The state's office of tourism has published grand but manageable booklets in pdf file form.  If you're planning to see Montana this summer, it's a good place to start!

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10:08 a.m. A Somers man reported that a boat propeller and one cannon ball have gone missing from his front yard.

11:50 a.m. A man on Aluminum Drive found a wounded parrot in his garage.

12:48 p.m. A Smith Lake Road resident reported that sewage water, or something that smelled equally awful, was running down his driveway.

2:20 p.m. A resident on South Cedar Drive reported that a teenaged boy in a striped tank top was in her backyard throwing rocks at the dog and yelling at her husband.

2:48 p.m. Someone driving down Highway 93 North reported that the driver in the other lane is slowing down, speeding up, and changing lanes to keep him from passing.

3:50 p.m. A white dog was seen on Weimer Way.

3:59 p.m. Two black cows were seen standing in the middle of Meadow Lake Boulevard.

4:05 p.m. A Kalispell woman called in to ask if the dog that had bitten her had been brought to justice.

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Spring plowing continues in Yellowstone National Park and people should be able to drive to Old Faithful starting Friday.

That would be right on time. Park officials typically try to get the roads east of West Yellowstone and south of Mammoth Hot Springs plowed and open by the third week of April.

Last year, federal budget cuts threatened to delay plowing in Yellowstone. Local officials pitched in to hire state snow plows and plow crews. That helped to get Yellowstone opened up on schedule.

Park officials say the park's gates should open up on time again this year. The East Entrance is scheduled to open May 2 and the South Entrance May 9.

The road from the North Entrance to the Northeast Entrance remains open all year.

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THOMPSON FALLS – There are two things that make the annual Sanders County Yard Sale-ing Event work.

One is luring lots of treasure hunters to the county on the last weekend of June to pick through the tens of thousands of items at dozens upon dozens of yard sales, most of them along a 100-mile-plus stretch of Montana Highway 200.

The other is lining up the yard sales.

That effort is on right now, as organizers prepare for the eighth annual countywide yard sale.

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