Lowe takes over as local transit director

Tom Lowe started driving buses for the North Central Montana Transit in 2012 as a way to occupy his retired life, and two weeks ago he became the new director of the region's transit system.

Lowe is a native Havreite who moved back in 2009 after retiring from years working for BNSF Railway. In 2012, he took a part-time job with North Central Montana Transit as "a reason to get up in the morning," he said, and he took the wheel as director after the former director, Jim Lyons, retired.

Opportunity Link Inc., the poverty reduction organization that helped create and oversees the transit system,...