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Posts By: Beacon Staff

Where Does it All Go?

You may have already forgotten about them, or you may still be fuming about them. Either way, take a moment to delight in the fact that it will be another 10 or 11 months before you have to pay property taxes again. Flathead County sent out 59,091 tax bills for real estate, mobile homes and […]

By Dan Testa

Cyclists, hikers, enjoy Glacier National Park before the cars arrive

She sleeps quietly. Laying in a mantel of white, Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road sleeps soundly until the day the cars arrive. Before this famous road over Logan Pass opens, however, it’s being widely enjoyed by cyclists and hikers every day. On Memorial Day weekend, the road was busy with a variety of park users. […]

By Dave Reese

The Week in Letters

Good start, but … Enjoyed the article on breweries in the Flathead Valley (page 15, vol. 1, issue 1). However, you failed to fully identify John Campbell, co-owner and founder of the Lang Creek Brewery near Marion. He was quoted in the middle of the article and subsequently, but only as “Campbell.” I’m sure some […]

By Editor

Why Drive, When you can Fly?

SEATTLE (AP) – Horizon Air, a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group Inc., has cut fares by as much as 76 percent on several short flights in Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Northern California. With a 14-day advance purchase, one-way flights between Kalispell and Missoula will cost $29, tickets bought a week in advance will […]

By Associated Press

Bigfork Explores a Resort Tax

They’re sifting through legalese, pouring over maps, and asking questions about resort taxes. “We’re just going to lay it out so the community can make a decision,” says Bruce Solberg. Solberg is part of the eight-person subcommittee put together at a Bigfork Steering Committee meeting. Their mission: gather as much information about a resort tax, […]

By Katrin Frye

Rockin’ Outdoors Again

After a several year hiatus during village construction, Big Mountain Resort is bringing back their summer outdoor evening concerts in a new location. In the new venue on the slope above the Day Lodge, favorites such as Elvin Bishop, Lou Gramm, and The Marshall Tucker Band will rock the slopes during July and August. Tickets […]

By Becky Lomax

Montana Left in Dust

HELENA (AP) – Montana never has been significant come presidential primary season, but next year the state’s three electoral votes promise to be even less significant. The state’s June presidential primary will be a lonely affair. Only South Dakota will be left making party nominations for president by then _ at a time when the […]

By Associated Press

The Parking Game

The parking man is too strong. I feel powerless. This isn’t just about the $20 in parking tickets I immediately racked up after moving here. It also has something to do with my deep envy of his deceptively swift parking cart – I want one so bad. Recently I went to the Parking Commission to […]

By Myers Reece

Take a Break on Memorial Day

For some, it’s a day to head out on the boat, to the cabin, or up the trail. For others, it’s a day off work to catch up on the yard, house or just relax. To race fans, it’s all about race day at the Indy 500. Memorial Day. A day to remember the men […]

By Mark Riffey

Driving While Stupid

The Montana Highway Patrol reported that in 2006, Flathead County led Montana in the number of fatal accidents, a shame. The official spin is we have too many people driving on substandard roads. But is the cause our rotten roads? Only part – a darn small part. The last week of April I did a […]

By Dave Skinner

Players, Coaches Escape Injury as Bus Burns

WHITEFISH (AP) – High school tennis players and coaches on a charter bus taking them home to Whitefish managed to get off the bus before a fire destroyed it along with luggage and other contents. No one was injured as the fire burned the bus Saturday evening along Interstate 90 about 15 miles west of […]

By Associated Press

Kalispell Bids Farewell

Former students and teachers haunted their old halls as they said good-bye. Linderman School opened its doors to the community for a history lesson and a farewell on Tuesday night. “Saying good-bye to Linderman is like saying good-bye to an old friend,” former teacher Nancy Ross explained. Current students decorated the walls with posters proclaiming […]

By Katrin Frye

Double Freshness

Flowers, herbs, plants, fruits, vegetables, and eggs line up in vendor stalls at the farmer’s markets. As folks seek out nutritious natural foods, the weekly outdoor markets display the freshest locally-grown produce plucked dripping ripe the morning of market day. In the past decade, local markets have nearly doubled to 4,385 nationwide. Whitefish has not […]

By Becky Lomax

Tennis Group Lobs Proposals at C-Falls City Council

Twenty-five to 30 Columbia Falls tennis supporters and CFHS tennis players showed up Monday evening at the Columbia Falls City Council meeting to voice their opinions about the state of the city’s courts. After a prepared statement was read aloud by group spokesperson Mary Ellen Getts, several members of the group – including CFHS Athletic […]

By Mark Riffey

The Economics of Incarceration

Bonds that fund concrete and steel bars that are the building blocks of a county jail are less appealing than, say, a nod for a new public school. Thus, Flathead County officials have a tough sell. And they know it. At a county commission meeting earlier this month Commissioner Gary Hall, speaking to an architect […]

By Kellyn Brown

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