Hi-Line cities look at joint purchases to save money

It's hard for smaller towns to afford to do everything a town needs to, which is why some Hi-Line communities have started exploring ways to work together that have worked in other parts of the state already.

At Monday night's Chinook City Council meeting, City Clerk Lorraine Mulonet described a meeting she attended with representatives from Havre, Harlem, Malta, Dodson and Saco about the possibility of sharing or renting equipment to each other.

Similar community agreements have popped up across the state. Mulonet, and others from the meeting, talked about the system currently set up betwe...