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In one of the Montana weekly newspapers the Leader swaps issues with every week, one asked this question of four people: What are you most grateful for this Thanksgiving? One young woman answered: “I am thankful for my family and my two beautiful children, and for unlimited access to a liquor stor...

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The Leader arrives in Billings every Thursday morning about 10 a.m. The newspaper often gets to our subscribers in Billings up to 3 and sometimes 4 weeks later! It’s a long haul across town, particularly in the 59102 zipcode, where three phone calls came in this week that they still had not rece...

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While looking through the Tuesday, November 17, 2020 edition of the Billings Gazette daily newspaper around 10 a.m. a headline brought sadness upon upon me: Woman, dog struck and killed by train on Hi-Line. On Saturday, November 14, around 4:45 p.m. a 41-year-old woman did not see nor hear an appro...

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Wearing masks has been a bone of contention on how they do or don’t work. In our opinion they provide one protective measure, lowering your percentages of contracting diseases, not the end all solution. Hundreds and maybe thousands of people die from hypothermia each year. It’s generally ...

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The string of container-carrying railcars and grain railcars from Plentywood to the west edge of Flaxville increased and then decreased. At the end of August 2020 the big string of cars started five miles west of Plentywood but then those five miles were filled with more grain cars, right...

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Weather is good. It gives us something to talk about besides COVID-19. Working in the yard on Sunday we noticed the change of the sounds in the country (as we live on the edge of Scobey). One big thing we noticed besides having lovely sunshine and nicer weather on Sunday, was that the buzzing of two...

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According to an analysis by non-government watchdog Judical Watch, which is about as honest as they come, 353 of the total 3,141 counties in the U.S. located in 29 of the nation’s states already have 1.8 million more registered voters than residents. Dirty voting rolls equal dirty elections. — m...

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Weather is such a prevalent topic in many conversations and often the precursor to real conversation that may propose that a person actually cares how you are doing and what is happening in your area.We are slipping into fall here and not looking forward to winter. We were thinking about the famous ...