Great Falls Tribune: Ashley Dennehy, 24, left this town of 2,300 to go to college, but coal and the quality of life it fuels brought her back.
Schools are great. A stone's throw from the Yellowstone River, recreational opportunities abound. Then there's the jobs.
Dennehy's husband, a mechanical engineer at the Rosebud Coal Mine, earns more than $70,000 a year. That's more than the state's median household income of $46,230, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
"Where are you going to find that?" said Dennehy,...