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U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., on Friday honored Jaydyn Child of Dillon, a Beaverhead County High School student who recently received one of the Girl Scouts’ highest awards, the Gold Award, for her project to raise awareness about suicide prevention among teens and adults in Montana. Daines presented the award at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming office in Bozeman.  Child, a junior, received the honor for her service project titled “Teen Suicide — Your Life is Worth Living.” Through this project, she spent 150 hours working, fundraising, making bracelets and creating pamphlets to

BOZEMAN, Mont. – The Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming have added a new office in the Bozeman area. Girls from Daisy to Senior Scout levels gathered Friday for the ribbon cutting of the new Bozeman office. Troop leaders and scouts said there are more than 11,000 Girl Scouts throughout Montana and Wyoming, and a new office will help offer support. U.S. Senator Steve Daines was there to drive home the importance of Girl Scouts to the community. “My wife is a Girl Scout, my daughter is a Girl Scout, my niece is involved in Girl Scouting and it’s so

Senator Steve Daines today worked to break down some of the regulatory barriers facing Montana energy producers and expand markets for made in Montana energy. During today’s Energy and Natural Resources hearing, Daines sought to ensure that Montana coal isn’t hindered by duplicative regulations that could increase energy prices and negatively impact the thousands of jobs and more than one hundred million dollars in tax revenue each year that coal provides.

About 75 ranchers and folks from allied industries were at Montana State University on Friday for the Montana Stockgrowers Association’s mid-year meeting. During the general session Friday morning, association president Gene Curry, of Valier, ran down a list of lobbying successes in Helena. The passage of the CSKT water compact, state funding for the Department of Livestock and its Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Bozeman, and defeating the Humane Society of the United State’s proposals were highlighted. Curry was followed by MSU agricultural economics professor Gary Brester. He optimistically told the ranchers that the short- and long-term outlook on cattle prices, which hit