Toole County News

- With 13 votes, Kevin council incumbent Ray Christiaens was ousted by Della Huso-Hunt (38 votes) and Curtis Stene (53 votes.) Running unopposed, Becky Gard was elected mayor with 32 votes. - Longtime Shelby Mayor Larry Bonderud was re-elected with 571 votes. Eugene Haroldson (196 votes,) Don R. Lee (179 votes) and John "Chip" Miller (192 votes) all ran uncontested for town council. - With 74 votes, Gary Iverson was re-elected mayor of Sunburst. Jacque Coolidge (76 votes) and Michael Tobin (91 votes) won two four-year terms on the Sunburst town council and Lorri Housel and Dale Diegel each received 24 votes as write-in candidates for two unexpired two-year terms.

SHELBY - Seeing the hair that normally sweeps her shoulders hit the floor shocked Toole County Sheriff Donna Matoon.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Montana's largest wind farm goes online The $500 million Glacier Wind Farm in Montana's Toole and Glacier counties is now fully online, pumping 210 megawatts into the state's power grid.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer and NaturEner USA officials celebrated the completion of the state's largest wind farm south of Ethridge on Wednesday.

According to a U.S. Census Bureau report issued Tuesday, Colorado's cities have a wide range of uninsured residents, with one in four in Aurora without coverage, and one in 20 in Highlands Ranch without health insurance.

SHELBY - Some Toole County residents worried the private prison being proposed by community leaders in 1998 might turn Shelby into a prison town with higher crime rates and more families on welfare.

It appears the wheels are back in motion on a proposed project to bring a wind turbine manufacturing plant to Butte.

The 210-megawatt Glacier Wind Farm, strategically located to capture wind whipping off the Rocky Mountains, will become the state's largest wind facility when it goes live this month.

A Sunburst man remains hospitalized in Kalispell with a serious brain injury, following last week's boat crash on Flathead Lake.

For all intents and purposes, this has been a summer of opposites, a dry may and june followed by a wet july and august.

Recently, District Judge Ronald McPhillips of Toole County, Montana, ruled that James Rubow had not breached his agreement with Milan Ayers, who contended that Rubow owed him millions of dollars for improperly taking his share of a natural-gas field.

SUNBURST - It took a house explosion in 1955 to discover a 20-acre gasoline leak from a broken underground pipeline here.

The Marias Museum in Shelby celebrates homesteading history with an open house featuring old-time activities, entertainment, historic displays, demonstrations and more from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

Fourth of July tomfoolery on Main Street in Shelby turned serious when a cannon loaded with a watermelon misfired and exploded, sending iron shrapnel flying into nearby buildings.

The wheels of justice grind slowly, but this is pushing the envelope. In Montana's Toole County, retired District Judge Ronald McPhillips ruled this week in a lawsuit that was left hanging for nearly a quarter-century. The judge ruled in Great Falls against Milan Ayers, who contended that former partner James Rubow swindled him out of his share of ...

Rain may be a symbol of the blues in songs and movies, but the only blues at the Beautiful Minds Walk in Great Falls Saturday was from the band playing.

Toole County officials are searching for an unresolved civil lawsuit that's been missing for a quarter century.

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.

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