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The Three Forks School District will soon have a new Superintendent. According to Elementary School Principal Steve Fanning, Rhonda Uthlaut was offered the job Monday, and she accepted. The School Board must officially approve at a special meeting March 4. Uthlaut will take over for current Superintendent Jeff Elliott, whose last day on the job is June 30. The Three Forks School Board and Administration met last week to review four applicants and selected Uthlaut and Nick Schumacher as the two finalists for the position. A busy day for both... Full story
The Three Forks Airport will receive $13,000 in grant funding to keep up with costs and continue projects amid the Covid-19 project. The funding is part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act that was signed into law in late December of last year. The grants are provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program to provide economic relief to airports across the United States. The airport also received $30,000 in May of 2020. A total of 68 Montana airports will...
In its 50th year of service, Southwest Airlines will bring low fares to the state of Montana on May 27, 2021 with the addition of service to Bozeman Yellowstone Int'l Airport (BZN). The new service will connect customers throughout the nation with Big Sky country, bringing faster access to Yellowstone National Park, Big Sky Ski Resort, Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana State University and all of southwest Montana. Southwest Customers may now book travel to fly nonstop between Bozeman...
Gallatin County residents will have the opportunity to learn more about draft FEMA floodplain maps at two Public Open House Meetings next week. The Gallatin County Planning Department and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) are hosting an Open House for the Madison River on March 9, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The meeting can be accessed virtually at https://ogilvy.zoom.us/j/6084529549. The access code is 7477. Limited-in person seats are also available for the meeting that will take place at the Gallatin Conservation...
There is a vacancy on the Three Forks City Council. Town officials announced last week the immediate resignation of Erin Schattauer. The appointment of the vacancy is planned for March 23 at 7 p.m. The deadline to file is March 18. The Three Forks resident filling the position is subject to nomination and election at the next general municipal election. Every resident of the City of Three Forks who is 18 years of age or older, a citizen of Montana, and a qualified elector pursuant to Article IV, Section 2 of the Montana Constitution is... Full story
Local business owner Reid Olinger is always thinking of ways to give back to the community. A recent conversation at an auto parts store set in motion a donation for the Three Forks Volunteer Fire Department. The co-owner of KO Concrete Coatings, a company specializing in floor coatings using polymer products, Olinger ended up having a conversation with a member of the fire department about their floor. Olinger said once he visited the department and saw the floor, he wanted them to have a better atmosphere. He talked with Fire Chief Keith...
According to Plaza Bar owner Eric Raube, the early stages of the Covid-19 shutdown drastically affected his business located at 204 S. Main. He was also able to witness what he described as amazing community support of the Plaza and its employees. "That has been a very positive outcome of the whole pandemic, the community coming together and supporting each other," he said. When the pandemic hit, the Plaza Bar was able to stay open and operate as a liquor store, but Raube said that is just a small part of the business. Raube is also excited...
Here are some key dates in relation to the campus building project. • 95% Construction Drawings Set: 3/3/21 • Bid Set Complete: 3/8/21 • Bid period 3/9/21-3/31/21 • Recommendation to the District: 4/6/21 If you are interested in learning more about the design proposals and/or the project in general please access the following link which can be found on the Three Forks School website. As updates arise in the project they will be shared during Board Meetings, the District Facebook page, as well as the District website. https:/...
The February 17 issue of the Voice included an article from the City of Three Forks officials thanking those who donated $156,760 to five projects in 2020. A large portion of the donations was for the new bleachers at the rodeo grounds. Other contributions were for the new ice staking rink, expansion of the Headwaters Trail System, the fire department volunteers, and library programs. An article in this week’s Voice also includes a story about the donation of a new floor for the fire department by a local business. There is so much negative n...
Throughout my newspaper career, I have seen a little bit of everything. A majority of it has been a positive experience, and this is what I want to be doing, but my previous job as a publisher certainly added some gray hairs. Most of the people I dealt with were easy to work with, but I had a few that were not. On one occasion, an elected official came into the office very upset about a letter to the editor. He started screaming and yelling at me, and I politely kept telling him that I did not write the letter. The madder he got, the less he li...
The Three Forks High School girls basketball team had their season come to an end Friday, February 26, in a 48-30 5B District Tournament elimination game loss to Manhattan. It was all Manhattan in the first half as the Tigers took an 11-0 lead before Three Forks scored their first points of the game and only points of the first quarter on two Jayden Woodland free throws with 1:04 remaining. Manhattan continued their dominant play in the second quarter taking a 25-4 lead into halftime. Three...
U.S. Senator John Tester announced last week the State of Montana would this week receive an increase of 2,340 Pfizer vaccines over the previous week's supply, for a total of 23,270 first doses of the vaccine. "This is great news for folks in every corner of Montana-more vaccines means we're that much closer to reopening our economy and getting folks back to work," said Tester. "Our state has proven that we have the capacity to distribute more vaccines than we're getting, so I'm proud to have...
Just moments after the Three Forks High School boys basketball teams 59-35 5B District semifinal loss February 25 at Manhattan, Head Coach Terry Hauser said he was unsure how his team would bounce back. It turned out the Wolves would face adversity like a champion in their elimination game on February 26 and defeat Boulder 75-56. The following day, they would defeat Big Timber 50-47 to finish third at the 5B Tournament and advance to the Southern B Divisional Tournament for the fourth straight... Full story
It was a phenomenal weekend of results at the Southern B/C Divisional Tournament for the Three Forks High School Wrestling team. The Wolves qualified a total of six wrestlers for this week's state tournament in Shelby and had two individual champions. Three Forks finished 10th out of 24 teams. According to Nye Howey, they also won the most match points with 259. Brayden Linville won the title at 103 pounds, and Coy Cohenour was the champion at 160 pounds. Also qualifying for state were Cole... Full story
Where are we at on the road to the Growth Policy re-write? Envision this…You are walking on the sidewalk through Three Forks down Cedar Street for instance and hit 5th Avenue East and the sidewalk ends. You wonder, “Why doesn’t the sidewalk continue?” There are many factors involved when development occurs, concessions are made on both sides, developers and the City negotiate how the development will look when there are no regulations or policies. NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO WEIGH IN ON HOW DEVELOPMENTS ARE DESIGNED AS THEY COME TO THREE FORKS!...
A furious second-half rally by the Three Forks High School boys basketball team fell just short in a 65-59 loss to the top seed from 4B Huntley Project Wednesday night in an opening-round game of the Southern B Divisional Tournament. The Wolves trailed 44-24 in the third quarter and 52-38 in the fourth before storming back into the game and pulling as close as 56-53 with two minutes left after consecutive three-pointers by juniors Owen Long and Austin Allen. The third seed from 5B, Three Forks will next play Friday, March 5, in an elimination g... Full story
