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Close your eyes and picture this: it’s a beautiful, warm summer morning, and a couple ventured out on a long walk. They noticed it getting a little cloudy but luckily they were in Montana, where it never rains, right? (more…) Continue Reading →
Before he founded his own bread-making business last year, 10-year-old Ian Wollschlager had had a few other entrepreneurial ideas. One involved creating an indoor go-kart racing track, for which he created his own plans. “He’s really good at art, so he drew the whole schematic,” said his mother, Lotus Wollschlager. But his father, David Wollschlager, thought maybe the idea was a little too big. (more…) Continue Reading →
During her first session of teaching an acrylic painting class at the Community Crisis Center, Samantha Harris’ two students didn’t much like the first few ideas she had for what they might paint. After a little searching on the Internet, they found a subject more to their liking, and Harris, who works at In Good Glazes, was soon teaching them the basics of painting a night sky and some mountains. “As they got further into it,” Harris said, “they got really into it.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Do you like to relax with an after-work drink? Do you meet friends for a happy hour beverage at the end of a long week? Do you feel like you frequent the same handful of bars every time you go out? If so, please keep reading. We are a youngish professional couple who know how you feel. Continue Reading →
CODY, WYO.—The record summer season at Yellowstone National Park finished with a bang, as October brought more than a quarter-million visitors, pushing the annual total to more than 4 million people so far—a milestone never reached before at the world’s first national park. (more…) Continue Reading →
CODY, WYO. — Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk has been making the rounds to gateway communities to discuss the ups and downs of the park’s record summer visitation. The good news is that more people are coming to Yellowstone than ever. Which is also the bad news. Or more specifically, that so many autos and buses are rolling through the park. Continue Reading →
Bruce Keller and I had been gone just 50 hours from our home outside of Absarokee. High Chaparral has been a family sanctuary for nearly a quarter-century. We’ve had raccoons, mountain lions, lynx, elk, deer and antelope, and of course plenty of mice, squirrels, voles, moles and skunks. (Nick, the male Yorkie, has been “deskunked” almost as many times as he’s been taken to the groomer.) (more…) Continue Reading →
The West End of Billings has another non-chain, locally owned restaurant whose owner is committed to making good food in an informal environment. Last month we wrote about the Local Kitchen & Bar, located near Shiloh Road and Grand Avenue. The new addition to the West End dining scene is JP Kitchen Asian Bistro, located on what used to be the West End’s main drag, 24th Street West. (more…) Continue Reading →
For nearly four years, volunteers with the Yellowstone River Parks Association, individually or occasionally in small groups, have been working to prepare a regional park a few miles northeast of Billings. This past weekend, their labors got an enormous boost from more than 500 volunteers in a project organized by Harvest Church. (more…) Continue Reading →
Sometimes the shortest way home just isn’t good enough. I had to be in Red Lodge Tuesday evening, and since I wasn’t too keen on driving home afterward—dodging deer in the dark on Highway 212—I spent the night at a friend’s house and left Red Lodge the next morning. (more…) Continue Reading →
