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NEWS

WORDS
••••
of the Week

Harold Blattie,
AN INDEX OF executive
RECENT director of
NEWSMAKERS
the Montana
Association
of Counties,
APPOINTED
explains a
Lt. Gov. John Walsh to U.S. inancial error
Senate after Max Baucus was that resulted in
an estimated
formally appointed as the $2 million
U.S. Ambassador to China overtaxation
last week.
during a press
(STORY, PAGE 9)
conference in
Libby on Feb. 7.
GREG LINDSTROM |
FLATHEAD BEACON
LOCKDOWN
At the University of Montana
and Missoula schools on Feb.
6 after two armed robberies
took place nearby.

ELECTION

In question after the
Blackfeet Tribal Business
Council missed a deadline to
seat an Election Board on the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
The split council has been
ighting for months.
Lincoln County’s $2 Million Mistake

SIGNED

The Farm Bill legislation by
President Barack Obama on ‘Huge’ cuts in store for cuts are in store for the county after a Beacon after the meeting that more cuts
Feb. 7. The law will spread mathematical error was discovered that would be made in the coming months and
beneits to farmers across public services after revealed it had taken more than $2.1 mil- that the county is looking at only ofering
the country while trimming lion in additional taxes over three years.
services that are mandated by law, includ-
food stamps.
mathematical error More than 75 people attended a press ing road plowing and law enforcement.
results in the county conference hosted in Libby on Feb. 7 According to county oicials, the

RESERVES
taking more than $2.1 where the commissioners explained how mathematical mistake was discovered late
the mistake was made and how it will be last year, when someone noticed that the
Found in Revett’s Troy million in additional taxes corrected in the coming months.
county had allowed 56.86 mills to be lev-
Mine that will extend the “We’re here and we’re not running ied for the Troy Area Dispatch; according
copper and silver operation over three years
from this,” Berget said during the meet- to county documents only 31.91 mills were
by another 12 years. The ing. “There is no doubt about it that this is supposed to be levied. The Troy Area Dis-
company hopes to restart a complete and total error.”
patch organizes law enforcement, medical
production in late 2014 or
early 2015.
By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon
Lincoln County is already cutting its and ire services in Troy.
shoestring budget. In January, the county The mills are supposed to rise with in-
LIBBY – Lincoln County’s budget
commissioners voted to cut two elected lation, but upon further inspection, the
woes have gone from bad to worse. County positions – a justice of the peace and the
Commissioner Tony Berget said “huge”
school superintendent. Berget told the
Libby Taxes PAGE 24

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