The year in review: A busy year in Hi-Line politics

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U.S. Army veteran Blaine County Commissioner Vic Miller salutes the casket of U.S. Air Force veteran Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette during Pyette's funeral in December 2011. Miller died from complications of diabetes Aug. 18 while campaigning for his third term as commissioner, the third public official to die in the county in just more than a year.

It was an active year in politics on the Hi-Line, with the local state and national campaigns blanketing the newspapers, Internet and airwaves, highlighted by a note of sadness with the death of a long-time polit...