Commissioners discuss 2 percent salary increase for county officials
To increase salaries of elected county officials by two percent is a pending motion before the Yellowstone County Elected Officials Compensation Committee, which held its first meeting last Tuesday. They will meet again on June 25 to make a final recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners. County Commissioners will take up the committee’s recommendation […]
Bias against Bison: a national hypocracy
Dear Editor, Theodore Roosevelt established the National Bison Range in 1908 to provide “a permanent national bison range for the herd of bison.” The North American Bison has been an animal of spiritual importance and a symbol of cultural heritage for centuries. However, if our national mammal migrates outside of Yellowstone National Park, they’re treated much less […]
Slimmed down Shepherd Bond is back on the table
At a meeting in the Shepherd High School gymnasium, members of the Shepherd community gathered to listen to Jeff Kanning of Collaborative Design Architects, pitch a new, lower price plan for remodeling and adding on to the Shepherd School. By removing rooms and minimizing square footage of others from the failed bond and changing the […]
Drug deal leads to local shooting
A man and a teenage boy were shot on the 8200 block of Beas Lane in Shepherd early Monday morning over what is purported to be a bad drug deal. The teenager’s girlfriend and the man’s wife and 2-year-old child were also in the home with the wife saying that she had heard loud banging […]
Sex trafficking ordinance targets massage therapists
There are over 200 licensed massage therapists in the city of Billings. Recently, a city ordinance was introduced with the expressed purpose of protecting massage therapists while cracking down on human traffickers running brothels under the guise of a massage business, but many massage therapists are taking extreme offense to the wording of the ordinance, […]
Obituary: Ervin Naasz
Ervin Naasz passed away in the early morning of June 3, 2019, after a long, well-lived life. He was born on October 23, 1918 to John and Christine Naasz in Java, South Dakota. When he was four years old, his family moved from South Dakota to Napoleon, North Dakota, and he attended school there until […]