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That's the impression I get from talking with the Gabby Cabby, New York City cab driver and longtime pal of mine, Peter Franklin. The Gabman will be joining me this afternoon (Thursday) at 4:35 right after Puffman Musical Trivia. The driver of the big yellow taxi has a true tale about four people arrested for eating doughnuts in a playground. I also found out that it's against the law for New York City residents to remove, kill, or damage a street or park tree. Two New Yorkers got nabbed for chopping down a ginkgo tree with an axe! They were apparently trying to steal a bike.

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Miss Montana USA 2011, Brittany Wiser will be joining me this afternoon (Thursday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. Many of us have read about seen and Ms Wiser on television and in the newspapers and I am really looking forward to speaking with her this afternoon and finding out some of the events Ms Wiser will be involved in during her year as Miss Montana USA 2011.

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Probably here in the Golden Triangle, we pay rapt attention to agriculture because it is our lifeline, and really. our country's lifeline. Agriculture is what the Golden Triangle is all about. Brady area farmer Gary Gollehon reports that Kansas and Oklahoma recently received anywhere from an inch or two of rain.

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So many books have focused on the legends and gossip surrounding the late Jacqueline Kennedy and now Barbara A. Perry, a former judicial fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, has written a beautiful presentation, "Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier", which is the first book to focus on Kennedy's White House years

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I'll be going back up to the Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening to read Montana History to the "regulars". We'll commence chapter 7 tonight in our book detailing the Mann Gulch Fire of 1949

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It was at Mann Gulch outside Helena back in 1949 and that's the book I'm reading to the residents at the Marias Heritage Center tonight at 6 o'clock. Mark Matthews (a writer from Missoula) has published the tome "A Great Day To Fight Fire Mann Gulch, 1949" and this book is more than a page turner, it's a barn burner

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