Local News
Tim Blixseth fights civil fraud charges
By Mike Coil
In the ongoing saga of the Yellowstone Club bankruptcy case former club owner Tim Blixseth was in federal court last week answering to charges that he fraudulently diverted funds from the club to his own assets and then hid the same from creditors. Marc Kirschner, the Trustee of the Yellowstone Club Liquidating Trust, sued Tim Blixseth and his son Beau Blixseth in federal court alleging that Tim Blixseth diverted $286.4 million from the Yellowstone Club to buy expensive properties around the world and then transferred those properties to a company controlled mostly by Blixseth known as Desert Ranch, LLLP of Carson City, Nevada. The properties include timber holdings, a resort in Mexico, a private island in the Turks & Caicos and the Buffalo Bill Ranch in Cody, Wyoming, among others.
Your Big Sky Chauffer Awaits You
Yellowstone Tour Guides
By Lynne Malpeli
Recounting our wonderful day while enjoying Park Winter Wonderland vistas and “Lunching” at Old Faithful during our Yellowstone Park Tour promises that “you, too can” enjoy the “greatest day ever”.
Our local expert guide/chauffer, “Wild Bill” of Yellowstone Tour Guides picked us up in beautiful Big Sky. We were then introduced to our fellow passengers from all over the world. Exchanging addresses with our new-found friends, we made promises to “keep in touch sending photos” of our trip together.
Second Winter Warm-up Lights Up Community Spirit
The theory of “emergence” is used by physicists and philosophers to explain how complex systems arise out of a number of simple interactions, such as the intricate patterns that are found in one ice crystal. If Big Sky were an organism, it would fit into the theory that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” – an axiom that was illustrated on a chilly Sunday afternoon in late February.
More cancer care at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital
Bozeman Deaconess Hospital has joined the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) Network to become the ninth Northwest community healthcare facility to enter into an affiliation agreement with the SCCA. The SCCA Network provides a structured program for supporting community-based oncology services to advance the level of care, including making leading-edge clinical trials available to local patients and offering continuing medical education to local health care providers.