LIVINGSTON (AP) – If you think you can’t stick to a New Year’s resolution, maybe this 11-year-old’s story will inspire you. At Christmastime last year, Jonathan Sarisky’s parents, mother Renee Shifley and stepfather Rick Shifley, of Livingston, and father Jason Sarisky, of Washington state, offered then-10-year-old Jonathan and his older brother, Andrew, a choice.

What comes down must get shoveled off, at least in Yellowstone winterkeeper Jeff Henry’s wintry world. For nearly 40 years, Henry has cleared snow off the roofs of some of Yellowstone National Park’s most historic structures. To hear Henry, 64, tell it, he is one lucky dude. He’s got a job he loves in a place he loves, and he absolutely can’t imagine doing anything else.

LIVINGSTON, Mont. Paradise Valley, meet Silicon Valley. Jeff Reed has made his living in technology including serving as chief technology officer of Arrow Electronics, a company that makes many of the electronics that run our various gadgets and devices. Recently, he has turned his tech skills to what was once a relatively simple farmer’s life — growing organic alfalfa on his property along the Yellowstone River.

LIVINGSTON, Mont. Perhaps you’ve heard of water dowsing — the practice of using sticks or metal rods or other everyday objects to locate underground water. But have you ever heard of dowsing for unmarked graves? Members of the Park County Cemetery Board and Park County Coroner Al Jenkins went out late September to locate unmarked graves in the vicinity of the former Park County Poor Farm, which was located on Chicken Creek Lane east of Livingston.

PRAY – “There’s this old rundown hotel in the valley – why don’t you buy it?”. Popular resort owner Mike Art took the advice of his friend Paul Christensen, who owned the 63 Ranch on Mission Creek, and purchased the Chico Hot Springs Resort in 1973. Forty years later, Art is still in the hospitality business, not only caring for his guests from all over the world, but tending with care and love the hot springs hotel everyone just calls “Chico.”.

LIVINGSTON, Mont. A specialty dog breeding and training operation located northwest of Livingston recently opened its doors for a small tour, displaying some of their dogs-in-training, their teaching techniques, and reasons why highly trained protective dogs are needed in today’s world. “We don’t sell fear,” Kim Greene, co-owner of Svalinn with her husband, Jeff, and self-described on her business cards as the “Alpha Female,” said.

CODY, Wyo. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has opened a new exhibit of Native American artifacts, purchased from a major private collection it acquired in 2007. The Paul Dyck collection of more than 2,000 Native American artifacts dates approximately from the late 1700s to the 1890s, a period Dyck called "the Buffalo Culture" era.

And the Livingston-Park County Public Library has joined this blossoming trend. Outreach Services Librarian Suzanne "Suzi" Catharine spearheaded the project to introduce a lending library of seeds in the library. Seed libraries have been formed all over the world, some in actual public libraries, some not.