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Brody Smith is show riding a bronc at Bozeman on Sunday to his sixth title in seven Big Sky Region rodeos this year. Smith led the Bulldogs to third in the first MSU Spring Rodeo over the weekend and to the title in the second MSU Spring Rodeo. Jackie Jensen photo

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00am

UMW opens spring rodeo season on fire

The weather was very unpredictable in Bozeman over the weekend at the Big Sky Region spring rodeo opener hosted by Montana State at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds. But the changing conditions of...

Preservation

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00am

The Virginia City Preservation Alliance recently received from the Montana History Foundation a grant of $4,500 for a building conditions assessment and feasibility study of the Robber’s Roost and...

Star bright

Revington Moore, 5, hangs out at the Dillon Public Library with his award-winning Peeps diorama. M.P. Regan photo

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00am

Moore takes library’s Peeps contest

A young Renaissance man equally adept with a paintbrush or a lasso, Revington Moore earned top honors last week at the Dillon Public Library’s 2021 Peeps Diorama Contest. The five-year-old took the...

World traveler

Dillon native Elly Sawyer recently returned from a one-year stint teaching English in South Korea. Casey S. Elliott photo

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00am

Local teaches in South Korea, gets an education

A Dillon native looking to learn a language and earn some extra cash got an extensive cultural education from the experience. Elly Sawyer, 25, recently returned from South Korea after nearly a year...

Updates needed

Sheriff Paul Craft, left, speaks with Kris Rausch of Vemco out of Missoula, the manufacturer’s representative for Acorn Security, during a jail tour. Acorn manufactures penal plumbing and fixtures. Casey S. Elliott photo

Wed, 04/07/2021 - 12:00am

Jail improvements on tap

Beaverhead County’s jail may see some sorely-needed improvements this year in its security systems, plumbing, fixtures and a small expansion of available space. Beaverhead County Sheriff Paul Craft...

TOP HEADLINES

UMW opens spring rodeo season on fire

04/14/2021 - 12:00am
Preservation

04/14/2021 - 12:00am
Moore takes library’s Peeps contest

04/14/2021 - 12:00am
Local teaches in South Korea, gets an education

04/14/2021 - 12:00am
Jail improvements on tap

04/07/2021 - 12:00am
Frontier Conference tourney time for Bulldogs

04/07/2021 - 12:00am
Montana Western runners head to NAIA National Championships

04/07/2021 - 12:00am
Voters to decide on ambulance district

04/07/2021 - 12:00am
The best laid Planning plans…

04/07/2021 - 12:00am
Twin, Sheridan students haul in over $15,000 in prizes in business contest

03/31/2021 - 12:00am
What’s up Doc?

03/31/2021 - 12:00am
County vaccinates over 1,800 residents, 8 new COVID cases

03/31/2021 - 12:00am
Curtis takes second straight World Hillclimbing Triple Crown

03/31/2021 - 12:00am
New head coach takes the reins of BCHS track and field

03/31/2021 - 12:00am
More space than problems at St. Pat’s Bash

03/24/2021 - 12:00am

NEWS

04/14/2021 - 8:50am

Gianforte Issues Executive Order Prohibiting Vaccine Passports

HELENA – Gov. Greg Gianforte issued an executive order April 13 prohibiting the state-sponsored development and required use of so-called vaccine passports in Montana. "I strongly encourage Montanans to get a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine, which...

Marijuana bills advance, state budget clears senate

As “Compromise” Public Health Regulation Bill nears law, public health officer reflects on a year of scrutiny

Lawmakers consider idea to bolster port authorities in Montana

SPORTS

04/14/2021 - 12:00am

UMW runners compete at NAIA nationals

University of Montana Western runners Eireann O’Connor and Luke Lutz battled the elements last week at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Up against some of the top runners in the country on a muddy course bordered...

UMW opens spring rodeo season on fire

Western volleyball season comes to an end at league tourney

UMW Fifth annual Colt Sale raises over $200,000 for Natural Horsemanship Program

BCHS track flexes at Frenchtown

Dillon Beavers tennis progressing fast

Opinions

04/14/2021 - 12:00am

What does the Beaverhead Ambulance Special Service District have to do with you?

We in Beaverhead County believe in taking care of each other— especially in our greatest times of need. There may be no time of greater need than when one of us is sick or injured and requires the services of trained emergency medical responders and...

Joe Biden’s latest ‘gun violence’ fairy tale

One of the good apples

U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale on President Joe Biden’s executive order

U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale on endangered status of the grizzly bear

OBITUARIES

Ann Carroll Mitchell 1930-2021

04/14/2021 - 12:00am

Ann Carroll Mitchell 1930-2021

Ann Carroll Mitchell died peacefully on April 5, 2021with family by her side following a decline in health. Ann was born Dec. 29, 1930 to Mayme and William “Bill” Carroll of Dillon and Jackson, Montana. She married Gile H. Mitchell on Aug. 24, 1957...

Frederick T. “Butch” Girard

Ernest K. Bacon

Maureen Ann Wood 1944-2021

Coralene Williams Walsh 1932-2021

Clara N. Hazelbaker

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