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DATELINE SCOBEY, MONTANA — Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:18 a.m. it was a minus 20 degrees temperature with the wind at 10 miles per hour making it feel like minus-43 degrees below zero with humidity at 67 percent. Two hours and 31 minutes later at 12:49 p.m. I received a text message from a friend that said: “I am all for global warming.” My response to him was: “Me, too!” When that text was sent the temperature had cooled to minus-21 degrees below, humidity at 69 percent and wind at 11 miles per hour making it feel like minus 44 degrees below. More on last week’s dangerous weather elsewhere in this week’s issue. — mike

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National Popcorn Day is Friday, January 19. At Richardson Theatre, in celebration of this great day, one free popcorn refill will be given to movie goers that evening during the movie.

According to National Day Calendar: “The word “corn” in Old English m...