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Broadview Residents Confront Data Center Proposal Armed With Casseroles and Fury

By Bee Staff Report January 27, 2026

BROADVIEW — Approximately 130 residents packed the Broadview Senior Center on Monday night to voice concerns about a proposed data center, in what may be the most people inside that building since the Lions Club chili cook-off of 2009.

The mood was tense. The casserole table was fully stocked. The folding chairs were at capacity.

“They want to put a WHAT in my backyard?” demanded longtime rancher Dottie Prewitt, 74, who arrived at the meeting 45 minutes early to secure a front-row seat and what she described as “a tactical sightline to the microphone.”

BEE INVESTIGATION: Where Do All the Orange Cones on North 7th Go in Winter?

By Bee Staff Report January 23, 2026

For eight months of the year, North 7th Avenue is a pulsating artery of orange traffic cones, lane closures, and the quiet, simmering rage of 14,000 daily commuters. Then, sometime around November, the cones vanish — and nobody knows where they go.

The Bozeman Daily Bee spent three weeks investigating.

“We don’t track individual cones,” said Bozeman Public Works spokesperson Carl Redmond when reached for comment. When pressed on whether the city tracks cones collectively, Redmond paused for eleven seconds before saying, “I’m going to transfer you.”