Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
READING NIGHT: Joan Jones (left) was one of the guest readers during the Read Across America night in Whitehall on Monday, March 1, 1999. Whitehall children (front row, left to right) Amanda Blomquist, Kim Herson, Colleen Henderson (back row, left to right) Anne Marie Morse, Patty Morse, and Ginny McCracken listened as guest readers read Dr. Seuss books in honor of what would have been the author's 95th birthday. Jones, a member of the Whitehall School Board, read "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back." The reading event was organized by the Whitehall PTSA.
MARCH 3, 1999
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Golden Sunlight Mine negotiated a settlement on a penalty fine for the cyanide leak from a Golden Sunlight pond during the summer of 1998. DEQ sought penalties totaling over $96,000 under two different laws.
Golden Sunlight Mine, Jefferson County Weed District, and the Whitehall High School's Noxious Weed Biological program worked together for a common cause: fighting noxious weeds. Troy Smith from Golden Sunlight presented Dave Burch, Jefferson County Weed Coordinator, with a $1,000 check for biological control efforts. T...
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