I was sitting in a blind at a private pond watching a great blue heron.
Spring arrives in earnest
Now it is finally spring on the North Fork!
The mail takes a strange route
Seventy degrees Fahrenheit one day and then 40ºF the next accompanied by freezing or near freezing nights.
Recalling Matt Brills
I was fortunate to meet and know many of the North Fork Homesteaders.
Can we fix it? Yes we can
You know, I’ve made a career out of social faux pas — saying the wrong thing at the wrong time has always been a skill I’ve cherished.
Thoughts on North Fork Road
I am writing this column on the official first day of Spring. As usual it is much more springlike in Columbia Falls than it is on the North Fork.
Private lands in Glacier should have zoning
Last week’s story on a home built on the banks of McDonald Creek by John and Stacy Ambler certainly struck a nerve on social media, reaching about 722,000 people as of Monday, according to Fakebook.