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Billings-area Christmas tree vendors wind down a successful season
With Christmas nearly here, sales of live trees are winding down fast. The Magic City Optimist Club on Monday was donating its remaining Douglas firs to St.
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A mixed bag of developments
Thumbs up to Butte District Judge Brad Newman for rejecting the binding plea agreement put before him in the Wade Petersen vehicular homicide while under the influence case.
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Local groups honored for rodeo barrel racing
The Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup and the Montana State Fair were honored recently for best professional footing in barrel racing.
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A Montana life poured out in book of poetry
A childhood running in Montana fields and spoiled by her father and older brothers "who took me everywhere with them and taught me to dance" couldn't prepare Virginia Mortensen Howell for the despair that would ...
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Gerry Anderson to Retire
Gerry Anderson, Mid-Rivers General Manager for over 21 years, will retire effective December 31, 2008.
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Snowy, icy roads keep crews busy
Flurries that began Tuesday morning brought about 3 inches of snow, slick roads and colder temperatures to Billings, and emergency crews scrambled to respond to accidents throughout the day.
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Achievers
Army Reserve Pvt. Zachariah S. Wiser has graduated from basic military training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., to be a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve Split-option Program.
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Montana-bred horse a winner in Dallas
BILLINGS, Mont. - A Montana-bred quarter horse, DMNV Mountable, won the Texas Classic Derby at Lone Star Park in Dallas Saturday night.
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Businesses request county tax reductions
Several companies are lining up with tax reduction requests from the county. The County Commissioners set a hearing date for a request from All American Pharmaceuticals and heard the details of an application ...
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MontGuide: BLM seeks input on coal lease plan
The Bureau of Land Management is studying an application to lease federal coal near Roundup and is seeking public input on concerns and issues that should be included in its environmental assessment of the ...
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Sheep rancher looks forward to bright agriculture future
Ben Lehfeldt is a sheep rancher near Lavina, Mont. LAVINA, Mont. - Ben Lehfeldt is looking forward to a bright future in Montana's sheep industry as it evolves to meet the needs of consumers and compete in a ...
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Thursday: Hunting Harvest Down, Mine Worker Aid, Toilet Robber
Good morning and happy birthday Vice President-elect Joe Biden . On the Beacon this morning, hunting harvest numbers are lagging so far , due mainly to the mild temperatures and lack of snow.
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Reward offered for poachers
Reward offered for poachers by Four elk, including at least two trophy bulls, have been illegally killed and left to spoil in the Bull Mountains recently.
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Reward money offered in poaching cases
BILLINGS - The state wildlife agency is offering reward money for information on four elk that were illegally killed and left to spoil in the Bull Mountains.
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Achievers
Air Force Airman Chelsea A. McLaughlin has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.
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Construction on rail spur under way
BROADVIEW - Dirt work is under way on a 35-mile-long rail spur that will connect the Signal Peak Energy coal mine south of Roundup to the BNSF track near Broadview.
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3 Rivers Communications Spur & Spin is tonight and Saturday
The fourth annual 3 Rivers Communications Spur & Spin roughstock rodeo rides into Montana ExpoPark at 7:30 tonight and Saturday.
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There's financial help for low-income households
Low-income households of all ages are nervous about how heating bills will shake out.
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Montana Energy Projects Plow on Despite Downturn
Financing prospects for large-scale energy projects in Montana have dimmed with the crisis on Wall Street, but some that already are under way should proceed as planned, state officials and developers said.
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John G. 'Jack' Fairservice Sr.
NEIHART - John G. "Jack" Fairservice Sr., 75, of Neihart, an Army veteran and a retired mental health worker, died of mesothelioma Thursday at Peace Hospice.
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