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Text Us to Score Free Potting Soil and Topdressing When we moved last summer, the house we ended up renting needed some serious yard work. The lawn was dead, the garden had been ignored, and we have this special rose bush that we take with us from home to home. So we cleaned stuff up and found out we could dump all of the old branches and clippings at  Garden City Compost for only 7 bucks. And we got some awesome soil to repair the lawn and for our rose bush, and both flourished! If youve nev...

Montana Senate approves main state budget bill and last updated 2021-04-08 22:10:04-04 HELENA — Montana’s main budget bill is one step closer to final approval, after the state Senate passed House Bill 2 on Thursday. The Senate spent about four hours going through and debating their own version of the bill, which lays out $12.6 billion in state spending for the next two years. HB 2 passed 34-16 in a preliminary vote, then senators suspended the rules and immediately passed it in a fin...

Public asked to respect seasonal closures on the north shore of Flathead Lake Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Dillon Tabish is warning the public to respect closures at Wildlife Production Areas on the north shore of Flathead Lake. and last updated 2021-04-05 18:59:29-04 BIGFORK — The North Shore of Flathead Lake between Bigfork and Somers is home to thousands of migrating birds this time of year. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) spokesman Dillon Tabish is warning the publ...

Text to Win Potting Soil and Topdressing From Garden City Compost When I was new to town and found a place to live, the guy I rent from said I could do whatever I wanted to the trees, shrubs, and bushes that were around the house. It looked like it had been a while since anyone had done some chopping so I went a bit crazy. After a couple hours I loaded up all of the branches and clippings and made an almost $30 dump run. I felt pretty good about all my hard work until my landlord told me I was ...

Three bills debuted in the Montana Legislature during the week of March 29 with vastly different approaches for regulating voter-approved recreational marijuana in the state, and all of them moved forward after a week of whirlwind hearings that nearly left Republican leadership’s favored approach dead in committee. After Montana voters legalized the sale and consumption of recreational marijuana last year by ballot initiative, the Montana Legislature was tasked with implementing a program. Th...

In a flurry of legislative maneuvers Thursday, major marijuana implementation bills first died and then were resurrected as legislators work against a looming procedural deadline. The House will consider all three proposals next week, when lawmakers will have the chance to make amendments or blend certain provisions from each bill into a single proposal. It took some last-minute wrangling to get the legislative package out of committee, however. "There was definitely a plan to have all three...

Brittany Anderson When the two-time James Beard Award semi-finalist is not nestled in her cozy abode with her husband and their two dogs, she runs as many as four establishments - Metzger Bar and Butchery, Brenner Pass, and Black Lodge in Richmond, VA, and Leni in Washington, D.C. But before she could build businesses, she attended the French Culinary Institute in New York City and later sought an apprenticeship at the Blue Hill at Stone Barn where she learned all about sustainability and farm-...

Three major marijuana bills to go before full Montana House after drama in committees Jonathon Ambarian Rep. Josh Kassmier, R - Fort Benton (right), talks to Reps. Becky Beard, R- Elliston (center) and Tom Welch, R - Dillon (left) after the House Taxation Committee voted down the long-awaited marijuana reform bill House Bill 701 Thursday. and last updated 2021-04-02 11:12:32-04 HELENA — Three major bills to overhaul the state’s marijuana laws are all headed to the full Montana House f...

Montana House committee hears testimony on major marijuana reform bill Jonathon Ambarian and last updated 2021-03-31 22:29:07-04 HELENA — On Wednesday, marijuana business owners laid out the concerns they have with a proposed bill that would reshape Montana’s cannabis laws ahead of the scheduled start of recreational sales – but some said they’re willing to look again if there are changes. The House Business and Labor Committee held a lengthy hearing Wednesday morning on Hou...

After a Republican lawmaker told a committee that he served in Iraq with interpreters who risked their lives helping the U.S. military, a Senate committee voted to restore funding for refugee services that had previously been cut from the state budget. "They were very valuable. They knew the area. They talked to the locals. They kept us informed. They saved American lives," said Sen. Kenneth Bogner, R-Miles City. "Now they are applying as refugees to use this program because its not safe for th...