The menu features deep-dish Chicago-style pizza, pastas, calzones and salads made with fresh ingredients. On the liquid side, the restaurant will serve 30 tap beers and dozens of bottled ales from around the world.

"We have a great menu complete with the freshest homemade ingredients," says Billings native Kyle Sipes, who is operations manager for JWT Restaurant Group. "We are extremely proud to bring this wonderful restaurant concept to Billings."

The Old Chicago in Billings is the second in the state. The first opened in Bozeman, and both are owned by Bozeman couple Don and Shavon Cape Jr. The Capes have development rights for Montana, Idaho and Eastern Washington. The restaurant will employ about 100 people.

Northern Plains Resource Council and the Western Organization of Resource Councils are paving the parking lot at their headquarters at 220 S. 27th St. with recycled and pulverized glass.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality provided the ground glass, which is combined with recycled plastic rings that sit on top of geotextile fabric.

"It will relieve stress on the city's sewer system," says WORC communications director Kevin Dowling. "The water will flow down into the ground again."

As of April 18, 45,039 Montanans not covered by other federal drug programs out of an estimated 105,048 seniors had signed up or been automatically enrolled in Part D.

If seniors don't sign up by the deadline, they will have to wait until November and will be penalized 1 percent per month in premium costs. That's 12 percent a year.

After a patient spends $2,250 on drugs for the year, including insurance payments and their own money, they fall into the "hole." That means they must pay 100 percent of their drug costs until they've spent $3,600 out-of-pocket for the year and are covered again.

On April 25, the Bush administration changed another controversial part of the law that kept seniors tied to a plan but let drug companies cancel coverage of their drugs. Now a person's prescription drugs must be covered for that year until another enrollment period.

This law still prohibits the federal government from using its buying clout to negotiate better drug prices. Because of this provision, some observers predict that drug costs to cover seniors may actually rise under Part D.

Another option for Montanans who qualify is to go with a state-run program called Big Sky Rx. Call toll-free 866-369-1233 or log on to www.bigskyrx.mt.gov.

As the Heights Center leases are being bought out to empty the building so Walgreens can tear it down and build anew, the deals are coming faster now.

Jay Hoffmann, who owns Mattress King, says the buyout is negotiated and a liquidation sale will start soon. The sale may take two months, given the large inventory.

"It is understood that when they (Walgreens) get a building put up, we will be the first to decide whether we want to go back up there again," he says.

"We'll have as good or better location in the works to be announced soon," Kimmet says. "We should have a buy-sell to announce in a few weeks."

In the half-century that the Musser Brothers Auctioneers have been holding auctions, the family has sold off inventories from sporting goods stores.

Fifty bows wearing retail price tags from $250 to $800, arrows, accessories, a computerized archery hunting game, and mounts including a stuffed black bear and a turkey will be on the block.

The sale will be held at Montana Archery Supply Business at 3211 First Ave. N. The owner could not be reached to find out what happened to the business.

"We still are waiting on the transfer of our liquor license, which should take two to three weeks," says co-owner and manager Michelle Cormier. "So, by the 23rd of May, Casey's will be completely gone."

The license is going to another corporation and will be used at Player's Paradise, a casino at 1720 Grand Ave., where the former Mayflower of China restaurant used to be.

Patricia Davidson and her daughter, Tiffany Davidson-Blades, now have 6,000 square feet of display space for their furniture and interior design accessories.

Grace wants your help to move her father's $10 million in U.S. gold and diamond wealth to a stable country for a negotiable 15 percent fee.

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