Opinion

Calving is full of drama

We are enjoying normal dinner hours and having an actual bedtime as we count down the days until calving starts and that all changes. I love calving season now, because

ON GETTING STUCK

It’s amazing how suddenly you realize that you’re a lot farther gone than you thought you were. In that way, getting stuck is a sort of magical spell that in

Letter to the editor

Thank you from Big Timber Community Food Bank Editor: The board of the Big Timber Food Bank would like to thank all who donated to Town Pump’s matching campaign before

Sheepherders are alive and well

It is time again for all of Sweet Grass County to cheer on the SGHS Herders as they venture to the next round toward a state championship. The divisionals are

Good news and a lot of plain old silliness

A lot of high-fives this week. Plus a little ridiculousness, if that is a word. We like how the Sweet Grass County Commissioners have added details to their weekly online

Well, you can always eat squirrel when beef is banned

While other columnists are piling on to ridicule the “Green New Deal” proposed by Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, I have to say

Steer clear of radicals from both sides

While everybody watched the Super Bowl Sunday, I was watching Book TV on CSPAN. OK, I admit I am a book nerd. Plus pro football doesn’t interest me like college

Irresponsibility catches up with us in Northwest measles outbreak

How many disease outbreaks will it take before we figure this out: If you don’t vaccinate your kids, you are putting them, and other people, in danger. A measles outbreak

Rustling up a calf who thinks he’s wild

Since our son Bret bought into our ranching operation when he came back to the ranch after college, I am no longer the right hand man in this operation. I

Letters to the editor

People can do what they want with their land Editor: I would like to point out that the attempt to deprive private landowners of the use of their land is