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A Montana Town Grapples With Its Past While Paving a Way Forward
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 the region’s native animals. At golden hour, the huge tamaracks and pines glow in the setting sun. Libby wants to move past being known as “the asbestos town” — an identity it’s had since the toxic dust was discovered in a vermiculite mine. Over the…
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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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Here’s a link to take you to the FBI’s most wanted Fraudster list – with names and photographs: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/most-wanted-fraudsters The first page I clicked on had eight smiling faces – and, well, click the link and see what you find.
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by Donavyn Coffey, The Daily YonderJune 24, 2026 Mandy Withers was in her late 20s when she first realized she was more than tired. Then, a young mom of three, just out of graduate school, and training for her new position as a pulmonary and sleep medicine nurse practitioner, she thought falling asleep after dinner…
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It was the end of Summer, 1960, when we left Puget Sound for Montana. Over the next couple-five years, I learned that the intelligentsia and established elite of Eureka sneered at Trego – accepting their repeated story that my community was composed of socialists and wobblies. There was a Wobblie Johnson place, and Jack Cheevers…
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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,…