Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

I may not watch the news, but that doesn’t mean I’m not informed. Most of my friends who do watch the news hadn’t even heard of the destruction...

Q: Is God like us or is God basically a vapor or something that is in the atmosphere? - G.W. A: God isn't made of atoms or molecules; He isn't part...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about gender, gender identification, choosing a gender, sexuality, biology, how it affects our kids of today, and...

If you’re breathing, you’ve heard about the recent Oscar Awards fiasco involving Chris Rock and Will Smith. Photos of the punch and the constant...

I grew up in a very small town. I was five years old when we moved there in 1975, and the population sign read something just over 1,000 people. That...

Holy cow! In the last ten days we’ve seen the start of a war, the release of Pfizer court documents regarding the COVID vaccine side effects, and...

Just last week I thought spring had arrived. The weather was unseasonably warm and sunny. I had that lighter feeling, the one I get when spring is...

Todays triple threat is chronic pain, chronic fatigue and depression. Each can present by itself, but invariably where one is the others follow. In...

Next week, we’ll celebrate Valentine’s Day with all the mushy cards, candy, flowers, and more. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of...

There are many reasons to celebrate, birthdays, weddings, graduations and milestones. Some are celebrated once a year, once a decade, or just once....

Editor's Note: On a recent trip to my parents place in Missoula, my mother showed me this story, written by my sister Kathy for a class back in 1992....

We all have our own Christmas and holiday traditions and memories that we either continue or that motivate us to create new ones. Some change and...

Sometimes in life, we find friends that mean the world to us. We just connect with them, and they become part of us. I can count on one hand the numbe...

Everyone has a talent, whether they realize it or not, and there are so many different ways to express ourselves. There are those who create art with...

It’s been a busy couple of weeks with travel, in-person shows and getting ready for upcoming holiday shows. Throughout all the hustle and bustle,...

In this last segment of my repeating history series, I’d like to point out a few things about our recent history, within the last ten years or so,...

Last week’s column was on history repeating itself as it pertains to World War II and how I see similarities and correlations between events that...

Our world today has me thinking a lot about our past, and how little we seemed to have learned from it. I see us repeating our history in a couple of...

There is a lot going on in the world right now. Good, bad and otherwise. But the one thing about this time of year, in my opinion, is the time to...

Sometimes we forget how much we miss doing something we love - and how good for us it is to do those things. This past week I was reminded of just...

I recently overheard a conversation between two people while I was sitting at a machine in the Wheel Inn. I’m not sure if these two individuals,...

Last week may have been all about giving grace, but this week there’s an apparent need for setting the record straight on a few things… First,...

I’ve been on quite the whirlwind of adventures this last month. I’ve traveled to Idaho, Whitehall, Alaska, Eureka and recently just down the road...