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Baum, Meier win Columbus School Board trustee seats

Unofficial May 3 school election results around Stillwater County brought a mix of news Wednesday morning.

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19 local nonprofits to be featured at May 2-6 MTGives

Nineteen Stillwater County nonprofit groups will be featured May 2 through May 6 during the seventh annual ColumbusMTGives event.

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Car hit by train in Columbus

A local man was injured Wednesday morning when he apparently drove his passenger car through the railroad crossing arms in Columbus and collided with a passing train.

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4,500 Fentanyl-laced pills, 1.2 pounds of suspected heroin and a stolen firearm at Town Pump stop

A routine traffic stop made by a Columbus Police officer earlier this month led to the discovery of 4,500 Fentanyl-laced pills, 3.5 ounces of cocaine, 1.2 pounds of suspected heroin, 2 pounds of pot and a stolen firearm.

The traffic stop occurred March 5 at 2:35 p.m. when the driver reportedly failed to stop at a stop sign. When Columbus Police Officer Jarod Vance got to the driver’s side window, he could immediately smell the strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, said Columbus Police Chief Gary Timm in a press release.

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JUSTIFIED

A Stillwater County jury took approximatley 15 minutes at a coroner’s inquest on Monday to decide that two U.S. Marshals are “not criminally responsible” in the shooting death of Georgia fugitive Christopher Eric Cook last March on I-90.

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February storms help mountain snowpack

Thanks in large part to the 7.9 inches of snow that fell in Columbus last week, February finished the month with above normal snowfall.

The National Weather Service (NWS) officially reported 14.1 inches of snow last month in Columbus. Normal February snowfall is 8.8 inches.

With the snow also came lower than normal temperatures. The daily average temperature in Columbus was 23.9 degrees, compared to the normal daily average of 26.7 degrees.

Subzero temps were present on eight days, with six of those in the double-digits.

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“Totally and completely forgotten about”

ABSAROKEE — On an already sweltering recent Monday morning, three ranchers stood on what now is the end of Stillwater River Road and pointed approximately 900 hundred feet to the west to where a handful of round haybales sat.

Between the men and the hay used to be the county roadway and private ranch land.

It is now a new channel of the Stillwater River, thanks to the historic June 13 flooding.