Boulder has two new signs announcing to motorists that they are entering the city via north- and south-bound Highway 69. The signs are the result of a two year process for the Boulder Transition Advisor Committee’s marketing arm, which developed the Boulder brand and logo that is featured on… Read Article

Drop off your plastics to be recycled while picking up fresh produce and more at the Boulder Farmers Market beginning Thursday.  Read Article

The Boulder Area Chamber of Commerce has agreed to donate $500 toward building an informational kiosk for Veterans Park in Boulder.  Read Article

Long a subject of controversy, the raised brick planters and vegetation on the Main Street medians are now being targeted for removal. Read Article

Boulder Elementary School will celebrate its eighth grade graduation with a drive-through ceremony on Thursday, June 4, 6 p.m.  Read Article

The Boulder Development Fund Board is recommending that $52,503 of unused money from its other projects be allocated to the City Hall restrooms. Read Article

The Boulder City Council will consider two more applications for the Boulder Development Fund facade improvement program at its May 18 meeting. Read Article

Residents served by the Boulder and Whitehall community libraries are being asked to consider a nine mill levy increase to fund a list of improvements, to include added staff, equipment upgrades and building improvements.  Read Article

Pastor David Klass of Friendship Baptist Church in Clancy is prepared to hold a service Sunday after Gov. Steve Bullock last week began lifting social distancing restrictions due to COVID-19.  Read Article

As the COVID-19 emergency arrived in Montana, Elkhorn Pharmacy in Boulder deflected requests from East Coast doctors for a medication not yet approved to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Read Article

A variety of digital platforms are keeping students, teachers and parents connected while Jefferson County schools are closed due to COVID-19.  Read Article

Jefferson County has managed to keep the number of COVID-19 cases down to two, and it’s been a few weeks since those individuals — a man and a woman — tested positive, said Karen Wandel, RN, department supervisor for Jefferson County Public Health.  Read Article

Two weekend earthquakes did not go unnoticed by many Boulder residents.  Read Article

On April 17, Jefferson County will mail ballots to voters in Jefferson High School District No. 1 and Montana City School District No. 27. Up for vote in the former is one at-large trustee position with a three-year-term; in the latter, one trustee position with a three-year-term. The Monito… Read Article

Tory Vincent Gee, the man who escaped from Jefferson County Detention Center last Oct. 11 and was apprehended a week later in Lake County, was sentenced April 8 to five years in prison. Read Article

Faced with COVID-19 restrictions that prohibit in-person worship, local Christian churches and their members are calling on faith — and technology — to stay connected with one another. Read Article

On March 27, the Boulder Community Library closed its doors — but only because the Jefferson County Commissioners told it to. Read Article

A recap of what’s happened in Jefferson County since the March 25 issue of The Monitor. Read Article

Montana has not had a Republican governor since 2005. In the June 2 primaries, three candidates will vie for the chance to change that — among them Attorney General and Clancy resident Tim Fox. Read Article

Reported cases of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, came later to Montana than most of the rest of the country. But soon after the last edition of The Monitor was printed, local urgency heightened quickly: Jefferson County declared a state of emergency and limited ac… Read Article

On Sunday evening, March 15, Jefferson High School Superintendent Tim Norbeck had just arrived at home. He had canceled a motorcycling vacation with friends in the Southwest; that was to have been his first break ever during a school year. Read Article

Montana voters in state and overseas are scheduled to fill out their ballots between April 17 and June 2 to decide on Democratic and Republican candidates for Montana and national offices. A lot is at stake — the Governorship, Attorney General and Secretary of State, U.S. Senate and House se… Read Article

Instances of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) had been reported in a few dozen states as of March 8, but not in Montana. Meanwhile, worldwide more than 100,000 infected people and over 3,600 deaths had been reported in 101 countries, according to the World Health Organization Situation Report, a… Read Article