Spotlight Features

Relatively new to Montana by way of Michigan, Travis Brown has made Hobson his home since his junior year at Hobson High. Now a senior, Travis spends his time outdoors, playing football, racing dirt bikes, and this year, adding track to his sports repertoire. Originally from the Lansing area of Michigan, Travis and his younger brother came out to Montana with their mom, returning to Michigan each summer to race dirt bikes and work at his dad’s auto body shop.
“I compete,” Travis said about racing, “but I’m not a professional. I do race around a lot in Michigan with my friends.”

Moses Kitts of Judith Gap has lived quite an eclectic and international life for his 15 years. Having traveled to Iceland, Southeast Asia and Europe, this potential aspiring chemist has seen more of the world than most people three times his age.
While his parents’ careers in social work have taken his two sisters and four brothers all over this third rock from the sun, Moses is happy to call their small Judith Gap farm home. The family raises goats and I bet they have several delicious recipes from their visit to North Africa four years ago.

Grass Range senior Lukas Eickhoff, who lives on the Eickhoff Ranch 5 miles from town, fancies himself a handy man, doing mechanical work around home.

“I pretty much do everything,” he said. “I work on small engines, I rebuild old equipment and I weld together broken pieces for repair.”

Lukas learned a lot of his expertise from his grandpa, Wayne, who took him under his wing.

Winifred senior Kaylie Carlstrom had quite the summer.

In July, the Outlaw track star went to Australia to participate in the Down Under Sports program, where she worked with groups of athletes from Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska and learned new skills for javelin and discus throwing.

“Down Under Sports invited me to go and I spent the year raising money to go,” Kaylie said. “That’s one thing I love about Winifred. It’s one big family. People are so nice.”

The experience, which she shared with her grandmother, Marily Hallberg, could not have been better.