Articles Written By: Boone Goddard
ARLEE — A 17-year-old boy from Arlee was killed Dec. 15 and his 19-year-old male passenger injured during an early morning single-vehicle wreck on Theresa Adams Lane. According to a Montana Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred at 2:44 a.m. when the driver failed to negotiate a lefthand cu...
To our family, friends and beloved community members – we have some news to share with you. After 19 years of owning and operating the Valley Journal newspaper, we’re ready to begin a new adventure, chapter or story if you will. Though the decision was certainly bittersweet, we’ve decided t...
Dear Readers, Some things never change. Sometimes things have to. Here at the Journal, we’re charging forward with needed change. Studies have shown that the closer we are to the communities we serve, the more success a newspaper is likely to have. Through a grassroots approach to community jou...
Most people have at one time or another felt, or feel regularly, that their voice is not heard in the political process – and even worse, that there’s nothing they can do about it. Ballot initiatives are a powerful tool for citizens to force important matters onto the political stage. Ballo...
In a continuing effort to educate myself on how and why cannabis oil works so well for my condition, I came across the mechanism by which cannabis works and helps with many conditions; conditions such as PTSD, cancer, Alzheimer’s, autoimmune diseases, depression, epilepsy, nausea, arthritis, chronic pa...
The federal government classifies cannabis as a schedule I drug. According to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency website, drug scheduling is based on a drug’s “acceptable medical use and the drug’s abuse or dependency potential.” It is further written, “Schedule I drug...
The recent Montana Supreme Court ruling on restrictions to the state’s medical marijuana program has effectively denied thousands of Montanans access to a medicine that’s been working for them. The decision handed down last Thursday was the final ruling on a several-year battle between the Mon...
Did you ever do something stupid as a kid or an adult and get caught? Caught on tape? Did you have to watch that tape and feel that sad, sick feeling? The kind of feeling that makes you want to slump down in your chair and pull your hat down to cover the guilt on your face? Watching just a few of the 2015 Bl...
The old saying goes, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” I sometimes think the opposite is actually true: what hurts you are the things you don’t know. So that begs the question, how can I know what I don’t know? Aha! You’re so smart… I knew you were goin...
How do you start to thank the many thousands of people and businesses who have contributed to our community newspaper? Where do you start? Well, let’s start with you, yes you, the individual reading this column. Thank you! Okay now only several thousand more and we’ll be getting close… May...
