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Local woman receives refurbished car thanks to Automobile Giving Program

Published on Wed, 04/24/2019 - 4:27pm

A Livingston woman is behind the wheel of a refurbished vehicle, thanks to a new program aimed at giving cars to those who need them.

The Automobile Giving Program was launched recently after Automatic Transmission Specialist, or ATS, of Livingston partnered with other local parts and repair shops, local nonprofits, and the Livingston Area Chamber of Commerce to kickstart the program. 

Marie Snyder of Livingston is the first person to receive a refurbished car as part of the program.

LIVINGSTON STOP: Congressman Gianforte presents copy of Protection Act to commission, gets interviewed by Park High students

Published on Wed, 04/24/2019 - 4:19pm

If there’s anything Rep. Greg Gianforte hears about from young people, it’s the Second Amendment, protecting their information online and the national debt.

That’s what the Republican congressman told reporters from Park High School’s student newspaper, The Geyser, Tuesday afternoon. Four Geyser staff students — Dana Baskett, Lily De Young, Gibson Erickson and Buddy Murphy — interviewed the congressman at the City-County Complex after he presented a signed commemorative copy of the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act to Park County commissioners.

Local schools prepare for May 7 elections

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 4:39pm

By Johnathan Hettinger
Enterprise Staff Writer

 

Out with the old construction projects, in with the new.

During its Tuesday morning session, the Park County Commission approved the substantial completion — the certification that means a road is usable but not quite finished — of repairs on Fiddle Creek Road from flooding in 2018 and approved a new $127,000 project to repair Shields River Road, which was also damaged in 2018 flooding.

ROAD WORK AHEAD

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 4:36pm

Out with the old construction projects, in with the new.

During its Tuesday morning session, the Park County Commission approved the substantial completion — the certification that means a road is usable but not quite finished — of repairs on Fiddle Creek Road from flooding in 2018 and approved a new $127,000 project to repair Shields River Road, which was also damaged in 2018 flooding.

With the Shields River at its highest level since last year, Park County Rural Fire District No. 1 Chief Dann Babcox asked what happens if the road washes out again.

After Arizona law, Montana one of two states left that don’t ban texting, driving

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:00am

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona ended a decade of resistance to restrictions on using a cellphone while driving when Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law Monday outlawing holding a phone behind

A MORNING RIDE IN THE ‘FLOW’

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:00am

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Americans get more inactive over last decade

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:00am

Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study found. Over almost a decade,

Justices seem ready to OK asking citizenship on census

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census , despite evidence that millions

Migrants fearful after hundreds arrested in raid

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:00am

TONALA, Mexico (AP) — Central American migrants traveling through southern Mexico toward the U.S. on Tuesday fearfully recalled their frantic escape from police the previous day, scuttling under barbed wire

SHORT TAKES

Published on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:00am

Feds: Ex-CEO is first drug exec indicted in opioid crisis NEW YORK (AP) — The former head of a drug distributor has been indicted on what federal prosecutors say