Missoula County

The Top Hat brought two bands from Missoula together for an evening of music, dance and revelry to ring in the New Year.

The Missoula Boys and Girls Glee Clubs readied for their performances, the fire chief made his annual plea to be careful with candles near the holiday tree, 200 sacks of mail arrived at the train depot, and the Missoula Male Chorus planned performances for the Poor Farm. It was Christmastime in Missoula – 100 years ago.

Tales of Montana Christmases past show years of sadness and struggle, joy and celebration.

Looking to provide a continuum of care in mental health services, western Montana's largest provider on Tuesday received a boost from Missoula County, which agreed to float the organization a $750,000 loan.

OK, it’s time to play: “Name That Place,” a game show testing your knowledge of local landmarks – but offering absolutely no cash, no prizes, no trips to exotic places, not a thing – except perhaps bragging rights. Here we go!

A Montana Supreme Court decision last week siding with the state in its push to levy more education mills than most counties believed was right now has local treasurers across the state taking a wait-and-see approach on what their next step will be.

“There are, I think, undeniably, new winds sweeping across America. They are indeed gusty and changeable, but they are new - and they will alter what happens in Montana ... (either for) better or worse, (depending) on Montanans and how they, or you, read those winds.” The quote is from one of my favorite historians, K. Ross Toole, a Montana rancher who accepted the Hammond Professorship at the University of Montana in 1965 – a post he held until his death in 1981.

A Missoula District Court judge has determined that a lawsuit filed against the county failed to produce evidence proving the county elections office misused or wrongfully operated a voter database during the 2020 election.

Missoula County commissioners write, "Please know your commissioners are also working hard to advocate for changes to the tax system at the state level to help ease the burden property taxes have on our residents."

Flashback to 1934, when The Washington (D.C.) Star newspaper reported the American Automobile Association (AAA) had called on “city authorities throughout the country to outlaw raucous automobile horns in a campaign of noise disarmament.”