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Plains couple runs popular Island Noodles stand
Since its launch, Northwest Island Noodles has become a beloved fixture at local farmers' markets, festivals, and community events, winning Best of Flathead in the food truck category for multiple years. With just two options — vegan soba noodles and teriyaki chicken soba noodles — the menu is straightforward, allowing the chefs to master the art of the wok stove. “The menu was very intentional,” said owner and operator Debby French. “We are able to provide a fresh noodle batch very quickly. We can feed a lot of people very quickly, which makes us very popular at big music festivals when...
Mount Brown Hawk Watch event this weekend
Glacier National Park will host its annual Mount Brown Hawk Watch Program on Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. near Lake McDonald Lodge. The event will be held at the Golden Eagle interpretative sign near Jammer Joe’s parking lot. Park biologists will teach volunteers how to identify and count migrating raptors. Educators from Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center will also be on site with live raptors from noon - 2 p.m. to provide a close-up on raptor species that migrate past Mount Brown. For the last hour of the event, counting migrating raptors will resume from 2 - 3 p.m....
Crow painter and equine sculptor at Cawdrey Gallery
Crow artist Kevin Red Star and equine sculptor Brenna Kimbro will have their latest work on display at Cawdrey Gallery for the last Whitefish Gallery Nights of 2024 on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 5-8 p.m. “An intertwining of my Indian culture with contemporary art expression has given me a greater insight concerning my art, said Kevin Red Star. “I hope to accomplish something for the American Indian and at the same time achieve personal satisfaction in a creative statement through my art.” Red Star blends Crow (Apsáalooke) traditions with modern art trends. He paints depictions of warriors, ceremonies, costumes, and tipis,...
Ski film with Voisin and Costain sparks stoke
Local freeride skier Parkin Costain remembers seeing epic Teton Gravity Research ski movies at the O’Shaughnessy Center when he was 11 years old and being inspired by skiers like Sage Cattabriga-Alosa. Now, Costain and fellow freeride skier Maggie Voisin are psyched to bring “Beyond the Fantasy,” a Teton Gravity Research movie, to Whitefish. The film features the two friends, alongside Cattabriga-Alosa and about 20 other top-notch athletes. The show is Oct. 3 at the O’Shaughnessy Center. Costain has been skiing with the film company Teton Gravity Research for about six years and helped get Voisin involved last season. After retiring from...
Mack Days: Anglers reel in nearly 9,000 lake trout by week 5
There are still five weeks left in the 2024 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event on Flathead Lake. A total of 8,730 lake trout entries have been entered so far in this event.Up to $200,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded on Nov. 3, the last day of the event. These events are sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and are used as a management tool in a fish conservation effort to reduce non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake and increase the native bull trout and westslope cutthroat. The events are designed to give everyone who catches even...
Photos from Flathead Nation students on display at Bigfork library
Photographers from the Salish Kootenai College and Two Eagle River School joined library staff and patrons last week to celebrate their work being on display at the new Bigfork branch of Flathead County Library. Art Vision & Outreach in Community Education, or A VOICE, is a nonprofit that works with the high school and college to provide artistic educational opportunities for students. Photos on display at the Bigfork library are part of the organization’s REzMaDe project, which was also recently shown in the annual Photoville festival in New York City’s Brooklyn Park. “What was cool about today is that the...
Explore Whitefish Affordable Housing Initiative recognized
World Tourism Day marks the launch of “100 Travel Innovations,” a collection of stories from 100 destinations around the world about the programs and activities happening right now to improve our lives – environmentally, economically, and socially. As a partner of “100 Travel Innovations,” Explore Whitefish supports the drive to ensure travel improves the world. Since October 2023, Explore Whitefish has allocated 50% of Community Support Fund contributions collected from restaurant business members to Housing Whitefish, the local non-profit organization that advocates, creates, and plans for the sustainable supply of affordable housing. As of August 2024, $301,990 has been raised through...
Chairlift: Searching for the missing glove
Last Wednesday's warm weather moved me to clock out midday for a few hours and hike some of Big Mountain with my dogs. Not that we needed a purpose, but we told ourselves we were looking for the glove I lost last winter. You might remember that a wind gust sent my favored, blue and grey uphill glove over the edge of the Benny Up trail just beyond the Tree of Deception. I had been participating in the Shred-a-thon and when nature decided to take my briefly-dropped glove, I lacked the grit to chase it down. I figured I would eventually...
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