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  • A 24-hour play production from start to finish

    Floyd Brandt|Updated Nov 20, 2017

    The Little Theater at Montana State University-Northern filled with laughter then quickly fell silent as plays progressed, setting a pattern of realism from a headline taken from a national newspaper during the Montana Actors' Theatre 24-Hour Play Festival. MAT escaped from the tradition of buying well-known productions to an innovative new concept of selecting a topic or news headline giving it to a team. Team's author writes a script through the night then hands it to a...

  • Man crosses Hi-Line running as Forrest Gump

    Floyd Brandt|Updated Aug 17, 2017

    In a fundraiser inspired by the 1994 movie "Forrest Gump," Rob Pope from Liverpool, England, is running across the United States for the third time, and was passing along the Hi-Line Wednesday on U.S. Highway 2. Pope started his runs at 38, beginning in Mobile, Alabama, and running all the way to Santa Monica, California, 2,042 miles. He then turned around and ran all the way to Marshall Point Lighthouse in Maine, a 3,186-mile trip crossing 18 states. After reaching Marshall...

  • Hi-Line Living: Border Patrol

    Floyd Brandt|Updated Jun 19, 2017

    Driving hundreds of miles each day is the life of the Border Patrol. Once affiliated with the port of entry, which we all know when traveling to and from Canada or crossing over into Mexico from the southern states, the Border Patrol is now its own division under Homeland Security, and their focus is to protect the citizens of the Unites States by stopping illegal entry and the smuggling of contraband. The northern border runs from Washington through Maine with eight sectors....