__After years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, Saturday May 19, 2012 will live long in the memory of people here in Deer Lodge.
The atmosphere was absolutely electric. Anyone questioning the popularity of the Rialto Theater would have been left in little doubt given the long queue of many eager people itching to get into the venue.
Powell County locals and those from further afield donned their finest outfits to mark an occasion steeped in history and emotion. Greeted by Rialto stalwart, Gayle Mizner, hugs, handshakes and kisses were aplenty as people mingled and shared memories of their time in one of Deer Lodge’s most popular and precious arenas.
Taking time out from her raft of duties, Gayle, spoke with sincere emotion to the Silver State Post striving to detail how much the evening’s events meant to her:
“I can barely put it into words. This has been such a long time in the making.
“I have purposely not had anything to drink to prevent me from displaying too much emotion and here I am struggling to contain it. The whole thing seems like a dream. It is so much like...

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On Monday, May 28, all Americans will observe the 144th Memorial Day. American Legion Post No. 10 and VFW Post No. 689 veterans will conduct traditional Memorial Day ceremonies at Hillcrest Cemetery at 11 a.m., a custom which actually began soon after the Civil War.  In a simple but reverent gesture, a group of Southern women decorated with flowers the graves of both Confederate and Union soldiers who had fallen in...

_Time spent together as a family instills images of people attending a baseball game or congregating around a campfire. One thing which does not spring to mind is a mother, father and son working together and injecting sperm into eight cows on a Sunday night.
For the past few weeks the Thomas family which comprises of Shirley, Richard and Bruce have been hard at it on their Hereford Ranch in Gold Creek preparing heifers and cows for a dose of some artificial insemination.
Oodles of hard work and  lots of preparation goes into it which makes the whole process a labor of love. A necessity to keep the family business up and running.
Before the sperm flowed, Bruce Thomas, a 30-year veteran of the technique, spoke very candidly with the Silver State...

Death row inmate Ronald Smith has at least two chances to avoid death by legal injection despite the State Pardon Board’s recommendation against clemency on Monday.
The Governor may decide to commute Smith’s sentence to life and a seperate lawsuit challenging the Constitutionality of lethal injection, due to be heard in September, may affect his future.