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Wednesday: Sawmill Reopens, Missing Plane, Record Sausage

By Beacon Staff

Good morning and happy birthday to late, amazing, John Updike.

On the Beacon today, Plum Creek is cautiously optimistic as it reopens its Columbia Falls sawmill. Glacier High Senior guard Ben Cutler and junior forward Shay Smithwick-Hann have been selected all-state for boys, while senior Emilee Hashley got the nod for girls. In the Grace trial, a former chemist for the company says he oversaw a 1976 experiment where mice died after being injected with asbestos-laced vermiculite from Libby. An Mark Riffey writes about how to see your business through a catastrophe.

Authorities are searching for a small plane that dropped off of the radar north of Bozeman. A new report on wolves in Montana shows that their population continues to grow, but expansion is slowing. A UM professor wants $25 million in stimulus funds to create a rocket-powered transit system between Hamilton and Missoula. The Flathead Land Trust received a $1-million grant for wetlands conservation. Gov. Brian Schweitzer has yet to submit his cabinet appointees to the Republican-controlled Senate for confirmation.

And finally, check out the world’s longest sausage in Serbia. Have a great day.