Dec132019

Sugar beets yield devastating losses

Local • Yellowstone County

This pile of Sugar beets were deemed unusable due to weather conditions as of the time this picture was taken in Huntley on December 3rd. Summer hail storms and a short harvest season mixed with cold weather spurts caused hard conditions to harvest the beets out of the ground with many of the beets still left in the ground, However, Western Sugar Cooperative harvested some of the beets in the middle of this beet dump pile but left the rest to rot. As of December 11, the beets continue to sit in a pile at the Huntley beet dump.
(Jonathan McNiven photo)

In light of the massive weather-induced damage to sugar beet crops across Montana, Governor Bullock has sent a request to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue requesting federal aid for Montana sugar beet farmers, including here in Yellowstone County. read more

Dec92019

Is there enough to make a bouquet?

Features

A group of pheasants gather in a hay field looking for food on November 2019. (Photo by Jonathan McNiven)

Keep your eyes glued to the Yellowstone County News as our outdoors columnist Carl Wolf will address and write about this picture we captured a couple weeks back of about 25 pheasants.

If you look closely, you’ll be able to see read more

Dec62019

Stolen horse found hitched up at Motel

Top Stories

Missile was found hitched up outside The Vegas Hotel.
(courtesy photo)

Rodeo performer and fantastic western artist Elyssa Leininger woke up Sunday morning to terrible news, her beloved horse Missile had been stolen, along with a saddle and tack from her trailer, from the pasture behind their home on King Avenue East. A horse-napper had opened the pasture gate, broken into the horse trailer, saddled up Missile, and led him off the property past the Leininger family’s house before jumping onto the horse’s back and riding him down Washington Street and across a couple of fields.

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Dec62019

Things are definitely different in California

Opinion • Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,

Recently I was contacted by the State Bar of California. I was asked to update my personal information and my present contact information. I noticed that there were five choices that I had to describe my sex. Thank God two of the choices were still male and female. One choice I believe was “two spirits” ? Then I remembered I was dealing with a governmental organization in the state of California.

Dr. W. David Herbert

Billings

Dec62019

Billings schools support relocating Daylis Stadium

Local • Billings • Yellowstone County

The superintendent of School District 2, Greg Upham, was in attendance at this month’s Metra Park Advisory Board meeting to make a most emphatic point that he and the school district’s board of trustees are very interested in developing some kind of sports / stadium complex that can take the place of Daylis Stadium for Senior High School.  read more

Dec42019

Obituary: Margaret Louise Noonkester

Obituaries

Margaret Louise Noonkester

Our highly treasured Wife, Mother and Grandmother Margaret Louise Noonkester passed away on December 3, 2019. Our sadness is softened by knowing she is finally holding her baby boy, hugging her son and grandsons but most importantly being in the presence of her Lord.

Elmer and Valley Reed welcomed Margaret on December 10, 1931 in Pawnee, OK, joining brothers Leroy, Paul, Wiley, Danny and sisters Violet, Loretta, Josie, Maxine and Judy.

The family moved to read more

Nov262019

Mother, son duo headed to prison

Yellowstone County • Billings

After a 27-year-old woman was shot on S. 29th St. on the South Side of Billings last week and taken to the hospital with “non-life threatening injuries”, Billings Police responded to the scene where witnesses said a man fired shots from inside a Mercedes at a green truck. The victim identified Marlin Parker, who police have said is 24 years old but court documents say he is 34, as the shooter and said that she had gotten a ride with the man in the truck when the Mercedes, driven by Parker, cut them off and fired. Her driver drove away and Parker then allegedly grabbed her through the window and demanded $200 she owed him before she was shot. read more

Nov222019

Young Americans for Freedom fight Rocky’s public expression policies

Features

A student group at Rocky Mountain College feels under fire from the college after being denied the ability to set up their campus display for pro-life week in September, a week long anti-abortion awareness campaign. Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), a conservative college student organization, believes that their first amendment right to free speech is being violated and that RMC was violating their own Code of Conduct by not allowing students to challenge each other intellectually or ethically. read more