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Commission meets Tuesday to discuss manager applicants

Published on Mon, 08/22/2016 - 1:52pm

 The Livingston City Commission is moving forward in hiring a new city manager. 

 After top applicant Sidney Mitchell declined the position in May, the commission readvertised and started the hiring process all over again. The latest round produced 11 applicants the commission expressed interest in getting to know better. 

Park fire now at 22,448 acres

Published on Mon, 08/22/2016 - 1:51pm
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Yellowstone National Park forest fires continue to blanket the region in smoke. 

The Maple fire ballooned an additional 6,233 acres on Sunday and is now at 22,448 acres. The fire is located 4 miles east of the park’s western boundary and 5 mile northeast of the town of West Yellowstone, according to a National Park Service fire update. 

Columns of smoke from the fire were visible from Swan Lake Flats, south of Mammoth Hot Springs, on Sunday. A smoky haze covered Livingston Monday morning. 

Yellowstone River closed due to parasite-induced fish kill

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 3:07pm
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The Yellowstone River and its tributaries are closed to all water-based recreation — including fishing, wading, floating, tubing and boating — from Gardiner to the U.S. Highway 212 bridge in Laurel, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced Friday morning. 

Park High football coach fired

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:25pm
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Differing versions of the events on Aug. 11 that ended in serious injuries to a 17-year-old Park High School football player were presented to the Livingston School District Board Thursday night before the board voted unanimously to terminate the contract of head football coach Bruce Knerr.

Knerr didn’t use professional judgment at a football leadership retreat, which led to a student injury, District Superintendent Don Viegut told the board and about 75 people attending the meeting at the PHS RecPlex. 

County growth policy survey ends Monday

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:21pm

It’s about as clear as mud how residents feel about county involvement in land use.

Park County planners, with the help of a planning firm Land Solutions, are striving to understand what residents think the county should do to address growth, development and land use changes with Park County’s ongoing Growth Policy update.

Livingston developer sues Park County for libel

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:19pm

A Livingston developer is suing Park County after he claims building officials wrongly halted his work to move a historic cabin onto Ninth Street island.

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Syria's first responders: 'Most dangerous job in the world'

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:18pm
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BEIRUT— It took Mahmoud Fadlallah and the team of seven rescue workers 30 minutes to reach the middle-aged couple trapped beneath the rubble of their apartment building in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo. They had been notified a rocket had struck the building, and they had to wait for the debris to fall and the dust to settle.

Police: Man charged with DUI claimed someone else drove car

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:17pm

 A Livingston man has been charged with driving under the influence after he told police someone else was driving his Jeep Patriot that was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run accident Wednesday night.

 Cody Christianson, 23, of Livingston, failed sobriety tests at the Park County Detention Center after witnesses placed him at the scene of a crash on Geyser and C streets just before 9 p.m., Livingston Chief of Police Dale Johnson said Friday.

UN to provide 'material assistance' to Haiti cholera victims

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:15pm
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UNITED NATIONS— Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is working on a package that would provide "material assistance" to cholera victims in Haiti, his spokesman said Friday, strongly indicating for the first time that hundreds of thousands of people affected will get financial help from the United Nations.

Iraqi in Polish jail for paint trace on luggage, father says

Published on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 2:13pm
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WARSAW, Poland— Ahead of a visit last month to Poland by the pope, with security extremely high, Polish police arrested an Iraqi man for possessing "trace amounts" of an explosive. A month later, the man is still in a Polish prison and his father is appealing for his release, insisting that his son is innocent and that the suspicious material was nothing more than a bit of paint on his suitcase.