Barger and Grant face off in Justice of the Peace election: Audrey Barger

The Hill County justice of the peace said she is running for a third term because if someone can help other people, they should.

"The reason I want to do it is because I feel that I make a difference," she said.

Barger faces Bruce Grant in the nonpartisan race for the seat.

Barger, who said she was born in Malta in 1961 and then moved with her family to Polson, didn't think her life would take her this direction while she was growing up.

"I never dreamed I would be a judge," she said.

She came to school at Northern Montana College, now Montana State University-Northern, where she earned a bach...