On the afternoon of Sept. 15, Bozeman Health representatives called a press conference to
alert the public that Deaconess Hospital, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic
started, was preparing to enter a surge stage with all of its beds at or near 100% capacity.
John Stember, our new Lone Peak Lookout community reporter, is an outdoor professional and small town journalist who recently moved to Bozeman from Missoula. Drawn to rural spaces and the people who call them home, John first started his career in journalism in northern Minnesota on the edge of the Boundary Waters.
The Big Sky Resort Tax, which started in 1992 and is composed of over 700 local businesses, helps to pump the financial lifeblood of the Big Sky community. Each business within the district pays a 4% tax on all luxury goods and services considered not essential for life.
As Madison County Commissioner Ron Nye explained, to establish a more equitable system regarding road maintenance between Madison County’s three road districts county, commissioners recently made some changes to district funding structure.
As Americans we tend to take the easy way out: choosing cost over quality or taking a job based on the pay, it’s easy to allow our budget to make our decisions. This choice has big environmental impacts when it comes to building.
People concerned about global warming and the environment would never throw away aluminum cans, but they will casually toss watermelon rinds and left-over food into the trash and send it to the landfill.
As the summer is coming to an end, the Big Sky School District School Board has decided that the school will start off the year as they ended, requiring masks for all students and staff members indoors.
As part of their net carbon neutral goal, Big Sky Resort now gives their guests the opportunity to help one of the most innovative green companies do its work: collecting and destroying millions of tons of the most powerful greenhouse gases in the world.
Sustainability means different things to different people, but for Big Sky Resort’s Sustainability Specialist Amy Trad and the Big Sky Resort it means Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2030.
"He said it was the best day ever.” This is how Nancy Reynolds described young athlete Ridley Brandmayr’s reaction after finishing up a day fly fishing on the Yellowstone river. It seems as if Brandmayr was not alone as all eight participants in the Challenged Athletes Foundation fly fishing camp made some memories that will last a lifetime.