Thursday, July 27
Hoops camps award winners announced
The following athletes took home awards at the recent basketball camp held at the Columbia Falls High School:
Clamps put on
campfires
Wednesday, July 5
Lord of
the flies
Scars on the Western landscape
Thousands of acres of abandoned mines, tens of thousands of miles of rutted timber roads, antiquated century-old dams, tainted soils and waters — these and other legacies of our resource-extractive past offer us economic opportunities galore.
Don't let the Chinese beat us
An important lesson I learned while in China recently is that while the Chinese have not embraced freedom, they have certainly wrapped their arms around free enterprise. Their economy is booming, and they are betting on the profit motive to maintain momentum, but they are investing in education to sustain the boom in the long term.
Mary Lauterbach
Mary Ellen Lauterbach, 47, passed away early in the morning of July 1, 2006, of heart complications.
Farrell Couch
Farrell "FCC" Couch passed away June 30, 2006, of natural causes.
Letters to the Editor
A community treasure
Letter from the editor
A birthday wish