Thumbs up to Helena artist Bob Morgan’s new mural for the Helena Middle School.

“Landmarks” shows a scene looking downtown along Sixth Avenue, with Mount Helena in the background. The main part of the mural is flanked by six depictions of landmark Helena buildings. In addition to the original art, proceeds from the sale of 500 prints will benefit HMS students.

Thumbs down to whoever left a bomb threat of sorts in a bathroom at East Helena’s Radley Elementary School last week. It turned out to be a false alarm, but as school district Superintendent Ron Whitmoyer said, these days such threats have to be taken seriously.

Thumbs up to computer simulations that should help highway engineers determine the best way to proceed when construction finally starts on the Custer Avenue interchange. The simulations indicated that closing Custer during the work would cause the least traffic congestion as well as substantially shortening the duration of the project.

Thumbs down to the all-too-common habit of reckless ATV driving. A Helena man faced felony charges last week for speeding and causing a crash earlier this month that injured two children who were his passengers.