Mar 28, 2024
Neighbors & Neighborhoods – A Symposium For Billings And The World Jozef and Boris return to Billings for a special concert as part of a week celebrating Neighbors and Neighborhoods. They bring with them another special Slovak guest, Brano Dugovic. For Brano this...
Jun 2, 2023
Next week Jozef Luptak and Boris Lenko will follow a performance in Chicago together with a long anticipated return trip to Billings for the first time since 2019! For Boris, piano and accordion, this will be his 5th trip to Billings; and for Jozef, cello, this visit...
May 25, 2023
Midway through 2022 Tim Keane, from the Milwaukee area, had an idea. He decided on his own accord to come to Billings and begin taking photographs of MasterLube employees, confident there were great stories of young individuals accomplishing incredible things. He...
Apr 13, 2021
37 years ago, on April 13 1984, a small quick lube located in downtown Billings on the corner of 27th Street and 4th Ave North was purchased to become the 2nd MasterLube store, joining the 1st out on 24th Street West. The store already had a crew doing oil changes...
Mar 8, 2021
Zane Luhman named President/CEO, Craig Godfrey becomes President Emeritus and joins board of directors Billings, 2/26/21 – On February 16th, 2021, MasterLube hit the 40 year mark since it quietly came to be right here in Billings on 24th Street West and has since...
Feb 15, 2021
2020 was a year filled with challenges, difficult decisions with new unknowns, and differing opinions. It was also a year with opportunities, with growth, with a renewed sense and commitment to values and to each other. For us at MasterLube we saw some incredible...
Oct 24, 2019
30 years ago central Europe stood up for freedom, for liberty, for eachother when they chose to rally as a people against the oppressive communist rule of the Soviet Union over the area. In Czecho-Slovakia, later seperated into two seperate free states in 1993, that...
Aug 26, 2019
Introduction to Slovakia – Fall Semester at MSU-B If you follow MasterLube closely there’s a good chance you’ve seen other events and happenings connected to Slovakia this year and in years past that came about, in part, through our close...
Mar 27, 2019
World class musicians Jozef Luptak and Robert Cohen are widely known for their musical talents, teaching, and community efforts throughout Central Europe. Luptak and Cohen played together in Billings in January 2018 and were warmly welcomed by our community.They are...
Feb 26, 2019
Yesterday (February 25th) we celebrated entering an exciting new stage of life at our Heights Four Seasons MasterLube with an open house, ribbon cutting, dessert pizza courtesy of our new neighbors Pizza Ranch, and a few fun give-away items. If you’re reading this...
Nov 6, 2018
If you drive through the heights regularly you’ve probably noticed some construction going on around our Heights store, and weirdly now it appears that everyone is going through our service bays backwards!! Though it looks that way, and feels a little...
Oct 16, 2018
Slovak musicians Jozef Luptak, cello, and Boris Lenko, accordion, are widely known throughout Europe for their musical talent. Luptak and Lenko played Billings in 2015 and 2016 to numerous standing ovations. They are thrilled to return to the community’s appreciative...
Oct 10, 2018
Today the first feature ran on the cover of the Billings Gazette for a new series we are partners on called Above & Beyond. We are excited to be a part of this and help shed light on some local youth in our community who stories most of us might never have heard,...
Sep 12, 2018
World-class trainer Russ Cherry is offering a series of his classes free to the public this fall/winter. The classes are based on Russ’ extensive experience and training programs centered around interpersonal and business communications. Classes are offered at...
Nov 30, 2017
World-class trainer Russ Cherry will offer a series of classes free to the public. The classes are based on Russ’ extensive experience and training programs centered around interpersonal and business communications. Classes are offered at no charge, but...
Oct 27, 2017
Pink Day Video 2017 On Wednesday October 25th the MasterLube family proudly showed our support for a local organization called Pack The Place in Pink (PPP) by flying our pink flags, wearing our pink PPP t-shirts, and handing out 350 pink roses and a PPP brochure to...
Sep 16, 2017
Thanks to Billings Gazette editor Darrell Ehrlick for taking some time to outline the History Studies program that has been several years in the making but is inching closer and closer to becoming a reality. The program will afford students from Billings the...
Dec 6, 2016
You are specially invited to Cliff Potts’ Art Show and Sale. Sixty years ago he did his first oil painting by using a mouth stick. His book “A Passion for Life” elaborates this evolution and will be available as well as his still life’s, landscapes and ranch scenes...
Nov 29, 2016
Renowned cellist Jozef Lupták and accordionist Boris Lenko are thrilled to return to Billings for a special one-night-only encore performance. Dr. Jen Bratz, Associate Professor of Music at Rocky Mountain College will join the two international stars on piano. Lupták...
Oct 8, 2016
By Darrell Ehrlick Printed in the Billings Gazette on Oct 5, 2016 Bill Simmons woke up one night in 1984, staring at the ceiling, his heart pounding. “This is what I was meant to do,” he thought. “Change oil. This is what I’ve been put on earth...
Sep 12, 2016
World-class trainer Russ Cherry will offer a series of classes free to the public. The classes are based on Russ’ extensive experience and training programs centered around interpersonal and business communications. Classes are offered at no charge, but...
Jun 9, 2016
Slovak cellist Jozef Lupták is thrilled to return to Billings for the third time in 8 months. Lupták will join Dr. Jen Bratz, Associate Professor of Music at Rocky Mountain College, for a special one-night-only performance. Lupták, along with other members of the...
Mar 1, 2016
Slovak musicians, Jozef Luptak, cello, Boris Lenko, accordion, Milos Valent, violin-viola, and Rabbi Baruch Myers, piano and voice, are widely known throughout Europe for their Chassidic music. Luptak and Lenko played Billings in November to numerous standing...
Feb 23, 2016
Slovak musicians, Jozef Luptak, cello, Boris Lenko, accordion, Milos Valent, violin-viola, and Rabbi Baruch Myers, piano and voice, are widely known throughout Europe for their Chassidic music. Luptak and Lenko played Billings in November to numerous standing...
Jun 12, 2015
Graduating seniors from Billings and Laurel high schools held their annual MasterLube Grad Day fundraiser on Saturday, May 16. The event raises funds for their all-night, drug-free and alcohol-free graduation celebrations. The event raised almost $60,000. The money is...
May 13, 2015
Morgan Ellestad from Laurel High School is the winner of this year’s War of the Walls mural competition! Voting was held online over the past week. Laurel took the prize with 34% of the votes, edging out Senior High and Billings Central in 2nd and 3rd place...