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The New Wave Time Trippers: An ’80s Cover Band With Big-Time Dreams

Making rent with what you make playing in an ’80s cover band is perhaps a lofty goal. But the Whitefish-based New Wave Time Trippers aren’t about setting limits. Ultimately, these …

Episode / Long Story / Paradise Valley / People / Property / Relationships / Yellowstone

Episode 11: Owning Pray

Barbara Walker owns a town in Paradise Valley, Montana, just north of the only year-round entrance to Yellowstone National Park. For years, she’s been its mayor, its rent-collector, its head …

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Love Advice for the Young

“Take good care of your teeth!” I mean, when is that not great advice? Journeyman musician Bob Athearn, whose stylings often accompany performances by the University of Montana dance department, …

Backcountry / Critters / Episode / Glacier National Park / Music / People / Relationships

Episode 10: Bears + Advice

In the backcountry of Glacier National Park, two seasoned trail-crew workers watched a couple of cute, fuzzy cubs cross their path. “And then you think, uh oh, where’s mom at?” …

Long Story / People / Relationships / Short Story / Sports / Stories / winter

Canada vs. America: A Hockey Story

When producer and total Canadian Anna Cole decided to go to college south of the border in Montana, she thought hockey would be more of a thing. She soon found …

Death / People / Relationships / Stories

How to Die in Montana

This story about death is more hopeful than sad. That’s because Erwin Byrnes, who had Parkinson’s, and Ethel Byrnes, his wife of 63 years, figured out how to die with …

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