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Mike Johnson, left, and Bill Wiesner check vital signs on a grizzly bear they trapped near Ovando recently. Montana FWP is working on a federal study to determine the number of grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. Photo by Michael Gallacher/Missoulian When grizzly bears come to town, it’s a story. This week, when [...] Advertisement
Freestyle kayaking phenom Jason Craig, 16, of Reno, Nev., gets some air during the men’s preliminaries of the U.S. Freestyle Kayaking Championships Wednesday afternoon at Brennan’s Wave in Missoula. Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian The night shift had the advantage in the newsroom Wednesday afternoon. They moseyed in with smiling faces and suntans, having just spent [...] Western tanager. Photograph by MICHAEL GALLACHER Years ago, I was at a journalism workshop where the keynote speaker talked about the importance of a local newspaper looking and sounding like its community. I remind myself of that imperative every day. “What does it look and sound and feel like to live in Missoula – in western Montana [...] Jack Hooker works with one of his young horses at the Whitetail Ranch’s indoor arena. MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian If you’ve ever had the pleasure of spending even a few hours at Jack and Karen Hooker’s Whitetail Ranch, you know there is no lovelier, more well-tended ranch in Montana. Just outside Ovando, the ranch commands sweeping views of [...] Second-grader Hannah Jourdannais with her favorite book, “The Hello, Goodbye Window,” and her artistic interpretation of a scene from the book. Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian Sunday’s Missoulian? It’s going to be egg-ceptionally good reading! We’ve got a nice combination of features and special news packages coming in our Sunday edition. In celebration of Easter and spring, [...] Montana celebrates winning the NCAA Big Sky championship game Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Ogden, Utah. Montana beat Weber State 66-65. (Photo by Douglas C. Pizac, © 2010 Pizac Photography LLC) We’ve got our dancing shoes on here at the Missoulian, which means we’ve got plane tickets and press credentials and are bound for San [...] Rose Neumeyer reacts to nearly scoring a strike during a league game last Friday. A fierce but friendly competition exists between Neumeyer and fellow bowler Russell Greene. MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian PLAINS – Welcome to perhaps the only bowling league in America where a 7-10 split is cause for celebration. The Macy’s department store in downtown Missoula is waving goodbye after doing business on Higgins Avenue for the past decade. Macy’s first opened the store as the Bon Macy’s in 1999 before changing the name to Macy’s in 2005. The store will conduct a 60-day liquidation sale before closing its doors. Photo by MICHAEL [...] Missoulian photographers’ favorite photos of 2009 Every year, I look forward to one look back: the Missoulian photographers’ collection of favorite photos from the past 12 months, displayed as a collage in our newspaper (and here) and as an audio slideshow online. They are beautiful photographs, of course, incredible really. Funny, tender, chest-thumping, heartbreaking, in turn. [...] Today’s shoutout goes to all those reporters still dedicated to boot-leather journalism: interviewing sources eye-to-eye, really talking to folks before quoting them in the newspaper, getting out and about to know a community and its stories. I couldn’t help but notice the chasm between the kind of journalism noted in Chuck Johnson’s column in Sunday’s Missoulian [...] |
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