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

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

Founder of Cowboy Coffin and Pine Box Co. uses past experience in new venture.
May 6, 2006... Byline: Linda Halstead-Acharya May 6--RED LODGE -- Years ago, when Rand Herzberg mended parachutes as a smokejumper, he never envisioned using those skills to sew casket linings. Nor did he have a clue walking through pine forests as a...

Sugar co-op increases acreage by 20 percent for 2006 crop.
May 13, 2006... Byline: Jim Gransbery May 13--Sugar beet farmers in Montana and Wyoming should write a thank you note -- in Portuguese. Thanks to the Brazilians, who are running their sugar through the gas tank nowadays, the prices for refined sugar...

Billings Gazette, Mont., Jan Falstad column.
May 14, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad May 14--PULLING THE PLUG ON MONTANA: Americans may feel helpless in the face of big oil and high gasoline prices. However, Montanans hit hard by sharply higher utility bills since deregulation nine years ago at...

A hundred years of sugar refining in Billings.
May 14, 2006... Byline: Jim Gransbery May 14--In January 1906, an order for 3.25 million bricks from the Slater Brick Co. was placed by the Great Western Sugar Co. for the construction of a sugar beet refinery south of Billings. By fall, the bricks...

Australian company to buy NorthWestern.
May 14, 2006... Byline: Jan Falstad May 14--Four years ago, NorthWestern Corp. of South Dakota paid $1.1 billion for what was left of Montana Power and took over responsibility for providing heat, light and power to its 486,000 customers. Now, three...

City Council OKs Alternative Inc.'s plans for hotel.
May 23, 2006... Byline: Ed Kemmick May 23--Alternatives Inc. won City Council approval Monday night to use one floor of a motel on South 27th Street as an assessment center for female prisoners, paving the way for bringing up to 175 women to the building....