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NEWS

WORDS
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of the Week

AN INDEX OF
RECENT
NEWSMAKERS

CLEMENCY
Gov. Steve Bullock asked
the state parole board to

consider clemency for Barry
Beach, who has maintained
his innocence in the 1979
murder of his classmate in
Poplar.

MCCARTNEY

The former Beatle and
rock icon Paul McCartney
announced he will
perform inside Missoula’s
Washington-Grizzly Stadium
on August 5; according to
UM, McCartney was told by
Mick Jagger, the front man
of the Rolling Stones, who
performed in Missoula in
2006, that it is a great place
to play.

DEADLY STORMS

A violent weather system that
included a massive tornado
hit the Midwest and South A partially completed bridge along Flathead Lake leading to Dockstader Island.
last weekend, killing at least GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
Flathead Lake Bridge
18 people and leaving vast
destruction.

Project Temporarily Halted
UKRAINE

The United States leveled
new sanctions against
Russia in response to its
actions in Ukraine. This is the Developer exceeded
By MOLLY PRIDDY of the Beacon
portion of private property that was once
third round of sanctions the permitted length for a spit but is now an island in the lake, al-
U.S. has imposed on Russia Flathead County has issued a stop- lowed for 481 feet of bridge length and 16
following the country’s bridge, could apply for a work order on what has become a con- feet of width.
annexation of Crimea in
March.
permit amendment
troversial bridge-building project on the However, according to Flathead Coun-
north shore of Flathead Lake, near Big- ty planning director BJ Grieve, the devel-
fork.
oper acknowledged having to add more
The permit issued for the bridge,
which will be used to restore access to a
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