Tommy O

If you have a dog that just can't get enough playtime, and I believe that is most of them, there's a place here in town that they are going to love. Heck, you're going to love it too. It's Butte's Skyline Park just off of Continental Drive and Bayard and it's a place that you and your pooch need to visit.

One big means of the CPR's funding is the annual "Dust to Dazzle" tour which features different historic Butte buildings, once in a state of disrepair, now restored and beautiful. This year's event will take place on June 24 from noon to 5pm.

The 2023 schedule has been rolled out for Cruise Nite here in the Mining City and it looks like it's going to be a very good year! Cruise Nites again will fall on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8pm and will generally follow an every-other-week schedule. Each week, listeners and readers of Townsquare Media in Butte are invited to join us at a different location to compete for the "People's Choice Awards" which are determined by popular vote and awarded to the top-voted car or truck and motorcycle.

The Mother Lode Theatre is continuing upgrades to the theatre stage components with the 2023 Winspire Raffle. This year's raffle will fund new stage curtains and valances which have not been replaced since the theatre was renovated in the early 1990s

Butte'e Independence Day celebration officially begins on the 3rd of July with barbecues, music and, of course, the state's biggest fireworks show thanks to our friends at Town Pump. Are you going to a private party on the hill? Maybe more of a public setting. Here is a guide to the ultimate places to catch this year's fireworks show.

As we get closer to Saturday's "Wings and Wheels" event at the Bert Mooney Airport, it just seems to keep growing bigger and more exciting. It's a car show. It's an aircraft show. There will be skydivers recreating a historic jump out of the "Miss Montana" airplane and there will be a lot of military equipment on hand for you to check out.

Carolyn Cornelius is organizing the upcoming two-night Spay and Neuter Task Force fundraiser which will be held at the Elks on Thursday, July 22 and Friday, July 23. Thursday will be a Spaghetti and Chicken fundraiser dinner and thanks to a generous donation from Mike Thatcher of Community, Counseling and Corrections, Inc., Cornelius is planning on hosting residents of the Southwest Montana Veteran's Home free of charge. But it will take some help from the community

A legendary blues guitarist is coming to Butte. One who has 12 albums and several DVDs on the market and who has recently played to 60,000 people at his 50th birthday party. According to Guitarist Magazine he is on of the top 50 blues guitarists of all-time and has even drawn praise from "Slowhand" himself, Eric Clapton. His shows have been enjoyed in 37 countries across three continents. In addition to relentless charity work in and around his native Phoenix, he is a proud supporter of United States troops having done shows back in 2011 for our fighting men and women in Iraq and Kuwait.

The Butte Depot at 818 S. Arizona will be the site of the Butte Rock Fest on Saturday, July 1 and this is going to be a really good one. Some of the biggest Mining City rock bands from the 80's and 90's will be reuniting and sharing the stage with some of Butte's most talented groups that are performing today.

The Butte-Silver Bow Fair is going to be a pretty big deal this year. New attractions, along with some familiar faces, and a new location have organizers as well as folks around town excited about what's coming up.