JeffCo supports historic newspaper digitization project

The Jefferson County Commission has agreed to support a project that would digitize and make available county newspapers dating from 1885-1925.

The Jefferson County Museum Board has identified 16 newspapers published in Jefferson County during that time, and those include the Basin Progress, the Lump City Minor in Clancy, the Montana Sunlight out of Whitehall, the Sentinel from Boulder and the Wickes Pioneer, among others, to include The Boulder Monitor. 

And while many counties and localities in Montana, and across the country, have made digital access available, there is not one historic Jefferson County newspaper available online, said Jamie Guenther, Jefferson County Museum Board Trustee.