Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Absentee Drop-off Day will be Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 10 AM to 1 PM. The Jefferson County Election Office will be available at the locations below for voters to drop off their Absentee Ballots: • Whitehall Community Library (110 W. First St. - Whitehall) • Clerk & Recorder/Election Office (102 S. Monroe - Boulder) • Clancy Old Red School House ( 3 N. Main St. - Clancy) • Montana City Fire Hall (1192 Hwy 282 - MT City) Ballots can also be returned: • Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 12 PM, and 1 PM - 5 PM at the Election Office, and • 7 AM to...
The new Southwest Lion Ecoregional Population Objective Panel will meet for the first time on October 19 and 20 to discuss managing mountain lions in southwest Montana. The committee will meet in Whitehall at The Iron Wheel (40 Cedar Hills Road) from 11 AM to 6 PM on Monday, and from 8 AM to 5 PM on Tuesday. The meeting will also be live-streamed and recorded. The public is invited to participate in person or online. Public input at the beginning of the meeting will set the stage for the panel’s multi-day discussions. FWP is seeking public t...
An absentee ballot requirement that has resulted in thousands of Montana votes being thrown out since 2025 was ruled unconstitutional on Monday, October 5th by a state judge. At issue is the requirement that voters write their birth year on absentee ballot return envelopes. In his Monday ruling, Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Mike Menahan said the requirement had disenfranchised nearly 6,000 Montana voters since it was created by the 2025 Legislature. The ruling means that 2026 general election ballot envelopes missing the birth ye...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) met last week with a focus on strategies against election interference. Across Montana and the country, election interference is being targeted differently based on phase. Phase One election interference occurs from now until November 3rd and includes voter intimidation, undermining confidence in parts or all of the election system, and creating barriers to registering to vote. The most visible effort against Phase One interference is the “No Kings: Vote Early” events across the country, which encourage people to regi...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 00:46:03 Reckless Driver: I-90 07:22:00 Animal: Hwy 55 09:09:08 Suspicious: Yellowstone Trl 09:48:59 Traffic Stop 10:02:18 DUI: W First St 11:47:27 Traffic Stop: Piedmont Rd 12:05:28 Traffic Stop: Piedmont Rd 12:57:03 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 13:13:41 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 13:29:17 Traffic Stop: N Stanley St 14:34:48 Traffic Stop: S Division St 15:19:03 Traffic Stop: S Division St 17:12:57 Stranded Motorist: I-90 17:47:23 Traffic Hazard: Hwy 55 18:44:27 Suspicious:...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 07:12:36 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 07:54:04 Traffic Stop: Hwy 69 08:51:53 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 09:03:05 Traffic Stop: W Yellowstone Trl 09:55:24 Reckless Driver: I-90 10:05:29 Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 10:29:47 Traffic Stop: N Division St 12:29:11 Traffic Stop 12:44:00 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 13:20:40 Traffic Stop 13:44:46 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 14:30:47 Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 15:54:38 Traffic Hazard: I-90 16:17:39 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 16:35:30 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 17:06:56...
Join us in welcoming Pat Sullivan to our Meet & Greet this Wednesday, September 23, at 6 PM at the Whitehall School library. Pat is running for Montana Representative for House District 75, which includes the Town of Whitehall. Sullivan is running against incumbent Mark Reinschmidt, who remains unavailable. Our guest speakers will continue through the winter, so stay tuned as dates emerge. A representative from CI-133 (Keep Montana’s Courts Nonpartisan) stopped by to hand out yard signs. We continue to support I-194, called both “The Tra...
It is nice to be back at the Whitehall Community Library (110 W. First - Whitehall) after a week off, putting up veggies, quilting, watching my grandchildren play football, soccer, and run cross-country. I was greeted with fantastic news: the Whitehall Library has been selected to host an Artist-in-Residence this winter. The program is part of the Montana State Library's Creative Aging area. Our Friends of the Whitehall Library are providing part of the funding to bring in a professional artist...
From introducing advanced scanners to letting passengers keep their shoes on, the TSA has made major updates to its screening processes lately. But one familiar and often frustrating rule for travelers has remained in place: a strict limit on the amount of liquids allowed through the checkpoint. Now, the TSA is exploring the possibility of easing those rules for some travelers for the first time in over 20 years. Here’s what you need to know. A Change in Liquid Rules for PreCheck Members? Since 2006, the TSA has imposed a 3.4-ounce limit on m...
You would not want to be a cutthroat trout in the Middle Fork of the Judith River before 2023. Along a 6-mile stretch of this water in central Montana, there were more than 80 entrances to the river and 27 shallow spots where everything crossed, from cars to off-highway vehicles like side-by-sides. Chris Edgington, a watershed project manager with Montana Trout Unlimited, says by 2020 sediment runoff from vehicles moving through the river had gotten so bad it was choking out nearly all the fish. “The fish population was estimated to be less tha...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 03:43:58 Animal: E First St 09:28:55 Animal 12:37:16 Citizen Assist: E First St 14:03:36 Disorderly: Hwy 2 E 16:19:55 Animal: Ringing Rocks Rd 17:01:44 Medical: Patticake Dr 18:00:59 Fire Restriction Violation: Cherokee Pl 18:38:17 Runaway: Edwards Addition Rd 20:23:33 Lost Property: W Legion St 20:53:55 Traffic Hazard: I-90 20:59:48 Reckless Driver: I-90 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 02:06:28 Traffic Hazard: I-90 06:28:31 Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury) 08:19:45 Criminal Mischief: E...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 06:22:58 Traffic Stop: Whitetail Rd 06:48:35 Traffic Stop: Hwy 2 W 08:43:49 Traffic Stop: I-90 09:02:43 Traffic Stop: I-90 12:00:22 Citizen Assist: E Second St 12:57:24 Larceny/Theft: Hwy 55 13:18:09 Medical: Yellowstone Trl 14:37:57 Reckless Driver: I-90 14:48:15 Traffic Stop: I-90 16:53:11 Traffic Hazard: I-90 17:33:34 Motorist Assist: I-90 19:13:26 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 22:27:29 Vehicle Accident (Injury) 22:49:43 Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) continues to follow the effort to repeal the Roadless Rule. Last August, the American public sent in almost half a million “noes” during the USDA comment period. The current comment period is with the US Forest Service, and public input is needed again now. The documents describing the proposed repeal are repetitive, shallow, and available on the USFS and USDA websites. They do not acknowledge two key facts: 1) timber harvest could be increased by the stated desire of 25% in currently accessible areas, and 2) the sha...
Jefferson County is seeking public input through a community survey to help guide updates to the County's Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). The survey will remain open through September 30, 2026, and will help identify priorities for recreation, emergency response, and other infrastructure investments throughout the county. The survey is part of a larger planning effort the County is making to update the 2020 CIP. In the 2020 plan, Jefferson County identified a variety of projects and infrastructure improvements that would benefit county...
Just two weeks before classes were set to begin, the Missoula County Public Schools board debated whether to raise the price of school meals. In the end, the trustees decided to raise the adult meal price by 15 cents while maintaining the student meal price, but the August discussion highlighted the connections between meal debt and changes to eligibility for federal food assistance. In Missoula and other school districts, students are fed regardless of their ability to pay. But that unpaid meal...
Daily fishing restrictions, commonly known as hoot-owl restrictions, have been lifted for the Madison River upstream of Hebgen Reservoir with cooling water temperatures. A hoot-owl restriction remains in effect on the lower Madison River from the Bureau of Land Management’s Warm Springs boat launch to the confluence with the Jefferson River. Drought-related fishing closures and restrictions also remain in effect for the Beaverhead and Big Hole rivers. These restrictions were implemented because of warm water temperatures. Hoot-owl restrictions...
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 00:05:15 Medical: N Stanley St 08:43:18 Medical: N Stanley St 14:01:07 911: I-90 16:24:27 Traffic Stop 16:44:53 Larceny/Theft: Sugar Beet Row 18:17:30 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 18:36:14 Fire Restriction Violation: Paul Gulch Rd 19:34:45 Traffic Offense: I-90 22:39:37 Animal: W Legion St MONDAY, AUGUST 31 02:12:26 Burglar Alarm: W Legion St 06:22:30 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 06:27:54 Animal 07:29:47 Traffic Stop: N Division St 08:39:58 Abandoned Vehicle: Hwy 2 W 09:23:52...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) hosted US Senate candidate Kyle Austin last week. Though running on the Libertarian ticket, Austin presents as an isolationist non-Trump Republican. Austin is a pharmacist and farmer from Havre and has been pursuing a career in federal politics since high school. His affiliation with the Libertarian Party is loose enough that he has removed the Libertarian label from his campaign materials. His fiscal plan includes further cuts to government by eliminating inefficiencies, and he sees no need to alter the tax...
Many Montanans think a vehicle or vessel automatically passes according to their will when they die. Well, maybe or maybe not. Ownership and title laws often determine who receives those assets. Fortunately, a Montana law now provides a simple way to transfer a vehicle or vessel at death without the time and expense of probate. The Montana Legislature passed the Beneficiary Designation for Vehicles and Vessels Act in 2021, allowing owners to name beneficiaries who can receive title to certain vehicles and vessels after the owner’s death. The M...
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 04:05:27 911: N A St 09:00:37 Traffic Stop: E Legion St 09:15:05 Traffic Stop: E Legion St 11:39:24 Medical: Tebay Ln 16:03:38 Custodial Interference: E Second St 19:20:46 Motorist Assist: I-90 20:21:41 Medical: Tebay Ln MONDAY, AUGUST 24 05:40:21 Suspicious: Hwy 69 07:21:17 Citizen Assist: Hwy 2 W 10:11:55 Traffic Hazard: I-90 10:55:28 Trespass: Hidden Creek Rd 11:00:56 Animal: Piedmont Rd 12:48:00 Traffic Hazard: I-90 13:57:43 VIN Inspection: Tobacco Root Ln 15:04:06...
The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the 2026-2027 wolf and furbearer hunting and trapping regulations after nearly four hours of deliberation and public comment focused almost entirely on wolf management. For the upcoming season, which starts Sept. 5, the commission approved a total harvest quota of 300 wolves, broke down by regions. This is lower than last year’s statewide quota, but higher than the quota of 250 recommended by FWP. Last year’s quota was 452, and 247 wolves were harvested. The approved quotas are based on an ame...
Daily fishing restrictions, commonly known as hoot-owl restrictions, have been lifted for several rivers in southwestern Montana with cooling water temperatures. Restrictions have been removed for the Gallatin, Jefferson, Ruby and Shields rivers. The following updates have been made for the Madison River: The restriction immediately upstream of Ennis Reservoir and the closure downstream of the reservoir have been removed. A hoot-owl restriction remains in effect upstream of Hebgen Reservoir to the boundary of Yellowstone National Park. A...
NorthWestern Energy has been ordered by state regulators to take its 20-year power plan back to the drawing board. The move comes after analysts for the Montana Public Service Commission found deficiencies in the utility’s Integrated Resource Plan, or IRP. It’s essentially a roadmap that estimates power needs and how the utility will cost-effectively supply that power to its customers over the next two decades. Commissioners voted 3-1 last week to require NorthWestern to address flaws found in the plan, according to an independent review fro...
The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced. In a press release, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the rule has led to overgrown and diseased forests ripe for deadly wildfires by limiting where the U.S. Forest Service can build roads and manage timber. Rescinding the Roadless Rule, the release said, will prioritize local decision-making...
Last week, Whitehall Indivisible (WI) welcomed Dr. Mike Eisenhauer, the Independent MT02 Candidate vying for the Eastern District U.S. congressional seat currently held by Troy Downing. Eisenhauer is an interventional cardiologist running as an Independent and has gathered signatures to get on the ballot. Eisenhauer is well-informed, smart, and reasonable. He is aware of the problems caused and perpetuated by hyper-partisanship, and he sees running as an Independent as one way to soften current congressional dysfunction and gridlock. He said...
