Malone, Ergen partner on broadband pitch Sep 10, 2009
9 million loan to Greenwood Village-based Open Range Communications to broaden the WiMax wireless broadband services it is rolling out in coming months. The money would be in addition a $267 million government loan made outside the stimulus program that was also meant to encourage rural broadband access. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
On Your Mind Aug 17, 2009
So you have come west and live on a nice place on open range where cattle grazed before you were born. I think you said you wished you could shoot the cows that drank up your dog s water. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Belle Fourche festival keeps "Cowboys" theme Jul 27, 2009
Belle Fourche might have played only a minor role in the John Wayne Western classic "The Cowboys," but it reminded the whole Tri-State community that this was the nation's largest livestock railhead in the open range era. So the community will keep that theme again this year for its annual Seth Bullock Riverfest & Cowboy Days observation, and two cast members will be among visitors for this year's festivities. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Multichannel Newswire Jun 18, 2009
ESPN will tee off 87 hours of multiplatform coverage of the 2009 U.S. Open championship from Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y. Open Range Communications, which plans to deploy WiMax broadband wireless service in 546 rural communities in the U.S., has signed a $100 million, five-year contract for products and services with equipment provider Alvarion. Comcast and the Boston Red Sox have reached an agreement to present content surrounding the Major League Baseball club on demand. (Multichannel News)
WiMax Provider Open Range Signs $100M Contract With Alvarion Jun 18, 2009
Open Range Communications, which plans to deploy WiMax broadband wireless service in 546 rural communities in the U.S., has signed a $100 million, five-year contract for products and services with equipment provider Alvarion. Open Range has received funding under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) program spanning 17 states and reaching up to 6 million people ... Alvarion will provide radio-access equipment, customer-premises devices and systems-integration... (Multichannel News)
Going Cold Turkey From Meat Jun 16, 2009
The backyard barbeque the Thanksgiving turkey the hot dog in the bleachers great flocks of chickens, acres of hogs and herds of beef cattle moving across an open range. Americans love the steak house, the chicken shack, the big burger, and bringing home the bacon. (CBS News -- Health)
Will Rogers: Movie Star and Writer Jun 3, 2009
Young Rogers grew up on the open range, riding and roping, but attended several schools and received an excellent education for the time. His given name was William Penn Adair. (Suite101.com)
Proposed wild horse holding facilities criticized May 12, 2009
The new facilities also are needed because the BLM plans further roundups of excess horses that roam the open range in Nevada and nine other Western states, Worley said. The agency offers the horses for adoption, but those too old or considered unadoptable are sent to long-term pasture facilities located primarily in the Midwest. (FOX 11, AZ)
House panel to take up horse slaughter bill Mar 4, 2009
The agency says it is considering euthanasia as a way to stem escalating costs of keeping animals gathered from the open range. The wife of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, Madeleine Pickens, is scheduled to testify Tuesday on her plan to create a wild horse sanctuary in the West. (FOX 11, AZ)
Mr Good Bard Mar 1, 2009
There is something about Mortensen that suggests the open range. Based on the sparsely worded novel by Robert B. Parker, it is the story of city marshall Virgil Cole (Ed Harris, who also directed) and his sidekick Everitt Hitch (Mortensen) who have made their name as ruthless peacekeepers in the lawless towns of the West. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Niman Ranch founder challenges new owners Feb 24, 2009
Unlike mainstream producers, Niman forbid growth hormones, used antibiotics only when an animal became sick, and demanded that the livestock be raised on the open range and readied for slaughter in an uncrowded, Niman-owned feedlot. Most commercial beef producers send weaned calves to a feedlot to grow and be finished on grain, but Niman's cattle grazed on grass - virtually unheard of in the 1970s. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Lumbering by - For more than a century, the mill was Bonner’s biggest employer; now retired workers remember the good ol’ days to save its history Feb 21, 2009
Imagine an assemblage in, say, 1909 of Charlie Russell, Teddy Blue Abbott and others of the cowboy persuasion, reminiscing and comparing notes on the long-gone days of the open range. It was along those lines that a handful of old-timers (they joked about that brush) gathered in Bonner last month to share their expertise and their tales. (Missoulian, MT)
