2021

We often refer to a place as being “the heart of the community,” but each community has several vital organs. A school, a grocery store, a hospital or clinic—these are the institutions that all [...]

October is widely recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But awareness without action does little to help. In Great Falls, a nonprofit called Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) is working not [...]

By Tiffany Sweeney October is all about pumpkin spice, apple cider, and pink for breast cancer awareness—pink in a multitude of colors to remind us to perform breast exams and support those that [...]

Photo by Cayley Fish By Brad Reynolds Toy Farmer’s Big Bud 16V 747s are hard to come by. With diecast rubber tires and a hood which opens to reveal its engine, only a few thousand were ever [...]

Photo by Amber Hofstad By Stacy Bronec “Goats will come right up to you. People aren’t used to that,” says Deena Maier, founder of Windrift Hill in Conrad. “Goats are part of the family; they do [...]

Photo by Montana Cowgirl Photography By Cassie Gasvoda When asked to write a short article on the importance of cattle production to Montana I was hesitant. The system is too large, too [...]

Photo by Montana Cowgirl Photography By Kent Hanawalt “I haven’t saddled a horse in two years,” said Pol, a rancher I knew in the Bear Paw Mountains. “First you buy a four-wheeler to do the [...]

By J.B. Chandler We think of bees, those cute, fuzzy black and yellow dancers, making honey, stinging invaders (ouch!), and their large hives hanging from tree branches, being raided by [...]

Photo by Hayley Young By Hayley Young Maybe the nursery rhyme should have gone, “Baa baa black sheep, we are glad that you have wool!” Sheep’s wool, is used to make yarn, carpets and floor [...]

Photo by Hayley Young By Hayley Young Like most areas of the Big Sky State, central Montana, along the Missouri River, is layered with natural beauty and historical wonders. It’s also home to [...]