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.
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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.
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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.
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Leaving la vida loca behind for the vast Northwest
Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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Local artist loves his work
Bronze sculpting is sometimes called the art of lost wax.
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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."
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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News
Situated between two taverns on Yaak Avenue in Troy is the Veterans of Foreign War Post #5514. On the sidewalk outside the open door to the dimly lit bar is a sign that reads: Music Tonight.
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Grandparents honored at Kootenai Valley Christian School
Friday, Sept. 14 marked the 24th year that grandparents day has been celebrated. Although President Carter declared the first Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparent Day in 1978, the state of West Virginia actually began celebrating the day in 1973. September was chosen for the holiday to signify the …
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Superfund priorities 2008, who really decides
Editor's Note: This is Part one of a four part series looking into the Project Priority Matrix developed by Paul Peronard to assist the community as it weighs the decisions about allocation of $17,000,000 budgeted cleanup in Libby for 2008.
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Nordicfest artistic displays offer ideas for new hobbies this winter
Winter comes to the Northwest corner of Montana and stays. There are no breathtaking Chinook winds blasting between the peaks of the Cabinets to bring respite before the next snowfall. In Libby, the snow settling on a fence post today may be there until the spring rains appear to signal …
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Local woman accuses the EPA of dishonesty
Senator Max Baucus may be circling the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., over the delay of toxicity testing in the cleanup of asbestos contamination in Libby but there is one angry grandmother, right here in Libby, nipping at their heels about the quality of work done by a contractor …
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Local welding instructor a hometown hero to past students
Weld: to unite or reunite, according to the dictionary. Dick Kenck: a first class welder, according to every machinist in Libby, and many others around the Northwest.
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