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May 2010 Local Rag

A Word (Well, 464 Words) from Your Humble Editor: VOTE! "Meh. Why vote in the June election? It's just a primary, and it's all local stuff. It's not like we're voting for President or something." This attitude, all too prevalent among American voters, has things exactly backward. Of course it's important to vote in a presidential election, but it's local elections like the one coming up next month that really affect your life on a day-to-day basis. And you can have a much larger effect on the outcome, as well. Read more...
Beartooth Elks Lodge #534 The Beartooth Elks annual Scholarship Banquet was held on April 26, where 17 winners were announced. The evening began with the Outstanding Senior Awards, which the Elks present to one senior from each of the nine Carbon and Stillwater County high schools in our area. The winners were... Read more...
It's Garage Sale Season! If you are planning on having a garage sale this spring, the Chamber of Commerce recommends scheduling it to coincide with the Beartooth Home, Health & Garden show (see ad on page 31). The Chamber is doing a lot of promotion, and hopefully drawing a lot of people into town. The more we have going on, the better experience we'll create for our visitors--and lots of fun for us! Read more...
Justice of the Peace Candidate Interviews Political coverage often focuses on the highest-level races, or the ones where some scandal is involved. Rarely do we read much about the Justice of the Peace. This year, however, we have three qualified candidates facing off over the position, and we felt that our readers might want to get to know them better. Read more...
Letters: Commissioner Race Walking the streets of Carbon County to promote my candidacy for County Commissioner, I encounter a lot of confusion as to how voting works for the position. Hopefully, I can clarify things and emphasize how important it is that everyone gets out and votes for the position. Read more...
Letters: More About Hats This letter is in response to the "hats off" article recently in the Rag and a "hats off" to Gary (pardon the pun) for bringing this topic up for discussion. I have done some research into the origins of this custom and I came up with the following: Read more...
New Bike Tour Business Red Lodge's Doug and Suzanna Bailey are starting up a new business as soon as the Beartooth Pass opens. Beartooth Bike Tours will be providing a variety of exciting guided bike tours down one of the most scenic roads in the country. Read more...
Outdoor Dining in Red Lodge: Outdoor dining in Red Lodge can be a dodgy affair. During our short summer season, rain is unpredictable and sun can be unrelenting. Yet many of us hardy souls like our food and drink outside, and the restaurant and bar owners do their best to help us out with it. Read more...
Red Lodge High School Graduation 2010 May 30, 2010 was probably the last graduation that will ever take place at the Civic Center in Red Lodge, as the school has received grant money to finish building out the auditorium at the new school. The class of 2010 handled it with style! Read more...
TEA! When I was a kid, tea was something that came in bags with a little tag that said "Lipton." Visits to a Chinese or Japanese restaurant introduced me to the "other" kind of tea: green tea. The first time I ordered tea in a nice restaurant, I encountered the fancy presentation box, containing exotic varieties of tea like chamomile, Earl Grey, English breakfast tea, and Constant Comment. In high school, I drove a delivery truck for an office supply store in Boulder, Colorado, and one of my stops was Celestial Seasonings. Read more...
The Coster Connection by Mike W. Bergstrom An interesting connection with the past was brought to light recently on the Custer National Forest. In early spring of 2009 the Beartooth Ranger District was contacted by Leslie Andre of Estacada, Oregon who informed us that she was the granddaughter of Raymond A. Coster, a former Ranger on the Beartooth National Forest during the 1920s-1930s. Leslie's mother, Marjorie Andre, had old diaries and photographs belonging to her father and offered to share them if we were interested. Read more...
Jeff the Nature Guy: The Politician by Jeff Ewelt You can't miss them. You see them every ten feet while driving down the highway. Pheasants? Deer? No. Political signs. Sigh?. the season is upon us yet again. It is time to be inundated by campaigns, promises and broken hearts. Leave it to us humans to pull animal mascots into this debauchery. We all know about the donkey and the elephant, but why would we want to smear their good names to highlight human greed and power? Read below, and you'll soon find out. Read more...
Heirloom Recipes: Beef Stroganoff: What to Eat with Drinks by Jay West I was going to write about bread this month, but this issue's theme is "drinks" and they can go well with Stroganoff. Also, Guynema wants me to write about the Beef Stroganoff that I served at Sunday dinner last week. Dinner turned into one of those meals where people stop talking and just eat. That's saying something with this dinner crowd. Read more...
The Scene, by Jeanne: Hail Dionysus! God of Wine and Theater by Jeanne Thomas Since this is the libation issue, I was reflecting on Dionysus, the Greek god of both wine and theater, and remembering a production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," performed in the early 1970s in Sarasota, Florida by an enthusiastic cast of college students. Read more...
Slightly Out of Focus: Sensor Sensitivity by Gene Rodman Remember when we put film in our cameras and our images were recorded on that film? Photography was a chemical process. There was no image preview after the shutter was snapped. Many times it was weeks later when we got to see how we did. If we wanted to make sure there was going to be an image on our film we had make sure ALL the settings on the camera were correct and that exposing film properly was rather important. If we let too much light in there would be way too many light areas. If we didn't let in enough light, our negatives barely had any image on them. Read more...
About Town: Can You Dig It? by Corey Thompson There are many signs of warmer weather: returning birds and bears, longer days of sunshine, and fresh produce available at the store. But wait... wouldn't it be better if that fresh produce was available outside your back door? Or at least near your back door? Read more...
Montana Fashion: Pairing Wine and Jewelry by Ryan Sankey The fearless editor/owner of the Local Rag mentioned to me in passing that this issue would feature a drink theme, "but you probably can't work that into fashion," he said. Oh ho, you just watch me! Read more...
Off the Reel: "Thanks for Nothing, You Useless Reptile": A Review of How to Train Your Dragon by Doug Robson DreamWorks is an interesting company. Their animation company has tried and tried to release great movies, some of which did end up being great, but more have flopped. Some of the ones I enjoyed were Shrek, Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda, and Monsters Vs. Aliens. Others were terrible, such as Shrek 3, Shark Tale, Antz, Madagascar 2, and Bee Movie. They recently released another animated movie that has been the talk of the animation crowd these last few weeks. It's, for once, not a direct rip-off of Pixar's latest movie (read: Antz/Shark Tale/Flushed Away). This movie is called How to Train Your Dragon. Read more...

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