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The 54th Annual Montana Grain Growers Association is set for Dec. 1-4 in Great Falls at the Best Western Heritage Inn.

Despite a setback in early October, there's still a chance Montana sugar beet farmers could see a record crop this year.

Funeral services for Edward W. "Butch" Beck, retired foreman of the Sheridan County road department, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug.

Funeral services for Edward W. "Butch" Beck, retired foreman of the Sheridan County road department, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug.

Despite fewer fires this year the Bureau of Land Management is on alert and expects to see dry lightning fires in the coming weeks.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, the recession in Montana will bottom out in 2009 and the economy will begin to improve, according to two economists at the University of Montana, but that recovery will be slow and gradual over the coming years.

Montana's recovery from the recession, the worst experienced by the state since the 1980s, will be slow.

Last year wild land fires consumed more than 120,000 acres in Montana alone. Combine that with Wyoming's 90,000 and you're looking at an area that exceeds 300 square miles.