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Q: Will a person who dies ever live again? - L.D. A: When we've been to a funeral, for a few moments we're solemn and thoughtful. Perhaps we ask, "Is this the end?" Someday we'll be taken out to the cemetery, and someone will say a few words over us. No matter how final it seems, we're prone to ask, "If a man dies, shall he live again?" The answer from the Bible is a resounding yes. The cross and the resurrection of Christ offers everyone eternal life with Him. This brings us...
MISSOULA – Coming in at a weighty 143 pages, Montana's 2022 book of deer, elk and antelope hunting regulations is an impressive tome listing license costs, permit drawing stats, season start dates, tag requirements and the ominous penalties for breaking any of its stated rules. It's a valuable resource in the management of the state's beloved big game animals and a must read for hunters heading out into the field, but it also can be an intimidating opus for even the most e...
It took a little longer than originally planned, but Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild saw the completion of two fresh installations during the first week of October. Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang put the finishing touches on his new piece, a collection of 30 interconnected lodgepole tripods, during the last week of September. "It just was quite an experience," he said Oct.6, when he returned to talk about his piece with Julia and Shanenon Starrett for a video...
"They call me Rich. I've been Rich all my life. Not because I have money. Because of you and you and you..." Richard Paul was the first child born to Edward and Jessie Paul. He was born May 31, 1938, in Great Falls, Mont. at the Columbus Hospital. He was joined by sisters, Patti and Sharen and brothers, Leonard and Charlie. The Paul family lived in several places in the early years following Ed's work. In 1943 they moved to the outskirts of Great Falls (today we call it 39th...
Cecil Ivan Andrew Rhodes, 87, of Tuscola, Ill. passed away at 2:41 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon, Ill. At Mr. Rhodes request no formal services will be held. Mr. Rhodes was born Jan. 1, 1935, in East St. Louis, IL, a son of Aaron Ivan and Edith Lucille (Gregory) Rhodes. He married Beatrice June Gessford Oct. 5, 1957. She passed away March 12, 2006. He later married Carleen Cain on July 15, 2012, in Lick Creek, Ill. He is...
The Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received 25 calls for service in the Lincoln area during the week of Oct. 2 to Oct. 8, 2022 . Three of those calls were traffic stops performed by deputies. We had two cases created over the last week: A deputy responded to a deceased male in the area of Parlin Park Lane Oct. 3. The death was not suspicious in nature and the investigation was turned over to the Coroner's Division. A deputy responded to the area of Elk Meadows Loop Oct. 8...
Gary Buchanan smiled all evening as he warmly welcomed guests to a recent fundraising event in Helena. Friends and supporters of Buchanan giggled as former Gov. Marc Racicot stood at the front of the crowd, commenting on the sea of grey hair before him. Racicot also introduced Buchanan as an "incredibly decent, smart and bright man" whose election to Congress would "send tremors across the country." Buchanan is running as an independent this fall against Republican...
First-term Congressman Matt Rosendale strolled calmly into the Bozeman TV studio minutes before his second of two statewide debates this campaign. He introduced himself to production crew members and chatted briefly with a photojournalist, recalling how he used to snap Polaroids for his father's newspaper back in Stevensville, Maryland. "My favorites are shooting landscapes and wildlife, but I don't do it nearly enough anymore," he said with a laugh. Over the next hour, he...
Facing three candidates in Montana's conservative new eastern congressional district, Democrat Penny Ronning knows she's in an uphill battle, one she promises to "fight like hell" to win. Raised in Billings, where her father ran a diner and her mother worked for the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, she credits her working-class roots and her mother's example of government service for her candidacy. "What inspired me to run for this race was my mom was a career federal...
GREAT FALLS – A 51-year-old hunter from Washington state sustained non-life threatening injuries when he was attacked by a grizzly bear on Tuesday afternoon in Teton County. The hunter and his wife encountered the bear around 1 p.m. while hunting for upland birds in a creek bottom east of Choteau. The bear charged out of thick brush at close range. The hunter fired at the bear with a shotgun and handgun, wounding the bear and stopping the attack. The hunters and their dogs l...