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Ray Atteberry CRS, GRI, Broker of ERA Landmark Real Estate has received the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Green Designation, the only green real estate professional designation recognized by NAR.

Ray Atteberry achieved the prestigious designation after completing 18 hours of course work designed specifically for REALTORS®. The courses were created in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of industry experts from across the country; ensuring designees gain comprehensive knowledge of green homes and buildings and issues of sustainability in relation to real estate. They were trained in understanding what makes a property green, helping clients evaluate the cost/benefits of green building features and practices, distinguishing between industry rating and classification systems, listing and marketing green homes and buildings, discussing the financial grants and incentives available to homeowners, and helping consumers see a property's green potential.

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By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer

Like a parting gift to Bozeman High School's retiring principal, Newsweek magazine this week again named the school to its Top U.S. High Schools list.

The 2009 list rates 1,500 U.S. high schools as being the nation's top 6 percent, based on having a large number of students taking college-level Advanced Placement tests.

Bozeman High this year ranked No. 585 on the magazine's "challenge index" with a score of 2.007, which means that the school had twice as many students of all grade levels taking AP tests as it had graduating seniors.

The list also showed that 52 percent of Bozeman's graduating seniors took and passed at least one AP test. The national average was 15 percent.

No other Montana high school made the list, according to the magazine's online Web site.

Bozeman Schools Superintendent Kirk Miller noted the award Wednesday during the school district's final assembly to honor retiring and departing staff members. Bozeman High Principal Godfrey Saunders is retiring after 12 years.

Miller said Bozeman High is "clearly ahead of other high schools in Montana and the region." He said it demonstrated Saunders' leadership, vision and values.

Bozeman High also made Newsweek's list in 2003, when it ranked 460 out of 804 schools. In 2008, the school was ranked 621 out of 1,300 schools.

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Though this may not sound like a high placement, Newsweek magazine voted Bozeman High School, in Bozeman, Montana, number 585 out of the top 1500 public high schools in the United States' top high schools list 2009. According to Newsweek, there were over 21,000 high schools in the U.S. in 2008.

About the formula for determining the top U.S. Schools list, Newsweek noted the method used to rank public schools is based on a ratio devised by Jay Mathews, which basically takes the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests all students took at a school in the 2008 school year and divides it by the number of graduating seniors.

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"...We are committed to providing your child with a quality education in a safe and caring environment. We accomplish this with the involvement of skilled and caring professionals, high expectations both academically and behaviorally, and with the support of our parents and community...." Kirk Miller, Superintendent, Bozeman Public Schools

For more on Bozeman High School, Bozeman Schools, and Gallatin County Schools.

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The recovery of the downtown explosion area on the 200 block of East Main between Bozeman and Rouse enters its fourth month with staging for the site cleanup almost complete.

Apart from extended - and still ongoing - investigations on the cause of the explosion, the time spent has included the shoring of the brickwork on the two buildings that served as the firebreaks to the disaster - the Montana Rug Gallery building at the corner of Bozeman and Main, and the Osbourne Block building housing Starky's Deli and The Great Rocky Mountain Toy Company.

Site cleanup is currently scheduled for June 12, and will take approximately three weeks to completion.

The Stifel, Nicolaus and Company financial management company headquartered out of St. Louis, MO, has taken possession of a leasehold office suite at 920 Stoneridge on the North 19^th corridor. The company, which in the past month also purchased the local UBS offices as part of a national consolidation of UBS rural offices, will commence operations in early June with as many as 9 licensed agents. The company is pursing a national growth- through-acquisition strategy, the Bozeman office being its latest expansion effort. Stifel provides a full range of investment, trading and estate planning services.