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I love May. It is because of the flowers. They come out, first the tiny yellow buttercups, and then a whole host of flowers follow them. It all starts in May. It is confusing. Old timers from Montana call yellow bells buttercups. So do I but...

It is Saturday afternoon and the nags are running at Churchill Downs as the Kentucky Derby got underway. It is too close to my deadline to tell you much about the race. More about that next week. For now though it has been raining most of the day in...

It is May. Easter is past us and we all are ready for a long and quiet spring with enough moisture to keep everything growing but not five feet of snow which can happen especially around Memorial Day. I was amazed because as I looked over spring...

First thing this week is to look at where the NBA playoffs were on Saturday last. Remember when one team is playing another team it is the best of seven games that wins the series. On Saturday it was Houston winning their series over Oklahoma City 4...

Let me preface this story by saying that there are log cabins in Zortman called the Buckhorn cabins. They are nice places to stay the night or a week. But that was not always so. When I was in high school and college and stayed at the Buckhorn...

I love to stay in rustic cabins. Matter of fact I lived in several rustic cabins during my life and they were simply great! What got me thinking about those cabins is that I got the dates that I am going to be staying at cabin 6 at the Village Lodge...

On this day in 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. He had just been sworn in for a fourth term in January of that year. It was war time and that was the reason President Roosevelt ran for a fourth term in the first...

I am a happy man. It has taken a lot of years but finally my team, Gonzaga, got to the final game. I know they lost to North Carolina 71 to 65 but that did not matter at all. Those of you who read these rantings regularly know that for years I have...

A friend told me that her sister made a very simple but wonderful casserole. She started by browning hamburger, adding a sliced up cabbage and tomato sauce. She baked that until bubbling and it was wonderful. Last weekend I tried my version of that...

Well, gentle readers, I am still in the middle of March Madness and can make a prediction about a final winner although I have never gotten those predictions right yet. I kicked myself because I dropped Oregon out of the Sweet Sixteen and then I...

March can be such a fickle month. It is a month when we all are so anxious to see an end to winter and a beginning of spring and then when March comes in like a lamb, we think we made it through another winter only to have our hopes dashed with storm...

It is Saturday afternoon and I have not heard yet how Northern’s women did in their playoffs. I do know that Carroll won and Western lost earlier on Friday. I finally got my brackets done in the 2017 Division I basketball tournament and March M...

March 24 and 25 the Farmers Union is putting on a Producers Conference at the Havre Best Western Plus That is a Friday and Saturday. Farmers Union President Allan Merrill said that for a long time that conference used to be held at Fairmont but did n...

I got excited the other day because somewhere I had picked up a recipe for Christmas Morning Breakfast Casserole. Now there are many breakfast casseroles floating around but few that call for potatoes in them rather than bread. I love potatoes in my...

First an update about the length of what is left of winter. As most readers know, in the west our ground hogs are marmots. We are fortunate living where we do because in the Bear Paw Mountains, on Clear Creek and far up White Pine Gulch lives a...

I am always finding a lobster on sale and sticking it in the freezer. That way when I want to I can have what I call a triple surf dinner. It is a hot lobster with drawn butter, lobster salad and a shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce....

When I was in college I had two good friends who were in college as well. One was my cousin Butch (James Lucke) and one was a high school mate by the name of Jim Dullenty. Jim went off to Journalism School at the University of Montana and Butch and...

When I was a boy there were lots of Oriental people in Havre. I am reminded of this because the Chinese New Year is January 28. Many Chinese and Japanese had come here to work on the railroad and when the railroad was finished they liked the country...

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 two years I have been having very up close and personal dreams. Let me tell you about one I...

I always like to start a new year with a recipe that has fewer calories. I have done one of my favorite shrimp cocktails many times before but it never fails to taste great on a cold January night. Cook your own shrimp. Get some that are called U 16...

It is a new year but we are going to stay with 1909 for a while yet as it is just getting interesting. Lots going on. Let’s start with the Dodson Dam. A well known resident of Valley County who was in the city yesterday is authority for the i...

It is playoff season in the NFL. But first, it is national championship time in college football. It took many years but finally instead of a bunch of disjointed bowl games there are now a bunch of disjointed bowl games and a couple of national...

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...

This is the last column of newspaper stories for 1909. However, through the magic of old newspaper stories, we will continue on with 1909 in January. But for now, let’s see how it all ended up! There are still Christmas trees available at the Havre C...

The biggest news in the football world is that it is all coming to an end. This signals week seventeen and after those predictions, it is on to the playoffs and finally who is going to be in the Super Bowl? There was some late breaking Bobcat news...