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 MAY Case Metzler kicks a soccer ball by himself in the gym at Pleasant Valley School west of Kalispell. Metzler celebrated his graduation from kindergarten as the lone student at the last remaining one-room schoolhouse in Flathead County. There are fewer than 400 operational one-room schoolhouses in the country, and Montana has the most in the nation at 62, boasting at least one in each of its 56 counties, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
 FEBRUARY Je Ulsamer gets a kiss from Zeus before running his dogs. Ulsamer has been running dogs out of his Olney-based Dog Sled Adventures for nearly four decades. About one-third of his 130-dog team are either rescues or trouble dogs no one else wanted or could handle. “It doesn’t take a pure breed,” he said. “It just takes a heart.”
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