The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT) articles from April 2006

The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT) archives from April 2006

Albertsons aims to please Billings, Mont., customers with new store.
April 7, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad Apr. 7--You could be easily forgiven if you drive past the corner of Central Avenue and Sixth Avenue South in Billings and see double. There really are two side-by-side Albertsons grocery stores. The former...

Shelf Life.
April 9, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad Apr. 9--When Albertsons opens its state-of-the-art grocery store in Billings this Wednesday, the change will be just one of many transformations that Connie Mocabee has witnessed during her 34-year career at one store....

Turning touch into well-being.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Linda Halstead-Acharya Apr. 10--In her first career, Heidi Chapnick taught students the concepts of math and science. Today, she's using her teaching skills to train bodies how to shed tension. Chapnick has been a practicing...

Judge rejects cattlemen's move to block Canadian border reopening.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Jim Gransbery Apr. 17--U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, conceding he is handcuffed by a decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, has rejected a cattlemen's request for permanent injunction against the U.S. Department of...

French couple allowed to stay.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Ed Kemmick Apr. 17--A French couple living under threat of deportation by U.S. immigration authorities since 2000 won a partial victory, in the form of an agreement that will allow them to live and work in the United States and to...

Other major road projects come 1st, say planners.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Tom Howard Apr. 17--Plenty of Billings residents like the idea of connecting the Heights and the West End with a road north of the airport that hooks up with Zimmerman Trail. But planners and decision makers caution proponents...

Train group pushes for north-south 'feeder' lines.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Ed Kemmick Apr. 17--Jim Green is still hoping to restore passenger train service to southern Montana, but in the meantime he'd settle for a "feeder service" that would ferry people from Billings, Bozeman, Helena and Great Falls up...

Landmark Billings, Mont., restaurant rises again at TransTech Center.
April 22, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad Apr. 22--In these times, restaurants often need casino income to make money. So seeing a traditional supper club close, then reopen based on the draw of its reputation and its food, is a rare event. Billings'...

Billings, Mont., exterminator keeps the unwelcome away.
April 23, 2006... Byline: Lance Benzel Apr. 23--Jim Fellows keeps closely attuned to his customers' patience for unwanted guests. Some will tolerate an ant or spider every now and then and request that the Billings exterminator pay house calls no more...

Laurel lumber mill fined for safety violations.
April 27, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad Apr. 27--Fox Lumber Sales, Inc., of Laurel must pay fines totaling $120,000 for serious and repeat violations of safety regulations resulting from an amputation accident last October. The Occupational Safety and...

Formerly homeless Billings man puts business, life back together.
April 28, 2006... Byline: Ed Kemmick Apr. 28--Having been homeless himself, Kenneth Glode is hoping to build a business that will provide decent jobs for other people down on their luck. Glode is the owner of Always Green Lawn Sprinklers, which offers...

U.S. Bank plans new Billings branch.
April 30, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad Apr. 30--The sales pitch to the brass in Minneapolis didn't work in 2004, but by '05 executives at U.S. Bank agreed that Montana's biggest city deserved another branch bank. U.S. Bank Region President Wayne Hirsch...

Crown Parts digs wider niche in global mining-equipment supply.
April 30, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad Apr. 30--The Spanish Empire used the phrase in the 16th century. Three centuries later, the British used it. Now Paul Hatzell, owner, president and chief executive of Crown Parts & Machine Inc., rightfully claims...