Butte's East Middle School was recently recognized by ESPN as one of the top 40 inclusive schools in the country. That is because of the school's incredible Unified Sports program.

Kelci Thatcher and Kate Dennehy are two of teachers behind that program. This is their story.

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Administrators at the University of Montana and Montana State University should be ashamed of themselves for hamstringing the bands.

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Bandit was the best dog I ever even heard of. After 4,217 days of love, we had to say goodbye.

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Tim Norbeck is the former principal at Butte Central Catholic High School and the superintendent in Boulder.

He played football at BC and Carroll College and work 35 years in education. He has some stories to tell.

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Chris Opie was a legend at Butte High and Montana Tech. Not all of those stories you heard, however, were true.

Listen in to hear Opie's side of the legend.

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We nearly lost Butte Central Coach Don Peoples Jr. a little more than a week ago. Luckily for all of us, we didn't.

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David Hutchins is a biomimetic materials scientist, an environmental engineer, an educator and an assembler of rusty bits.

He says he spends his free time tinkering in the sacrifice zones, dreaming on two wheels and documenting the process.

He has a great story to tell.

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Formerly known as Robin Taylor (aka "The Robinator"), she was the iconic voice of the Robinator on the Butte airwaves. Now she is a writer an editor for The Butte Weekly.

Listen in to hear that Robin still has that smooth voice that made her a household name in the Mining City.

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Do yourself a favor and don't buy any of that FTC or FTG garbage.

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On Sunday, Col. Amy Klimt because the first female commander to oversee the 17th Sustainment Bridge of the Nevada Army National Guard. She says she would rather be referred to as the "shortest commander" instead of the "first female commander," though.

Klima is a member of Butte High's Class of 1993, which is clearly the school's best class. She also attended McKinley Elementary, West Elementary and East Middle School.

She joined the National Guard soon after graduation in June of 1993, and it has taken her to heights should could not have possibly imagined. Listen in as Col. Klima tells some of those stories.

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