LIVELY TIMES, INC.
BONITA SPRINGS, FLORIDA

Lively Times was created in 1993 by co-publishers Susan Bearse and Kristi Niemeyer as a way of finding out what was happening beyond our hometown of Charlo. Since both of us had spent many years in the weekly newspaper business, we decided to build our own paper and forge our own business. We launched the online version in 2001, with its newest iteration appearing in 2015. For more than 24 years (292 issues to be exact), we’ve gathered information, sold ads and constructed the most comprehensive arts and entertainment paper in the state – all from our headquarters near the tiny town of Charlo. To the east loom the Mission Mountains, and to the west, Ninepipes Reservoir is year-around home to a profusion of waterfowl and an occasional grizzly bear. Although we our last print edition went out the door in August 2017, we continue to fuel this robust website and its online events calendar, and offer subscriptions to our events data to organizations and businesses, including Visit Montana and the Montana Arts Council. Mike O’Halloran captured this shot of the Mission Mountains Lively Times, Montana's arts & entertainment calendar