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Blossom’s Pregnancy: Day 284… Apparently I Can’t Count
Well… Here we are. Day 284. For those keeping score at home, the average cow pregnancy is somewhere around 281 to 286 days, which means Blossom is officially in the “could calve any minute… or could continue making me question every life choice I’ve ever made” stage. When we first bred her, I was feeling pretty confident. “I’ve got this,” I thought. “I can count.” Friends… It turns out counting is not one of my spiritual gifts. Somewhere along the line, I managed to convince myself Blossom was due much earlier. I had my bags mentally packed, my cameras charged, and…
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This evening I watched a Bald Eagle trying to take some of the young geese. It’s a different scene than it was while the old gander ran the pond – since he died (or to be more precise, failed to return) the task of raising goslings has moved to younger, less experienced geese. This time,…
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by Skylar Baker-Jordan, The Daily YonderJune 11, 2026 I live in a ghost town. No, really. In March, I took a job editing a local newspaper in Glasgow, Montana. Yet, unable to find a house in town, I wound up living about 20 miles north in Saint Marie – dubbed “Montana’s newest ghost town” in…
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by Ilana Newman, The Daily YonderMay 26, 2026 Libby, Montana, sits on the banks of the Kootenay River in the far northwest corner of the state, closer to the Canadian border than any major city. In the summer, the hills are ripe with huckleberries, and every turn might reveal a big horn sheep, one of…
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We’ve had a doe hanging out in the backyard – and from her behavior, she has been leaving her fawn there. Obviously the right thing to do was to stay out of the backyard as much as possible. So we’ve been doing our best not to bother the fawn. The best of intentions can always…
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We started the Mountain Ear (both times) because we wanted better coverage of local news. There are so many board meetings, and all of them are important. The Tobacco Valley News faces the same problem we do- not enough people and too many meetings, and their focus is on a larger area. So we started…
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An emergency meeting of the Trego school board was called again on May 4 at 4 PM to update the community on the methamphetamine contamination of the school grounds.. Although the meeting was poorly noticed, there were nearly 40 community members in attendance, these included parents, teachers, former students and teachers and interested community members.…
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Earlier this week, a meeting was held to formalize the existing long-term relationship between the TFS Community Hall and the TFS Fire Department. Tables were set to form a circle, and the meeting began with introductions. It was a joint meeting meant to prevent future problems, without any reason to expect them. The issue: an…
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An emergency school board meeting was held at the TFS Community Hall, Saturday at noon (which coincidentally is the time the Rendezvous Parade in Eureka began). The board acknowledged that they failed to provide adequate (48 hours notice) on the meeting, and cited the requisite MCA code allowing it in the event of an unforseen…
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When I went to get some repair work done, the person I was consulting advised fixing the structural issues and then putting the same ancient dilapidated siding back on the building. The rational? Property taxes. Last summer, we joked about how much the nice flowers my mother had on their porch raised their taxes. They…
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I spent most of a year away from the school after I finished my term. I attended a couple of board meetings because I was asked – on one hand, there was, at the least, the appearance of an unlawful board meeting . . . unlawful because it appeared to violate Montana’s open meeting law.…
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Historically, independent voters, and voters for minor third parties, do not get a large percentage of votes. Often, they’re considered “spoiler” candidates, who lose the election for someone by dra4wing critical support away during a close race. Or their thought of as simply “protest candidates” with no chance of winning. In Montana, for the presidential…
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Not many years ago, if you were faced with a cluster of unacceptable clowns on your ballot, you could write a name in and cast a protest vote. Hell, I guess you still can – the thing is, your write-in protest vote won’t be counted or reported. With the elimination of subsection 7 last year,…