Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Hannah Catalino and Lisanne Fear are currently making their way across the United States, plotting their course for this Fall's upcoming "5000 Miles, 5000 Mustangs" on the American Discovery Trail. The two left on Tuesday, April 13 in order to determine whether they were to take the northern or southern route of the Trail and prep their horses for what lies ahead. With their pack of dogs (Kayuh, Zaphyra, and Keiko) they began their 7000-mile road trip to determine the safest 5000 miles of...
It has been a rough Spring for the Town of Whitehall, with much scrutiny by the townspeople in regard to the misappropriation of earmarked funds being discovered earlier this year after. However, a budget resolution brought to the public and the Town Council for approval on April 12th should start to alleviate the money confusion. “The money was never “gone”,” Allissa Christensen, Town Clerk & Treasurer, stressed. “It was just put into the wrong accounts and used for the wrong items.” The Town has made it very clear that no one stole the money...
My editorial this week is in response to the letter below, commenting on my previous editorial from two weeks ago “Holy Cow, Slow Down!” As the author of the letter to the Editor did not sign their note, I can only address it here, in public. We all know what they say about assuming, and there are many assumptions in her letter. I also made my own assumptions in my previous editorial. She assumed I was talking about ALL semi drivers; I assumed readers would understand I was talking about vehicles speeding who need to slow down. If her hus...
Dear Editor, This letter is in response to an article written by you in your newspaper regarding “all the big trucks speeding down past your office.” I am a wife of a truck driver. You have no idea how many hours and miles a truck driver drives so that you can have a lot of the necessities that you require in life. They are some of the ones that worked non-stop during the COVID pandemic so that everyone had what they needed to live. They were not working from home, they were out in the public working every day and night to deliver products to...
Dear Editor, After a trip up to Ringing Rocks with my three small children and some friends last Saturday, we decided to drive into Whitehall for a frosty treat from the KFC/A&W. After getting our treats in the drive-through, we made our way over to the town skate park and gazebo to let the kids eat their ice cream and run off their wiggles before our trip home to Dillon. I was shocked to see how much trash was laying on the ground in the park! There were pieces of push brooms, a broom head on the roof of the gazebo, innumerable bottles, cans,...
Lonna Johnson was born in Butte, but was raised in Whitehall. As far as she knows, she was in the first kindergarten class to be held at the Whitehall schools, making her an original Trojan! She grew up in the Whitehall school system, graduating in 1988. After graduation, she took odd jobs cleaning houses, as well as working at A&W for a year. She hadn't known what she had wanted to do with her life, but her Aunt lived in Great Falls told her that a hairstylist would always have a job no matter...
Dear Jo, Can you please advise me on a family situation? I recently moved to Montana in order to be closer to my aunt. She is a remarkable woman whom I love and respect. Her son, my cousin, recently moved back to Montana also. I enjoy time together with both. However, every time I go out to eat with them, he hits on the waitress. Now this may not seem like such a bad thing, but seriously, it is so bad that certain restaurants send men to the table to take our order his reputation is so bad. It is not funny, but is embarrassing and makes the...
"I just remembered thinking of my parents and how they must have felt thinking they might lose both of their children," said Stevie Croisant, founder of the local nonprofit We Are HER (Healed, Empowered, Restored). "First, it was a real possibility that my brother wouldn't come home from Afghanistan. But then it became clear that they might lose me to domestic violence." We Are HER helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault heal after trauma. The organization was founded after...
A danger we may not have taken seriously enough, a danger that has grown throughout the present generation and now may be in clearer view, is that objective truth has been canceled. The effects of Cancel Culture are raging all around us; we see this in the daily news. Are we seeing the process of a disaster? Perhaps we in the church have been too fearful to sound a constant alarm. I’m proposing a simple platform, striking up honest, personable, and intellectual discussions. Dialoging is something we should all strive towards. Faith and c...
Lloyd Irvin Laughery, age 74, of Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, formerly of Whitehall, Montana, passed away at St. Alexius Bismarck on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, May 7, 2021 at the United Community Church in Beach, North Dakota with Pastor Warren Maxted officiating. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, May 9, 2021 at First Christian Church in Whitehall with Pastor Michael Coombe officiating. Silha Funeral Home of Beach...
Greater Whitehall Area Love In the Name of Christ (GWA Love INC) is thankful to have this opportunity to share about our mission in the Whitehall community. We were established in August 2016 with a Board of Directors consisting of: Chairman of the Board, Ron Jung; Treasurer, Karen Burtch; Secretary, Dawn Huckaba, and Pastor Hope. The working staff consists of an Executive Director, Deanna Smith and Connection Coordinator, Denise McCord. Each local Love INC affiliate is part of a nationwide network of 140 affiliates in 30 states, 7 in Montana....
The Montana Old Time Fiddlers are back! Their first jam of the year will be held at the Mint Bar at 1 E. Legion in uptown Whitehall, on Sunday, April 18th, from 2 to 6 PM. The program is free and open to the public, and dancing is encouraged! Guitar, Mandolin, and Banjo players are welcome to participate in the jam – and anyone can just come to hear some great old time fiddle music. The Montana Old Time Fiddlers are dedicated to preserving old time fiddle music in Montana, providing educational and performance opportunities for all. For more i...
Josh Lewis, 10, was all smiles when he picked up his Easter Eggs-Travaganza Scavenger Hunt prize this weekend. Lewis, along with about 85 other children, participated in the Whitehall Chamber's Easter activities and was drawn by the Easter Bunny as the second place winner of the hunt. His basket was filled with local gift certificates!...
Greetings Trojan Community! If you have a third, fourth, or fifth grader this year, you have probably heard them talking about the SBAC tests (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) this week. We began our testing on Tuesday, and this assessment will last through the rest of this week. We will then take a week off and resume testing on the following week. These tests provide a very clear picture of what our students have learned this year as well as the areas towards which we need to focus more instruction. I often refer to these assessments...
"Just before the race the emotion set in as I realized that this was the last cross country race I would ever run as a Blue Hawk. There were tears in my eyes as I stepped up to the line knowing that I had given everything I had to the sport of cross country for 8 years now," Hunter Flynn said, happily recalling this past weekend's National Cross County Meet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Flynn, a Whitehall alumni who took the Trojan cross country team by storm during his years in Whitehall, brought his...
The Headwaters Ladies Golf League is excited to announce its season begins Tuesday, May 4th at 6:00PM. With a new President, Vice President and Golf Pro, the league is looking to double its size and allow more women the opportunity to be a part of this supportive community! Team Sign up is Tuesday, April 27th at the 6:00 PM at the Clubhouse in Three Forks, MT; only $200 per four-person team. If a participant is unable to attend this meeting, they can call the clubhouse and sign up prior. • Exciting Changes: The league will operate under a n...
In late 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 23, 2020, Jefferson County Health Department received its first allotment on Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. We were overjoyed! There was cheering and singing and a few tears of relief. Those hundred doses of vaccine felt like hope. They felt like hope because up until then our only defense against a virus that had changed the course of our daily lives were non-pharmaceutical interventions...
The Friends of the Library asked me to remind everyone that all logo contest entries are due by 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. The judges decide on a winner and award them the $100 prize in a few weeks. The logo will then be placed on all things the Library does in the way of promotion, programming, publications, and more. Thank you in advance to everyone who participated in the contest, the Friends have already received some great entries. This week our guest lecturer for Government 101 is...
“Kilns, Kilns, and More Kilns: Remnants of Western Industry” is the newest exhibit at the Jefferson County Museum. This exhibit features images of an historical remnant critical to the nineteenth century mining industry in the Western states—the stone or brick kiln. These large ovens allowed materials to be heated to high temperatures under controlled conditions. Most photographs show old kilns that transformed wood into charcoal, an important fuel which produced high temperatures needed for smelting raw ores during the frontier era. These...
The following is taken from the Whitehall Zephyr, April 5, 1895, as it was written. The accompanying ad is also from that edition. Sam Wade has bought the restaurant property, on the corner opposite Fergus' store, and will soon make extensive improvements thereon. Sam is "our kind of people" – full of enterprise and vim. If appearances and sounds do not deceive us there are many bluebirds, robins, meadowlarks and nightingales putting in an appearance; in view of the recent spells of weather, how...
Greg and DeAndra Parks of Whitehall have been chosen by the Jefferson Valley Habitat for Humanity (JVHFH) as the second family to receive a Habitat for Humanity home. The first home, built for and with Bill and Margaret Carhuff, was completed in December. Although the announcement of their selection is great news for the Parks family, Greg and DeDe know that it means they face some hard work ahead. Every “partner” family chosen to receive a home must contribute at least 500 hours of “sweat equity” for the Humanity program. That did not come as...
The Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) has confirmed that an adult male from Richland County has been diagnosed with hantavirus infection. The individual acquired the illness while working out of state where there was an occupational exposure to mice. The individual was hospitalized but is now in the process of recovering at home. DPHHS and local public health agencies remind Montanans and visitors to the state to be aware of the risk of hantavirus and to take precautions to avoid exposures to rodents, their droppings and...
Governor Greg Gianforte announced that the Montana Emergency Rental Assistance program is taking applications from Montanans who have lost income and are at risk of housing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The last year has brought real, serious challenges to hardworking Montana families through no fault of their own,” Governor Greg Gianforte said. “Emergency rental assistance will help Montanans, who have struggled financially through this pandemic, get back on their feet and remain secure in their homes.” Funded through the Federal...
THURSDAY, April 15 5:00PM PBS NewsHour 6:00PM This Old House 6:30PM Ask This Old House 7:00PM Cat in the HAT 7:30PM Peg + Cat 8:00PM PBS NewsHour 9:00PM Amanpour and Company 10:00PM Baseball: Shadow Ball FRIDAY, April 16 8:00PM PBS NewsHour 9:00PM Amanpour and Company 10:00PM Great Performances: Beethoven in Beijing 11:30PM Beyond the Canvas: The Greats 2 12:00AM Amanpour and Company SATURDAY, April 17 6:00AM Hero Elementary 6:30AM Xavier Riddle 7:00AM Curious George 7:30AM Daniel Tiger’s Nghbrhd 8:00AM Daniel Tiger’s Nghbrhd 8:30AM Elinor Wond...
