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Today's riddle: What happened to the pregnant cat that ate yarn? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Green Bench Orchard navigates challenges after May freeze, fire blight (kpax.com) — Green Bench Orchard in Missoula has lost most of its apple crop to a May freeze and a rare outbreak of fire blight, forcing the cancellation of this year's popular u-pick season. Owner Fred Stewart is pruning diseased branches and hoping for a stronger harvest next year, while pointing locals toward other Montana orchards if they still want to pick apples this fall.
2. New affordable housing projects open doors for Missoula residents (kpax.com) — Missoula residents facing high housing costs are finally seeing new income-restricted apartments and for-sale homes become available, including the 16-unit Opportunity Place project. City planners say recent zoning reforms and low-income housing tax credits are helping more dense, affordable developments move forward, though additional projects may still take several years to fully materialize.
3. What Those Painted Squares on Montana Barns Really Mean (945maxcountry.com) — Missoula's growing barn quilt trail is turning colorful painted squares into a tool for preserving historic barns and outbuildings in the Target Range and Orchard Homes areas. Local organizers hope the eye-catching patterns will draw attention, encourage maintenance, and keep these rural structures standing for another century, while connecting Missoula to a broader statewide and national quilt trail movement.
4. Griz seek third straight win as Utah Tech visits Missoula (nbcmontana.com) — Griz fans in Missoula can look forward to a third straight home game as Montana hosts new Big Sky member Utah Tech at Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Saturday. The 2-0 Grizzlies aim to keep momentum under first-year coach Bobby Kennedy, while star running back Eli Gillman has a chance to break the program's overall touchdown record in front of the home crowd.
5. Missoula union members, leaders host Labor Day barbecue (nbcmontana.com) — Union members from the Missoula area marked Labor Day with a barbecue at Fort Missoula, raising money for a scholarship fund and celebrating workers' rights. Attendees heard from union leaders and Democratic U.S. House candidate Sam Forstag, who highlighted his experience representing federal employees in Montana's national forests and emphasized the importance of organized labor in the state.
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