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Tuesday: Gravel Map, Lead Paint, Bad Malta Water

By Beacon Staff

Good morning; on the Beacon today, a group of canyon business owners have formed a new organization to promote their businesses outside of the Glacier tourism season. County planning and zoning officials created a new map charting gravel resources in the Flathead. Beacon photographer Lido Vizzutti spent some quality time at Flathead Valley Community College’s Stumpjumper Days, a logging sports competition. A new federal regulation is set to take effect April 22 requiring that contractors working with lead-based paint in pre-1978 buildings obtain a special safety certification, and some contractors are scrambling to get certified in time. The Polson Pirates softball team may be the most successful program in Class A for the past decade with four state titles under their belts in the last 10 years, but this team doesn’t tend to take the easy road to the state championship.

A recent study by a team of scientists from Montana State University found elk respond more strongly to threats from humans than from wolves, and they are more likely to flee for protected refuges if there are hunters in the area. In March, economic indicators saw their fastest pace of growth in 10 months, jumping 1.4 percent. NorthWestern Energy’s insurance company will pay the city of Bozeman about $163,000 for costs incurred in the aftermath of a deadly natural gas explosion downtown. Schools were closed and residents were given bottled water Monday in the northern Montana town of Malta after someone cut the wire fence around the city’s water tanks. Jan Falstad of the Billings Gazette follows the potential sale of Bresnan Communications, which employs 688 people in Montana and 425 in Billings. And a 52-year-old woman was jailed Sunday for allegedly racing her red Corvette along Highway 10 at speeds of more than 115 miles per hour before rear-ending a Missoula rural fire captain.