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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.
ROCKVALE—It’s been slow going on Highway 212 near Rockvale this week.
As part of the reconstruction of Highway 212 between Rockvale and south of Laurel, which began early last year and won’t be completed until 2017 at the earliest, the asphalt surface of 212 from Rockvale to a point about a mile northeast of there is being milled off this week. Continue Reading →
Darcie Howard, director of the Montana Audubon Center, was not impressed when she first heard about something called a “nature play space.”
The center’s mission is to get children out into nature, into the wild, so creating a manmade “natural area” didn’t seem like a very good idea. Continue Reading →
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 7 Burlington Ave.
Service, 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014
Length of service: 56 minutes. Length of sermon: 27 minutes.
At the First Church of Christ, Scientist, it was hard not to be won over by the beautiful setting. Continue Reading →
I have a new hero.
His name is Bryan Henderson and he is a 51-year-old software engineer from San Jose, California. On Wikipedia, where he is one of thousands of volunteer editors, he is known by the pseudonym “Giraffedata.” Continue Reading →
For a brief period in the 1860s, camels imported from North Africa were used as pack animals in the gold camps of western Montana.
The camels proved useful, according to Ellen Baumler, an author and interpretive historian at the Montana Historical Society, but they fell out of favor for one simple reason. Continue Reading →
Among the beauties of growing old is recalling exactly where you were and what you were doing when historic events happened:
The Cuban Missile Crisis; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Bobby Kennedy; Richard Nixon’s resignation; the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Fall of Saigon, 40 years ago last week. Continue Reading →
CODY, WYOMING—The Spring Into Yellowstone Birding and Wildlife Festival returns next week, offering tours of some of the most scenic and inspiring spots in Yellowstone National Park and public lands to the east of the park.
The growing festival is entering its third year, but many of the places highlighted in its tours and events have been popular with wildlife and people for thousands of years. Continue Reading →
Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley, a nonprofit agency that works to lift families out of homelessness, took its fundraising drive public Wednesday afternoon.
Standing in front of a building on South 26th Street that will become a day center for families served by the agency, fundraising chair Carol Roberts announced that Family Promise was already halfway to its $600,000 goal. Continue Reading →
