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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 …
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By Kevin Killough
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4/2/19
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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 …
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By Pat Stuart
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3/21/19
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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, …
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By Don Amend
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3/12/19
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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 …
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By Tessa Baker
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3/7/19
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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 …
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By Pat Stuart
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3/5/19
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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 …
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By Doug Blough
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2/28/19
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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 …
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By Dave Bonner
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2/26/19
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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 …
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By Kevin Killough
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2/21/19
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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 …
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By Pat Stuart
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2/14/19
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I like to begin spiritually related columns with a couple of my late father Alfred’s favorite church jokes that he’d tell our pastor, much to mom’s scowling chagrin. Stop me if …
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By Doug Blough
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2/7/19
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I've spent a lot of time at the opera the last couple of weeks.
Actually, I haven’t actually been at the opera. More accurately, the opera has been coming to my house, thanks, of course, to …
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By Don Amend
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2/5/19
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Here’s a stunning bit of not so trivial trivia: Wyoming’s sovereign wealth ranks among the 100 richest in the world. With a total of $20.8 billion, we aren’t quite in the same class …
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By Pat Stuart
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1/29/19
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I have been visiting the past in my reading, as usual, by learning about the life and career of a guy named Whittaker Chambers.
If you are wondering who Whittaker Chambers is, and why someone …
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By Don Amend
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1/22/19
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The high stakes poker being played out in Washington, allegedly, centers on building a wall to keep out undesirable elements — terrorists, gang members, rapists ... like that. It has also …
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By Pat Stuart
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1/15/19
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OK. We’ve got a pissing contest in Washington. We have a leader who has moved all of his chips onto one number and is challenging the croupier to make the ball drop into the right slot.
The …
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By Pat Stuart
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1/8/19
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I guess I made a pretty good haul this Christmas. A few things were missing from my wish list, even though really,
I’d have been content with nothing since I have pretty much everything I need. Like ZZ Top sang so eloquently, “I Ain’t Askin’ for Much …”
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By Doug Blough
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12/27/18
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Euphemia Hayman Reher grew up in what she referred to as “want,” thanks to her Scots-Canadian coal mining father who tended to drink away his salary. Want, to her mind, was not poverty but a correctable condition.
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By Pat Stuart
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12/27/18
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Last week, we were faced with a disaster.
Actually, as disasters go, it wasn’t much. In fact, I’m a little embarrassed to call what almost happened a disaster. It wasn’t as …
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By Don Amend
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12/18/18
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I'll confess: I never have been a big fan of the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” It’s “let’s spend the night together” message never has resonated with me, …
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By Mike Buhler
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12/18/18
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George Herbert Walker Bush may have been, in his lifetime, one of the most accomplished of our presidents.
But before getting to that, let me tell you about my first experience with him. He came …
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By Pat Stuart
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12/11/18
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