Phillips County News - One Nation, Under God

When Barb and I moved to Malta from Bozeman 17 years ago I jokingly told people I was moving back to Montana.

Bozeman, like many places in the state had begun to look like everywhere else in the country: same stores, same housing developments, same traffic jams. It also was a place of economic vitality. There were jobs and opportunities to make a living there.

Barb and I, however, didn’t need that. We could work online, and brought our jobs with us to Malta, where, unlike Bozeman, the economy was on the wane and the population was dropping.

Little has changed up here since we arrived exce...