Livingston on The Bozeman Daily Bee

Sabine "Sab" Moreau, 75

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:10:48 +0000

Sabine “Sab” Moreau arrived in Livingston from Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan in 1978, intending to stay six months at the grain elevator. She stayed thirty-five years, eventually running the scale house and knowing every truck’s tare weight by heart before the driver rolled across.

She measured the wind in layers — “three-shirt day,” “carhartt-and-a-half” — and distrusted the anemometer at the airport. When the turbines went up on the ridge, she said they looked like knitting needles dropped in a hayfield, but she liked the check they sent each winter.

Livingston fire chief dismissed following unauthorized slideshow on wind

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:00:43 +0000

The City of Livingston announced this week that it has parted ways with Chief Silas Vane, who served as the head of the fire department for the last three years. The departure follows an external review of departmental operations, though the city has declined to provide specific details regarding the separation.

Rumors have circulated throughout the town that the personnel change is directly related to a presentation Mr. Vane delivered at a community gathering on May 19. According to several attendees, the presentation—titled “Wind: A Statistical Analysis of Why Everything Always Blows Over”—contained slides that some city officials found overly speculative.

Mavis 'Mav' O'Connell, 79

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:07:06 +0000

Mavis “Mav” O’Connell was born in Livingston on March 14, 1947, in the house her grandfather built from railroad ties and stubbornness. She never left, not even for college, though she took a correspondence course in bookkeeping from a school in Chicago that she completed at the kitchen table. She worked the counter at the Park County Clerk’s office for forty-two years, where she knew every deed, every variance, every property line by heart.

Livingston art walk embraces wind as collaborative medium

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:06:06 +0000

The annual Livingston Art Walk returned Saturday with its usual mix of oil paintings, hand-thrown ceramics, and the persistent southwestern gust that treats the Yellowstone Valley like a personal wind tunnel. Organizers added a new category this year: wind-responsive installation. Three artists submitted work designed to move, flap, or produce sound when the breeze hits forty miles per hour. Which it did, by noon.

“The wind doesn’t care about your artist statement,” said Marjorie Fleck, a painter whose easel blew over twice before she weighted it with a rock from the Yellowstone River. “But if you build something that works with it, the wind becomes your best collaborator. It’s honest. It doesn’t pretend to understand your process.”

Livingston to plant trees as shield against persistent local wind

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:00:16 +0000

The wind in Livingston is a well-documented member of the community. It has a personality, a temper, and a tendency to relocate patio furniture to neighboring counties without permission. This week, city officials announced a bold initiative to plant 1,000 trees across the city, aiming to create a dense, leafy barrier against the gusts that frequently turn a casual walk to the mailbox into an unexpected aerobic workout.

“We aren’t looking for a park, exactly,” said local resident Dale Gust-Whacker, who spent much of Tuesday retrieving his recycling bin from a ditch near the Interstate. “We’re essentially trying to build a giant, wooden wall that moves slightly. If we can get enough branches in the way, maybe my hat will stay on my head for more than six minutes at a time.”