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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.
SCOBEY — Milt Gunderson was 22 years old when he applied for a job with the Daniels County Leader, a weekly newspaper in Scobey. That was in 1957.
“I was just a farm kid, with no education or anything,” he said. Continue Reading →
We regret to inform our valued customers that we are no longer repairing eight-track players. Continue Reading →
You used to see signs in small businesses saying, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” (and my favorite variation, “We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone”). Continue Reading →
After nearly 30 years of illuminating Billings’ tallest building, the signs on the First Interstate Tower are getting updated. Crews have started the process of removing the signs, and as soon as the weather cooperates, all four will be retired and replaced with newer technology. Continue Reading →
The most complicated segment of the project to rebuild Highway 212 from south of Laurel to Rockvale is well underway.
The Montana Department of Transportation is in charge of the 11-mile-long project, which will move the roadway several thousand feet west of the existing alignment. Continue Reading →
The Friends of the Billings Public Library had been planning to conduct book sales in the new library this spring, summer and fall.
That was until the move was made to the new library in February and the group took stock of the used books still in its possession. Continue Reading →
It’s called Municipal Court, but I think a more apt name might be Improvisational Court.
So many defendants are rushed through Municipal Court on a typical morning, attended by so many clerks, probation officers, public defenders and private lawyers, that despite an abundance of rules and procedures, the proceedings have a hectic, makeshift air about them. Continue Reading →
The Last Good Halloween, by Giano Cromley, Tortoise Books, 2013. 235 pages, $12.
Editor’s note: An interview with the author, a native of Billings whose first book this is, may be found under the review.
High school sophomore Kirby Russo can be an irritating narrator. Continue Reading →
