Blackfoot Valley Dispatch photo earns Photograph of the Year award

A Blackfoot Valley Dispatch photograph of a falling bronc and rider – and the crowd's shocked reaction - earned recognition as the 2019 Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year at the 134th Annual Montana Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Awards ceremony June 8 in Big Sky.

BVD Editor and Publisher Roger Dey shot the image of Blackfoot, Idaho bronc rider Cooper Clemons during a wild ride last year a...