The Monitor

08/31/2025

Our editor, David Lepeska, went to his first rodeo, the Jefferson County Rodeo Association's NRA event. What he learned there was pretty beautiful...

The rodeo had me at hello.

08/29/2025

Tonight, 7 pm: The new Panther Field makes its debut. (Also: Panthers take on Loyola Sacred Heart!)

One week before Jefferson High’s Aug. 29 football home opener against Loyola Sacred Heart, the newly rebuilt Panther Field was still…just a field. Sections of newly purchased goal posts were

08/22/2025

08/13/2025

Tomorrow evening at Volunteer Hall: Stories of Boulder.

08/09/2025

“There is such a known need for more fuel reduction work to reduce risk. There’s no question about its effectiveness. We know if we do it right, it will change the way fire happens.”

As the U.S. Forest Service faces extraordinary tumult, its Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest is set to launch a new, 20-year prescribed fire plan that would nearly triple the acreage

08/09/2025

“There’s a myriad of uses. Search and rescue operations when we have somebody that’s lost. Also could be a fugitive – it would be a good use to find those folks, and then wildfires is a big use.”

Doug Dodge drops a launch pad on the lawn outside the county courthouse, places a small spider-like contraption on the mat, fiddles for a few seconds with a hand-held controller

08/09/2025

Next weekend in Whitehall, hosted by the Western Legacy Center, Whitehall, MT