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The Tally Lake Ranger District office has their Smokey the Bear sign stolen, a Billings man who threatened Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Tester gets two and a half years of jail time, vandals struck the Boys and Girls Club and the Ruis Wrestling Academy, and Habitat For Humanity of the Flathead Valley makes moves to accommodate more construction volunteers. Read more of these stories: Smokey Bear stolen from Tally Lake Ranger District Montana man gets prison time for leaving threatening voicemails for Tester Vandals ransack Columbia Falls wrestling academy over weekend Habitat Flathead seeks volunteers to build more homes Read more local and state coverage from this week: Flathead Valley barbecue on menu at famous Kentucky Derby horse race Tester calls for action on water levels in Flathead Lake ahead of summer Man accused of pointing handgun at other motorists Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Reporter Taylor Inman meets with Columbia Falls local, Dr. Thomas Wright, who has returned home bringing top-of-the-line care to the area where he grew up. Dr. Wright specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery, with an emphasis on breast reconstruction. Read the full article here. Learn more about Wright and find contact information for his office online. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

On this week’s Sports Now we’ll roll through a quick spring prep sports update and highlight our Poster Player of the Week before jumping into some NFL news with a number of Bobcats and Grizzlies products landing with teams following the NFL draft. Then we’ll close things out with a quick look at some Glacier Range Riders news as the valley’s pro baseball team is in an ongoing dispute with the National Park Service regarding the Range Riders logo. We’ll get to all that and more on today’s Inter Lake Sports Now. Presented by the Daily Inter Lake https://twitter.com/DailyInterLake Hosted/Produced by Josh Dugan https://twitter.com/jdugan406 #Montana #flatheadvalley #football #collegefootball #grizzlies #bobcats #2024 #sports #sportsnews #collegebasketball Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Taylor Inman chats with Valley Voices Director Allyson Kuechmann and member-at-large Dave Vale about their upcoming show “Saturday Night (and Sunday afternoon) At The Movies.” The group brings together community members with a passion for music, regardless of their experience level. The show runs April 27 at 7:30 p.m. and April 28 at 3 p.m. in the Glacier High School auditorium and is free to attend for all ages. Learn more about Valley Voices from their website http://www.valleyvoicescc.com/ Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Taylor Inman meets with musician father/daughter duo Rob and Halladay Quist at Halladay's Starlight Studio. They talk about their musical upbringings, the importance of musical education, and their bond. They will play on the Daily Inter Lake press floor on May 3rd, 2024! Read Taylor's article - https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/25/the-quist-dynamic-duo-prepares-for-an-exciting-busy-2024/ Tickets to the show - https://flatheadtickets.com/ Big thanks to our sponsor this month, Parkside Credit Union! They are passionate about serving their communities and look no further to find a loan in northwest Montana. Connect with them - www.parksidefcu.com. Learn more about Hallady Quist www.halladayquist.com https://www.facebook.com/HalladayMusic https://www.instagram.com/halladay.quist/ https://www.youtube.com/@halladayquist7399 Learn more about Rob Quist https://www.facebook.com/rob.quist.7 https://www.instagram.com/quist303/ Daily Inter Lake's Press Play concerts are a subscriber-only benefit and support our Newspaper in Education (NIE) Program. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

On this week’s show we’ll start out with two pieces of prep sports news one related to a prep football head coach stepping down in valley and some prep basketball recruiting news then move into a quick spring prep sports update and for the 2nd week in a row we have some college track and field news featuring a Glacier High product as well as some college softball news featuring a Wolfpack alum After that we’ll round things out with some college football talk since Montana State football had their final spring scrimmage over the weekend and close things out with some more college football news as the Big Sky Hall of Fame announced their class of 2024 and it features some treasure state college football legends. Presented by the Daily Inter Lake https://twitter.com/DailyInterLake Hosted/Produced by Josh Dugan https://twitter.com/jdugan406 #Montana #flatheadvalley #football #collegefootball #grizzlies #bobcats #2024 #sports #sportsnews #collegebasketball Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Tune in for this week’s top headlines, including why Montana has ranked number one in the nation for drunk driving fatalities, how Rep. Ryan Zinke plans to help national park gateway communities in new legislation and the details of a trial underway in Lincoln County for the man who allegedly ran over a Montana Highway Patrol officer in February of 2023. Read these full stories here: https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/18/trial-of-man-accused-of-running-down-montana-highway-patrol-trooper-underway-in-libby/ https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/16/us-house-passes-gateway-community-legislation/ https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/18/ratings-montana-worst-for-drunk-driving-fatalities/ Read more local and state coverage: https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/17/all-eyes-on-elephant-that-escaped-circus-wandered-through-butte-traffic/ https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/17/flathead-county-approves-sale-of-property-to-lakeside-sewer-district/ https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/17/two-levies-will-be-on-the-may-ballot-for-kalispell-public-schools/ https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/18/three-story-hotel-proposed-for-bigfork/ Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

A comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women, the Bigfork Community Players brings “Steel Magnolias” to the stage. Taylor Inman sits down with director Michele Mank to learn more about her vision of the beloved show. The play, written by Robert Harling and inspired by the untimely death of his sister, explores relationships among a small group of southern women and how they deal with both the insignificant and the life-changing events they encounter. The play will be presented at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on April 19, 20, 26, and 27 and at 2 p.m. on April 21 and 28. Read more about the show! Buy tickets here - https://bigforkcommunityplayers.com/Magnolias2024Main.html Bigfork Community Players' Facebook page Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Welcome back to the Inter Lake Sports Now hosted by Josh Dugan On this week’s Sports Now we’ll start out with a spring sports update including some Cat-Dog baseball, Crosstown tennis, and some local softball action. Then we’ll roll into the college sports news starting with some former valley athletes who are making headlines at the next level as members of the Griz and Cats. Then we’ll take a look at the Griz football spring game that took place Friday night in Missoula and wrap this thing up with two more college football headlines one is Griz specific and the other relates to both the Griz, the cats as well as the rest of FCS Football. Presented by the Daily Inter Lake https://twitter.com/DailyInterLake Hosted/Produced by Josh Dugan https://twitter.com/jdugan406 #Montana #flatheadvalley #football #collegefootball #grizzlies #bobcats #2024 #sports #sportsnews #collegebasketball _______________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to Nomad GCS and Hagadone Media Group Montana for their support. https://nomadgcs.com/ Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

The Flathead Valley chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby is hosting an Earth Day Expo at Flathead Valley Community College on April 20th. The nationwide group is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address pollution. Reporter Taylor Inman chats with Flathead Valley chapter co-leaders Angie Winter and Robin Paone about what panels, workshops, and other fun activities are planned for this year’s event. They say the expo aims to educate about the many ways people can benefit from clean energy and innovative technologies, all while saving money and helping protect the Earth. The Earth Day Expo takes place at the Arts and Technology building at Flathead Valley Community College, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Find out more information at www.citizensclimatemt.org/earth-day-flathead-valley-montana. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Host Taylor Inman reads some of the previous week’s top stories, including how firefighters battled a blaze in a three-story hotel on Kalispell’s west side, why local Whitefish residents are increasingly at odds with the tourism industry’s impact on the city, and the details of an upcoming work session requested by Kalispell City Councilor Chad Graham, who wants to take a look at the Flathead Warming Center’s conditional use permit. Read these full stories: Kalispell hotel fire damage estimated at $4 million Local’s sour on tourism’s impact on Whitefish Work session on shelter should be limited to council, Graham says Read more local and state news: Donald Trump Jr. to campaign with Gianforte, Zinke in Missoula Drunk driver sentenced to 20 years for death of Kalispell pedestrian Native UM student works to create missing persons database Glacier Park’s Sun Road plowed beyond the Loop Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

On Friday, April 5th, Izaak Opatz joined us for a lunchtime show on our press floor. From tales of borrowing toiletries to misreading women, Izaak's show weaved us from the good and bad of LA to memories of Radar Ridge in East Glacier. Put best by himself, Izaak's music is "an ungulate in life’s winter pasture, chewing on and metabolizing disappointment, heartbreak, and the other tough stuff into enjoyable musical carbohydrates". He uses "wry humor, thoughtful simile, and close observation - a therapeutic process of narrativizing his own life that, almost as a byproduct, turns out savory nuggets of literate, confessional pop". Read or watch our interview before the show! Learn more about Izaak and his upcoming shows on his website, and discover his music on Spotify. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Josh breaks down Bobcats head basketball coach Matt Logie turning down the Washington State job to stay at Montana State and why it was a huge win for the program. Plus, a look at how former Griz football stars fared at pro day, Glacier High promotes a new head basketball coach, reigning state softball champs Columbia Falls and Glacier squared off in the valley, and a Carroll College basketball star was named the NAIA national player of the year. Presented by the Daily Inter Lake https://twitter.com/DailyInterLake Hosted/Produced by Josh Dugan https://twitter.com/jdugan406 #Montana #flatheadvalley #football #collegefootball #grizzlies #bobcats #2024 #sports #sportsnews #collegebasketball Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

In case you missed them, here are some headlines from the Flathead area this week. The re-do election for two Kalispell city council seats is scheduled for May 7th, Flathead County Library (formally known as ImagineIF) is looking for a new logo design, and we outline construction projects and closures for Glacier National Park’s 2024 season. Read more from this week’s show: Kalispell Election Flathead County Library logo Glacier National Park's Construction Schedule Check out our events calendar at dailyinterlake.com/events. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Taylor Inman sat with the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce Workforce and Special Initiatives Director Jennifer Cronk and Neal Drakage with the Montana Department for Labor and Industry. They discussed the Spring Job Fair coming up on April 11th at the Flathead County Fairgrounds. It’s a fantastic opportunity for local businesses to hire full-time, part-time, and seasonal employees. On the flipside, it’s a great place for anyone to explore their opportunities in a career shift. More information here about the job fair. For business signups as employers/exhibitors, click this link. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

In case you missed them, here are some headlines from this week in the Flathead Valley. Glacier National Park has started plowing roads, a costly toxic waste cleanup at Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. plant could cost up to 1.4 billion dollars, and a study found that 11 glaciers in Glacier National Park have broken into pieces. Read the full stories at dailyinterlake.com: GNP Plowing Columbia Falls Superfund site Glacier Study Link to our events page - https://dailyinterlake.com/events/ Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Taylor Inman Zooms in with musician Izaak Opatz. They talk touring, going back to school for a master's in environmental journalism, getting inspiration from a couple of Johns, dreaming of writing songs about friendship, and a cosmic country alien band. Izaak will play on the Daily Inter Lake press floor on April 5th, 2024! Tickets to the show Read Taylor's Interview Izaak's website Listen on Spotify or Apple Music Leather Tooling Our Press Play concerts are a subscriber-only benefit and support our Newspaper in Education (NIE) Program. Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Reporter Taylor Inman sits down with Whitefish Community Library Director, Mary Drew Powers and local author Jess Owen to chat about the library's Writers Series. They discuss the library’s growing adult programming, teaching workshops tailored for teens, Jess’ writing process, furries, the joy of a poetry reading, and the many resources writers have here in the Flathead Valley. More about the Writer's Series Whitefish Community Library Jess Owen Books under the Jessica Kara pen name Authors of the Flathead Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

In case you missed them, here are some headlines that broke for the Flathead Valley this week! They include Kalispell voters approving an emergency services levy, Columbia Falls moving forward with an affordable housing project, and Lakeside County taking on regional septage treatment facility plans. Read the full stories: Kalispell public safety levy - https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/mar/21/kalispell-voters-approve-public-safety-levy/ Columbia Falls Affordable Housing - https://hungryhorsenews.com/news/2024/mar/15/city-will-go-ahead-with-affordable-housing-project/ Septage Treatment Facility in Lakeside - https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/mar/21/flathead-county-passes-septage-treatment-facility-to-lakeside-district/ Link to our events page - https://dailyinterlake.com/events/ Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

In case you missed them, here are some headlines that broke for the Valley this week! They include primary and general election updates, a conviction for a Montana man conspiring to illegally artificially impregnate sheep with an endangered species' semen, and the Logan Health-Billings Clinic CEO resigning. Dive deeper and read the full stories at https://dailyinterlake.com: Flathead County Commissioner race article Illegal Sheep Breeding article Hospital CEO article Check out local events - https://dailyinterlake.com/events/ Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!