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BCHS graduation a go – rain or shine, parade to follow

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This year’s Beaverhead County High School graduates will have an outdoor graduation and parade through town, to cap a confusing year of being in school but learning outside it.

Turner loses on appeal

Time proved of the essence in more ways than one in a recent decision by the Montana State Supreme Court on a long-unfolding and now finally resolved case involving former City of Dillon Director of Operations J.S. Turner.

IN BRIEF

Mhoon over Rotary

Council meets for first time in a long time

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Ambivalence featured prominently at last week’s Dillon City Council meeting, the first complete meeting held by the city’s legislative body in around two months.

Electrical fire knocks out power to shelter

A small electrical fire last Wednesday forced Beaverhead Animal Shelter staff to relocate the few animals in the facility to foster homes.

New shelter donation boxes coming to prevent theft, fraud

A plan to fix a dubious deal between Beaverhead Animal Shelter’s founder and an unknown merchandiser will lead to new shelter donation boxes being distributed around Beaverhead County.

Montana nursing home virus outbreak appears over

HELENA, May 8 (AP) – A COVID-19 outbreak that started at a north-central Montana assisted living facility and caused six of the state's 16 deaths appears to be over, a state health official said Friday.

Death penalty sought in Montana child torture, slaying case

BOZEMAN, May 9 (AP) – Prosecutors in Montana have said they will seek the death penalty against a West Yellowstone woman accused of fatally torturing and beating her 12-year-old grandson.

Taking a sniff out of crime

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The Dillon Police Department will soon bolster its crimefighting capabilities in one key sense of the term—the sense of smell.

Woman accused of assaulting boyfriend at local bar pleads guilty, gets suspended sentence

A Dillon woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced on a charge of assaulting her boyfriend at The Metlen in March.