Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Sorted by date Results 151 - 175 of 382
Governor Greg Gianforte prohibited the use of TikTok on state equipment and for state business in Montana on Friday, December 16. In a memo to Chief Information Officer Kevin Gilbertson and executive agency directors, the governor cited TikTok’s practice of harvesting expansive amounts of data from its users’ devices and offering this information to the Chinese Communist Party. “Government’s chief responsibility is keeping its citizens safe and secure,” Governor Gianforte wrote. “Use of TikTok on state devices poses a significant risk to the...
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 00:25:38 Motor Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 07:12:22 Trespass: Hwy 2 E 10:03:09 Suspicious: Hwy 2 W 11:08:35 Medical: Mormon Ln 13:20:22 Welfare Check: I-90 13:40:17 Gas Leak/Odor: W Legion St 15:00:08 911 Open Line: Edwards Addition Rd 16:47:03 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): I-90 18:49:05 Citizen Assist 21:14:26 Motorist Assist: Hwy 55 22:21:19 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 06:24:55 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): I-90 09:11:42 Citizen Assist: Bowman Ln 09:24:07 Custodial Interference: Bowman...
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27 00:25:02 Vicious Dog: W Viella St 02:53:07 Suspicious Person: Hwy 55 05:41:17 Assault: Parrot Castle Rd 08:03:06 Agency Assist: I-90 09:36:44 Medical: Jefferson St 11:07:27 Medical: E Legion St 11:28:52 Trespass: Hwy 55 11:50:52 Traffic Hazard: Hwy 359 14:22:37 Reckless Driver 17:09:11 Medical: Piedmont Rd 17:36:43 Custodial Interference: Highlander Dr 17:50:11 Motor Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 18:06:07 Traffic Hazard: I-90 18:16:58 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): I-90 18:21:29 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury):...
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 01:45:12 Suspicious: N Main St 09:58:26 Civil: Hot Springs Rd 11:44:15 Medical: N Whitehall St 12:20:50 Dog at Large: Corbett Lp 13:22:56 911 Hang Up: Division St 14:47:32 Civil Standby: Hwy 55 17:18:33 Abandoned Vehicle: Pipestone Rd 17:20:30 Traffic Stop: I-90 18:07:37 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 20:35:25 Traffic Offense: I-90 21:05:40 Suspicious: I-90 21:38:58 Traffic Stop: I-90 22:45:24 Traffic Stop: I-90 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 00:34:47 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 07:08:44 911 Hang Up: I-90 09:50:09 Stranded Motorist:...
Much like vote counting results in some places around the country, I am a little slow on delivery. However, local elections are officially in the rearview mirror. Approximately 58 percent of registered Jefferson County voters participated from the ten precincts within the county. The good news is that this was on par with the state, whose total turnout was just over 60 percent. Since it’s our number one responsibility as sovereign actors within our government, perhaps we should expect higher p...
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 07:20:09 Animal: Hwy 287 18:31:33 Follow Up: Hwy 55 19:00:53 Stranded Motorist 20:10:54 Traffic Stop: A St 20:38:09 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 21:11:07 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 21:19:58 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 00:43:08 Suspicious: Hwy 2 E 09:44:36 Medical: Noble St 10:36:46 Extra Patrol: Delmoe Lake Rd 13:22:43 Medical: Sowden Ln 15:49:31 Recovered Vehicle: Delmoe Lake Rd 17:00:10 Welfare Check: Friend Spring Rd 17:14:35 Animal: Hwy 287 17:30:25 Sex Offense: Strozzi Ln 18:15:37 Reckless...
Clerk and Recorder Ginger Kunz had a hard time believing her eyes when she saw voter turnout in Jefferson County was only 69%. “We were so busy,” she said. “I was thinking, ‘oh, my gosh, this is a great turnout. Then it’s all said and done and I was like, ‘69 percent?’ I swore we would have been closer to 80%, but I know that’s just tunnel vision since I’ve been hearing from 6,000 voters.” Out of 9,479 registered voters in the county, only 6,532 submitted ballots, including the 140 provisional ballots that were determined Nov. 14. It’s not a...
Governor Greg Gianforte today unveiled his “Budget for Montana Families,” a historic pro-family, pro-jobs budget for the State of Montana for the next biennium. Governor Gianforte’s “Budget for Montana Families” provides $1 billion in income and property tax relief to Montanans in the largest tax cut in state history. The budget also invests in infrastructure, state-run facilities, education, and safer communities through more law enforcement and treatment programs. Additionally, the budget makes the State of Montana debt-free in 2023, pay...
By the time the sun rose Nov. 9 the two contested Jefferson County races appeared to have clear winners, as Sheriff candidate Tom Grimsrud led Chad Cross 3,358 to 2,524 and county commission candidate Dan Hagerty led Mary Janacaro Hensleigh 3,950 to 1,770. The Board of Canvassers will certify the election. As the process is finalized, however, candidates have accepted the results. All four spoke with The Monitor and shared their thoughts on the election results and what their priorities are moving forward. Tom Grimsrud relieved, excited for...
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 11:07:44 Dog at Large: Corbett Lp 13:43:31 Fire/Smoke Report: Hwy 69 16:18:36 Traffic Stop: Hwy 69 16:56:48 Traffic Hazard: I-90 18:02:26 Traffic Stop: McKeown Ln 18:49:09 Traffic Stop: I-90 19:27:25 Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): Hwy 287 19:45:34 Traffic Stop: W Legion St MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 05:49:48 Motor Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 07:22:16 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): I-90 07:30:21 Traffic Offense: N Whitehall St 09:24:45 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): Pipestone Rd 09:38:08 Medical: E Legion St 10:06:59...
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 11:08:13 911 Hang Up: I-90 13:05:53 Larceny/Theft: Bowman Ln 15:49:47 Agency Standby: N Division St 16:54:22 Traffic Hazard: Hwy 69 17:07:22 Motorist Assist: Bluebird Ln 17:53:40 Traffic Stop: W First St 18:01:34 Traffic Stop: W First St 18:26:20 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 18:50:50 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 20:11:14 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 21:02:40 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 21:20:45 Traffic Stop: Tebay Ln 21:21:08 Traffic Stop: E Legion St 21:28:28 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 21:58:04 Traffic Stop: Hwy 2 E 22:45:12...
OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS PROVIDED BY JEFFERSON COUNTY ELECTION ADMINISTRATOR: 11/9/222 at 11:30 AM US REPRESENTATIVE 2nd DISTRICT IND Gary Buchanan 1601 LIB Sam Rankin 78 DEM Penny Ronning 1009 REP Matt Rosendale 3652 Over votes 2, under votes 48, total = 6393 SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Bill D'alton 1034 Jim Rice 4612 Write-In 26 Over votes 0, under votes 721, total = 6393 STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 71 REP Ken Walsh 676 Write-In 17 Over votes 0, under votes 147, total = 840 COMMISSIONER Dan Hagerty 3950 Mary Janacaro Hensleigh 1770 Write-In 18...
Jefferson County Commissioner candidates Mary Janacaro-Hensleigh and Dan Hagerty, both from Whitehall, are looking forward to Election Day on November 8th, both admitting it will be nice once the race for the Commissioner seat is complete. “Honestly, I’m tired of political campaigns in general,” Hensleigh said with a laugh. Hensleigh is currently the town of Whitehall’s mayor, and has been for the last 10 years; she will release the position to Town Council Chair Roy Milligan should she be elected as County Commissioner. “It should be very s...
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 00:01:28 Animal: Milligan Canyon Rd 07:17:30 Harassment 12:26:51 Missing Person: USFS Rd 8610 13:18:37 Citizen Assist: Forcella Rd 13:39:24 911 Open Line: W Third St 13:41:55 Welfare Check: I-90 14:05:42 Fire/Smoke: Hwy 2 W 15:04:11 Fire/Smoke: Hwy 2 W 15:17:37 Fire/Smoke: Ranger Ridge Rd 16:05:35 Animal: Pipestone Rd 16:28:42 Welfare Check: I-90 20:59:03 Citizen Assist: Hwy 2 21:13:37 Traffic Stop MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 01:19:53 Welfare Check: Bluebird Ln 08:29:25 Animal: HWy 55 10:42:04 VIN Inspection: S Brooke St 11:09:48...
I’m going to combine two stories, one fictional and one real. In the 1999 fictional film, The Green Mile, the “green mile” referred to the stretch of green linoleum that death row inmates walked to Louisiana’s electric chair. When I was a kid, my father used to refer to cash as “long green.” What do you get when you combine the two stories? Like the prison inmates, perhaps what you get is the worthy dollars’ inevitable demise as a productive public resource at the end of that analogous lin...
The Clean Water Act turns 50 on October 18th. Over the past five decades, it has proven itself as one of the most successful environmental laws on the books. It has cleaned up contaminated waterways, helped to assure that the drinking water coming out of your tap is safe for your kids, and protected the ecological integrity of rivers and streams. Indeed, without the Clean Water Act, Montana would not be the state it is today. But far more must be done in order for us to reach the promise of the Clean Water Act – which is to prevent, reduce, and...
Absentee ballots will soon be mailed out for November’s election. Two of the most important elections on the ballot are for Montana’s Supreme Court. We, as a group of Montana attorneys, former and current elected officials, and concerned citizens, are committed to supporting our Montana and United States Constitutions. We believe in the rule of law and the separation of powers between our executive, legislative, and judicial branches. We also believe in the absolute need for a fair, independent, and non-partisan judiciary to interpret our law...
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 05:02:28 Burglar Alarm: W Legion St 10:16:33 Larceny/Theft: Lost Moose Bend Rd 12:10:03 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): Waterloo Rd 12:33:44 911 Open Line: S Brooke St 13:42:03 Reckless Driver: W Legion St 14:11:03 911 Hang Up 14:33:18 Welfare Check 16:14:43 Motor Vehicle Accident (Injury): Cottonwood Rd 16:36:33 Hit & Run: I-90 17:16:43 Threats: Hwy 359 17:20:11 Assault 19:29:57 Reckless Driver: I-90 21:02:55 Citizen Assist: I-90 21:28:19 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 22:35:20 Agency Assist: I-90 22:53:09 Burglar Alarm: W Legion...
They called him Reinhart, but he would one day change his name to Ralph to sound more American than German. Huddled with his parents and three siblings in steerage class, he arrived at Ellis Island at the age of one. He grew up in Brooklyn, while his father scratched out a living as best he could. Henry had brought his family to America “to escape the Kaiser and his wars,” while seeking the freedom of a free land. Although he had very little, he thought himself rich. He had come to America, kissed the ground, and never looked back. The str...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 00:44:39 Shooting: Pipestone Pass 08:02:26 Stranded Motorist: I-90 11:13:54 House Check: Makowski Ln 14:41:06 Criminal Mischief: W Legion St 16:39:44 Traffic Stop: Hwy 69 17:33:42 Sex Offense: S Brooke St 19:55:03 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 20:38:33 Traffic Stop: E Legion St 21:45:19 Suspicious Vehicle: I-90 23:44:07 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 00:35:10 Traffic Hazard: I-90 03:38:50 Death: Whitetail Dr 07:09:09 Animal: Hwy 55 08:51:38 Hit & Run: Hwy 41 10:11:35 Citizen Assist: E Legion St 10:13:17...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 07:51:47 Suspicious: N Whitehall St 07:55:43 911 Hang Up: I-90 09:51:49 Motor Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 11:11:38 Animal: Delmoe Lake Rd 11:34:57 Fire/Smoke Vehicle: I-90 14:01:39 Shooting: Hwy 55 14:38:54 Fire/Smoke Wildland: I-90 14:45:08 Medical: Edwards Addition Rd 15:06:13 Citizen Assist: S Brooke St 15:10:59 911 Hang Up: I-90 15:33:56 Animal: Delmoe Lake Rd 15:50:02 Stranded Motorist: I-90 17:04:29 Traffic Hazard: Hwy 287 17:27:11 Motor Vehicle Accident (Injury) 17:54:08 Citizen Assist: E Second St 19:08:48...
Most of you recall the famous quote from Ronald Reagan, “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Yes, that means real property as well, which tends to not move but is taxed to help cover the costs of running schools and local governments. My last article, “When You Find Yourself In a Hole Stop Digging” which is still available at www.montanadecides....
When you order a pizza and the total comes to $25 and you hand them a fifty dollar bill, have you ever had the restaurant tell you that they are going to keep your change in case their expenses are higher in the future? We know this sounds absurd, but not for the state government. Over the last two years, the state of Montana has over collected $1.6 Billion in unanticipated, unexpected, and unappropriated money from you, the Montana taxpayer. It is money that we did not need to run the state government for the biennium. Recently, there was a...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 08:00:47 911 Hang Up: Paul Gulch Rd 09:52:53 Fish/Game Violations: Cottonwood Rd 11:16:09 Harassment: Edwards Addition Rd 14:14:09 Medical: Edwards Additions Rd 17:50:35 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 18:11:16 Traffic Stop: I-90 18:26:26 Traffic Offense: I-90 19:14:04 Suicide Threats: Hwy 2 W 20:20:11 Motorist Assist: Whitehall St/Commercial Way 20:45:46 Traffic Stop: Pipestone Rd 20:56:41 Suicide Threats: Homestake Lake Rd 21:30:26 Forest Service Patrol: Homestake Lake Rd 22:01:00 Traffic Stop: I-90 22:02:07 Suspicious...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 09:05:55 Medical: Hwy 55 10:17:27 Larceny/Theft: Upper Rader Creek Rd 10:45:08 Criminal Mischief: Delmoe Lake Rd 12:40:53 911 Hang Up 17:03:08 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): I-90 17:13:59 Abandoned Vehicle: I-90 17:39:05 Stranded Motorist: N Centurian Way 17:43:41 Motor Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): I-90 18:02:26 Criminal Mischief: I-90 18:15:46 Follow Up: E First St 19:14:32 Traffic Stop: I-90 19:35:36 Motorist Assist: I-90 19:49:39 Traffic Stop: I-90 20:15:01 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 20:17:42 Domestic Non-Violent:...
