Category: Montana Life
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Winner
Hardin Prison wins.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/06/06/news/state/21-hardinjail.txt">Judge overturns opinion from AG on detention facility</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Hardin detention facility can take federal and out-of-state inmates, a Helena District Court judge has ruled.<br />n<br />nJudge Jeffrey Sherlock's ruling overturns an opinion issued in December by Montana Attorney General Mike McGrath. The decision barred Two Rivers Detention Facility…
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Cold Winter?
I see they are starting to talk about a La Niña which means a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/09/12/news/state/25-nina.txt">cooler, wetter winter</a> in our area. I have mixed feelings about this. I understand for snow pack and irrigation purposes the talk of a cooler and wetter winter weather is a good thing.<br />n<br />nI don't rely on snow pack…
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Good News Or Not
I see in the paper that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/15/news/state/25-easternmt.txt">Type 2 Management team</a> is coming in to take over the Eastern Montana fires. The actual quote is;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Type 2 management team from California is arriving to fight more than 20 fires in Custer, Powder River and Rosebud counties. Management of the fires will be…
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Smoke
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/US_AMO_2007225_lrg.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width='540' height='334' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke08132007.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />n<br />nHere is why it has been so smokey lately in Montana. We keep talking about the fires in Montana but it looks like the ones in Idaho are really big and nasty.<br />n<br />n<strong>I make it a rule…
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Lucky or Good?
A little fire news for the state.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/13/news/state/20-fires.txt" >Fires scorch Montana, Yellowstone areas</a><br />n<br />nReading this I am of course more drawn to my area and how the fires that started Friday night by the same storm as our fire are doing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Meanwhile, the largest fire in the area was considered 100…
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Fire risk still high in East
<br /><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/11/news/state/26-firerisks.txt">BillingsGazette.com :: Fire risk still high in East</a><br />n<br />nThis story just points out how explosive the situation is here in Eastern Montana. It also points out the importance of the first strike on a fire.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Eastern Montana has been spared a large fire so far this summer due to stepped up…
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Haze
<center><!– s9ymdb:108 –><img width='540' height='540' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke2007210.jpg" alt="" /></center><br />n<br />nIt has been real hazy and smoky around here for the last few days. That is thanks to the fires in Western Montana. This picture shows the smoke cloud all over the state. I am always amazed when I see…
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Study
The <http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a> recently sponsored a study about what were peoples final words when they were in a SUV crash. I know, weird thing to study but you know the government. They found something very interesting in this study. Throughout the US, with the exception of Montana, the last thing people said…
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Let Them Forget This
<!– s9ymdb:47 –><img width='165' height='220' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.serendipityThumb.jpg" alt="" />I really wonder what some people use for brains. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/19/news/local/37-infant.txt">They forgot they left their infant in the car</a> on a 90 degree day? Maybe my handy rope will improve their memory a little. I always say it, some people shouldn't breed.<br…