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Lawrence Wetsit is a man with a sense of history. An administrator at the Fort Peck Community College in Poplar, he’s also the cultural leader for the Assiniboine tribe. His great grandfather, I Ax Ba, also called Chief Wets It, was known for his antelope horn bonnet and his ability to steal horses at night from a neighboring tribe. Wetsit speaks with a sense of great fondness for the land of his people. (more…) 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 →
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 →
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 →
And they’re off. A team of four young journalists, who plan to document the changes sweeping Eastern Montana and North Dakota as a result of the Bakken oil boom, hit the road Thursday afternoon. (more…) Continue Reading →
After a marathon meeting that lasted until well after sunrise, the Billings City Council voted early Tuesday to proceed with consideration of a non-discrimination ordinance. (more…) Continue Reading →
Last year, Mike Penfold was hunting on the Marias River in north-central Montana. On his float down the river, the former state director of the Bureau of Land Management saw only one live white-tailed deer. “But there were so many dead ones,” he said. (more…) Continue Reading →
A new display at the Western Heritage Center and a three-day “Not In Our Town National Leadership Gathering” are two ways Billings residents are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the town’s stand against prejudice and hate. (more…) Continue Reading →
