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No Flowers?

When the historic lighting was installed in downtown Red Lodge, each pole included hangers for flower baskets. The flowers, however, were not in the original budget. A group of downtown merchants got together and decided to make this happen.
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Technobabble: Rural Internet Service Options

by Gary Robson
Gary speaks of Internet Service in the outskirts, where you might not expect to get any. If you want Internet access, but live in the middle of nowhere, this article describes your options.
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Beer Snob: The Beer Snob Explores Mead

by Gary Robson
Most people think of beer as fermented barley and wine as fermented grapes. Often, this is true, but in reality the definitions go farther than that. Neither one, however, goes quite far enough to include a wondrous beverage from ages past that's making a comeback in America: mead.
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Catfish Heads & Coyote Feet

by Craig Beam
Ok. Everyone knows me as the Trout Scout, fly fishing purist. Wouldn't touch a spin casting rod to save my life. Every time a client refers to my hand-tied flies as "bait" I have a seizure. It wasn't always so.
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Starting a Reading Group

Reading groups (also frequently called book clubs) are a great way to discover new and interesting books and make a social occasion out of it. Red Lodge is a town with a rich literary history and enough people with diverse tastes that you should be able to put together a group no matter what you like to read.
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A New Red Lodge Motorcycle Rally?

by Gary Robson
For those who have followed the Beartooth Rally since its inception, it will come as no surprise that there is a good deal of contention in town about it. Rod Bastian of Beartooth IGA wants to change that, by reinventing the rally from the ground up.
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Five Love Stories

Five long-wedded couples tell us about how they met: Dan and Marklynn Lynn (married 65 years), Bob & Ruth Wendt (61 years), Ernie & Marge Strum (55 years), Eldon & Yvonne Jensen (50 years), and Tom and Carolyn Flaherty (47 Years).
Add your own story at the end!
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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!
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The Bull Pen: An Ambitious Project for the Next Rally Weekend

Red Lodge has had some fairly ambitious events in the past, drawing thousands of people for rodeos, motorcycle rallies, concerts, and festivals. Nothing, however, has been as ambitious as next year's Bull Pen Concert series, going on during the Beartooth Rally in July of next year.
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Things I Most Love About Red Lodge

by Lou Ward
This article was first printed in 2001 when Lou Ward, founder and creative vision behind the Red Lodge Local, was moving away to Ireland. The current owners of the Local Rag happened to pick up that issue of the paper, and it was one of the things that convinced them to move to Red Lodge, buy the bookstore, and eventually end up buying the Rag.
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