While a Presidential election dominated national news in 2024, Jefferson County was more focused on housing, property taxes ...

Each year at this time, I share some reflections on how The Monitor has evolved and where it’s pointed. I do this as a matter of transparency: Just as The Monitor expects government and other civic ...

This annual special issue of The Monitor is anchored in loss: The people you see here, all of whom lived, grew up in, or were otherwise connected to Jefferson County, died in 2024; their obituaries ...

Dee was one of God’s amazing children. She was inspired by all things God created and she enjoyed them to the fullest. She was very much an outdoors person – gardening, camping, fishing, hunting. She ...

“We’re flying over the Overland Trail, known locally as White Tail Road, the main 1863 trail between Orem, Utah, and Fort Benton.” I’m watching Tour Number 3 of “Montana Pioneer Trails,” a series of ...

Losing a child is something of indescribable pain, leaving a void that seems impossible to fill. Kennady, our beautiful daughter, left this earth tragically this year, and a great part of us went with ...

Mom was raised in Fargo, ND, and as that town grew so did the pace of crime, gangs, and other dangers. She did not want her three small children living in that harsh city life, and she hoped to slow ...

Never a fire chief, but 50 years of service in the rural fire department. Never a mayor or City Councilor, but a fixture on the city zoning and variance board. Never the president of the Fair Board or ...

Robert Leslie Feathers Jr., known to everyone as Feathers, was a poker guy. He came by this honestly, descended from a long line of card players on both sides of his family. His cousin Mike Hess ...

Gordon Giulio was always intrigued by garbage trucks. He started Giulio Disposal, and he also covered the city landfill site for several years, so there were a lot of trucks in our life. On every ...

I first met John Yager at Jefferson High School, where we were both teachers. This was around 1966; John arrived to teach shop shortly after I had started as a math teacher and track coach. We hit it ...