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Montana State University Billings’ popular lecture series on World War I, which packed the largest classroom on campus on five Tuesday evenings last fall, will resume Tuesday evening. Meant to commemorate the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the lecture series features MSUB professors from diverse fields examining the immediate effects and continuing legacy of what was called, with a tragic optimism, “the war to end all wars.” (more…) Continue Reading →
The Circle Wildcats lost to the Culbertson Cowboys in their Class C basketball game Saturday night, but what happened just before the game is what people in both towns are likely to remember for a long time to come. Eight football players from Circle went through the crowd of about 150 people, collecting donations in football helmets. They raised more than $2,000 for the family of Shay Bridges, a Culbertson basketball player who recently learned he has a pituitary brain tumor. (more…) Continue Reading →
Thanks to the power of Facebook—and a bit of old-fashioned shoe leather—Dana Moss Pulis helped her son get his stolen pickup truck back barely half a day after it was stolen. Here’s the story, as pieced together by Moss Pulis, who owns a business in downtown Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →
If you haven’t read it yet, don’t miss Paul Cartwright’s guest editorial in the Friday edition of the Billings Gazette. The former Helena city commissioner deftly explains what’s wrong with Montana’s liquor licensing quota system, and he lays out several options for finally doing something to seriously reform it. (more…) Continue Reading →
MILES CITY—Standing in the middle of Main Street in downtown Miles City on Friday, Chad Moke was feeling pretty good. For one thing, the weather was about perfect for the 23rd Annual Cowtown Beef Breeders Show, sunny and warm, with temperatures creeping into the mid-40s by noon. And the cattle market was looking strong after a record-breaking 2014. (more…) Continue Reading →
It sounds like the set-up for some kind of joke: People pay Ford “Stu” Stuart to drink beer. Stuart is also a stand-up comedian, but the beer thing is no joke. And this summer, in a partnership with the University of Montana Alumni Association, Stuart will be leading UM grads on a beer tour of Belgium. (more…) Continue Reading →
RED LODGE—A little before the High Country Cowboys took to the stage Friday night at the Pollard Hotel, lead singer Marty Kosel was talking about the kind of show they put on. “It’s like sing a song and sing another song,” he said. “Not a lot in between.”
Sure enough, in the course of a show that ran for four hours, Marty and his brothers, John and Joe, addressed the crowd only rarely and briefly between songs. But their audience—which filled every available seat, leaving a dozen or more people standing—didn’t seem to mind. (more…) Continue Reading →
Today is the first birthday of Last Best News, launched on Feb. 1, 2014. I’d like to shoot off fireworks from the Rims, buy everyone in Eastern Montana a drink or maybe have one of those airplanes pulling a banner fly across the state for a few days, but I’ve got a bunch of stories to write, so probably not. (more…) Continue Reading →
A man accused of using a stolen debit card to make several unauthorized purchases called the wrong pizza joint last week. Lockwood resident Justin Michael Babcock was arrested at his home Friday, after an employee at the Domino’s Pizza in Lockwood reported that someone using her missing debit card had called in a pizza order there that day. (more…) Continue Reading →
A week from Saturday, Billings Depot Inc. is throwing a black-tie Taste of Billings celebration that depot director Jennifer Mercer hopes will be “the most elegant, luxurious event Billings has ever seen.”
That’s quite a claim, and it’s all the more remarkable considering that the setting, the old Northern Pacific Railway Depot on Montana Avenue, was in wretched condition just 20 years ago, and had nearly been demolished 25 years ago. (more…) Continue Reading →
