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THURSDAY lonepeaklookout.com JulyAugust 19, 16, 2018 2018 FREE Volume 1, Issue 3337 BigBig Sky, Sky, LONELONE PEAKPEAK LOOKOUTLOOKOUT MontanaMontana Nowhere in Big Sky is there Lacking local radio? a lit sign reading “On Air” Nichols used a web camera, a propane this summer for Big Sky listeners. generator, solar panels and batteries to put NPR After many years of service to Big Sky on the back on the air in Big Sky. It took all weekend, 95.9 frequency, YPR recently moved to another, and the current system remains flawed, but local nearby slot on the FM dial. NPR fans were not disappointed when they “Last Friday (Aug. 3), we flipped to 96.3,” said tuned in Monday morning, June 18. Wilson. YPR sent emails to supporters in the Big “Got back on the air Monday. It was kind of Sky area, which according to a timeline from the up and down,” recalled Nichols. “We fired it up at Big Sky Owners Association, first received NPR 5 a.m. for ‘Morning Edition.’” programming over the airwaves in 1987. Now, when Big Sky residents listen to Nina “We put a little notice on air,” added Wilson, Totenberg explain the U.S. Supreme Court or detailing how YPR tried to get the word out to Scott Simon interview an accomplished author Big Sky NPR fans. “We’ve tried to connect with (Bozeman’s David Quammen was on Aug. 11), as many people as we can. And we’ve taken some it’s all thanks to an antenna system powered by calls.” solar panels, batteries and an RV generator that Why the move to 96.3? Because another kicks on when the battery levels drop below a public station—Gallatin Valley Community certain level. Radio, KGVM—now occupies the 95.9 FM Nichols checks battery levels from his office in frequency. Billings using the web camera he installed at the About a decade of volunteer work went into Classic rock perch—The Eagle 104.7 FM broadcasts through the antenna pictured with the two red site. The antenna shuts down at night in order to launching KBVM, which started broadcasting second antennas powering a backup transmitter. PHOTO BY NEIL RAMHORST save battery power. from an antenna on High Flat Road in Gallatin “It’s been an interesting summer,” noted YPR Gateway on May 13. BY DAVID MADISON General Manager Kurt Wilson. He said current KGVM owes its existence to a core of [email protected] “There was a little miscommunication with the guys up at the operations at Big Sky (Resort),” NPR broadcasts into Big Sky shut off between 10 dedicated founders and financial supporters, s chief engineer for Yellowstone Public explained Nichols, saying he didn’t get the p.m. and 5 a.m. because even with sunny days, including Susie and George Cole. George used to Radio, Jim Nichols is responsible for message that the resort planned to shut off power the solar panels can’t produce enough power. have a show on YPR and the couple helped start overcoming any technical challenges to YPR’s antenna to accommodate Ramcharger “And sometimes when the sun hasn’t come a public station in Spokane, Wash. Ablocking Big Sky listeners from their favorite construction. out, the batteries go low. Then we kick in the Their motivation for launching KGVM came NPR programs, like the “Weekend Edition” news When Nichols got word on Friday, June 15, prop an e .” from wanting to find a home for the progressive show broadcast until recently at 95.9 FM. he sprang into action, running down to Harbor Once the new eight-pack Ramcharger news show “Democracy Now!” with host Amy On Saturday morning, June 16 and again Freight in Billings, where he bought a bunch of Chairlift is completed, the YPR translator Goodman. the next day, local “Weekend Edition” fans and solar panels. Nichols then raced up Andesite antenna will again have a dedicated power line “In fact, Amy Goodman came to town anyone else tuning into 95.9 were met with dead Mountain and MacGyver-ed a new power system and no longer lose juice on cloudy days. (Bozeman) and gave a talk. Something like 10 air. for the translator antenna near the top of the That should happen sometime in October, years ago,” said Steve Durbin, board chair for Thunder Wolf Chairlift. said Wilson, who announced another big change KGVM. Radio | 7 New place opens for closings Time to make some noise his comes to you at the urging of the critical role journalism plays in our democratic Shannon Sears takes the reins at Big Sky’s only Montana Newspaper Association and the society. Boston Globe—which has asked every Judy Patrick, New York Press Association vice full-time title and escrow office Tnewspaper in the country to publish an editorial president for editorial development, wrote the BY JOLENE PALMER on or near Aug. 14, defending the newspaper editorial below. It’s timely, honest and true. [email protected] industry and educating the public about the —DM hannon Sears may be Montana & Title Escrow in closing real estate transactions. merely 30 years old, but Big Sky. After nine months Sears’ professional career We’ve been complacent she’s got the professional of training in Bozeman, she began back in her homeland Sdrive to succeed that recently recently opened her doors of Texas, where after college e thought everybody knew how landed her a position as escrow to those who need assistance she found herself in the important a free press was to our “We aren’t the enemy of the officer at the newly opened with real estate titles and with world and that all this talk about Closings | 4 Wus being the enemy of the people would be people. We are the people.” dismissed for the silliness that it is. But the reckless attacks have continued, instigated and encouraged by our president. We are always by your side. We shop the same CONTENTS When the leader of the free world works stores, attend the same churches and hike the to erode the public’s trust in the media, the same trails. We struggle with daycare and worry potential for damage is enormous, both here and about paying for retirement. abroad. We once set an example of free and open In our work as journalists, our first loyalty is government for the world to follow. Now those to you. Our work is guided by a set of principles who seek to suppress the free flow of information that demand objectivity, independence, open- are doing so with impunity. mindedness and the pursuit of the truth. We The time has come for us to stand up to the make mistakes, we know. There’s nothing we bullying. The role journalism plays in our free hate more than errors but we acknowledge them, society is too crucial to allow this degradation to continue. Making noise | 3 We aren’t the enemy of the people. We are the people. We CONTENTS aren’t fake news. We are your news and we struggle night and An eight-piece serving from Dustbowl .......................................... 2 day to get the facts right. Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Moonlight ................................... 2 On bitter cold January How to park and partake in MusicFest ......................................... 3 nights, we’re the people’s eyes Nickelodeon slime in the Gallatin? ................................................ 4 and ears at town, village and When tweets map a fire .................................................................. 5 school board meetings. We tell Master archer of Jack Creek summer camp ................................ 6 Originally from Texas, Shannon Sears has found her niche at her new home in Big Sky as Montana the stories of our communities, Blotter: A notable “strange man” incident .................................... 14 Title & Escrow’s Big Sky-centered escrow officer. She’s working to make the real estate buying, selling from the fun of a county fair to Fishing report .................................................................................. 15 and closing process as seamless as possible for residents and second-home owners alike. PHOTO BY the despair a family faces when Big Sky Living: Hike Ralph’s Pass ................................................. 16 JOLENE PALMER a loved one is killed. 50 CLIFF MANOR LANE $1,750,000 GALLATIN RIVER FRONTAGE 4 BED | 4.5 BATH 5212 SQ FT | 1.55 ACRES LTDRealEstate.com 406.995.2800 LTDRealEstate liveTHEDREAM. PC: RYAN TURNER LONE PEAK LOOKOUT 2 August 16, 2018 Beware the trombone Eight-piece mini-orchestra The Dustbowl Revival hits Big Sky soon one Peak Lookout: We read in a recent but wants to get a solid idea of what Facebook post you’ll be bringing some Dustbowl is all about? new musical experiments our way. What ZL: Tough question—I would say two songs Lmight that entail? off our newest album: “The Story,” which is Lead singer, guitar and founder Zach Lupetin: our soul sing-a-long and “Debtors’ Prison”— We have an eight-piece “mini-orchestra” of sorts which tells a story that I think really needs to with a brass section and a string section so we be heard. can shape-shift into a lot of different types of roots music. We love breaking a song open—like LPL: Way back in 2012 The LA Times our psychedelic cover of “My Sharona” where the reported that the band doesn't have a set list, fiddle and drums have a conversation with each or even rehearse for that matter. Is that still other across the stage... the case? If so, why and how does that work? If not, what’s changed since then? LPL: What song of yours would you recommend ZL: Really wish they didn’t lead with that for someone who has never heard your music, headline—but in truth we do rehearse, arrange and create set lists much more now than we used to.

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