No smoky skies. No steady rain. No high-prairie winds. No searing heat. Conditions for running 26.2 miles from Molt to Pioneer Park in Billings don’t get much better. Continue Reading →
Cool, clear morning delights Montana Marathon runners
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Pioneer Park
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After the rally, reflections on the guy with the gun
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On Saturday, Dec. 12, about 150 people gathered in Pioneer Park in Billings for an event called We Are All Sisters. The idea was to show our support for the Muslim community in Billings after some of the people within that community had been harassed. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, Not in Our Town, Pioneer Park, We Are All Sisters
Playground opens, work continues on tennis courts
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There was a grand opening for the new playground at Pioneer Park in Billings on Friday, even as work continued on all-new tennis courts in another corner of the park. Work continued as well on a new playground at South Park and another tennis-court replacement, this one at Castle Rock Park in the Heights. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Castle Rock Park, Jon Thompson, Parks and Recreation, Pioneer Park, South Park
Old playgrounds being taken out at South, Pioneer parks
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All the playground equipment has been removed from South Park, and a similar removal will take place starting next week at Pioneer Park. This is not the work of the Grinch. The city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Public Lands had already been planning to install new, much more attractive equipment at both parks next spring, using money from the Citywide Park District created by the City Council three years ago. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Amenda Park, Castle Rock Park, Department of Parks, Jon Thompson, Pioneer Park, South Park, Stewart Park
Ashes to ashes, pulp to pulp
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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 →
Filed under: Billings, David Besel, Parks Department, Pioneer Park
Venerable Pioneer Park tree taken down
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One of the most popular trees in Billings — yes, a popular tree — is no more. The huge, five-trunk willow tree that sat just south of the main tennis courts at Pioneer Park was cut down on Arbor Day. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Arbor Day, Fred Bicha, Pioneer Park, Resistograph
Book Review: A first good book from a native of Billings
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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. (more…) Continue Reading →
