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I was planning to ride off into the sunset today, but if I may appropriate an observation by Benjamin Franklin, it looks as though I might be heading in the direction of the rising sun.
In the week since I announced that Last Best News would cease publication today, I have heard so many expressions of interest in reviving it in some shape or form, with or without my continued involvement, that it appears likely that this independent online newspaper will live on.
Kobi Hudson is still a little embarrassed about how he acquired an intense interest in computer science.
“I was just really against the idea of taking a foreign language in high school,” he said. So when he heard that some colleges gave foreign-language credits for computer science classes, “I said, ‘Heck yeah!’” Continue Reading →
Having looked at all 1,482 bills that have been proposed for the 2015 Montana Legislature, as of Saturday, I’m pretty sure my two favorite pieces of legislation are the work of one man, Sen. Jim Keane, D-Butte.
One would “provide for the feral hog prevention act” and the other would “assess a fee for PowerPoint presentation.” Continue Reading →
The new owners of the Billings Mustangs said Friday that they intend to be in Billings for what one of them said would be a “very, very long time.”
Dave Heller and Bob Herrfeldt, partners in Main Street Baseball, based in Davenport, Iowa, were introduced at a press conference Friday afternoon at Dehler Park, the 6-year-old ballpark that is home to the Mustangs. Continue Reading →
The first time Kay Zepeda walked into Perfect Balance Yoga & Massage, it was with great difficulty.
She remembers it as a life-changing date: Oct. 21, 2011. She was 54 and had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease a few months earlier, though she’d known for a long time that something was seriously wrong with her. Continue Reading →
Owners of the Billings Mustangs have called a press conference for Friday, and though they’re not saying what is to be announced, it appears likely that the team is being sold to Main Street Baseball.
The press conference, set for 3 p.m. in the clubhouse at Dehler Park, home of the Mustangs, will include Woody Hahn, president of the club, and Dave Heller, president of Main Street Baseball. Continue Reading →
Down in the basement of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Billings, holiday celebrations began with the making of lefse.
Just before Thanksgiving, Kelly Kaiser Borning gathered a small group to honor the Scandinavian tradition of rolling and baking the potato-based flatbread. This two-day affair of creating lefse for the annual bazaar was a valuable “passing of the generations,” said Margit Thorndal, a member of the Church Council. But for most Scandinavians, whether they know how to make lefse or not, it embodied good old-fashioned Christmas cheer. Continue Reading →
Many of the candidates hoping to occupy the state House seat vacated by Rep. Jonathan McNiven will be featured in the issue of the Yellowstone County News that will hit the shelves Thursday.
It was his recent purchase of that weekly newspaper that prompted McNiven to resign from the Legislature just two weeks after he was re-elected to the House by a wide margin. Continue Reading →
Gazette Sports Editor Jeff Welsch wrote a solid farewell column last month for Bill Bighaus, who retired after 23 years as a sports writer at the Gazette. But the column failed to truly capture the range and depth of Bighaus’ remarkable wit.
I don’t mean that as a criticism. No single column could have pulled that off, and this one won’t either. Just consider this a modest contribution to the Bighaus legend. Continue Reading →
On 10 occasions over the past two years, paintings by Native American artists have been flying over buffalo jumps in the United States and Canada.
Next week, the “Flying Buffalo Project” kites and some of the artists who created them will be honored at a reception in the Little Big Horn College Library in Crow Agency. The reception will run from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11. Continue Reading →
