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I was planning to ride off into the sunset today, but if I may appropriate an observation by Benjamin Franklin, it looks as though I might be heading in the direction of the rising sun.
In the week since I announced that Last Best News would cease publication today, I have heard so many expressions of interest in reviving it in some shape or form, with or without my continued involvement, that it appears likely that this independent online newspaper will live on.
Brenda Chamberlain was driving down Monad Road on Monday morning and thought she saw Mike Mallory on the sidewalk in front of the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter. But she figured she was mistaken.
“I didn’t recognize him because he didn’t have his dogs,” she said. “He always has his dogs.” Continue Reading →
If you are still an old-fashioned reader of Montana newspapers published by Lee Enterprises, then you missed last week’s most intriguing story.
News that Lee was closing its Capitol bureau this week and letting go two of the state’s most respected journalists, Chuck Johnson and Mike Dennison, appeared first on the front page of the Great Falls Tribune. Continue Reading →
JACKSON, WYO.—The most popular beer from Wyoming’s oldest brewery is getting a makeover. Actually, the beer itself will stay the same—it’s the brand that’s getting a refresh. And the change is likely to be a huge boost for the most visited destination in Grand Teton National Park. Continue Reading →
ROBERTS—John Dubsky decided to switch careers when it was time to move his grandparents from their ranch in Northern California to an assisted-living home.
That was in 2011. Dubsky, then a general contractor living between Joliet and Roberts, went to California to join other family members in helping their grandparents make the move. Dubsky remembered raising horses and breaking colts on his grandparents’ ranch, near Sonora, and he understood his grandfather’s reluctance to leave the place. Continue Reading →
Billings Freedom Church, 550 32nd St. W.
Service, 10 a.m., Sunday, March 2, 2014
Length of service: 1 hour, 55 minutes. Length of sermon: 41 minutes.
I arrived at the Freedom Church about a minute after the service was supposed to have begun, slowed down as I was by ice-packed streets on a 10-below-zero March morning. Continue Reading →
Five hundred trips later, I may have seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
The number could be an exaggeration. Maybe I’ve only driven between Montana and the Twin Cites 70, 80 or 90 times. However many it’s been, we will be making the drive a lot less often. Our daughter and her husband and their daughter will be moving to California this summer. Continue Reading →
Billings native Kim Barker learned to fish and backpack in Montana, but she learned to sing karaoke, interview warlords, shoot Kalashnikovs and jump-start a car using a metal ladder in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Barker describes her antics, trials and triumphs working as a foreign correspondent in her 2011 memoir, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Continue Reading →
Rancher Roger Sprague’s annual Miles City wagon train started on a warm and calm Wednesday evening on the Coffee Ranch just north of Miles City.
Wagon train enthusiasts and their outriders gathered that evening to set up camp and prepare for a 14-mile wagon train on Thursday and a 12-mile trail into Miles City on Friday to officially open the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale. Continue Reading →
