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GRIZ

The University of Montana
football team ran over the
Montana State University
Bobcats, winning 28-14 in the
113th annual Brawl of the Wild.

MEDICAID
Advocates of Medicaid
expansion in Montana gave
oicials proposed language
for a ballot initiative, with the
plans of gathering signatures

for an initiative by early next
year.

ISON

Dubbed potentially the “comet
of the century,” if ISON
survives its Thanksgiving
trip around the sun, it could
provide a spectacular show for
skywatchers.

TAXES
Joe Brenneman, pictured at his dairy farm east of Kalispell. November 9 marked the irst day in nearly 50 years the Brennemans stopped milking cows.
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
continues to push forward with The Last of the Flathead Dairy Farms
his aggressive plan to change
the nation’s tax code, unveiling
two big portions of his
proposal dealing with ofshore
taxation of corporations and pastures east of Kalispell, providing the but experienced a sharp decline, particu-
revised rules for some tax With the closing of
accounting.
Joe Brenneman’s familiar, workaday soundtrack of a Mon- larly as market costs dipped in 2008.
tana dairy farm.
With Brenneman shutting down pro-
Kalispell dairy farm, only Lately, however, life is quieter on duction, there remains just one dairy
THANKS
Brenneman’s land, and throughout the farm in the Flathead, Kalispell Kreamery,
one local milk producer Flathead Valley.
owned and operated by Bill and Marilyn
Nov. 28 is Thanksgiving, and “The morning of Nov. 9 was the irst Hedstrom for 35 years.
if you’re looking for a place remains
day we didn’t milk cows here in almost 50 The rest have been sold and, in some
to eat turkey and all the
trimmings, check out the list years,” Brenneman said. “It’s weird. But cases, replaced by subdivisions.
of community-based meals By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Beacon
things change.”
“I outlasted 20 dairies and two milk
throughout the valley. What’s changed is the agricultural processing plants, so I don’t feel too bad,”
(STORY, PAGE 9)
For a half-century, the din of bellowing landscape of the Flathead Valley, which at Brenneman said. “I never thought of my-
bovine rumbled across Joe Brenneman’s
one point supported dozens of dairy farms
self as a dairy farmer. I don’t know how I

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