Billings Daily Digest Friday, October 02, 2026
Ty's Take
When the Rimrocks need cleaning up, it takes rope work and grit, and that's exactly what our firefighters gave the rocks this week rappelling down to cover graffiti that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Same week we lost some neighbors we'll remember in these pages, and a new resort opened up at Dome Mountain giving folks another reason to get outside and spend time in country that makes this place worth living in. October's moving fast, which it does around here, and most of us are trying to squeeze in everything we can before the real cold comes down.
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Billings Gazette
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