Category: Montana Life
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Quick Thinking
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/31/news/state/70-purse.txt">Girl helps catch purse thief</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 16-year-old girl whose purse was stolen from a local pool conned the thief into giving it back and set her up to be caught by police at the same time.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is an example of thinking quick on your feet. Negotiate with the people that stole…
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Montana History
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/28/features/magazine/20-history.txt">Milestones in Montana history discussed</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>If you thought Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's voyage of discovery and the Battle of the Little Bighorn were about the only significant events in Montana's history, guess again.<br />n<br />nFor Memorial Day, The Billings Gazette asked historians and political-science professors from Montana colleges and universities to talk…
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Weather
Damn the hot, dry weather.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/18/news/state/75-fires.txt">Weather gives fires early start</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The fire season is off to an early start in parts of Montana, with the recent unseasonably warm weather helping dry out grasses and other possible fire fuels.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThe past few days it is really starting to show that we could…
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Not A Comprehensive Survey
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/16/D8HL3E881.html">Miami Tops Auto Club List for Rude Drivers</a><br />n<br />nThey obviously didn't include Billings Montana in thier survey. Billings driver would win hands down. Damn, I hate driving there.<br />n<br />n<b>I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. Nigel Mansell</b>
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Weather
Typical Montana weather. Saturday was a nice, warm, beautiful day. Air was clear, birds were singing, just a spectacular day.<br />n<br />n<center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 188px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/guard04222006?full=1'><img width='188' height='250' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/guard04222006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Biscuit guarding the flower bed on a beautiful warm day. Taken 4/22/2006.</div></div></center><br />n<br />nThen Sunday rolled in. Cold, light snow, low…
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Voting Begins
You might remember the Montana Quarter designs I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1575-Quarter-Designs.html">posted back in Febuary</a>. Well I see the Secretary of the Treasury <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/05/news/state/75-coins.txt">has approved</a> the designs that were submitted so the Governor has opened up voting on the designs.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/hottopics/mtquarters.asp">Go Here To Vote For Your Favorite</a><br />n<br />nI voted all ready and at…
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Go Get Them
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/04/news/local/45-bank-fee.txt">$3 bank fee angers biz owner</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Both sides in this bad-check dispute in Billings agree on one thing: Dick Skewis, owner of the Village Mart in Billings Heights, was abusive when he protested a $3 fee to collect on a customer's bad check.<br />n<br />nOther than that, the long-term Billings business owner and…
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Febuary Weather
I saw <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/03/news/local/40-weather.txt">this story about the weather</a> this morning and the first thing I though to my self was, "why does Lorna Thackeray always do the weather stories for the Gazette?" Every time there is a weather story in the Gazette Lorna is the reporter and I can usually tell you what is going…
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Interesting series of articles in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/http://www.billingsgazette.net/">Gazette</a> about conservation Easements and there use and affects in Eastern Montana. <br />n<br />nThe Good:<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/26/news/state/25-easement.txt">Conservation easement preserve family's way of life</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Glasgow-area rancher Steve Page wasn't thinking about tax incentives when he negotiated a conservation easement on 24,000 acres in Valley County.<br />n<br…
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Quarter Designs
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/25/news/state/20-quarter_m.txt">Quarter designs roll out</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The preliminary designs have not been officially released by the U.S. Treasury Department, but children's author Ken Thomasma, who is on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, brought the final four design samples with him to the school for an assembly aimed at encouraging reading. The event was sponsored by…