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It's once again Homecoming Week in Whitehall with a variety of events for students, alumni, and community members. The theme of the 2016 Whitehall High School Homecoming is "We Got Game", and events kicked off Monday and will conclude Friday with the parade, Trojans football game against Deer Lodge, the announcement of Homecoming Royalty and Homecoming Dance. The parade is scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. on Legion Avenue and will be led by elementary school students. The football game is...
Final approval of the 2016-17 Fiscal Year Budget was delayed by the Whitehall Town Council Monday to allow more time to look over the Whitehall Ambulance Enterprise fund. “I don’t know how we can establish what the ambulance will bring in under the current circumstances,” Alderman Mac Smith said. “You can’t spend what you don’t have,” Smith said. Town Attorney Matthew Haus told the Council at the regular monthly meeting Monday he plans to contact the MMIA (Montana Municipal Inter-local Authority) and see if they have had examples from a simila...
Over the years members of the Whitehall Rotary Club have worked countless hours making the Fish Pond on Legion Avenue a beautiful setting for both locals and visitors. Earlier this month, a person or persons had complete disregard for the clubs efforts. According to Whitehall Rotary Club President Ed Handl, the fish food dispenser that had been placed at the pond was vandalized sometime between September 2 and September 5. Handl said the dispenser that had been mounted on a steal platform, had either been hit with an object or kicked. Handl...
Despite the mill-run being cut short two days, August production at the Barrick Golden Sunlight Mine was nearly on target. At the Community Transition Advisory Committee meeting last week, Mine Manager Dan Banghart said the production in August was 3,243 ounces, just below the target of 3,299 ounces. Banghart told committee members that ¼ of the production for August has been pushed into September, and they are looking for it to be one of their better months of production for the underground. The August 24 auction at the mine was reported as a...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will lift the fishing restrictions on the Jefferson River effective last Sunday. The entire length of the Jefferson River has been closed has been since Aug. 1 given extremely low flows. However, flows have improved and criteria for reopening the river under its drought management plan will be met before reopening Sunday. Meanwhile, the three following sections of the Big Hole River remain closed to all fishing until further notice: · Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Maiden Rock FAS to Notch Bottom FAS; · Sag...
Jefferson County is currently in the process of updating their Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan. A public meeting is scheduled Sept. 22 in Boulder to gather public input on ways to mitigate the effects of wildfire, flooding, and other hazards. The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. in the basement of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. This project is the required five-year update of the Jefferson County Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Plan. The purpose of the plan is to make communities more resilient and resistant to the damages caused by n...
The WOW (Writers of Whitehall) will begin meeting on September 21st. from 10 am till noon. We will have another Progressive Story, where everyone gets a chance to add too it, It is a lot of fun. Most people write about what they know. Sometimes it is sad or funny but we have a lot of fun. If you are interested call Shirley at 406-287- 5430....
I had the opportunity last week to attend the Jefferson Valley Community Foundation Grantee Tour and much like last year walked away impressed with all the local organization does for this community. One of the stops on the tour was at Whitehall High School, who was the recipient of a grant that was used for the Shakespeare in the Schools program. As is the case most times I walk into the building, I witnessed a bunch of students wearing Whitehall Trojans apparel. I can say the same thing happens on a visit to the elementary or middle schools....
I've tried multiple times to erase the memories of my junior high school pictures. No matter how hard I try, nothing can be done to remove the images of just how stupid I looked. In one, I had a ridiculous mullet. It wasn't just the run-of-the-mill Billy Ray Cyrus "Achy Breaky Heart", or a hockey mullet, I had my hair feathered on the top and permed in the back. It was just awful. As bad as that hairdo was, it might have been worse the year before when I had some sort of weird Vanilla Ice steps shaved into the side of my head. Looking back, I t...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” These famous words are written in our nation’s Declaration of Independence. Our Fore Fathers recognized that the power of government exits only because the people agree to be governed. They also knew that... Full story
There will be wall-to-wall volleyball action this Saturday at Whitehall High School. The annual Windy City Classic is set to begin at 9 a.m., and will feature eight teams and both junior varsity and varsity games. Along with the Lady Trojans, the tournament will include teams from West Yellowstone, Boulder, Shelby, Choteau, Powell County, Harrison, Sheridan and Belgrade ("Froshmore" team). Last week the Lady Trojans were able to pickup their first win of the season with a come from behind...
It wasn't easy, by no means was pretty, but the Whitehall/Harrison High School football team displayed the heart of champion and dug deep to get their third consecutive win to start the season Friday night at Mitchell Stadium in Anaconda. After not giving up a point in their first two games of the season, the Trojans (3-0) would find themselves behind 27-21 at halftime. The defense quickly recovered and was able to pitch a shutout in the second half of the thrilling 28-27 victory over the...
Prior to the start of Sunday's action at the local Montana High School Rodeo Association and Junior High Rodeo, Whitehall's Cole Dunagan was recognized as a senior class member competing at his last home event. He did not disappoint the home fans with his performance. After finishing 11th in tie down roping on Saturday, Dunagan placed third on Sunday, and ended up finishing fifth in the two-day average. Brooke Smith was also able to get a top ten finish in the two-day average for barrel racing....
The first several cross country meets of the season have featured an epic battle for the top spot between Whitehall senior Hunter Flynn and Townsend's Bryant Edgerton. The fierce competition continued last Saturday at the Harrison Invite in Pony. Edgerton was able to capture the top spot with a time of 15:54.04, but Flynn continued to close the gap between the two with an incredible second place time of 16:20.13. Nathan Gallegos of Townsend finished third at 16:32.39, and teammate Jack Dolan was fourth with a time of 16:43.02. The Trojans...
The Jefferson Valley Community Foundation strives on connecting people who care to causes that matter. Since 2002, the JVCF has awarded 80 grants to 35 organizations with a total surpassing $94,000. Last week, members of the JVCF Board were able to both hear and see how the grants had been used to benefit the community at a 2015 grantees tour. Last year the foundation awarded the Friends of the Whitehall Library $2,600 to purchased early learning AWE software. Whitehall Librarian Jeannie...
You couldn't have scripted a better start to the game last Friday night for the Whitehall/Harrison High School football team. The Trojans (4-0) scored on long touchdown strikes from Braden Larsen to Wyatt Alexander on both their second and third plays from scrimmage, and never looked back in a 32-6 homecoming win over Powell County High School (Deer Lodge). After receiving the opening kickoff, Larsen found an open Alexander on the second play of the game for a 51-yard touchdown. After stopping...
