Editorial

A thankful American Legion announces raffle winner

The American Legion Post 8 would like to thank everyone for supporting our raffle this year. We wish to thank Dick Stern who donated a 1850 custom .50 caliber Thompson Black Powder rifle, Randy Malensek who donated a beautiful handcrafted Bowie knife, and Tom Gould, of Viking Gun & Leather, who donated a leather knife sheath. Thanks also go to Hardin Do It Best and Big Horn County Historical Museum for allowing us to set up our ticket sales displays.

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Now is not the time to punish local governments for fighting COVID

Over the last year the COVID-19 epidemic has burned a hole through Big Horn County in a way that is difficult to describe, especially if you don’t live here.

Each week I’ve sat in front of my computer screen calculating mortality rates, infection rates, the difference between these rates among the age demographics, seven-day averages and other math formulas that I could never memorize despite repeating them no less than 365 times.