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Last Chance Pub & Cider Mill opens to public next week

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Duo

With just a few details left to attend to, the Last Chance Pub & Cider Mill is almost ready to open on Montana Avenue, in what must be one of the more spectacular indoor spaces in Billings. The new business, which is leasing the old United Glass building at 2203 Montana Ave., is being developed by Sam Hoffmann, owner of Red Lodge Ales. It will be serving a variety of hard ciders made on the premises, as well as some guest ciders, wine on tap and all the beers made at the Red Lodge brewery. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Culture, Diversions, Jason Corbridge, Last Chance Pub & Cider Mill, Montana Avenue, Red Lodge Ales, Sam Hoffmann

Fitting fundraiser planned for daughters of Trenton Meyer

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August

In life, Trenton Meyer stayed active. He worked as a sheepherder, backcountry guide and miner before starting his own oil field service business. He was also a fanatical archery hunter, and then, after taking up arm wrestling relatively late in life, he won four world championships in that sport. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Denise Wattles, Fitness 416, Health and Fitness Expo, Kristine Brady, Radisson Hotel Convention Center, Trenton Meyer

Brockel’s ‘Nun Better’ boosts Catholic schools campaign

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Pari

Almost anything can be better, but Gary Brockel wanted to create a confection of which there would be none better. Make that Nun Better. That was the name chosen for a new confection from Brockel’s Chocolates he concocted to help the Billings Catholic School Foundation raise money for its new K-8 school, now under the first phase of construction on Colton Boulevard. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Billings Catholic School Foundation, Brockel's Chocolates, Janyce Haider, Nun Better

Something lost: Memories of an earlier, freer Heights

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Sartorie

Editor’s note: This is the third piece in a three-day series looking what has been lost as Billings has grown steadily in recent decades. Over the past two days, Phoebe Tollefson wrote about the South Side and the West End. Today she takes a look at the Heights. The apartment complexes, strip malls, big box stores and houses in the Heights cover some of the most fertile soil in the Yellowstone River valley. And they have transformed one Billings native’s favorite boyhood camping spots. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Diversions, Ben Laws Jr., Bill Kennedy, Mike Sartorie, the Heights

Something lost: Expansion changes life on the West End

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Gabel

Editor’s note: This is the second piece in a three-day series looking what has been lost as Billings has grown steadily in recent decades. Yesterday Phoebe Tollefson wrote about the South Side. Today she takes a look at the West End. In 1953, Veda Hentz moved into her new home on Rosewyn Lane, a few blocks east of Rehberg Lane. The area was mostly open countryside, and she and her husband were eager to settle in, having kept a close eye on the construction of the house. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Diversions, Everett Gabel, Peter and Suzanne Lombardozzi, Veda Hentz, West End

Something lost: Nostalgia and the price of progress

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Dahlberg

Billings is booming. Its population has climbed from 80,000 in 1990 to more than 110,000 in 2015. It’s also growing—from 32.8 square miles in 2000 to 42 square miles in 2010. In that same decade, the city added 7,000 new housing units. Billings is the biggest city in the state, home to the largest medical complex, the biggest newspaper and the tallest building in Montana. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, Diversions, Bell Tones, Jim Ronquillo, Joseph Leone, Mark Dahlberg, Nellie Foster, Novasio's

Speakers urge support for medical marijuana at rally

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Rally

Backers of a medical marijuana initiative, who appear to be fighting an uphill battle, rallied Thursday on the lawn of the Yellowstone County Courthouse. Coming the day after the final presidential debate, it could be that many people were suffering from “election fatigue,” in the words of Barbara Sample, one of four Initiative 182 supporters who spoke at the noon rally. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Andrew Forcier, Barbara Sample, Initiative 182, Kari Boiter, Kati Wetch, Lynda Bourque Moss

Council takes 1st vote on big downtown project Monday

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Big Building

The Billings City Council will have its first chance to endorse a multimillion-dollar downtown development project when it meets Monday night. The council will be asked to vote on a pre-development memorandum of understanding with the developers proposing to create the One Big Sky Center in the area of First Avenue North and North 29th Street. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Billings City Council, Bruce McCandless, George "Skip" Ahern, Greg Tatham, M. Burke McHugh, MontDevCo

Billings cops win wage suit, city told to pay $2.7 million

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The city of Billings has been ordered to pay just under $2 million in back wages and penalties to 142 active-duty and retired police officers in a wage dispute going back to 2009. District Court Judge Brenda Gilbert of Livingston, in an order issued Thursday, said the city must also pay roughly $650,000 in attorneys’ fees and nearly $126,000 in incidental costs associated with the years-long lawsuit. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Billings Police Department, Ernie Watters, Gene Jarussi, Lawrence Anderson, Randy Bishop