The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT) articles from September 2003

The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT) archives from September 2003

Glendive, Mont., Retardation Center Closure Has Great Effect on Patients, Town.
September 6, 2003... Byline: James Hagengruber Sep. 6--GLENDIVE, Mont.--Falling asleep in the same bed each night and having the same nurse come in with the morning sun means a lot to the profoundly retarded men and women who live at Eastmont Human Services...

Private Garden Blooms into Profitable Business for Billings, Mont., Homeowners.
September 6, 2003... Byline: Jim Gransbery Sep. 6--Dan Jellison and Walt Williams want Billings to become a way station for migrating monarch butterflies. For their part, they planted a hedge-row of tithonia, or Mexican sunflowers, on the east side of...

Glendive, Mont., Residents Prepare for Loss of More Jobs.
September 7, 2003... Byline: James Hagengruber Sep. 7--GLENDIVE, Mont.--Losing 97 state jobs in this town of 5,000 is going to hurt. Many Western Montana legislators have never visited Glendive -- it's a 7-hour drive from Helena -- so city leaders tried to...

Russian Mining Company Cites New Asian Contracts for Palladium.
September 9, 2003... Byline: Jan Falstad Sep. 9--Montana's new partner in the nation's only platinum and palladium mines has announced new contracts to sell palladium to clients in South Korea and China. Palladium production numbers are a state secret in...

Tax Troubles Vex Montana Governments, Schools.
September 12, 2003... Byline: Jan Falstad Sep. 12--Yellowstone County officials had talked about seizing some personal property from NorthWestern Energy's Billings headquarters -- trucks, utility wire or the like -- for nonpayment of taxes. But, they...

Utility Pays Montana Taxes, Fails to Get Shareholder Votes.
September 13, 2003... Byline: Jan Falstad Sep. 13--NorthWestern Energy paid off a large portion of its delinquent Montana property taxes Friday afternoon, at the same time its parent company stepped closer to bankruptcy. NorthWestern Energy paid more than...

Montana Power Provider NorthWestern Corp. Files for Bankruptcy Protection.
September 16, 2003... Byline: Jan Falstad Sep. 16--NorthWestern Corp. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Wilmington, Del., after an aggressive expansion plan failed and heavy debt overtook the utility. The bankruptcy means nearly 10,000...

Court Ruling against No-Call List Means More Disruptions for Montana Residents.
September 27, 2003... Byline: Jan Falstad Sep. 27--More than 50 million telephone owners -- nearly half the nation -- had been looking forward to an end of telemarketers disrupting their dinners. Now, they'll have to wait. On Wednesday, a U.S. District...

Public Auction Yards Owner Buys Billings, Mont., Livestock Commission Company.
September 30, 2003... Byline: Jan Falstad Sep. 30--Starting Wednesday, Billings -- once called one of the Cow Capitals of the World -- will have both livestock auction yards under one owner again. Pat Goggins, the long-time owner of the Public Auction Yards...