While delivering estate- planning presentations across Montana, Marsha Goetting, Montana State University Extension family economics specialist, saw a pattern among some attendees. When it came to understanding state and federal taxes after death, many people were misinformed. Goetting said there was a time when the federal estate tax affected many Montanans and, as a result, tax minimization

District Court Judge David Cybulski ruled Feb. 18 that the Town of Culbertson and Thomas Mann Post 81 of the American Legion may resume administering easement- based access to the 40-acre Legion Park near the Missouri River. According to Culberton’s Peter A. Olson, the status of park access is pending some final hurdles holding up public use of the area. Access to the park has been blocked