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Mark your calendar—the Montana Seed Show will be held March 8, 9 and 10 at Harlem High School with many events and exhibits to interest attendees. One of these is the Bread Contest. The categories for both youth (high school seniors and younger) and...

Harlem --- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning back in the 1800s. This month, Harlem, Fort Belknap, and Big Flat community members can count the ways they love the Harlem Public Library during Library Lov...

Tis the time for New Year’s Resolutions. Tis also the time for very up close and personal dreams as well. Are they related, that is my question? For the past few years I have been having very up close and personal dreams. Let me tell you about one I...

This is the time of year that we look back in time at what good and bad has happened during the past year and we look forward to see what good and bad we can look forward to in the coming year. This has been a strange year. The politics of it , that...

Once again it is that magical time of year called Christmas. To paraphrase Robert Frost, we stop often to watch the falling of downy flake along the streets and boulevards of our home towns or even better, we stop out on Beaver Creek to watch those w...

It is that time of month, once again, for a December recipe of some sort. I confess that I love this time of year because I love casseroles, Crock pot meals and meals that are made in just one dish. This is one of those meals. It takes a couple of...

This time of year is always wonderful with all the good food and good cheer floating from town to town all across Montana. And, for me, the best of all of this time is the Christmas music which is like no other music I have ever heard. I remember...

Lately there have been several sports people in Great Falls who are calling for the Grizzlies to get Dave Dickenson back. At present Dickenson is trying to win another gray cup for Calgary but no one denies that he would make a very good head coach....

Pie is the traditional dessert for a good old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner. Only certain pies will do mind you if your theme is Thanksgiving from yesteryear. Of course pumpkin is an old time favorite and has been on the Thanksgiving dessert table...

From “Jingle Bells” to “Angels We Have Heard on High” to “O Holy Night”, St. Thomas Catholic Church in Harlem will be celebrating Christmas time in a variety of ways. Beginning the season, the annual Christmas Bazaar will be held on Sunday, Dec...

What Happened? The Brawl of the Wild was won by MSU last Saturday afternoon. The score was 31 to 23. I had predicted that the Griz would win the Brawl as they have the better team or so I thought. Anyway, had the Griz won, they would be off to the...

This month, Bear Paw Meanderings will be all about Thanksgiving. This week how about a recipe for that perfect dressing? There are several things to know about dressing. It can be dressing which is not ever put in the turkey to cook or it can be...

Lots of strange things happened in the wonderful world of football this last weekend. I had gotten interested in six man football when Big Sandy started doing so well this year and I thought that if there was a team to beat it would be Valier who is...

For many people, Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday because it stresses getting together and having a great meal. There is no gift buying and none of the religious overtones that come with Christmas, just a month away. No, Thanksgiving is simply...

It was an up and down weekend for Montana football. Big Sandy lost to Bridger on Friday night leaving them out in the cold until next year. I think that next year will see great things from the Pioneers. Montana Grizzlies played Northern Arizona and...

I have some elk steaks in the freezer that a friend gave me. Now, let me tell you that in the circles I run in, elk steak is akin to lobster for tasting wonderful. I know of more than one family who gets an elk every year just so they can have elk...

Talk about six man football. When Big Sandy beat Richie/Lambert last week it put them in line for quarter finals next week when they will be playing at Bridger. By the way that Big Sandy vs. Richie score was 55 to 32. Meanwhile Bridger beat Missoula...

My name is Lucille. I am a ghost and I don’t like it one little bit. I have just gone around for a lifetime haunting the house I lived in as a child and where I died. It must have been twenty or thirty years after I died that I learned that I could b...

Something new is being planned for Harlem’s Country Christmas—a Country Christmas Party! This event will be held Sunday, December 10, at the VFW Club, and all ages are invited. Vendors and games are encouraged to kick off the party starting at 3 P.M...

In my jaded youth, my family and I had lots of fishing and hunting cabins. You know because you read about one or another several times a year. One of the biggest drawbacks to our hunting camps was that usually they were one room log structures and h...

Let’s start this week’s ramblings just north of the Little Rockies where the Thunderbirds play sports once a week or more some of the year. Something huge happened with the Thunderbirds this last week in that Isiah Runsabove won the first ever ind...

I owe you one last column about fall foliage, that is finding fall foliage where there is usually not much to find or finding it where most people do not think to look. This fall foliage season has been a very strange season as the leaves just...

Lots of good football to watch these days. I have to mention Big Sandy who stunned everyone last weekend when they beat Geraldine 30 to 22. Maybe Big Sandy is upward bound once again. It has been a long dry spell for the Pioneers. I got to watch the...

It is that time of the month that I include a recipe for you. It is also Columbus Day so I guess something is in order for an Italian recipe. I have written again and again about spaghetti and meatballs. It is my original comfort food and for years...