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Looking for a way out of some of the pitfalls of being a single mother, Brit Lindell has come up with a business idea that she hopes will help others facing the same obstacles. She is starting a new kind of temp service—Billings Betties—that will match businesses with single parents who want to work but need a lot of flexibility to get the job done. (more…) Continue Reading →
This story has been updated. People who live near the Billings landfill are raising questions about plans to expand the facility. They are also concerned, again, about a state law that gives the city blanket approval of such plans, and makes public comment on the plans a meaningless formality. (more…) Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect additional information provided Thursday morning by Paul Collins, chairman of the Tumbleweed board. Sheri Boelter, executive director of the Tumbleweed Runaway Program in Billings since 2011, has left the organization. (more…) Continue Reading →
This has been a busy year for the construction industry in Billings. A year-end report from the Planning and Community Services Department shows that in almost every category of construction and remodeling, the numbers as of Dec. 1 this year were higher than those for 2014. (more…) Continue Reading →
If all goes well, Anytime Fitness will open its new downtown gym during the first week in February* in one of the biggest ground-floor spaces remaining on Montana Avenue. Anytime Fitness is moving into the 6,800-square-foot space of the building on the southeast corner of Montana Avenue and North Broadway, just across Montana from the Empire Parking Garage. (more…) Continue Reading →
In the classroom, Billings Senior High science teacher Craig Beals knows how to get his students’ attention. Things that go boom are always popular, and you really can’t go wrong with fire. This Monday, Beals will see if he can capture the interest of nationwide television viewers with a show featuring some of those same attractants, only on a much bigger scale. (more…) Continue Reading →
A program that uses horses to help heal injured military veterans is getting closer to forming the partnerships it needs to start taking in large numbers of veterans. But even in the limited number of sessions it has offered veterans in its first year, the Horses Spirits Healing program at the Intermountain Equestrian Center north of Billings has seen some gratifying results. (more…) Continue Reading →
Friends and family gathered last week to celebrate the life of David Barnett, whose two great loves were music and the outdoors. The former leader of the Billings Symphony Chorale died of a sudden heart attack on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26. (more…) Continue Reading →
Three big projects are underway on the 2600 block of Minnesota Avenue. Steve and Joni Harman, who own every building on the north side of that block, have converted a portion of what used to be an automobile showroom into Steve’s new law office, with a second-story space that could be either an apartment or another office. (more…) Continue Reading →
Driving around the South Side of Billings with Eric Basye, you can hardly go a block or two before he points out a project his organization has been involved in. Near South Park are three of its duplexes, all rental units. A few blocks away is a dilapidated house, recently purchased and ready for renovation. He points out a few more rental units, and then a house that was moved into the neighborhood from the medical corridor. (more…) Continue Reading →
