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Aaron Flint and Bob van der Valk in front of the Badlands Cafe and Scoop Shoppe in Terry, Montana before doing the Voices of Montana broadcast

Terry, Montana
November 29, 2009
By: Bob van der Valk

The Badlands Cafe and Scoop Shoppe in Terry, Montana was visited by host Aaron Flint and his Voices of Montana radio show on Friday, November 27, 2009. His broadcast was beamed live from the cafe across the State of Montana on the Northern Broadcasting Network. (more…)

Prairie County MT American Legion Honor Squad - June 1960

Dateline: Terry, Montana
November 11, 2009
By: Bob van der Valk

The Prairie County American Legion Post #32 will hold their Annual Veterans Day Parade on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 2 p.m. in front of the Stockman Bank Building on Logan Avenue in Terry, Montana. (more…)

The Great Northern Railroad was completed in 1893

Dateline: Terry, Montana
November 7, 2009
By: Bob van der Valk

In Wall Street parlay: “Warren, let’s do lunch next time you’re in town”. This is an invitation for Warren Buffett to visit our small town of Terry in Eastern Montana. He will discover the rich history of Terry includes being one of the original stops on the railroad line built by the Northern Pacific railroad line. (more…)

The Calypso Peak is just one of the spectacular sights to be seen in the Terry Badlands Wilderness Study Area

Dateline: Terry, Montana
By: Bob van der Valk
September 16, 2009

For hiking, photography, sightseeing and wildlife viewing the Terry Badlands Wilderness Study Area cannot be missed. It is located three miles northwest of Terry, Montana, north of the Yellowstone River, with access to the scenic overlook by a westbound dirt road directly off “The Big Sky Backcountry Byway” Highway 253 currently closed due to a dispute between the private property owner and Prairie County. (more…)

Dateline: Terry, Montana
August 31, 2009 6:00 PM MDT

On Saturday, September 5, 2009 “The King of Rock N’ Roll” will make his appearance at the grand opening of the Badlands Café and Scoop Shoppe on Logan Avenue in Terry, Montana. (more…)

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 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…)

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…)

Nationally the average price for regular unleaded gasoline is $2.658 down about 3 cents per gallon from a week ago. Montana’s gasoline prices have leveled off at $2.72 with California staying high at $3.01 per gallon. Hawaii gets the prize for the highest cost for gasoline at $3.09 per gallon in the AAA fuelgauge.report. The gasoline spot market price meanwhile has dropped by 20 cents per gallon in the last two weeks but retail pump prices have not reacted in kind and are not expected to drop much more before the end of next week. (more…)

It was a lazy summer day when we were driving back from having all kinds of assorted fun on the road when my driver noted the car was overheating. We were almost back to our hotel, so we managed to skate in without stopping on a wing, a prayer, and since we didn’t have either of those things on hand, sheer luck.
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We spent three weeks in Montana last June/July and another three weeks last August, so when we announced our nine week tour for this summer, friends and family said, “Boy, you guys sure like Montana, don’t you?” Well yes we do, and there are a number of reasons why. Rather than email every single person individually, we decided to publish a story detailing some of the many reasons why big sky country is a place that, once you see it, you just can’t get it out of your head.
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we spent six weeks performing our reviews last summer, and the benefit was so great that we already have 4-6 articles scheduled to run every week from now through July. Much of what’s missing is hotels, and we’d love to get your Montana Hotel, Motel or Resort included in our next round of reviews.

We’ll be spending almost nine straight weeks on our 2009 tour, so your hotel can get in on this opportunity.
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After contact with chambers from every region of the state and many specific cities, we have the good fortune to announce that our summer 2009 tour dates have been, more or less, finalized. Although we still have the flexibility to adjust individual days, and in some lesser cases, the cities, what follows is our complete city-by-city schedule for this summer. (more…)

Super Bowl Fever is gone, March Madness is over but April swine flu fever is now spreading throughout the world. This dreadful disease has to be stopped dead in its tracks at least by calling it at least calling it something else. (more…)

There is no shortage of reviews that show just what a terrible game can be bought in “Chicken Shoot”, but I somehow let my desire to get a good deal overcome me when I made my purchase, even though I had read the reviews, and I really did know better. It’s not so much that you should expect something spectacular for $14.99, but the real problem is that stores simply shouldn’t be carrying garbage of this sheer incomparability.
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As a man of miniature stature myself, I’m always on the lookout for new things more me-sized than medium. Mostly my size-based pursuits lead to nothing (thanks a lot, jumbo shrimp!) but there is one thing sized to pint that’s true to its name, and it is miniature golf. I discovered it, and I immediately learned to love it.
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We’ve run articles all over the world, as any of our most faithful readers has known as years have gone by and stories have unfolded, but it still comes to us as a great contribution when we pick up new syndicates, especially ones of notable merit. Such is the case with our latest syndication to MontanaWithKids.com.
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Get ready for six more weeks of winter. Montana’s top cow seer emerged Monday morning to see her shadow, dashing hopes of an early spring. Montana’s Phil the Cow poked her head out into the elements early Monday morning, only to be met by her shadow.
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Since our purchase of the Nintendo Wii last year, we’ve been doing our best to consider games as they come around, and do our best to review them as it’s appropriate. We’ve been shopping since then like regular folk, but we’ve been suckered in to at least a couple lackluster Wii purchases, and this terrible game is just one such example.
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We’re already pretty much raving fans of PhotoWorks.com, and not just because they’ve got the stalwart professionalism of American Greeting backing them up. When we wanted prints for Christmas, we turned to them, and again when we wanted an oversize print the local shops couldn’t make. But there are a bunch of reasons we use PhotoWorks, and why we suggest them to you.
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Of all the cut-rate games I’ve bought for the Nintendo Wii, none meant much for me than headache. After buying the Nintendo Play (which came with a controller, so I was warned to have low expectations,) and falling for another title I won’t even bother naming, my faith in the system was entirely shaken… and then I found Lego Star Wars, and my modern gaming life just may now be complete.
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Travel and tourism sites come dime a dozen, even in places as famously empty as the US state of Montana, but one publication is looking to shake things up a bit, and they’re already doing it with the next generation of journalists. MontanaWithKids.com offers news, views and reviews of all the hottest – and most unique – tourist attractions in the state, and all from the perspective of the kids who see it as tourists.
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Seems like you’d want a comedian, like Jon Stewart or that (committee) guy from the Onion, to pick the best satire news story to win the annual prize, but the time-tested system of Humor Feed has a leg up on the competition. Already famous in their own right, HumorFeed.com does it differently, and it’s a difference you can plainly see. They start by making their already elite members select just one story each for nomination, then they test them among their own ranks, and from their it goes to the expert panel of judges… and every year, the winner is an absolute gem.
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It didn’t take long, but to our great surprise and delight, one of our Montana With Kids articles has been nominated for the most prestigious award in humorous news coverage, the 2008 HumorFeed article of the year. The article was entitled “‘Future Man’ Jokes Lost on Past-centric Nevada City Re-Enactors”.
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It was a good few months ago when we first had an opportunity to let one of our staffers try his hand at the most unusual of modern-era video game systems; the Nintendo Wii. Our own senior staff contributor, Patrick, is himself doubly qualified to love this system. First of all, he’s autistic, and secondly, he’s played the Wii… and his love of it went so far beyond “like” it wasn’t even funny.
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