Surviving Wildfire Season

Every year, we wish we could skip this step, but there’s a reason it’s called Montana’s fifth season. Smoke particles in the air are unpleasant for everyone, but can be particularly dangerous to children whose airways are still developing, the elderly, and anyone with a respiratory condition like asthma. So how do you cope with the smoke?

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Don't Miss This Event: National Night Out

Big Dipper is scooping up FREE ice cream for kids, the Missoula Fire Department will have a water station along with their ladder truck on site, Safe Kids will be doing car seat checks, and of course the Missoula Police Department will be there with their K-9 team, Bomb Squad, SWAT, along with their patrol and motor cars.

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Summer Bucket List 2022

Summer is short, so make it count with this list of some of our favorite trips, activities to do with kids and events. Whether you are new to the area, or a lifelong local, don’t miss some of the best parts of raising a family in this neck of the woods.

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Yearbooks

As we continue to process the news of the Robb Elementary School shooting, so many questions go unanswered. How can an entire classroom — an entire page of a yearbook — be wiped out in a matter of minutes? How do we quantify so much loss? How did we get here? And what can we do?

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