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Sleeping Giant releases names for third quarter honor roll

Published on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 3:00pm

Livingston’s Sleeping Giant Middle School has listed more students for its third quarter honor roll. Students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average to be listed. Those students who earned a 4.0 are indicated by an asterisk next to their names.

 

Pine Cree School: Students named on honor roll and character counts lists

Published on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 3:00pm

Pine Creek School has released its third quarter Principal’s Honor Roll and Character Counts winners.

Students placed on the Principal’s Honor Roll maintained an “A” average, and Character Counts winners are students who were recognized as a the representative of one of the six pillars of character. Below is a list of the schools honors:

 

Principal’s Honor Roll: Robert Dobrowski, McLain Payne, Julie Waldron, McKade Payne

 

Local author Thomas McGuane to speak

Published on Tue, 04/19/2016 - 3:00pm

Award-winning author Thomas McGuane will give a lecture on the topic, “Does Fishing Mean Anything?” at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at the Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium. A reception will follow.

McGuane’s visit is part of the MSU Library Trout and Salmonid Lecture Series, a Montana State University News Service press release said. The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, and preregistration is advised. Guests may register online at calendar.msu.montana.edu/events/16913 or by calling (406) 994-6857.

Tuesday, April 19

Published on Tue, 04/19/2016 - 3:00pm

BRIEFS

• The Livingston Tree Board will meet at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20 in the East Room of the City-County Complex. There will be a discussion of the May 6 Arbor Day Celebration. The board is also looking for new members to fill vacancies. Open to the public. For more information, call Mike at (406) 451-9218. 

 

Monday, April 18

Published on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 3:00pm

BRIEFS

 • The Blue Slipper Theatre auditions for Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 18 and Tuesday, April 19 at the Slipper. There are roles available for six women ages 19-70. For more information, call the Slipper at 222-7720.

 

April Showers

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:36pm
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Clyde Park residents call fowl over no-chicken ordinance

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:11pm
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While horses neigh and sheep bleat, you won’t hear chickens clucking in the town of Clyde Park.

Not yet, anyway.

Some residents are looking to change the town’s rules that currently disallow residents from owning chickens. 

“I think about all the people in town that want chickens,” Clyde Park resident Bob Taylor said. “I think it is a right of freedom.” 

TIME OUT WIHT LOIS: Why it’s hard to throw all that stuff away

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:06pm

This winter there were many avalanches in our Montana mountains. We here at the Olmstead Homestead have our own avalanche — a paper one. Is it the same at your home? Our mailbox overflows each day. We are readers. Books, magazines and newspapers pile in like snowbanks. And when a person’s avocation pivots around writing and talking, words matter. Small wonder that pieces of paper covered in words reach mammoth proportions in this house.

In Short

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:02pm

• Shields Valley Bible Church is holding it’s annual Missions Conference Friday, April 22-Sunday, April 24. 

The guest speaker is retired missionary Daryl Bauman. Daryl and his wife, Vicki, have served most recently with New Hope Mission in Haiti. Daryl will speak on the theme “A Chosen Generation.” 

Travis Edward Harding

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:00pm

Travis Edward Harding was born in Bozeman Feb. 28, 1979, and died on April 11, 2016, in Gresham, Oregon.

From the minute he entered this world, he was big and strong and equally kind and thoughtful. He had blue eyes that could calm any storm. He attended schools in Bozeman, graduating from Bozeman Senior High in 1997.