Montana fugitive nabbed in Philippines
BILLINGS — The U.S. Marshals Service says a Billings man has been arrested in the Philippines on charges that he conspired to distribute heroin in Montana.
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Koen the Russian: Humane Society of Western Montana's pet of the week
Curious Koen has literally grown up at the Humane Society of Western Montana. As a kitten he had an intestinal virus and needed medications and a loving foster home to nurse him back to health. He is
Read morePatton: Pet of the week at Missoula Animal Control
He may have the name of a general, but our Patton is definitely a lover, not a fighter. His favorite activity is snuggling, followed closely by eating and lounging around. He gets along with everyone
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Colorado State University English professor David Mogen recounts his peripatetic 1950's Montana childhood with good humor and insight in Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories (University of Nebraska Press, 231 pages, $21.95). His father worked as a teacher and superintendent for school districts throughout Montana. Every few years, Mogen's parents would move with their six children to a new town for a different job--the towns the family lived in included Missoula, Ennis, Box Elder, Billings, Whitewater, and Froid, where Mogen graduated from high school. (When he went to college at Columbia in New York, one of his new classmates informed him that he pronounced the name of his hometown incorrectly.)
Although there were many differences between these places--such as the contrast between lively Missoula, where Mogen's dad completed his studies through the G.I. Bill, and the "time warp" they encountered in Whitewater, population 75, where electricity had only recently been introduced--Mogen sees all of these towns as places where the prior generations enacted their "honyocker dreams."
David Mogen will discuss his book at Matter Bookstore in Ft. Collins on August 25 at 7:30 p.m. Read more From record snowfall last winter to relentless rains this spring, state agencies and weather forecasters have been warning us for months that when melt-off begins in earnest, we'll be looking at ten pounds of river in a five pound bag. But how can anyone be surprised that their driveway is now a boat ramp? All you needed to do was consult the mother of all weather forecasting tools, the Holy Bible. Read more The accomplished writer Melanie Rae Thon grew up in Montana and teaches at the University of Utah. In This Light: New & Selected Stories (Graywolf Press, 256 pages, $15) collects some of the highlights of her career, and there have been many--her stories have regularly appeared in the Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Thon frequently sets her stories in the West, but they follow none of the typical paths Western writers are often expected to take.
Thon focuses on people who exist on the fringes of society, who are damaged, dispossessed, addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, or all three, people who never have the chance to stop and admire the landscape--like the homeless kids of Kalispell in her story "Heavenly Creatures"--they're too busy scrapping for survival. Thon relentlessly turns her attention on people that society ignores, and describes them with intense language in stories that are replete with ghosts. Read moreWhat's A 'Honyocker Dream'? David Mogen Explains in New Memoir
How To Survive the Flooding
'In This Light' Collects Utah Writer Melanie Rae Thon's Greatest Hits
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