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Midway Dispatch 2010: Thank you, Iris, Marielle, Ania and Michael!

This year’s Midway Dispatch team is Iris Olson, Marielle Gallagher and Ania Chaney. Photography by KURT WILSON/Missoulian

A hearty, and heartfelt, round of applause is in order this morning for Ania Chaney, Iris Olson and Marielle Gallagher – the high-school journalists who were our Midway Dispatch reporters at the 2010 Western Montana Fair.

Their final stories [...]

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Help us deliver newspapers to Missoula classrooms!

There’s just one day of fun and games left at the 2010 Western Montana Fair, which means you have just one day left to drop by the Missoulian’s booth in the Commercial Building and help us provide newspapers for local classrooms.

The Missoulian’s Newspapers in Education effort is one of our most important: It’s how we [...]

Portraits from the county fair

Photograph by LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian

Missoulian photographer Linda Thompson had a confession to make yesterday: She wasn’t so sure she even liked going to the Western Montana Fair when she began a weeklong assignment to shoot portraits of fairgoers.

Now, she’s sweet on the fair. Kind of sentimental about it, in fact. Even a little sappy about [...]

Midway Dispatch and the Missoulian, back at the fair!

This year’s Midway Dispatch team is Iris Olson, Marielle Gallagher and Ania Chaney. Photograph by KURT WILSON/Missoulian

The 2010 edition of the Western Montana Fair is upon us, and with it horse racing (back at last!), the Methodist ladies’ pies (save me a slice of peach … and cherry … and …) and the Missoulian’s [...]

Sunday's Missoulian: a lollapalooza!

Sunday’s Missoulian is going to be a “lollapalooza,” to borrow one of my favorite words from the annals of the Western Montana Fair.

Years ago, I wrote a story on highlights from a century’s worth of county fairs, and in one of those the Missoulian reporter remarked that the fair had been a “lollapalooza.” I think [...]