Ravalli County

We all know that it gets cold here in Montana. If you have lived here for a while, you start to think of it as normal. But as comedian Lewis Black says "-20 degrees is not weather. It is an emergency condition. Someone needs to call FEMA and tell them to evacuate us all to somewhere where it is 20 degrees."

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The Hamilton Lady Broncs proved they were outstanding in the classroom as well as on the field last year.

The National Soccer Coaches Association has awarded the team the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the 2011-2012 school year

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A week of high pressure over the top of the valleys of Western Montana has caused fog, freezing fog and hazy conditions.

The air quality has deteriorated enough that Missoula (the hub of 5 valleys)has issued daily Stage 1 and Stage 2 Air Quality Alerts

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Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman wants it to be clear. He will not enforce a federal gun ban should it be enacted by the government.

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The only way to get a ticket to the Montana Governor's Inaugural Ball is to go online to the Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds.

According to Gov. Bullock's office, many people have already done that. The number of available $25 tickets is dwindling

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Congressman Steve Daines, Senator Max Baucus and Montana Governor Steve Bullock rode their horses in the 2013 Inaugural Parade, which continued into the night in Washington, D.C.

Montana's Congressmen riding horses in the parade to represent the state has become a tradition

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I really get a kick out of this photo. It's a golf cart, converted into a pseudo-Zamboni for our Pond Hockey tournament. The folks out at The Ranch Club golf course have been preparing the ice on some of their larger sand traps with the homemade machine, which apparently is working pretty darn well!

We had a scheduling change, by the way

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Even though the freezing fog caused some early morning driving problems in the valley this week, Friday morning a south wind blew through and cleared the air. With high temperatures finally back above freezing in Hamilton, it seemed almost balmy

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Ross Evans wanted to make his own computer game.

Last year, he learned some programming and showed a prototype to Mona McCarty, the Hamilton Middle School Librarian. He called the game, "Bighead." Soon, two friends, JT Vineyard and Finn Belanger joined his dev-team - JT with music soundtrack and Finn with graphics

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The land has been purchased, and Ravalli County Habitat for Humanity is getting ready to start construction. But they need a partner family.

The organization has been successful with building homes in the Hamilton and Corvallis areas, and now wants to build a home in Stevensville

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