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Ron May and Ed Riesinger are standing in a storeroom at Central Christian Church, surrounded by thousands of books. Some of the books are in plastic milk crates or open cardboard boxes. Many more are packed in boxes that tower high overhead. (more…) Continue Reading →
LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD — Denice Swanke has a lot on her plate as superintendent of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, but she said there is no question what is most important to her superiors in the National Park Service. (more…) Continue Reading →
HARLOWTON — Tina Barnhart has learned a few important lessons about helping people sign up for subsidized private health insurance. The trick is to be specific about insurance plans, and how much they cost, thanks to the federal subsidies. Just don’t mention Obamacare, or even refer to it by its less familiar but official title, the Affordable Care Act. (more…) Continue Reading →
ROUNDUP — Doug Bell, a readjustment counselor with the Billings Vet Center, said it’s typical of military veterans to insist that they don’t need help. “There’s that mentality of, there’s always someone worse than them, so they don’t want to take away from them,” he said. (more…) Continue Reading →
General back-country elk rifle season opened Sept. 15 last fall in Montana, the same day Senior U.S. District Court Judge Jack Shanstrom worked as a judge for the last time. If you don’t know where he’d rather have been — then you don’t know Jack. On that day, we called Jack Shanstrom “Judge” because we had to. On Sept. Continue Reading →
When the CEO of a Denver energy company announced last fall that he’d like to “bring something like the Bakken, maybe something a little more orderly” to the Beartooths, many residents scrambled to head off what they feared would forever change their scenic landscape. (more…) Continue Reading →
If you live in Billings and think the recent run of heavy snowfall was bad, you should have been here in 1955. We’ve seen use of the terms “snowpocalypse” and “snowtravaganza” to describe the recent storms, but these hardly begin to compare with the storms of early April 1955. (more…) Continue Reading →
Don’t look for any fireworks — or a big implosion — during the demolition of the old Parmly Billings Library
The three-story building, constructed as a heavy-duty warehouse, will come down in stages, chipped away by a crew of four people. If all goes well, they will be done by mid-May and a 102-space parking lot will be open by mid-June. (more…) Continue Reading →
Kevin Nelson was more than a little surprised when he learned that he would be the first recipient of the Making Democracy Work Award from the League of Women Voters of Billings. “The first thing I said after ‘thanks’ was, ‘I didn’t think anybody was listening,’” Nelson said. (more…) Continue Reading →
Will Bruder was the man of the hour Saturday during dedication ceremonies for the new Billings Public Library. Bruder is the Phoenix-based architect chiefly responsible for the eye-catching library that has attracted thousands of people since it opened on Jan. 6. (more…) Continue Reading →
