Pondera County News

This year's Conrad Christmas Stroll tips its hat to Christmas past, present and future.

PONDERA COUNTY - Cleanup of the Cowgill's commercial garden this fall was aided by 75 toms and hens that think Swiss chard and grasshoppers are a feast.

His lone opponent Keith T. Melhus, who had 42 votes, also ran as a write-in. Karla Breding and Wendy Curry Judisch ran unopposed for council.

The 27-year-old man who died in a rollover crash near Valier on Sunday morning has been identified.

Nearly all Montana voters will cast their ballots in this fall's election with a stamp instead of at the polls.

Authorities have released the names of three men killed in a two-vehicle crash near Dupuyer in north-central Montana.

CONRAD - With his hand on his heart in a futile attempt to slow its nervous beating, Francis Erickson watched frozen as the crane lowered, leaving the 700-pound clock to hang on its brackets.

CONRAD - Donatus Alois Kronebusch, 90, of Conrad, a World War II Navy veteran and retired farmer and rancher, died of natural causes Sunday at a Conrad medical facility.

Two more defendants arrested in connection with a 2 1/2-year investigation in Choteau were identified Wednesday, and authorities said the case is bigger than early numbers suggest.

Ten suspects were arrested during a major marijuana bust in Teton and Pondera Counties.

A couple of young grizzly bears have been drawing attention in parts of Pondera and Toole counties and have even turned the heads of motorists on I-15 when the bruins were in a field east of the interstate.

A jury found a 59-year-old Conrad man decided to take his own life rather than go back to jail.

A coroner's inquest conducted today in Conrad found that the Pondera County Sheriff's Department was not culpable for the death of a man who shot himself after authorities allowed him to retrieve medication and tend to his livestock at his home.

A six person jury ruled that a suspect in Pondera County custody committed suicide back in February.