April 2024
Gallatin County is a close-knit community, and as one of your commissioners, I see so many helpers across our communities working to support their vulnerable neighbors and make our community safety nets stronger. A recent act of goodness came in the…
April 2024
The ongoing rise in the cost of living across Southwest Montana continues to create significant financial pressure on households struggling to make ends meet. Energy costs have increased by 25%, affecting HRDC’s customers disproportionately as…
April 2024
Kevin Brustuen
April presents some great opportunities to experience a wonderful mix of theater and music in Bozeman. This article gives a quick glance at The Bozeman Symphony, The Ellen Theatre, Bozeman Actors Theatre, and Intermountain Opera, all producing some…
April 2024
Rachel Phillips
Ernest Monforton, Mary Kay Lindvig, Harold Lindvig, and Joe Garry (left to right) stand with a Hereford heifer in the sale ring at the Montana Winter Fair. Monforton donated the heifer to a polio campaign, and the animal brought over $700.
April…
April 2024
Katie Thomas
Tired of running down rabbit holes when you ask Google a question? Want a succinct, personalized answer to your specific question? Meet Maxine, your new go-to for answers to those sometimes puzzling questions. We think you’ll find her advice…
April 2024
Steve Kirchhoff
We might have come to a social and cultural limit on our mode of thinking and problem-solving. Or, better put, maybe our guiding principles have abandoned us or have lost their utility when applied to our most pressing problems.Currently, our city…
March 2024
Ken Walcheck
This year, St. Patrick’s Day will be observed on Sunday, March 17. Starting as a special Christian feast day in the 17th century celebrating the life of St. Patrick and the spreading of Christianity to Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day has evolved into…
March 2024
Katie Thomas
Tired of running down rabbit holes when you ask Google a question? Want a succinct, personalized answer to your specific question? Meet Maxine, your new go-to for answers to those sometimes puzzling questions. We think you’ll find her advice…
March 2024
Steve McGann
Read Chet Huntley: Anchoring Big Sky Part 1 here
In the summer of 1970, a recently retired national news broadcaster, instantly recognizable anywhere in the country, moved to Bozeman. A native Montanan, he and his wife rented a house, and he began a…
March 2024
Most of Bozeman’s citizens can identify the Carnegie Library that still stands proudly on the corner of N. Bozeman Avenue and E. Mendenhall Street. Not many could tell you that it is located at the terminus of the city’s historic…
