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Here’s how to learn more about city candidates

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If you’ve been wanting more information on the people running for municipal office in Billings this fall, you’re in luck. Several organizations are sponsoring a series of forums for City Council and mayoral candidates, set for this weekend in a variety of city parks, and Community Seven Television is airing a series of 30-minute interviews with all the candidates. A primary election is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 12, and the top two candidates in each race will proceed to the General Election on Nov. 7. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Billings mayor, City Council, Community Seven Television, Primary election

City parks will soon have one cop’s special attention

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Coppers

Billings will soon have a police officer specifically assigned to patrolling city parks. The new position was approved by the City Council in July, with funding from the city’s General Fund, and the person selected for the job will be helping respond to what is perceived as a growing number of problems in the parks. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Billings Police Department, City Council, Michael Whitaker, Neil Lawrence, Parks and Recreation

Democrats sponsor city candidate forums

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Hall

With the city primary election set for Sept. 12, a little less than a month away, the Yellowstone County Democratic Study Group, also known as the Democrats Breakfast Club, is offering a few more chances to see City Council candidates in action. The Democratic group has already hosted two events for mayoral candidates and another for Ward 3 City Council candidates. This Wednesday, it will have City Council candidates from Ward 1 — Joshua Kostelecky, Charlie Smillie and Mike Yakawich — as speakers at a no-host breakfast forum at the McCormick Café, 2419 Montana Ave., starting at 7 a.m.

There will be a question-and-answer session and the public is welcome. There is generally enough time for any person to ask specific questions of the candidates. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Last Best Blog, News, City Council, mayoral race, Yellowstone County Democrats

Affordable senior housing project planned for Heights

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Site

GMD Development of Seattle is partnering with Homeword, a Missoula-based nonprofit, to develop a 136-unit affordable senior rental community, known as Heights Senior, in Billings next year. A neighborhood meeting on the project has been scheduled for Monday from 4 to 6 p.m. at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 226 Wicks Lane, according to a press release from Homeword. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Billings Heights, GMD Development, Homeword

‘Dreyfest’ organizers interview ‘the man himself’

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Dreyfuss

The main organizer of Richard Dreyfest V, the punk-inspired music and arts festival that opens Friday in downtown Billings, wasn’t really expecting to get an interview with the actor to whom the festival pays indirect homage. “It was just kind of a weird, cool, freaky thing for us to pick up,” said Phillip Griffin, a musician and writer who stepped in this year to put together the fifth annual festival. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Culture, Last Best Blog, Brie Ripley, Dreyfest, Phil Griffin, Richard Dreyfuss

Northern Hotel’s chef brings personal touch to new role

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Chef

Executive Chef Ian Anderson took the reins of the historic Northern Hotel kitchen more than a month ago, and already there is a new pulse. Some time had passed since I’d stepped into Bernie’s Diner, the Northern’s breakfast-and-lunch cafe, and it was quieter back then. On this Wednesday morning, behind the counter, staff busily filled cups of coffee and gathered plates of food for the customers who filled the seating by the west-side windows. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Culture, Diversions, Bernie's Diner, Ian Anderson, Mike Nelson, Northern Hotel, TEN

For Goodridge kids, Magic City Blues is a family affair

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Kids

The Goodridge kids have grown up with the blues. The Magic City Blues, to be precise. Their parents, Tim and Pam Goodridge, have been putting on the annual music festival in downtown Billings since 2002. One way or another, their three children—Henry, 21, Will, 18, and Jane, 16—have part of the festival for most of their lives. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Culture, Diversions, Magic City Blues, Montana Avenue, St. John's Lutheran Ministries, Tim and Pam Goodridge

Second annual Local Food Challenge starts Tuesday

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GEM

On her family farm in Rosebud County, about seven miles east of Forsyth, Jean Lemire Dahlman and her husband, Floyd, raise wheat and cattle. They also have a big vegetable garden and a pond stocked with bass, and because they are hunters, they eat a lot of venison. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Diversions, Good Earth Market, Jean Lemire Dahlman, Local Food Challenge, Northern Plains Resource Council

Buoyed by city support, ABT backers look to big expansion

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ABT

Thirty years after the community saved the old Fox Theater in downtown Billings, Larry Martin is convinced the community will rally again behind a dramatic overhaul of the Alberta Bair Theater, successor to the Fox. “At this point, it’s impossible to imagine downtown Billings without the Alberta Bair Theater, and I think the bulk of the community sees it that way,” Martin said. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Culture, News, Alberta Bair, Alberta Bair Theater, City Council, downtown Billings, Fox Theater