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The ButteCast with Bill Foley

Bill Foley

Let"s get to know some of the characters who make Butte, Montana the "Richest Hill on Earth."

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00:13:24

Tap ’er Light: Sparky’s voice will live on forever

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/07/08

The legendary Rick Sparks passed away last week, three days shy of his 78th birthday.Sparky might have passed, but his voice will live on forever.=Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

01:37:02

No. 275: Ozzie Rosenleaf

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/07/03

Today’s guest is someone everyone knows. Or, at least you know of him.He might just be the guy you see running down the street, no matter the weather. He is Donald “Ozzie” Rosenleaf, a 1991 Anaconda High School graduate who lives in Butte with his wife Sunvee. Ozzie has reached one-name status in the Mining City. When people speak of him, there is no need to use his last name.Usually that conversation about Ozzie goes something like, “Did you hear what Ozzie is doing?”People think Ozzie is a little

01:26:28

No. 274: George Parrett

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/07/02

Podcast No. 274: George ParrettWhen I was in grade school in Butte, there were basically two kinds of kids: Those who had Mr. George Parrett as their principal and those who wished they did.I fell into the latter. I was never lucky enough to have Mr. Parrett as a principal, but I heard so much about him from the kids who did. They loved Mr. Parrett. They all spoke about him like he was their favorite uncle. The only other principal I ever heard spoken of in that way by other kids was Mr. Oakie

00:14:22

Tap 'er Light: Let Bugs Bunny provide inspiration to...

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/07/01

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01:17:40

No. 273: Chase Reynolds

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/25

The Colt Anderson Dream Big Experience will be held this week in Butte. (Schedule)The two-day event begins Thursday. The first day includes a family fun area on Galena Street and a Keith Sayers show on Park Street, where there will also be a concert featuring Travis Denning and Levi Blom.Friday includes the UpTop Skills Camp at Naranche Stadium. That is where area boys and girls get to rub elbows with some accomplished athletes. That includes people like mountaineer and movie star (in my book,

00:15:30

Tap 'er Light: Just do the right thing for the girls

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/24

The Butte School District continues to be OK with our high school softball players playing on subpar fields at Stodden Park. It is time for the district to do the right thing because the district is on the wrong side of history. More importantly, it is on the wrong side of the law.Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

01:17:01

No. 272: Chad Okrusch Part 2

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/23

Chad Okrusch made his first appearance on the ButteCast before he performed at the Montana Folk Festival in Butte in July 2023.He makes his return today to talk about the inaugural Americonda festival. It is billed as an American roots music jam at Smitty’s Barn on the west end of Anaconda. The event will feature Christy Hays, Ian Thomas, Kyle Rife, Matt Strachan, Jason Mahoney, Wes Urbaniak and Okrush.Gates open at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 29, and music will be played form 3 to 9 p.m. The cost is

02:31:03

No. 271: West Side Shriners

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/19

The 78th Montana East-West Shrine Game will be played Saturday in Great Falls. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast live around the state on the Montana News Network.The West team is once again practicing in the Mining City. On Wednesday, the West Side players selected four captains to lead them as they look for their fifth straight win.Merek Mihelish and Cole Graham of Helena Capital and Mark Ahner and Kobe Dorcheus of Kalispell Glacier were voted captains by their pears.Mihelish,

00:14:20

Tap 'er Light: Only a barbarian would drink white...

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/17

When my Grandma Jean's younger brother Tom Leeming passed away last September, we lost of the last of one incredible group of siblings.Last week, we hosted Tommy and those siblings, and we might have set a record for laughter. Here's a little big about Tommy and the rest of the Leeming clan. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

01:23:00

No. 270: Sarah Borduin and Denise Herman

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/11

As Donald Trump is celebrating his birthday with a Putin-style military parade in Washington on Saturday, the group “Indivisible Butte” will be holding a No Kings rally and food drive.The rally, which is being held in conjunction with No Kings rallies across the nation, will take place from noon to 2 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the Butte Plaza Mall.The group has been holding similar rallies for the last several months. It has held protest outside Sen. Tim Sheehy’s office, outside the Social

00:13:04

Tap 'er Light: A eulogy for Grandpa Bill

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/10

On June 6, my grandpa, Bill Foley, would have turned 100 years old.A World War II veteran, Grandpa Bill passed away at the age of 89 on Feb. 12, 2015. As I searched for a photo to mark his birthday, I came across the eulogy I wrote for him in the days after his death.So, in honor of 100th, I thought I would share this with you so you might be able to see why I still think and talk about Grandpa Bill every day more than a decade after he passed. I read this at his funeral at St. Patrick’s Church on

01:42:42

No. 269: Tom Lazzari

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/07

Podcast No. 269: Tom Lazzari They call him “Papa Big Guns.”That does not only go for his grandchildren, either. American Legion Baseball players — and some of their parents — refer to Tom Lazzari by the nickname that he swears he did not give to himself. He just relishes in that moniker.Tom jokes that the key to having such big arms, or guns as he calls them, is to lose the use of his legs. That happened to Tom when he was diagnosed with a neurological disorder that robbed him of his ability to walk

01:28:12

Podcast No. 268: Mike Beckworth

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/04

Occasionally, Facebook turns out to be a very good thing.That is the certainly case with today’s guest. Facebook is how I found Mike Beckworth. Recently, I saw a post by “M.C. Beckworth” on the Butte 411 page. It was a composite photo. It showed the Badger Mine headframe looking from the south to north, and Mike replaced the blue sky with a beautiful sunset with birds flying by.When I saw some people complaining that the photo wasn’t “real” because the sunset was in the north, I chimed in with a

00:14:07

Tap 'er Light: Stand up to the bullies and fly that flag

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/03

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01:27:54

No. 267: Sam Henderson

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/28

If Sam Henderson was to walk away from track & field today, we would still be talking about him decades from now. On Saturday, Henderson won the Class AA State title in the triple jump. His winning mark, which came on his final jump, was 47 feet, 1 ½ inches. That was his fourth best jump of the season. His three best — including his personal record of 48-7 ½ at the Western AA Divisional meet the week before — would have placed fifth at the Big Sky Conference Championships.He set and reset the

00:13:38

Tap 'er Light: Dr. Farren and his smile will be missed

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/27

Dr. Daniel J. Farren passed away last week.Not every guy will be as sad as I am about the passing of his longtime optometrist, but Dr. Farren was special. Dr. Farren was so much more than an eye doctor.The good doctor came into my life in 1983, when I was 9. I remember the day we met like it was yesterday. It was also one of the most important days of my life.Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

01:31:43

No. 266: Dom Tibbetts

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/22

During his two years covering sports for KXLF-TV in Butte and KBZK-TV in Bozeman, we could tell that Dom Tibbetts was going to be off to bigger and better things.I used to joke with him that he was headed to SportsCenter because of his world-class hairdo. He does have nice hair, too. He made all of us jealous.The truth is, though, we knew Dom was going places because was doing a really good job. If there ever was a guy built for prime time, it was Dom.That is why he was picked to be a contestant on

00:13:55

Tap ’er Light: 500 Mariah’s Messengers

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/20

Mariah’s Challenge rose from the ashes of an unspeakable tragedy in October of 2007. Today, that movement to curb underage drinking and drinking and driving is still going strong.When 17 seniors in high school receive the 2025 Mariah Daye McCarthy Scholarship Wednesday at the Montana Tech Auditorium, it will run the total of “Mariah’s Messengers” to 500. It will raise the money given away to $500,000.That is a milestone that should be celebrated. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. Take your children and

01:22:34

No. 265: Leo McCarthy Part 2

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/16

In October of 2022, Leo McCarthy appeared on Episode No. 16 of the ButteCast.In that episode, Leo talked about losing his 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, to an underage drunk driver in October of 2007. He talked about forming Mariah’s Challenge in its aftermath.Mariah’s Challenge came from a promise made by Leo as he delivered a touching eulogy for his daughter at St. Ann’s Church. If they didn’t drink while underage and promised never to get into a car with a driver who had been drinking, he said, he

01:30:27

No. 264: Carter Barsness

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/15

Podcast No. 264: Carter BarsnessFor the better part of a decade, I have called him “The Professor.”Unfortunately, nobody else refers to Carter Barsness by that moniker. It is only me.That is too bad because Carter earned that nickname. I coached him in Little League Baseball, and talking to him back there was like talking to a professor. And he was only 8 years old.He was always offering a theory as to why something was happening with the game or just in life in general. I could see that he was

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