Ledger Looking Back 25 Years: 11/18/1998

NOVEMBER 18, 1998

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) was considering assessing Golden Sunlight Mine fines for four separate violations stemming from a cyanide leak reported in August.

Four major road construction projects were slated for the Whitehall-Jefferson Valley area in 1999, two more were scheduled for 2000, and up to eight more projects were proposed for the next decade.

Volunteer work crews from Baptist churches in Billings, Three Forks, Dillon, and Butte helped local volunteers put up the trusses and roof of the new addition to the Jefferson Valley Baptist Church i...