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Clyde Park loses town planner, Park County offers to help out

Published on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 2:24pm

The Park County Commission has offered to help the town of Clyde Park after the resignation of its town planner. 

Livingston attorney Jon Hesse, a representative for Clyde Park, asked the commission during its regularly scheduled Tuesday morning session to allow the county’s planning department to review a request for a boundary line adjustment, which will include a subdivision exemption review, for a plat in the town of Clyde Park.

Utility invests $12M in local electrical distribution system

Published on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 2:20pm
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NorthWestern Energy is investing $12 million to rebuild an electrical substation near Shopko and improve electrical distribution services to approximately 1,300 Livingston residents. 

A decorative wall marks the beginnings of a NorthWestern Energy project to completely rebuild one of the company’s three Livingston electrical substations, which provides services to residents on the south and southwestern portions of the city.  

Drug probe nets ‘substantial amount’ of meth

Published on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 4:11pm

The Park County Sheriff’s Office has a message for those using or dealing illegal drugs in Park County — if you are doing so, there’s a good chance they know who you are, they’ll be watching, and you will be arrested.

SHERIFF SCOTT HAMILTON

Two men arrested on meth charges

Published on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 4:00pm

Two men were arrested Wednesday on felony drug possession charges after police said they found a cigarette box containing 2.7 grams of methamphetamine in a vehicle registered to one of the men. 

DARREN LEE SMITH

FIRE PREVENTION: Students create large 911 symbol for awareness event

Published on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 3:26pm
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How many youngsters does it take to spell “911”? 

About 120 to be exact. 

The students of Livingston’s Washington School stepped out during their lunch break Monday to line up and form a human “911” on their playground. And then a Livingston Fire and Rescue crew showed up with their ladder truck to get high up into the air to get a crane shot of the perfectly delineated 911. 

500 acres along Mill Creek being donated to USFS

Published on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 3:06pm
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A Paradise Valley landowner will donate 500 acres of property to the Custer Gallatin National Forest after a dispute with the U.S. Forest Service over access to the Mill Creek area.

Alex Sienkiewicz, Yellowstone District Ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, said a barn owned by Ed Bazinet of New York, was blocking access to Forest Service land for the past 15 years.

Wolf shot in September had traveled 700 miles to Montana

Published on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 3:05pm
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A wolf shot in September while killing sheep near Judith Gap in central Montana spent the previous three months traveling about 700 miles, starting in northeastern Washington.

When federal Wildlife Services killed the 2-year-old male on Sept. 29, it was wearing a collar that had been placed on the animal in February by Washington Fish and Wildlife biologists north of Spokane, according to a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks news release.

SUNRISE OVER LIVINGSTON

Published on Mon, 10/24/2016 - 3:54pm
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Livingston city manager pick bails ... again

Published on Mon, 10/24/2016 - 2:00pm

The search for a city manager for Livingston continues. 

Sidney Mitchell, who was offered the position early last week, accepted it and then by Friday, had withdrawn — again. 

56-unit housing complex proposed; zoning change requested

Published on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 3:11pm
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Off North Ninth Street on Livingston’s northside hill and partially surrounded by homes sits 133 acres of barren land — at least for now. 

Bozeman developer Bill Muhlenfeld and his business partner Matt Faure, of Faure Halvorsen Architects, recently applied for a zone change in a 5.6-acre triangular parcel of land — located on the town’s north side near the 700 block of North Ninth Street — to build a subdivision of 14 fourplexes for a total of 56 new family housing units. 

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