Thursday, January 23, 2025

ARTICLES BY CAROL HOLOBOFF WESTERN NEWS

Grace to pay $250 million for Libby asbestos contamination

What is being called the largest payment ever ordered under the federal Superfund program, W.R. Grace has agreed to pay $250 million to reimburse the federal government for the costs of investigation and cleanup of asbestos contamination in Libby.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Movement to save Libby's drive-in seeks more individuals

In 1958, when there were more than 5,000 drive-in theaters across the country, families piled into their cars and trucks to go to the movies.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Baucus pursues funding for golf course cleanup

Sen. Max Baucus believes the vermiculite found at a Libby Elementary School last week is a perfect example of the need for Libby's asbestos exposure to be declared a public health emergency.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Leaving la vida loca behind for the vast Northwest

Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Doctors work toward information dissemination

The Libby Area Technical Assistant Group, also known as TAG, had a special presentation by Dr. Aubrey Miller during their monthly meeting in February. Miller is a physician in the U.S. Public Health Service and a Senior Medical Officer and Toxicologist for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Region …
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Home is where the heart is; African girl finds family in Troy

Florence Laflin is at home in Troy. The stork didn't bring her, but she did come on a big iron bird. She flew on an airplane from Monrovia, Liberia to her new American family in Montana.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 16 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Lack of funding pushes EPA project back

The Environmental Protection Agency's Region 8 Work Plan for 2008 does not include the clean up and abatement of the green and tee boxes at Cabinet View Country Club because of insufficient funding.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS AGO

W. R. Grace trial to test validity of claims

Reports of speculators paying up to $25 per share for stock in W. R. Grace & Co., which is said to be an unusually high amount for a company in bankruptcy, and suggestions that W. R. Grace & Co. is willing to gamble the company on the decision of a …
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS AGO

Local artist loves his work

Bronze sculpting is sometimes called the art of lost wax.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS AGO

Deputy state medical examiner speaks to LHS

Gene Reckin, a science instructor at Libby High School, invited Dr. Walter Kemp, (known as Willy) to speak to his students about his work at the state crime lab in Missoula. Kemp is the deputy state medical examiner and Reckin introduced him as, "the real-deal CSI."
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS AGO

A young man with definite plan for his life

Joel Brian Cutsforth marches to that different drummer Henry David Thoreau talked about. He will only be 16 in January, but he understands what Thoreau meant when he said, "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS AGO

CAG seeks community involvment with 2008 EPA budget allocation

Editor's Note: This is the last of a four part series looking into the Project Matrix developed by Paul
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Environmental health science class studies air quality

Words like particulate, microns, ozone, alveoli and volatile organic compounds fly across the room when students at Libby High School are discussing ambient air issues in Gene Reckin's environmental health class.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Lacking community input is major concern of Community Advisory Group

This is the third of a four-part series looking into EPA's Region 8 team leader Paul Peronard's Project Matrix to inform the community of decisions that must be made as
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Can the EPA and residents come to a consensus about cleanup prioritization?

Editor's Note: This is part two of the four part series looking at the Project Priority Matrix developed by
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 17 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

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