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Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is reopening the public comment period for the 2024 Grizzly Bear Management Plan and Montana Gray Wolf Conservation and Management Plan to ensure Montana counties, Tribes, and state and federal agencies have a chance for input. The new deadline is March 9. The extension will ensure that the Montana statute requiring FWP to notify county commissioners of opportunities to comment on management plans for grizzly bears, wolves, and other large carnivores has been met. It will also allow for additional time for tribal...
Math-lovers rejoice each March because they get to celebrate a particular irrational number and mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Known more casually as pi (¹), this infinite decimal is typically shortened to 3.14. What does pi have to do with cooking, one may ask? Typically nothing, unless a person is calculating the size of a circular food. However, because the symbol is pronounced with the long "i" (as in eye), it is a homonym for pie, which...
GOOFS, GAFFES, FLUBS, & FUMBLES: Whitehall elementary students were treated to a live performance by Montana Shakes! on Tuesday, February 20th, as well as workshops following the performance. This event was brought to the school by Gold Junction Presents....
Montana winters can be harsh. Harsh enough that some of us may desire a brief escape. Traveling south is the usual remedy and for five weeks I did just that. I spent most of this time backpacking through Patagonia in both Chile and Argentina. Needless to say, I experienced a mild yet interesting cultural shock. I arrived in Santiago, Chile's capital, and spent a few days exploring this sprawling city of seven million people before continuing south to Patagonia. The beautiful architecture of...
FEBRUARY 17, 1999 Meadowlark Manor, an assisted living facility located on the west end of Whitehall up the hill behind the Jefferson IGA Store, had been under construction since the spring of 1998 and set March 1 as a target date to open the facility to residents and the public. Golden Sunlight Mine (GSM) received word late morning on Tuesday, February 16 that its parent company, Placer Dome, had accepted the second half of the GSM's current life-of-mine strategic place. The approval gives GSM...
Over 150 teams competed in Boulder at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in the growing sport of skijoring. The Whitehall Ledger was right in the midst of the action; on Saturday, serving as the finish line judge and on Sunday, working three gate posts and the rider’s ring in the center of the action....
It's beginning to look a lot like spring or maybe that is just wishful thinking. Just a reminder that the Library will be closed for Presidents' Day on Monday, February 19th. We will be open regular hours the rest of the week. The book drop is always open if patrons would like to return things after hours. If you saw the Library staff wandering around with their arms full of roses, it is just staff delivering for AARP's Cupid Crew. The Library was given 75 long-stem roses to share with our...
Laramie County Community College is proud to announce the list of graduates for the 2023 fall semester and those students earning a place on the president's and vice president's honor rolls. Students earning president's honor roll recognition have earned a cumulative 3.75-4.0 GPA, and students on the vice president's honor roll have earned a cumulative 3.5-3.74 GPA. Whitehall resident Kassidy Rae Dunagan was named to the President's Honor Roll....
The Jefferson Valley Museum will host its second free winter program at the museum barn on Tuesday, February 20th at 7 PM. This will be an old-fashioned slide show of local historic photos. The slide show was assembled by Roy Millegan, Sr. sometime in the 1990s and will be presented in the same order as his original arrangement. Photos include many early mining operations, local people who worked the mines, and some of those who supported the miners. The museum's annual meeting is scheduled for...
JANUARY SNAPSHOT: The County Health Department’s mission is to promote good health practices, keep the environment clean, healthy, and safe, and to help people enjoy good health and use resources effectively. The snapshot summarizes recent and year-to-date health department activities of the JCHD. The intent is to share relevant information with our constituents to increase awareness of conditions in the community and department activities. Reportable Diseases/Conditions of Interest Reported i...
Big Sky 55+ will host its first statewide conference, "Gathering Wisdom, Building Power" March 21-22, 2024, in Billings, Montana. The conference will explore issues impacting Montanans 55 and older and will feature Bozeman author Betsy Gaines Quammen, touring with her new book, True West: Myth & Mending on the Far Side of America as Thursday evening’s keynote speaker. Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works will be Friday’s keynote, speaking on "Exposing Myths and Zombie Lie...
The Whitehall Garden Club held its first meeting for the NEW YEAR. Judy Chadwick and Karen Ranta regaled the club with a delightful and picturesque Valentine's buffet full of delicious muffins, yogurt parfaits, and other nibbles served with refreshing mimosas (virgin of course) to bring in the Club's NEW YEAR. Ann Palmer presented the FAST TEN MINUTES with clever ideas about early planting seeds in a variety of home containers. We are all anxious to start planning our gardens and Ann's ideas wer...
If you drive past 103 West Legion Ave in Whitehall, you might notice the MSU Extension office in the old Bordens Hotel. If you're wondering what it is exactly that we do, the easiest answer might be to explain what we don't do. We are currently a team of three, Kaleena Miller serving as our Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Agent, Merissa Ford serving as our 4-H and Youth Development Extension Agent, and Sadie Gooch serving as our Program Assistant. In a nutshell, we provide education...
The crew at Whitehall ACE Hardware was proud to offer a check of $7,500 to representatives of Shodair Children’s Hospital on Thursday, February 8th, in honor of Whitehall’s ACE garnering first place in the NATION for rounding up. Duracell generously donated $100,000 nationwide to sponsor the “Power Up the Miracles” contest, where stores competed head-to-head to see who could get the highest percentage of Round-Up transactions from November 24 - December 31. Whitehall ACE Hardware finishe...
Over fifty attendees participated in the Jefferson County DUI Task Force and Whitehall Assembly of God’s Substance-Free Super Bowl party on Sunday, February 11th. The evening included lots of games, prizes, and fun. Pastor Bill Lanes said there was excellent community support for the event and the atmosphere was a blast...until the end when Kansas City scored the final touchdown. It seems most of the students were 49ers fans!...
Is there any habit harder to break than harboring a grudge against an old adversary? Yet burying hatchets is exactly what it might take to conserve our wildlife, in the face of ever-increasing pressures on the places they need to survive. Consider grizzly bears. In 1973, grizzlies were on a steep decline and headed for the list of threatened species. Wolves were almost extirpated from the West. As that story was told, its villains were often the folks in the cowboy hats. It was an old tale that cattle and predators didn’t mix. E...
Many people aspire to eat more nutritious foods to take charge of their overall health. For some, this may include turning to fresh vegetables and plant-based protein sources with greater frequency. While it may seem like a trend, vegan and vegetarian eating can have many benefits, even if people do not completely give up meat and other animal products. This recipe for Artichoke, Baby Potato & Preserved Lemon Tangine from Casablanca: My Moroccan Food (Firefly Books) by Nargisse Benkabbou, is a...
HIGH HONOR ROLL (3.5 - 4.0 GPA): MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS: Ashlyn Alley, Wesley Biggers, Lindsay Briggs, Malachi Beatty Coleman, AdaLynn Cooper, Naomi Doney, Joseph Frazier, Gavin French, Keagan Graham, Alyssa Hagel, Brooklynn Lanes, Cecilia Madden, Natalia McElderry, Charity Nieskens, Carino Rodriguez, Isaac Skogen, Reilly Slater, and Cyrus Tebay JUNIORS: Zacharia Christensen, Kari Ellison, Lainey Ellison, Shayla Hamilton, Dylan Juhnke, Bryon Mapes, Aletheia Martin, Hope Moriarty, Hope...
Have you ever looked at your power bill and struggled to understand the various rates and charges that dictate how much you owe your utility company? If yes, you're not alone - even energy professionals can find their bills befuddling. To bridge that knowledge gap, we dug into the nearly 20 rates and charges that are factored into monthly residential bills for the state's largest utility company, NorthWestern Energy. NorthWestern supplies electricity or natural gas to approximately two-thirds...
8 Years Ago - February, Part I: February 1898 was not starting well for many people. 600 ironworkers in Newcastle, Delaware were out of work and their families were facing starvation, several store owners were nearing bankruptcy and at least 1800 people were able to, left Newcastle due to the lack of food and fuel. Fire ravaged a warehouse in Pittsburg causing a $2,000,000 loss of property and in Aiken, South Carolina, the popular Highland Park Hotel burned to the ground. In Butte, Thomas F. F...
FEBRUARY 10, 1999 The Whitehall Town Council gave final approval for the installation of a new fence at the cemetery and up to $5,000 toward the installation of a new water line to the bathroom/concession stand at the Whitehall Rodeo Grounds/Ballfield Complex. Mike Morris of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) said the goal of NCAT's Montana Rivers Project was to promote irrigation efficiency in the Jefferson Valley. The irrigation project in the Jefferson Valley involved six...
Just a reminder that the Library will be closed for Presidents' Day on Monday, February 19th. We will be open regular hours the rest of the week. The book drop is always open if patrons would like to return things after hours. Presidents' Day was first celebrated in the 1880s in honor of George Washington, commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Washington was the first president of the United States, and his birthday was declared a federal holiday. Abraham Lincoln was...
Whitehall Rotarians have been staffing the admission table for Whitehall High School home games in basketball, wrestling, and sometimes volleyball, for many years. The club receives a donation from the school for club volunteer time. That money is then used by the Rotary club to help fund activities they support for students that have included dictionary/reference books for third graders, scholarships for graduating seniors, Rotary leadership camp, and Boys and Girls State. The club has...
Our friends at Duracell generously donated $100,000 nationwide to sponsor the "Power Up the Miracles" contest, where stores competed head-to-head to see who could get the highest percentage of Round-Up transactions from November 24 - December 31. Whitehall ACE Hardware finished at the head of the class with an incredible 74.48% of our transactions with Round-Up included! This garnered Whitehall first-place honors! Boulder's ACE Hardware finished in fourth place with 65.68% of transactions...
Winter is here and the days are getting shorter and many of us will become less active, so it is a good time to focus on your heart health. St. James Healthcare is working to educate patients about ways to enhance their heart health. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease – and about 659,000 people in the United States die from heart disease each year-that's 1 in every 4 deaths. "...
