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09/12/2025

The first day of the Rut Mountain Runs is complete, after runners tested themselves on the vertical kilometer or “VK” climb, and the 21K loop.

One of the best parts of the Rut is the display of support from families and friends, watching their loved ones willingly enter the pain cave and cross the well-earned finish line. EBS photographed supporters, runners and aid station volunteers near the halfway point of the 21K, before runners made their third of four long descents.

📷: Jack Reaney

09/12/2025

The first day of the Rut Mountain Runs is complete, after runners tested themselves on the vertical kilometer or “VK” climb, and the 21K loop.

One of the best parts of the Rut is the display of support from families and friends, watching their loved ones willingly enter the pain cave and cross the well-earned finish line. EBS photographed supporters, runners and aid station volunteers near the halfway point of the 21K, before runners made their third of four long descents.

📷: Jack Reaney

09/12/2025

Explore Big Sky publisher and CEO of Outlaw Partners Eric Ladd shares words on the recent gun violence that continues to impact communities both near and far, specifically on Evergreen High School in Colorado, which became the latest in a growing list of schools scarred by shootings.

"This is not about red or blue—it is about red, white, and blue. It is about all of us, as Americans, recognizing that the safety of our children and the health of our communities are values that must transcend party lines," Ladd wrote.

From Evergreen to everywhere  By Eric Ladd PUBLISHER  Dear Friends, This week, gun violence struck painfully close to home. Evergreen

09/12/2025

After 28 years of specialized property management services, Scott Hammond, owner and operations manager of Hammond Property Management, has sold the business to dedicated employee Mike Palmer. In an interview with EBS, both Hammond and Palmer expressed their pride in keeping the company locally owned and operated.⁠
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📷️: Courtesy of HPM

Scott Hammond appoints longtime employee Mike Palmer to lead proudly local business By Carli Johnson SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR After 28

09/11/2025

Explore Big Sky’s Leslie Kilgore interviewed dogs, and their owners, at last weekend’s fourth annual Mountain Mutt Mania, a celebration of canine companions and a fundraiser for the new Big Sky Animal Shelter, which will be included in the new Lone Peak Veterinary Hospital facility, set to be completed in December 2026.

The effort has so far raised $1.2M of their goal of $1.4, Dr. Stephanie “Syd” Desmarais told EBS, and the team is excited to see the facility come together. What do the dogs think about it? Let's hear it from them directly ...

🎥: Fischer Genau

09/11/2025

The Big Sky Community Housing Trust has issued a community housing survey to learn more about residents’ needs and preferences, income levels and other factors that will help with development of the future Cold Smoke workforce housing neighborhood. ⁠
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The online survey takes roughly five minutes to complete, according to BSCHT Program Manager Becky Brockie, and currently has 352 responses with a goal of at least 500. Responses will be accepted until Sept. 19. ⁠⁠
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📷️: Courtesy of BSCHT

By Jack Reaney SENIOR EDITOR  The Big Sky Community Housing Trust has issued a community housing survey to learn more

09/11/2025

The Big Sky Owners Association announced the results of its annual board of directors election. Ernie Chappell and Michelle Horning were re-elected to continue their roles as existing board members. New to the board are Joe Swiatek and Sarah Turner-Malhotra. ⁠
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📷️: Jack Reaney

EBS STAFF  On Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Big Sky Owners Association announced the results of its annual board of directors

09/10/2025

A U.S. Forest Service helicopter is dropping buckets on a small, single-tree wildland fire along Tick Ridge north of the meadow in Big Sky this afternoon.

The cause of the Crail Creek Fire is undetermined, according to a USFS Facebook post Wednesday afternoon. However, the area on Big Sky’s northern fringe was peppered by lightning on Tuesday evening which may have contributed. USFS described the fire behavior as “smoldering and creeping” at the time of posting.

A type-three helicopter and forest service engine crew responded to the fire. The Big Sky Fire Department does not believe the fire presents any immediate concern to the community, due to favorable weather and lack of wind.

📷: Jack Reaney

09/10/2025

The Lone Peak High School volleyball team played their first home game of the year on Thursday, Sept. 7, losing to a tough Jefferson High School squad in consecutive sets to open an unconventional season in which the Big Horns will only field a JV squad.⁠
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📷️: Fischer Genau

By Fischer Genau DIGITAL MEDIA LEAD The Lone Peak High School volleyball team played their first home game of the

09/10/2025

EBS columnist Rachel Hergett joined Kyle Anderson at the soft opening of the Big Sky Global Market over Labor Day weekend. The market will stock high-end ingredients that a person is unlikely to encounter elsewhere in the area. Rather than competing with local businesses, Anderson hopes to work with existing businesses like the Country Market next door.⁠

📷️: Rachel Hergett

Soft opening a taste test ahead of planned November launch  By Rachel Hergett EBS COLUMNIST  Owner Kyle Anderson greets me

09/09/2025

Gallatin County communications coordinator Whitney Bermes makes memes to engage citizens in local government. At her desk in the Gallatin County Courthouse in Bozeman, Bermes infuses her sense of humor into communications to tell people to subscribe to The Bulletin, a “one-stop shop” for anything people need to know about local government happenings.⁠
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📷️: Jen Clancey

Gallatin County communications coordinator makes memes to engage citizens in local government  By Jen Clancey STAFF WRITER  Most Americans don’t

09/09/2025

Big Sky residents have dogs that they rescue, dogs that retrieve, dogs that guide, and dogs that protect our perimeters. But their dogs also have an extraordinary ability to bring people together. Meet some of the area's pups that help bring the Big Sky community together. ⁠
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📷️: Courtesy of all the dog moms and dads who submitted photos

By Sara Sipe EBS CONTRIBUTOR Community is built on many things: ideas, people, places, structures and environment. But is any