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This weekend the town of Terry will be enjoying small community festivities including corn hole tossing at their annual Yippee! Day festivities.

Small Towne RV Park in Terry, Montana invites you to come spend some time with us in our spacious, clean, and quiet RV Park. We have easy smooth access close to 1-94 with Manard and Myra, your very friendly host and hostess. (more…)

Dateline: Terry, Montana
By: Bob van der Valk

The taxpayers of the US are the losers with Goldman Sachs (GS) employees the winners in this game called “Last Man Standing”. With most of their competitors being either bought out under duress or allowed to go bankrupt they have been left holding the bag. Even a leprechaun could not have been as lucky as to finding a bag so full of gold. (more…)

If you’re a good 100-miles off the beaten path in Montana, you may find yourself in a place like Virginia City, the near-sibling to Nevada City, both of which are historic and interesting. More than that, the drive out there from Bozeman (which is much shorter than you might think) is really beautiful. If you do find yourself in Virginia City, and you’re looking for an ounce of fun, you should check out the Virginia City Players.
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When I was younger I was sometimes afraid of bugs. Not all of them, but most I think. What can I say, they’re creepy and kind of gross. No parent wants their kids afraid of bugs, so mine did the only thing they could think to do; they took me outside during the summer. Mere exposure apparently does work wonders to acclimate young folk such as me to earth’s other creatures, and for me I can say it worked very well indeed.
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The town of Terry, Montana has been abuzz lately with the report that a new eatery, Badlands Café and Scoop Shoppe, will be opening soon! Arline and Inger Koppenhaver, a mother/daughter-in-law team, have recently purchased a restaurant located in the central business district of Terry, Montana. (more…)

In college I rented an apartment in the basement of my sister’s quiet, backwater, suburban home, and none of us locked our cars at night. The crime rate was as near to zero as you could hope to find. Mind you this was 16-years ago, and we were in a flag-lot, so the house was buried deep down an invisible driveway. When I found my car broken into one morning, I was furious, mostly at myself, even though I only lost the loose change from my ashtray… so just imagine how I felt last month when my car was broken into, my Tom-Tom GPS was stolen (never worked that well anyhow), half my dashboard ripped out, and something even more precious was stolen. (more…)

The van der Valk Gas Price Advisory for July 10, 2009

Dateline: Terry, Montana
July 10, 2009 – 11:30 AM – MDT
By: Bob van der Valk

California pump prices for gasoline dropped unpretentiously today another 7 tenths of a penny per gallon overnight to $2.926 per gallon. Montana prices were even less newsworthy only going down 3 tenths to $2.707 per gallon per the AAA fuelgauge report. But underneath the surface, sharks are lurking and they will come to bite you in the wallet when you are not watching out. (more…)

On the morning of our last departure from our favorite sleepover spot in Montana (the 1880s Ranch we’ve spoken so highly of before) we got an unexpected visit from a mangy fellow we couldn’t help but love. Maybe it was because it was such a surprise or maybe because he was our height, but I think it was because he showed unabashed affection in ways only us juniors seem capable of.
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I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like I keep getting the worst assignments on the trip. Fine, fair enough, I’m the junior editor so I’ll write it up. Virginia City, Montana, is nothing but a tourist trap, and one that felt a pretty hard hit from the high gas costs this summer, what with being basically in the middle of nowhere. So this nowhere tour of nothing got hit hardest, and the real victim wasn’t the operator, who owns everything outright, but us poor tourists.
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If you’re ever taking the time to wander the mainest of main drag in the sleepy town of Deer Lodge, Montana, and you’re looking for another (not so) quick thing to occupy your juniors, it would seem that fate has taken the time to smile all over you, whatever it that means. In addition to the Prison Museum, Car Museum, and everything else they have going for them, there is also the (im)modest suburb of Cottonwood City. It’s so perfect you’d almost suspect it was built only recently by volunteers to appease junior folk such as us.
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When you went to school, you learned all the basics. Reading, writing, arithmetic. You even dabbled in science, art, music, and geography. All necessary and practical for your life. But what about the stuff that nobody teaches? (more…)

The price of crude oil has been hovering around $70 a barrel for the last week meanwhile gasoline pump prices in the U.S. and Canada are down by about a nickel a gallon or 1 cent per litre during that same time. The average price for a gallon of gasoline is $2.63 today per the AAA fuelguage report. Montana’s gasoline prices are averaging $2.71 barely nudging down from a week ago price. (more…)

West-coasters traveling through Montana may not get as far east as Billings, but if you do, there are a good many things there to see that you just shouldn’t miss. One example is the Yellowstone Art Museum, and don’t let the name fool you, it’s not a bunch of geyser-themed artwork. No, it’s a real museum. So if you’re old enough to keep your hands off the exhibits, it’s well worth the visit.
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