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2 days ago | hungryhorsenews.com | Chris Peterson

Anthony and Amy Dorazio expect to have one of the most unique Fourth of July experiences in the United States. The Columbia Falls couple will drive their 2005 Ford Expedition SUV to a private spread in Glacier View, Alaska, and then watch it get launched off a 300-foot cliff. Yahoo!“We celebrate freedom,” Arnie Hrncir, organizer of the Glacier View Car Launch 99 miles outside of Anchorage said. More than 20 years ago Hrncir’s wife hit a moose with their Volvo.

2 days ago | hungryhorsenews.com | Chris Peterson

We were all gathered around the buses after getting a firsthand look at Logan Pass, when I asked public information officer Gina Icenoggle who would replace her. She said it didn’t appear anyone would. That the position would be folded into the Department of Interior and in, short, Glacier could very well have no local public information officer moving forward. I just sort of stood there, stunned. Over 27 years I’ve not always seen eye-to-eye with Glacier PIO’s as we call them.

2 days ago | hungryhorsenews.com | Chris Peterson

Columbia Falls senior Boone Shanks someday hopes to invent machines that make it easier for people to cope with chronic conditions. The Eagle Scout and all-state member of the Columbia Falls speech and debate team, Shanks has seen health struggles of his own and in his family. When he was a freshman he had to have surgery on his back for scoliosis, he said, and his father, Ty, had a kidney transplant after years of being on dialysis. So he speaks from experience.

1 week ago | hungryhorsenews.com | Chris Peterson

The Columbia Falls City Council approved a 9-hole disc golf course at River’s Edge Park last week. The council gave the nod to the course after hearing from members of the Flathead Disc Golf Association. The golfers said that safety is important and they don’t throw the discs if people are in the way of the course. They might host tournaments in the park in the future. The association will pay the $6,500 in costs associated with the course, which includes cement pads and metal baskets.

1 week ago | hungryhorsenews.com | Scott Shindledecker

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services officials are alerting the public about the recent identification of a tick new to Montana known as Ixodes scapularis, commonly referred to as a “deer tick” or “blacklegged tick.”State health officials report that in the past year three blacklegged ticks were identified in the state for the first time through active surveillance conducted by researchers and public health officials. The ticks were found in Dawson and Sheridan counties.