If you’re looking to improve your whitewater safety skills, Wild River Adventures, in conjunction with Montana River Guides and Aerie Backcountry Medicine will offer River Rescue and Wilderness First Aid classes on June 2-5. The classes are designed for those who make their living in the wilderness as guides and outfitters as well as the […]

At next Monday’s (May 21, 2007) City Council meeting, the Columbia Falls Tennis Association (CFTA) will present proposals for a public-private refurb and maintenance project of the city tennis courts. At right, a pizza-sized patch of the court surface has disappeared, leaving a potential stumbling block for local tennis players. Below, a deep crack in […]

New longer summer hours begin June 1 at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and Sundays, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., through August. The Hockaday is closed on Mondays. Current exhibits include Jeff Walker: An Etching Retrospective, until July 5; […]

A burned out house overlooking Flathead Lake is where I was born. Fortunately, we were out of there long before the fire, and since then I’ve hiked, skied, boated and lived all over Western Montana, the country, and the world. Now I’m back in my hometown of Bigfork, and writing like crazy. I graduated from […]

A burned out house overlooking Flathead Lake is where I was born. Fortunately, we were out of there long before the fire, and since then I’ve hiked, skied, boated and lived all over Western Montana, the country, and the world. Now I’m back in my hometown of Bigfork, and writing like crazy. I graduated from […]

Many of the places we once treasured as “ours” are gone. The places where we traditionally enjoyed the outdoors have slowly given way to development and land sales. Places like Bitterroot Lake — Plum Creek Land — where you could camp or fish most anywhere along the shore, are gone, sold to the highest bidder. […]

The calendar slips steadily toward summer and you still haven’t gotten your boat on the river. You watch the Internet river gauges like a stock ticker, anticipating their every move, or at least the day when they’ll finally drop low enough to allow you to enjoy your favorite summer activity: flyfishing. With most northwest Montana […]

It took a while to get to this point. Electricians, carpenters and accountants streamed in and out of our downtown Kalispell office for two months, rigging the 3,000 square-foot space into our headquarters. We assembled the desks, hammered together a stand for the printer, plugged in the phones. We’re a small team – the majority […]

A public hearing last Tuesday night on Flathead County’s Interim Subdivision regulations drew heavy criticism from citizens, not only on the regulations, but for the short notice given on the hearing. “We should have the common courtesy of being notified,” said Fred Hodgeboom. Hodgeboom and others complained about the format of the hearing, in which […]

For years Flathead High School has been the largest high school in the state. Even without ninth-graders, grades 10-12 had more students than all but a couple of high schools. Add the 652 ninth-graders and the total enrollment would be almost 2,500, by far the most in Montana. Next year, Glacier High School will take […]