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…
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.
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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
Tim Ford
Winter in Bozeman has been keeping everyone on their toes. It started out mild, but as of late has come roaring back. Speaking of staying on one’s toes, the public should remain alert to scams in all areas, especially when going through a real…
April 2024
Top 10 recommendations for this climate
Spring is just around in the corner, which means that gardening season will soon be underway! If you want fresh food for yourself and your family, I’d highly recommend planting a garden this spring. Getting into gardening has so many benefits:…
March 2024
Tim Ford
While many potential buyers are lamenting the increase in interest rates over the past year, it has created opportunities for those who can still qualify for financing. During the pandemic years, interest rates were low, but bidding wars made it…
March 2024
Rachel Phillips
Huffman family, circa 1910s. Clockwise from left: Hugh, George R., Anna and Susan
A small collection of photograph postcards in the Gallatin History Museum archives paints a charming picture of the lives of several local women. In many ways, the…
March 2024
The wild needs a home, too.” This phrase appears twice in Eric Coble’s nightmare comedy, My Barking Dog, coming to the Verge Theater’s mainstage March 15 through the 30th. It may be only six words but when uttered in the play, which…
March 2024
Angie Ripple
Join us on a walk down memory lane as we remember Bozeman’s Good Old Days:You Could Find A Parking Place Anywhere, Even At Bridger Bowl At 9 amBack in the day, parking was literally not an issue anywhere in Bozeman, unless you happened to live…
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…
