Next time you’re out on the Community Park ski trails, watch for Big Sky Community Organization Winter Trail Ambassador Dean Nally—he’s there several times a month volunteering his time to make every trail user’s experience a positive one.
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his time of year, lots of people in Big Sky are seeing weasels. They’ll be cross-country skiing and one will pop out of the snow. In winter, their fur turns white, and people will tell me, “Hey, I saw an ermine.” But there are three species of weasel in Montana, and only the short-tailed weasel is also known as an ermine.
After graduating from Lone Peak High School in 2013, Tucker Shea attended Cornell University, studying fiber science and apparel design with a concentration in product development before landing his dream job at Nike Footwear in 2017. We wanted to know, how’s life?
ABACO Energy Services is no different than NorthWestern Energy, asserts the Montana Public Service Commission, when it comes to being the sole provider of an essential utility in Big Sky.
If you live in the Madison County portion of Big Sky, you might be one of the 324 registered voters already eligible to cast a ballot in the upcoming district three commissioner race pitting incumbent Jim Hart against whomever files to be his opponent before the March 12 deadline.
The year before he was born, Scott MacFarlane’s father bought the Korner Klub in Four Corners.
“It’s all kind of weird colors. Green, purple. He has kind of an interesting taste in the color palette,” laughed MacFarlane during a recent phone interview.
The Big Sky Community Food Bank is partnering with the Human Resource Development Council’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program to offer free tax assistance for those in Big Sky earning under $54,000 annually.
In response to the last Big Sky Resort Area Tax Board’s subcommittee meeting held earlier this month, Big Sky Resort General Manager Taylor Middleton attended the second annual Resort Tax Summit, offering his two cents on the question of whether private club membership dues should be subject to the 3 percent resort tax.
Back in 2005, Jed Hinkle was just out of college at Montana State University and working as a fisheries technician in Gallatin National Forest. His job: To locate and protect remnant populations of genetically pure native cutthroat trout.
Flying down the slopes of Moonlight Basin, Belgrade High School sophomore Kami was often leaving her Big Sky Youth Empowerment crew in the dust. But they didn’t seem to mind, since it gave them the option to catch up, make a quick stop and blast her with snow.