More than 100 people gathered Jan. 13 in the Virginia City Community Center to hear residents, attorneys and healthcare professionals debate whether or not 22 property owners in the Silvertip subdivision in Moonlight Basin should be allowed to withdraw from the Madison Valley Hospital District.
American Pacific Mining Corp. announced significant assay results from its 2024 field program at the Madison Copper-Gold Project, igniting optimism among investors and stakeholders in the mining sector, according to a company press release.
Paula McKenzie started telling volunteers at the Madison County polling place in Virginia City they could head home around 12:30 a.m. on Wed. Nov. 6 as the final ballots of the night were counted and black ice hardened on roads throughout the county.
The delivery of ballots from Twin Bridges, Jefferson Island, Harrison and Ennis Town precincts was slowed by black ice and snow on local roads.
Counting of those ballots began around 11:20 p.m., while poll workers awaited more ballots from Big Sky. Norris Hill and the hill between Ennis and Virginia City is reportedly ice coated.
Tom “Tater” Broksle was bouncing along a potato field in the cab of his tractor in October when he announced the end of his candidacy.
The two election reform constitutional initiatives—CI-126 and CI-127—were soundly rejected by voters in Alder, but the vote for CI-128 in Alder was closer.
The county’s counter
Election officials ran tests on the DS450 ballot counting machine, which is not connected to the internet and is sealed during counting. Blue ballot boxes will start coming into election HQ in Virginia City after the polls close at 8 p.m., when counting begins.
In initial results, the top three vote getters for the Virginia City Government Study Commission are Abby Thomas, Darrell Schulte and Donald Mefford.
Thomas claimed 117 votes, Schulte 83 votes and Mefford 64 votes, narrowly edging out Mark Jacobs who brought in 61 votes.
Election officials ran tests on the DS450 ballot counting machine, which is not connected to the internet and is sealed during counting. Blue ballot boxes will start coming into election HQ in Virginia City after the polls close at 8 p.m., when counting begins.
The road tracing the northern edge of Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge cuts through sand dunes in a sea of sagebrush about 80 miles south of Ennis. Basin big sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata to be exact, is a marvelous species known to grow up to 13 feet tall.
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