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You don’t hear hilarious catch-lines like, “Sock it to me,” anymore. Nor will you hear “You bet your sweet bippy” or “Vedddy interesting.” Time-honored … more

By Doug Blough | 5/23/19

Pat (Reher) Stuart and her family — including brother Rob — weathered Wyoming’s infamous blizzard of 1949 inside a barrack at the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center. In the above photo, taken in 1948, Rob Reher is shown inside a laundry basket, which temporarily served as his bed.

Heart Mountain Camp – The Blizzard of ’49

Jan. 3, 1949, was around 70 years ago. I had just turned 9 and, while events of the next three days merge in my memory, the first minute or two after waking up that Monday morning could have happened … more

By Pat Stuart | 5/16/19

Rethinking television

I have always been a drug-free person. At least I used to be such a person, before myeloma and diabetes caught up with me a few years ago. Between the two conditions, I am ingesting a frightening … more

By Don Amend | 5/14/19

So close, yet so far away

Now where was I before I so rudely interrupted myself with a long-winded part one a few weeks ago? Oh yeah, small towns in close proximity yet so far apart. If you recall, I somewhat blamed Powell … more

By Doug Blough | 5/9/19

A tribute to the woman who raised the man I married

I've been thinking a lot about my mother-in-law, Wilma Olson, who would have turned 94 this month. Wilma lived a life of service to her family. Her mother died when she was 14, and that was when … more

By Ilene Olson | 5/7/19

Columnist Pat (Reher) Stuart is pictured outside her family’s barrack at the site of the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center.

Heart Mountain — Winter of 1948-49

Powell has more busses than any other school district in America,” my father said at some point after I started in my new school, Powell Elementary. Seeing them waiting for us every morning and … more

By Pat Stuart | 4/30/19

Tidying up … one box at a time

In my early 20s, I made a comment that has become a long-running joke between my husband and me. With ambitions to live abroad again or perhaps move across the country, I told him that I wanted to … more

By Tessa Baker | 4/26/19

Of black holes and trolls

There was big news on the astronomy front earlier this month when a team of researchers managed to take the picture of an actual black hole. It was an impressive achievement, but some people used the … more

By Don Amend | 4/23/19

Columnist Pat Stuart — then Pat Reher — is pictured at the former Heart Mountain Relocation Center in 1950. After World War II ended and Japanese Americans were allowed to return to their homes, the camp became the headquarters for a homesteading effort.

Heart Mountain Camp: A kid paradise

(Little has been written about the Japanese Relocation Center’s second life — its continued occupation after the Japanese departed and Congress turned the property back to the Bureau of … more

By Pat Stuart | 4/16/19

The distance that divides

Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Possibly in some cases, but the breakup with my fiancée happened in 1989 and these last couple years, I find myself dreaming about her less and … more

By Doug Blough | 4/9/19

One for the ladies

Ah, it’s great to see the word April in big letters on the calendar. It’s not that the first three months of 2019 have been so bad. I’ve just had some difficulty keeping to my … more

By Don Amend | 4/4/19

Online news is not replacing print

We here in Park County are pretty lucky. More and more communities across the country — more than1,300 — have no local news coverage at all, much less a couple sources competing with each … more

By Kevin Killough | 4/2/19

The road to the great beyond

You think a horse spooking away from a rattlesnake is skittish? Try talking to your mother or daughter, your son or father about their mortality. Or yours, for that matter. The very act of … more

By Pat Stuart | 3/21/19

Whose side is God on?

Big changes came to the world a century ago. With the end of World War I, the German Empire — a collection of Germanic principalities — was dismantled, and its emperor, the kaiser, … more

By Don Amend | 3/12/19

As a longtime contributor to the Tribune, Ruby Hopkin shared recipes and stories with the Powell community.

Remembering Ruby

It’s fitting that I first met Ruby Hopkin through recipes. After I moved back to Powell in 2008, Ruby would send recipes to me for publication in the Tribune. Her emails were always friendly … more

By Tessa Baker | 3/7/19

Travel: That new normal

Living in Park County once meant ... well, living in Park County. We had our homes here, our employment here, our schools, recreation and vacations here. If we left at all, it was to visit relatives … more

By Pat Stuart | 3/5/19

Give me an R … Yay, team God!

I now present part II of my previous spotlight on humorous angles of the Good Book. I’m sure a reader or two out there said something like, “And he calls himself a Christian? I’m … more

By Doug Blough | 2/28/19

Will there be enough water?

It’s snowpack forecast season, and trained eyes find the published reports in the Tribune to gauge the estimated runoff potential in area drainages. Agricultural fortunes are, of course, a … more

By Dave Bonner | 2/26/19

I gave up on big city dreams for small town heart

I didn’t plan to be a small-town community journalist, but now I can’t imagine doing anything else. Outside non-profits, there are few other ways to earn a living fulfilling a vital … more

By Kevin Killough | 2/21/19

Reinventing ourselves, from thermostats to main street

Remember when household thermostats were simple little devices consisting of a dial that you turned or a lever you moved? That’s a long way from true of the one I have now. It requires a degree … more

By Pat Stuart | 2/14/19