Lewistown News Archives

Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen will present a series of workshops next week during a consumer and investor education campaign to help Montanans avoid investment and insurance traps, and to protect their money.

What a difference a year and a change from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas make.

LEWISTOWN - If the motto in real estate is location, location, location, then the construction industry's catchphrase must be timing, timing, timing.

For anyone else, the fire that torched his tool shed would have been a calamity, but for Clint Carr it was a hay-lamity. Working in his shop for the sake of secrecy, Carr was welding a metal frame for his crea-hay-tion when the straw he was using caught fire.

A Billings-based cooperative, the Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, met a Sept.

Central Montana offers a bonanza of berries beginning at the end of June and lasting well into September in many regions.

They're purple, puckery and a part of the Montana landscape. The chokecherry, or prunus virginiana, is found throughout the Lewistown area.

MALTA - Walter W. Harms, 74, a retired construction worker and member of the Montana National Guard, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

Belongings Furniture & Accessories is going out of business, but the owner has no firm date yet for closure, said store manager Candy Jacobs.

The Department of Defense has notified about 700 Army National Guard soldiers in Montana that they could be called to serve in Iraq sometime next year.

A hundred Montana Firefighters have been called up to help stop wildfires burning across California.

As many as 100 Montana firefighters are now joining in the fight against the wildfires raging in California.

Railroad business is down and this isn't a surprise to anyone who follows our economy.