WHITEFISH – Accustomed to the warm climate of coastal Chile, Renzo Caimi is beginning to understand the fickle, if not freezing, nature of high school tennis in Montana. Caimi, a Chilean exchange student at Whitefish High School who was once ranked No. 3 nationally in junior tennis in his home country, has battled frigid temperatures […]

Friday afternoon, I caught the boys of (not quite) summer playing ball across from CFHS. Enjoy the photos – and for that matter, come out and enjoy a game.        

It’s a busy Saturday morning in Columbia Falls. In the Glacier Bank parking lot, the 2nd Annual Arbor Day celebration and festival is going on. Food, displays, booths, free seedlings and more are waiting for you. Stop in before mid-afternoon. All over town (and elsewhere) folks in Columbia Falls have a busy Saturday: The tennis […]

Live Music: Friday: Silver’s Platter at The Cottage; Rudy and Gena Mendez at Los Caporales; Ron Cobra Alliance at Great Northern; Christian Johnson & Friends at Ricciardi’s; Déjà Vu at Scotty’s; Sonny King at Blue Moon; Mobile Beat DJ at Red’s Saturday: Battle of the Bands at Depot Park; John Dunnigan at The Lodge; Silver’s […]

It’s not uncommon for high school students to try to come up with any excuse to get themselves out of class. Glacier High School junior Chad Dawson isn’t really any different, but you have to give him credit for originality and merit: Last week, the 17-year-old earned a part-day pass to attend an entrepreneurial seminar […]

The door slammed shut behind me as I held an 80-pound antelope struggling in my arms. She had been running across the Sun Valley parking lot, slipped on some ice and slammed into the back bumper of my truck and was now bleeding all over my seven-dollar ski pants from a shoulder wound. In 1952 […]

Captain Mark Phillips, the Olympic gold-medal winning equestrian, wandered the grounds of Rebecca Farm in Kalispell last week on a typical Montana spring day where the sky was alternately sunny and spitting snow. Three months later, the mid-summer sun will shine on The Event at Rebecca Farm, the Flathead’s storied equestrian triathlon where an anticipated […]

BILLINGS – A 32-year-old Army captain from Billings has been killed after his vehicle was hit by an explosion in Iraq. The Department of Defense says Capt. Andrew R. Pearson, with the 4th Infantry Division from Fort Hood, Texas, was one of two soldiers killed by Wednesday’s blast from an improvised explosive device in Baghdad. […]

Good morning and happy No Pants Day! (Warning: This link is slow to load. The No Pants Day site is, understandably, receiving quite a bit of traffic today.) On the Beacon this morning, an Evergreen man has been charged with murder in the March 5 fatal shooting of a 19-month-old girl. The presidential campaign of […]

Flathead Brave decides to play for Arizona State University

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Thursday included the following: 7:21 a.m. A man pushed a woman and she retaliated by hitting him. 11:25 a.m. A report was made about two horses seen running in a meadow. 1:03 p.m. Someone called in after their 15-year-old daughter tried to kick the door in. […]

In fiscal year 2006, the hard working people at the Flathead County Solid Waste District disposed of 125,318 tons of solid waste. Valley Recycling recycled a total of 6,000 tons of material in 2006. That included mixed paper, cardboard, #1 and #2 plastics, and non-ferrous metals. That’s a recycling rate for the Flathead Valley of […]

My co-workers and I strolled up to Depot Park today to get lunch from the new vendor in the parking lot selling Szechuan noodle and teriyaki rice dishes. I’m not sure how long the noodle cart has been there, with a friendly woman cooking up lunches to order, but I sincerely hope the – dare […]

Even as hundreds of Catholic schools across the nation are closing their doors and Montana’s public schools grapple with dropping enrollments, Catholic schools in Western Montana are enjoying unusual stability. In Kalispell, the Roman Catholic school opened in 1917, in a two-story building on Main Street just a few blocks from the county’s original courthouse. […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Tuesday included the following: 9:23 a.m. A man was asked to remove himself from private property near Helena Flats Road. He did leave upon request, but before doing so he said it was okay for him to be there because he was a private investigator. 10:53 […]