Lewistown News

Yellowstone National Park P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2009 09-047 Al Nash or Stacy Vallie 344-2015 Work has begun in Yellowstone on the first of several large projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Memorial services for Frances Scott "Scottie" Byerly will be held Sunday, July 5 at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Lewistown.

A grass runway is being carved across a high-elevation meadow near the south fork of the Judith River, giving pilots access to recreational opportunities on public forest land east of the Rocky Mountains for the first time.

Airman 1st Class Joshua Roatch and Staff Sgt. Matthew Meade, 341st Missile Security Forces Squadron, prepare to head out to a Malmstrom missile alert facility June 22.

Settlers of the rugged Upper Missouri River Breaks and surviving descendants are featured in a new Bureau of Land Management-sponsored history documentary airing for the first time Thursday on Montana PBS.

Ackley Lake: Shore fishermen have been doing well with Powerbait and crawlers. The lake is full and offers good access.

A Montana man accused of taking a 14-year-old runaway girl from Pennsylvania to Arkansas has pleaded not guilty and has given up his right to a detention hearing.

LEWISTOWN - A Maiden Canyon -area resident faces a felony charge for allowing his 18 "aggressive and vicious" dogs to run loose in the Judith Mountains.

The life and accomplishments of civil rights pioneer and library advocate Alma Jacobs were celebrated outside of the Great Falls Public Library on Saturday during a dedication of a new plaza fountain in her memory.

HOBSON - Army veteran Robert O. Watson, 86, of Hobson, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Great Falls hospital.

The first fire of the season - the McDonald Fire - has been reported in the Central Montana Fire Zone which covers 16 counties from Glacier in the west to Valley in the east, and counties north of Meagher, said Karly Krausz of Lewistown Fire Dispatch.

COLUMBIA FALLS - Dennis H. Schoepp, 61, of Columbia Falls, a longtime Flathead Valley funeral director and Army veteran, died of natural causes Thursday at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

It's a tried-and-true drive-in; no waitresses, no light-up graphic menu, no affiliation with a national chain, not even a logo ..." [Read More] . "The famous Dash-Inn Wagon Wheel, a burger pressed and toasted between two pieces of bread.

The oldest person to ever take one of Sheryl Bannes' writing classes was nearly 90 years old.

LEWISTOWN - Administrators from 10 central Montana Class C schools are fighting to keep their doors open by looking at sharing teachers, staff and administrators and implementing four-day school weeks to make up for dwindling enrollment dollars.

Bozeman school administrators plan $80 million in building projects over the next four years, while Roy's superintendent must cope with having no music program, no business classes and no home economics class to offer his students.

BOULDER - Police shot and killed a man after authorities say he fired at officers near Boulder .

As Fergus High School's attendance secretary, Andra Burnham has heard some crazy reasons for missing class - "I hit a mountain lion with my car," "I'm locked inside my apartment" and "cows are blocking the road." But she's never heard an excuse of any kind from Tanner Lund - no one has.

Historic downtown Great Falls took another punch in the nose during a weekend fire that singed, and possibly ruined, several of downtown's most fetching architectural features from the World War I era.

The Bureau of Land Management Central Montana Resource Advisory Council will meet today and Thursday in Lewistown, where members will hear from the BLM state director for Montana and the Dakotas, and discuss other issues involving BLM land.