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Eyesore No. 1 came down in about 15 minutes Tuesday morning. As we reported Monday, Carol Kraft had purchased a piece of property at 115 N. 22nd St. with the sole purpose of tearing down two abandoned houses on the lot. The decrepit houses had been lived in by a succession of squatters over the years. Continue Reading →
Carol Kraft is looking forward to Tuesday morning. The police are supposed to show up first, about 8 a.m., to roust anyone still squatting in the two vacant houses at 115 N. 22nd St. Then, about 9:30, Cayton Excavation is supposed to start demolishing the two houses and a burnt-out shed. (more…) Continue Reading →
Santa Claus has left the Rims.
The 150-plus-ton sandstone formation that was dubbed Santa Claus Rock by the earliest settlers in the Yellowstone Valley was reduced to a pile of boulders and rubble early Sunday. (more…) Continue Reading →
Rich Clawson is convinced the city is going after the wrong rocks. Rather than taking down the “Santa Claus Rock” that towers over Sixth Avenue North, Clawson said, the city should be worried about unstable rocks, just four blocks west of Santa Claus, that could fall and plug the tunnel that carries the BBWA irrigation canal through the Rims. (more…) Continue Reading →
We wrote last month about the venerable old willow tree that was taken down in Pioneer Park. The massive, five-trunk tree had been a landmark for generations of Billings residents, but it had grown too rotten and unstable. (more…) Continue Reading →
A month after plans for a pedestrian bridge over the downtown railroad tracks were killed, the city-county Planning Department is pitching an idea for two such bridges, plus improvements to two existing underpasses. (more…) Continue Reading →
After weeks of debate, an unprecedented flood of emails and the longest public hearing in its history, the Billings City Council finally got around to discussing the language of a proposed nondiscrimination ordinance Monday night. (more…) Continue Reading →
A huge column of sandstone that towers over Sixth Avenue North is not going to be blown off the Rims with dynamite, as the “Monkey Face” formation over Zimmerman Trail was. City Engineer Debi Meling said it will be pulled over backward to lie on the rock shelf on which it is now perched. (more…) Continue Reading →
During the first 12 years of my life, growing up in Montana, it was against the law for a person of my race to marry an African American or an Asian American. Montana’s anti-miscegenation law was not repealed until 1953. It was not until 1967 that the U.S. Supreme Court declared these laws, still existing in sixteen other states, unconstitutional. (more…) Continue Reading →
Family, friends and members of the local rodeo community celebrated the accomplishments of two-time world champion team roper Clay Tryan at a reception this week. (more…) Continue Reading →
