Montana Fashion
by Ryan Sankey
Let's take a quick poll; everyone who considers April to be their favorite month of the year, please raise your hand.
I would venture a guess there were very few Local Rags dropped just then. Wedged somewhere between winter and spring, April has the distinction of hosting sporadic weather, tax day and nearly lethal cases of cabin fever.
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Rag Founder Lou Ward Brings Ancient Wales to Life
Red Lodge old-timers will remember Lou Ward. You may remember her tending bar at the Snow Creek Saloon or the Bierstube on Red Lodge Mountain. Perhaps you remember an alternative newspaper she started almost 20 years ago (hint: you're reading it now). Well, now you have something else to remember her for.
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Red Lodge High School by the Numbers
When you hear about the new Red Lodge High School, are you interested in how much, how many, how long, and how big? Then take a look at RLHS "by the numbers."
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Red Lodge High School Grand Opening
by Gary Robson
The new Red Lodge High School opened today (April 1). See pictures here!
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Service & Non-Profit UPDATE
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Who's Who?: Our Guide to Local Business & Economic Groups
Downtown Red Lodge is a vital, growing, developing area, and there are quite a few organizations that are helping--or want to be helping--with that process. The problem is that it can get confusing to sort out so many of them.
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by Doug Robson & Ethan McDowell
This month's game is critically acclaimed, and has received many a 5-star, 10/10, A+, 100%, however you want to put it. This is Pong. Pong is a game that supports both single player and multiplayer. You can play against one buddy. The idea is that you control a white bar on the side of the screen, and your buddy also controls a white bar, but on the opposite side.
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Beer Snob:
Re-Defining Beer in Montana
by Gary Robson
Our state government is changing the meaning of the word "beer," and I support them. A surprising thing, as I'm generally not a big fan of government legislation affecting the way I drink, but in this case, they're actually toning down the law and providing us with more personal freedom.
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by Randy Tracy
During a recent trip to Hogwarts (don't tell anyone, but it's actually at Lochindorb) I was fortunate enough to sample a number of notable beverages. You may have heard of some (or all) of them.
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by John Overton
April is a hectic month, in my opinion. Most of us are in a tizzy preparing our income tax and anticipating paying. This month also includes Lent, Palm Sunday, and Easter. It is a time when we want to have something that it easy to cook and inexpensive as well, in this economically troubled time.
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by Marci Dye
Summer is coming, which means hiking time in the Beartooths! Are you ready? Mentally, I think we're all ready! Physically?and gearwise?maybe we need a little work...
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by Jeff Ewelt
I'm doing it. Prepare yourself before you read on. I'm going to talk about the dirty "S" word. But no worries, I will make it easy on all you and call it "love." You see, as I sit back and watch my son stumble around as though he has had one too many, I am amazed that two people, doing something, uh, "fun," can create something so incredible.
Don't worry, I won't go into detail about my particular, uh, "love" story, but with spring looming, you better believe my mind is racing with the happenings occurring in the wild.
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by Jay West
When St. Patrick's Day rolls around, I wear a shamrock button that says "The Ancient and Honorable Order of the Sons of the Survivors of the Great Potato Famine." It's both a history lesson and mockery of the corned-beef-and-cabbage-O-Danny-Boy school of Irish celebration. I'm privileged to do this because some of my ancestors were famine Irish.
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The Scene, by Jeanne:
Henry Dykema: Champion of Renewable Energy
by Jeanne Thomas
An adventurous man with an adventurous wife?both trained wildlife biologists with advanced degrees?decided to move to Luther, Montana, after traveling to Panama to study the life of the green iguana under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institute.
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by Gene Rodman
Last week on my way into Billings, traveling at 70 mph, I saw what I thought was a photograph. I was even compelled enough to turn around to get another look to see if it was indeed something worth recording. Someone had plowed their field and the snow had not melted in the bottoms of the rows. These created dark and light patterns in the field that I thought were interesting.
It made me think of all the times I see an image and, even though I may even have my camera with me, I keep driving. Photography helps us see. Diane Arbus said, "I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."
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About Town:
A Water Park in Red Lodge?
by Corey Thompson
Close your eyes for a moment, and imagine... a water park in Red Lodge. What kind of image did you conjure up? A mechanical wave pool? Huge multi-colored, twisting plastic slides? How about a twenty-foot-tall, smirking plastic pirate guarding a swim-up bar? No April Fools joke here. Well, maybe just a little bit.
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Beartooth Guru:
Baba Ram Baba: The Beartooth Guru
by Baba Ram Baba
Greetings, my children. This month, I have received two questions that I can address. As for the third, all I can say in a family newspaper is "Yes, yes, sheep, yes, no, oh my goodness, and you forgot to give me your phone number. I'll be waiting for a follow-up letter."
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