“My house looks like a little quilt factory,” says Sally Glutting. “People keep dropping stuff off.” For six years, Glutting has collected quilts for the Celebrate Women fundraiser for the local Violence Free Crisis Line and Abbie Shelter. Throughout July and August, the Celebrate Women 2008 quilt show revolves its displays on the walls of […]

Dogs like to party too. At the Lucky Dog Day Camp in south Kalispell, owners can treat their canines to a birthday party, complete with party favors, pupcakes, decorations and a birthday photo. But if what your dog needs isn’t a party, just a little companionship or a place to hang out while you’re at […]

8:29 a.m. Someone called in to report that their trailer home had been dented on July 7th. 8:33 p.m. A woman who fell asleep while reading a book thought she heard heavy breathing. 9:53 a.m. Someone with an acute sense of smell caught a waft of an electrical fire. 1:57 p.m. A sign at a […]

Following a half-decade squabble over a pond permit between the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and a Rollins cattle rancher, the DNRC faces a lawsuit from one of the state’s most prominent civil liberties attorneys for “harassment” and “malicious prosecution.” Ron Waterman, a Helena attorney who is running for Montana Chief Justice, filed […]

I’ve thought for several years that the inevitable rise in fuel prices would have some positive impacts on society and business – in addition to the obvious negative ones. Rather than typical (whatever that is) left or right wing thinking, it’s a realistic point of view. For example, rising fuel costs should… force us to […]

LIBBY – The Montana Highway Patrol says a Libby woman died in a highway crash. It happened at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The patrol says the 34-year-old woman was driving north on Secondary Highway 260 when the vehicle drifted to the right of the shoulder. She then overcorrected back onto the roadway and the vehicle […]

Good morning and happy birthday to Fred Savage, the star of Wonder Years. On the Beacon this morning, a Rollins rancher has filed a lawsuit against the DNRC for “malicious prosecution” and “harassment.” A local man rescued two injured men from burning wreckage after a plane crash south of Kalispell. Barack Obama criticizes talks between […]

During the 2004 presidential race, depictions emerged of Sen. John Kerry that proved detrimental to his campaign: “pre-9/11 mind-set;” “Massachusetts liberal;” “flip-flopper.” Whether fair, the latter may have been Pres. Bush’s most effective argument. I still remember a photo of a Bush supporter wearing a yellow flip-flop, with his head poking through a giant rubber […]

Well, this week I set ANOTHER record gassing up my weapons carrier. Dang, that hurts! Yet there are some who think paying five bucks or more a gallon is a good idea. I think they’re nuts. America is an energy economy. Remember the geezer in the post-Apocalypse epic Soylent Green, pedaling his generator to power […]

It may not be the World Series, but it’s one of the best local baseball tournaments. Over 130 baseball players descended yesterday on the Glacier Twins Stadium at Memorial Park in Whitefish for day one of the 24th Annual Sapa/Johnsrud Memorial Tournament. The five-day invitational tournament drew nine teams from Alberta, Oregon, Washington, California, Saskatchewan, […]

At a Fourth of July music festival in 1977, Steve Riddle says a witch cursed the Mission Mountain Wood Band. A frazzled woman slipped past security and made it to the stage where the band was playing. She was young but her eyes were haunting and she told the confused musicians that, from then on, […]

A 71-year-old man is in critical condition after crashing his Toyota Tundra Wednesday afternoon into the side of the Flathead Insurance office on U.S. Highway 2 in Evergreen. The driver, who has not been identified, was pulled over on the side of the highway and appeared to be “fiddling” with something in the vehicle, according […]

11:37 a.m. A woman called in to report that an inflatable tube valued at $100 was stolen from the bed of her truck. 3:55 p.m. Surveying stakes were reported stolen. 6:56 p.m. Someone called in to report kids playing behind a funeral home. 8:14 p.m. Deputies asked a transient hanging out behind an Evergreen business […]

HELENA – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak at a July 26 brunch in Missoula on behalf of the group Western Progress. Pelosi is a California Democrat and the first woman elected U.S. House speaker. Former Montana Congressman Pat Williams says Pelosi will be in Montana to attend a wedding and wanted to help […]