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Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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As the summer season begins, it might be time to bring out your lawnmowers and manage your property. Although this seems like an adult-only activity, it is important to consider your children when adjusting your routine to focus on important safety practices. If your child is over 12 years of age, they might be mature enough to take on the task themselves. We have outlined the appropriate safety measures below if you have children who are near the lawn mower or who are ready to learn how to...
I don’t know about you, but all this rain has caused a huge influx of birds in my yard. Since my ability to identify birds ranks up there with my cooking talent, we are having a special summer reading program on Wednesday, July 12, at 10:30 AM. The Mystery of Birds will be presented by the newest VISTA volunteer at the Lewis & Clark Caverns, Kenslee Jory. Come and learn all about the different bird varieties in Montana and the Whitehall area. On July 13th at 2 PM Miss Brandi will be opening up her mad laboratory to explore the secrets of c...
The Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives staff are wrapping up their largest digitization project to date with the well-known photographs by F. Jay Haynes. Haynes' work is one of the foundational collections of the MTHS Photo Archives. Since the early 1980s, more than 6,000 original glass negatives (and associated reference prints) have been available to in-person researchers in Helena. "Haynes extensively photographed the development of the Northern Pacific Railroad and Yellowstone...
Working with the 68th Legislature, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) simplified licensing requirements on state lands as part of Governor Gianforte’s Red Tape Relief Task Force. The two agencies consolidated the conservation license and state lands recreational use license into one annual conservation license, supporting the maintenance of places like fishing access sites (FAS), wildlife management areas (WMA). On Montana school trust lands, conservation license sales...
Elk hunters interested in how Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks manages elk will get a chance to weigh in on the new draft elk management plan starting today. The plan will be available on FWP’s website at fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/public-comment-opportunities/draft-elk-plan. The public is invited to comment on the plan; deadline for comments is July 31. “We’re anxious for public input on this new draft plan, particularly on the hunting district objectives and the suite of management tools we have laid out,” said FWP Director Dustin Temple. The plan wa...
Picnics are a fun way to bring people together to enjoy food and conversation. While there are no limitations to what a picnic may entail, when it comes to food, it may be best to pack items that are portable and do not require many accoutrements for eating. That is why finger foods make such great picnic fare. Fried chicken long has been a popular picnic menu item, but other chicken dishes can fill in for this staple quite easily. For example, this recipe for Sesame Chicken Fingers with Honey D...
As barbecue season heats up, you may be wondering how to square your love for T-bone steaks and spareribs with your concern for the environment. The good news? Science is delivering new, game-changing solutions to tackle the environmental footprint of the beef and livestock industries. The Problem: Approximately 9 million dairy cows, 90 million beef cattle, 60 million swine, and billions of poultry in the United States produce more than 100 times more organic waste than humans; but where human waste makes its way to a septic tank or sewage...
Last week’s article “Rocky Mountain Bank Scam Alert: Zelle Red Flags” was submitted BY Rocky Mountain Bank - it was not meant to seem the article was stating RMB was the originator of the scam. We apologize for this confusion. If you have questions or feel you are being scammed, call your local branch to report the perpetrator....
A FANTASTICAL EVENT: The Whimsical Wonders, with assistance from Gold Junction Presents and the Whitehall Chamber of Commerce, put on the successful Enchanted Forest Faire, which brought in fairies and gnomes of all ages to Whitehall....
JUNE, PART II June 1897 was a busy news month, especially the second half. In Missoula, a large stable owned by the Higgins brothers was burned by an arsonist resulting in the death of five horses and a young 16 year- old practice boy. In the Big Hole Basin, William Christenson, a wealthy landowner known as the terror of that country, was shot by Sheriff Smith when he tried to escape justice. Outside of Montana, Mason City, Iowa was struck by a cyclone that killed several people and left a destr...
JUNE 24, 1998 The Department of Justice sent warning letters to three Whitehall entities - including the Whitehall Volunteer Fire Department - and is proposed to impose $250 fines on three Whitehall taverns as a result of gambling infractions stemming from the Whitehall Fire Department’s 1997 Casino Night. The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jointly issued an emergency order prohibiting motorized vehicles from driving off established roads and trails in the Delmoe Lake area northwest of Whitehall, between Whitetail R...
There is a small change to the Whitehall Garden Club meeting this July. The WGC will be meeting on July 12, the second Wednesday at 10 AM. The brief meeting will be held at Glenna’s house (check your book for the address) and is the first hop of our member’s annual Garden Tours and Progressive Lunch. The June minutes has all the details and if you signed up for something don’t forget! If you didn’t sign up, you still can bring a salad/side dish or dessert. This is the time when our members get to show off their gardens! Remember good walking...
Whitehall residents Oakley Buckner and Kortni Wilson, who will both be eighth graders this fall, compete in The Dance Awards: the 12th Annual Celebration of the Year in Dance national competition in Las Vegas this week. Both girls dance with the Dynamic Dance & Tumbling Academy in Butte. These photos were taken at their recital last Tuesday in Butte at the Motherlode Theatre, right before they left for the spotlight of Las Vegas! Congratulations on making it to nationals and good...
The Whitehall Ledger will have a special section in the July 26th Ledger for Frontier Days. Special rates are as follows: Rectangle (7”x3”): $75 Quarter page (11”x5”): $125 Half page (11” x 11”): $250 Full page (11”x 21”): $500 If you would like to advertise in this section, please contact the Ledger at 406-287-5301 or whledger@gmail.com....
Due to Independence Day falling on a Tuesday this year, the deadline to get into the July 5th Whitehall Ledger is Sunday, July 2nd by noon. The paper must be sent in by noon on Monday, July 3rd to hit the print deadline. Content/ads may be called into 406-287-5301 or emailed to whledger@gmail.com. Apologies for any inconvenience....
Well, butter my biscuits! Frontier Days is almost here, and it's fixin' to be a hootin', hollerin', and stompin' good time! Don't miss out! Whitehall Frontier Days is just around the corner and the Whitehall Chamber of Commerce would like to make your business an offer you (hopefully) can't refuse! To get festive for Frontier Days, the Chamber is offering three levels of business decorating! Chamber members will come to decorate the front of your store (inside or outside, depending on what you t...
This Thursday at 5 PM the Whitehall Community Library will hold Middle Teen Madness for any young person who likes to play games and is 12 years of age or older. There will be snacks and all types of board games. This is a great chance for new residents and old, to come and meet new friends or just spend time with old ones. The Library will be closed on the Fourth of July for the holiday but open on Monday and Wednesday for regular hours. We are having a special guest on Wednesday at 10:30 AM for Summer Reading as a friendly wizard is stopping...
Montana State University has announced its undergraduate honor rolls for spring semester 2023. There are two MSU honor roll lists: the President’s List and the Dean’s List. To be eligible for the lists, students must be enrolled in at least 12 college-level credits. This honor roll list was current as of June 12, 2023, and includes all registration corrections or grade changes processed to that date. Students with a 4.0 GPA for the semester were named to the President’s List. An asterisk follows their names below. The Dean’s List includes the s...
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. Jefferson County Residents May 2023 Snapshot Reportable D...
Because of the continued cool, wet weather, we are continuing to collect the Dalmatian toadflax stem boring weevil Mencius janthiniformis. We have requests for over 70 releases and have only been able to collect 10 releases so far. We will be trying to collect more this week as the weather warms. Wish us luck! It is very heartening to see how much damage these skinny little black weevils are doing to Dalmatian toadflax along the I-90 corridor in the Missoula area and along the 1-15 corridor betw...
Driving back to Colorado State University with a van full of students after a day of working to heal some beat-up land north of Fort Collins, I wondered: Could ecological restoration be a new form of outdoor recreation? We’d spent the day building a sawbuck fence around a spring. From the spring, gravity would carry the water through a pipe to a stock tank in the middle of the pasture. On this land protected by a conservation easement, cows would no longer drink, pee, and poop while trampling the spring’s vegetation. The spring could rec...
State and local public health officials are reminding Montanans to be aware of the risk of exposure to rabies as summer approaches. The risk for potential encounters between humans and wild animals increases during spring and summer because of the time spent hiking and engaging in other outdoor activities. On June 13, 2023, DPHHS received the first report of a rabid animal this year. A striped skunk in Powder River County tested positive for rabies. In 2022, 13 animals submitted for rabies...
Hunters who will not be able to use their license this season have the opportunity to donate that license. Residents and nonresidents can donate their hunting license to a disabled military veteran or disabled active-duty service member who is working with an organization that uses hunting as part of the rehabilitation process. The license donor program began in 2013, and each year between 40 and 60 hunters donate their licenses. Reasons vary, but according to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks...
Hunters can sign up for leftover licenses and permits that were not distributed by the drawing through MyFWP on the FWP website. The resulting Surplus License List will be randomized with hunters at the top of the list contacted via email with instructions to finalize their purchase within a specified time. To be placed on the Surplus License List, resident, and nonresident hunters can sign up through the MyFWP portal. This process requires hunters to keep their email address current in their ALS records. Payment of the license fee is not...
This last week I noticed a lot of small sparkly creatures flying in the air at night. I tried to capture one but had no luck. I called one of the locals who hunt bugs and he said to turn on a big LED light at night and the creatures would come towards the light. So that night I put a light on and waited an hour. I when back outside and all these sparkly creatures were sitting around the light in a circle. As I got closers it seemed like they were talking to each other and that freaked me out. So I ran up and started to stomp on them. Then I...
