Thank you for picking up the 199th issue of Bozeman Magazine! The beginning of a new year has always tended to bring me a renewed sense of hope. Hope for a future brighter than where we’ve already been, hope that things will go our way… and, this year, hope that our community will continue to support one another. Whatever the year may bring, I hope the changes will be positive, and result in good outcomes.

Setting an editorial calendar for our local publication that relies on community members’ written contributions can be challenging. To stay relevant, we are always looking for new and interesting content to share, and stories to tell. To head into 2024 with a good foundation to work from, I’ve chosen the overarching theme of community for the year, a back-to-basics strategy that has served us well over the nearly seventeen years we’ve been producing this publication.

The basis of Bozeman Magazine, the idea behind it all, the why, is to bring all-things-Bozeman into one place as a way to make it easy for community members and visitors to find people, places and things that make them feel as though they belong. We do this each month by bringing you a varied assortment of ideas and perspectives through the written word—the words of locals who are passionate about creativity, as well as about the place we call home. We also publish Montana’s largest and most accurate print and online events calendar. Focusing on Greater Yellowstone area events, we know that by providing the community with what is happening before it happens, we can help bring like-minded individuals together to create kinship and community.

Our calendar is displayed in daily chronological order, with events for families with young children often filling up mornings, and everything from lectures, art openings, local sports and music, dances, fundraisers, ‘paint and sips,’ theater, and annual events rounding out the evenings. If you create local events, you are welcome to add them to our calendar(s) at any time, for free, from our website.​

​If the new year brings you closer to a sense of belonging in our community and the desire to contribute to Bozeman Magazine, and your interests and talents align with what you find in Bozeman Magazine, we would love to hear from you.