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New Face on the City Council

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During Monday’s City Council meeting, Mayor Greg DeBoer swore in new City Councilman Linda Brunckhorst.

Republic Services addresses the ongoing garbage issues in Sweet Grass County

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The City Council and Republic Services, who handles the garbage collection in Big Timber, discussed at Monday nights City Council meeting, where the company was at on installing a new scale at the transfer site and the progress they have made towards resolving the numerous issues that the City had brought to their attention.

Home Burglarized in Reed Point

Reed Point residents Art and Norma Ullery have recently experienced one of a homeowner’s worst nightmares last week when their home and garage were burglarized.

U. of Michigan reaches $490M settlement over sexual abuse

The University of Michigan has agreed to a $490 million settlement with more than 1,000 people who say they were sexually assaulted by a former sports doctor at the school during his nearly fourdecade career, those involved in the agreement said Wednesday.

BTGS Student of the Week

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Charleigh is an amazing student. She is always helpful to her classmates. She pushes friends on the swing at recess, helps others in class feel like part of the group, and helps her classmates remember not to be too noisy when in the classroom by reminding everyone to use proper voice level as well as trying to maintain a good noise level herself. She also goes out of her way to make everyone feel like part of the group in the class’s morning meeting.

BNSF railroad tries to block 17,000 employees from striking

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF railroad wants a federal judge to prevent two of its unions from going on strike next month over a new attendance policy that would penalize employees for missing work.

What happens after Jan. 6 is up to us

By now we have all been exposed to, inundated with, and educated by the flood of information on the anniversary of last year’s failed insurrection by Trump supporters attempting to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s decisive election victory.

Continuing MLK’s ‘Revolution of Values’

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On January 15, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was leaving a planning meeting for the Poor People’s Campaign when he was called back into the room. It was his birthday — his last, it would turn out.

The audit proves it: MT is the child removal capital of the US

Auditors for the Montana Legislature have now made clear that Montana’s “child welfare” system is not about children and does not promote their welfare. Perhaps now, thanks to a performance audit of the Child and Family Services Division, lawmakers will face up to the harm done by Montana’s dubious distinction, child removal capital of America.

Forest Service in ‘paradigm shift’ to use logging, controlled burns to prevent wildfires

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The Biden administration will use $3 billion from last year’s infrastructure law to revamp the federal approach to wildfire management, introducing a 10-year plan to deal with the large swaths of the West scientists consider most at risk of destructive blazes.