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Search & Rescue saves Mr. Paddle near ‘Max End’
From Our Caldera Community Section

MAX END, ID. — Max End — where the heck is it?

Nowhere, really, but that’s how KPVI TV spelled “Mack’s Inn” in a recent online report about an offbeat Fremont County Search and Rescue mission.

On Monday, July 21, Fremont County Search and Rescue responded to a report of an “upturned blue canoe sighting” on  ...[more]

Search & Rescue saves Mr. Paddle near ‘Max End’

YNP Chief: Brucellosis 'most difficult' issue facing park, neighbors
From Our Critters Section

By JENNIFER McKEE
Lee News Service


HELENA, Mont. -- Saying brucellosis "does not belong in our future," Suzanne Lewis, the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, pledged Monday, July 21, to work with Montana's Board of Livestock to eradicate the disease.

Lewis also said the issue is  ...[more]

YNP Chief: Brucellosis 'most difficult' issue facing park, neighbors

What's going on?
From Our Happenings Section

Saturday, July 26
   Leave No Trace Camping,
10 a.m. Flat Ranch Preserve, 4770 Hwy 20, Island Park, 558-7629. Shannon Bassista will demonstrate low impact camping. Bring your scout troop, family or fellow travelers. GREAT FOR KIDS!

 Wednesday, July 23
   • Flat Ranch Tour by Canoe,
3 - 6:30 p.m.  ...[more]

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Pioneer Day celebration includes music, rodeo, theater, & the best parade around
From Our St. Anthony Section

By CATHY KOON

ST. ANTHONY – The best parade in the region, theater at its finest, rodeo action at its toughest, and fireworks at their most spectacular are all part of the St. Anthony Pioneer Day celebration.

It all starts Tuesday, July 22, with the opening of The Music Man on stage at the Roxy Theater in St. Anthony. The production runs  ...[more]

Pioneer Day celebration includes music, rodeo, theater, & the best parade around

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Hey Pilgrim - Buy, sell, trade, or give away at the Targhee Trader! Five bucks. 558-0267; ipnews@mac.com

Anonymous

Antifreeze Group (Island Park AA) meets every meet every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m & Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Little Church in the Pines. 558-9683 or 558-7453.

Alanon meeting, noon, Thurs., Community Church, 505 N. Electric, West Yellowstone.

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Math whiz needed to help high school  ...[more]

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Caldera Community
Bearproof bins are now available  

By Scott Christensen

The summer of 2007 was a tough one for bears in Greater Yellowstone. The hot, dry weather made food difficult to find and sent bears into towns looking for something to eat. Island Park was a flashpoint for...

A Letter of Thanks and Gratitude  

On behalf of the Island Park Area Chamber of Commerce and the 2008 All-American Sawtelle Stampede Fun Run Committee, I want to publicly announce my sincere gratitude and thanks to all that contributed to the success of this year's event....


Fremont County
A look at some proposed changes to the Fremont County Comprehensive Plan  

By JOSHUA CHASE, Planner II

Hopefully the new plan will assure the continuing quality of life people here currently enjoy and protection all of things that contribute to the character of the county.

FREMONT COUNTY — The Fremont County Planning and Zoning...


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Our personal pioneer days  

Mountain Views

The LDS folks will soon observe the Pioneer Day celebration of finding their spiritual home in Utah, and I will have a pioneer celebration of my own. I discovered Yellowstone country on a July vacation in 1974 and moved...

It's not my fault!  

I was reading in the paper the other day about a problem bear that had been hanging around campgrounds in Yellowstone and was going through garbage cans and trash piles looking for something to eat. Apparently he was unimpressed by...

Pfeiffer's Pfacts  

by Fred Pfeiffer

One artist made one song a hit twice

  • Not too many recording artists have taken the same song to number one on the Billboard Chart. Chubby Checker did so with “The Twist.” It peaked at the...

 
 
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