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UM student-journalists to produce news updates for MontanaPBS

One night a few years back, after falling asleep while watching TV, I woke to see one of my daughter’s childhood friends reading the news on MontanaPBS.

It took a few minutes to wake up enough to realize that professional newscaster was indeed the same little girl who I once put in timeout when she shoved [...]

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Hall Passages: In Missoula’s schools

The Missoulian began a new yearlong series today, with the publication of reporter Jamie Kelly’s first “Hall Passages” story. Each week on a rotating basis, Jamie will visit a private or public school in the Missoula Valley to see what’s new in the halls of our learning institutions.

He’ll spend time in the school, focusing on [...]

Campaign 2010: Let the games begin!

It’s Labor Day, and that means the “official” – or at least the traditional – start of the fall campaign season. And while much has been made about Montana’s lack of fiery statewide races this year, there are dozens of very significant local races.

Control of the 2011 Montana Legislature will be decided in each and [...]

Sniffing out the news!

Here’s one of the things I’ve loved about hanging around newspapers all my working life: the smell of a new edition of the paper coming off the press.

Now, thanks to a Missoula couple, I can log that pleasant inky aroma on a global map of smelly places. And on Sunday, thanks to reporter Keila Szpaller, [...]

Crosstown game day: Sign up for scores by text now!

I love high school football games – especially those on great September evenings when the weather is still warm!

And the very best of those games are the crosstown rivalries, where the grandstands are filled on both sides of the field and a whole bunch of bragging rights are on the line.

One such contest is tonight [...]

Sign up for texts of prep football scores

Missoula Sentinel’s Cameron Suter, right, dives on a ball fumbled by Billings Skyview’s Ryan Guelff as Sentinel’s Jack Gunter, bottom left, and Colin LaPorte look on Friday night at MCHS Stadium. Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian

Western Montana’s high school football season kicked off in fine style Friday night, and we’ve got lots of new and [...]

Griz fever in the newsroom!

Six-year-old Wyatt Zander, left, and his brothers, twins Keith, middle, and Emmett, 5, get their footballs autographed by members of the University of Montana football team on Thursday during the Great Griz Encounter at Caras Park in Missoula. The event gives the public a chance to get autographs and meet the team. Photo by [...]

The candidate questionnaire delivered by mule train

Here in the newsroom, we’re busy collecting information from the dozens of western Montana legislative candidates whose names will be on November’s general election ballot.

Starting in September, we’ll publish their responses to Q&As – one district at a time for several weeks.

It’s a lengthy and occasionally frustrating process, finding all the candidates and securing their [...]

Sunday, Sunday: Please take our survey!

Have you had a chance yet to complete our online survey about the Sunday Missoulian?

We’re joining our sister newspapers throughout Lee Enterprises in asking readers what they like, don’t like, would add to or subtract from their Sunday newspaper. We know times are tight for folks here in western Montana, and want to make sure [...]

100 years later: The Big Burn revisited

We only know them as Mr. and Mrs. Swaine, but their story endures – 100 years after the largest firestorm in recorded U.S.history came within a few feet of incinerating tiny Mullan, Idaho, and everyone huddled outside its homes and shopfronts.

On Aug. 22, 1910, Mr. Swaine took pen in hand and began writing, retelling the [...]