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House rules: Poverello Center’s daily generosity dispensed with tough love
Tired, hungry and poor, they begin to queue up when the cold blanket of nightfall descends and most Missoulians have retreated to their warm homes. On this night, there was chit-chat but little cheer, as conversations steered toward the ravages of alcoholism, a granddaughter soon to be born,…
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The Way We Were: 1946
Esther Ott, Charles Ott, John Rehder, Tom Ott and Henry Rehder have a photograph taken in 1946 during the MacIntosh apple harvest on the Rehder Farm. The 47-acre farm was on the southwestern edge of the Missoula Valley.
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Montana history almanac: Lewis, Clark thought they reached ocean
Nov. 16, 1805
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Misery loves the holidays: Augusten Burroughs collects his worst experiences
NEW YORK – It’s not uncommon for people to say that their holidays don’t live up to a Norman Rockwell painting, but Augusten Burroughs says his holidays have been “hideous.”
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For King, national mood provides scares
By now with Stephen King, it’s easy to think this is all kind of ridiculous. An invisible dome descending upon a small town in Maine? People trapped inside, trying to figure out what on Earth is going on and – as always in a Stephen King story – dying in droves?
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Wake-up call to animal cruelty
Looking forward to your turkey dinner? Think twice. It’s time, argues Jonathan Safran Foer, to stop lying to ourselves. With all the studies on animal agriculture, pollution, toxic chemicals in factory-farmed animals and exposes of the appalling cruelty to animals in that industry, he w…
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Forest Service born in deadly blaze: ‘The Big Burn’ traces history of agency Roosevelt created
In “The Big Burn,” writer Timothy Egan tells two stories. One is up close and personal: a forest fire that hit the northern Rockies on Aug. 20-21, 1910, charring more than 4,600 square miles and killing 85 people in eastern Washington, Idaho and western Montana. To this day, people st…
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SHELF LIFE: A brief tour of library gems
Missoula Public Library recently offered a series of tours so users can rediscover our treasures. The library has such a variety of materials that appeal to such a variety of people. Here’s a quick hit on some of the discoveries that tickled tour-goers:
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Tough to be a trout in Cowboy State
LARAMIE, Wyo. – Of the thousands of eggs that a pair of adult trout might lay and fertilize in a stream or river, at least two of those eggs have to hatch and survive into adulthood long enough to spawn their own eggs, in order for a fish population to continue.
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Brewing at home in Beervana: Initiates learn how to make exact beer they want in mecca of microbreweries
PORTLAND, Ore. – Learning to brew your own beer in Portland, aka Beervana, would seem to be pointlessness personified. Yet 80 homebrewers and brewers-to-be spent a rainy Saturday morning doing just that in a stark warehouse warmed only by two boiling kettles.
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Fighting poaching with robo-elk decoy
MEDFORD, Ore. – Some of Oregon’s more seasoned elk poachers have learned to sidestep getting caught in a backwoods wildlife-enforcement-decoy sting by following the mantra, “If it ain’t movin’, we ain’t shootin’. ”
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Old-fashioned insulation: Boise doctor says straw is greener, energy efficient
BOISE, Idaho – On a small lot tucked between conventional homes on Boise Avenue, Mark Lung is hard at work stacking bales of straw and mixing mud.
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68-year-old Air Force man still fit to serve: N.D. officer invents routine that may be used nationally
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Lt. Col. Daniel Kulund, who at age 68 is believed to be the oldest active-duty airman in the U.S. Air Force, has invented a physical exercise regimen that could become part of a national Air Force training program.
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Shopping rush for holiday food begins
With Thanksgiving just around the corner and Christmas a couple of blocks away, food is on many minds. Although from observing shoppers pushing heaping baskets from mega-markets, food is never far from both bodies as well as minds.
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Homefront, again: Soldier easing back into civilian life and hands-on motherhood after second deployment in Iraq serving with National Guard
HAMILTON - Staff Sgt. Kelley Ziegler observed the first days of her homecoming with an ardent affection for life's simple tasks, like putting her daughter to bed and scheduling an appointment at a local beauty parlor.
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Wild youth: Memoirs of growing up in Glacier National Park
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK - A cliffhanger. A faceful of moose butt. St. Elmo's fire. Wicked Wanda, Old Man Dahl and the St. Mary Lake Monster.
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Vollmann: At home among outsiders
Author delves deep into Calif. ‘Imperial’ country
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Amateur adventures in fatherhood: Chabon’s writing saves essays about ‘Manhood’ from mundanity
The singular experience of becoming a father can change everything. This seems to include - for literary papas - what you want to write about.
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The Way we were: 1947
Lester Robinson, shortly after his discharge from the U.S. Marine Corp in 1947, poses with a whitetail buck he shot in the Ninemile Valley.
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Ore. furrier protests banned as elder abuse
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A judge has ordered animal rights activists to keep their distance from a 75-year-old furrier because state law protects the businessman from elder abuse by shouting profanities.
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Distillery uncorks high-altitude bourbon
KIRBY, Wyo. - "I know how the pioneers felt," Steve Nally said as he gazed from his third-story office window at the sweeping view of this little town of 57 people between Thermopolis and Worland.
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Everything in its right place in this kitchen
Occasionally I get the urge to down-size. Clean up. Straighten up the clutter. Throw stuff away. Follow the old adage "A place for everything and everything in its place." Information from "experts" is available on any subject.
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