By Laurie Ruffner, Hamilton I’d like to start out by praising Mary Fahnestock-Thomas for her letter to you in last week’s Letters. I think she made some excellent points that we could all learn from and think about. Frankly, some of the letters I’ve read recently in your opinion section have been quite disturbing, […]
Archives for January 22, 2019
Open letter to Daines
By Archie L. Thomas, Corvallis In response to your government shut down letter dated 1/15/2019. You forgoing one month of your $174,000 congressional salary amounts to about .059% of your $24 million plus personal net worth. Or expressed another way, if you poorly invested your $24 million and received only a net return of 6%, […]
Who will take our place?
By Dan Rothlisberger, Hamilton I recently read an article written by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) national commander who asked: “Who will fill our shoes?” or put another way, “Who will take our place?” He was referring to the fact that many VFW members were getting older and new members were not stepping forward […]
A rant and a rave
By Stephanie Mapelli, Stevensville My dog and I walked to River Park along the path mid-day this past Saturday. West of the entrance to the Fort Owen Ranch there was a huge bunch of trash littering both sides of the path and the path itself. It was holiday gift wrapping, holiday gift bags and what […]
Open your minds to facts
By Bill Jones, Stevensville On January 16, I was amused to read another few letters from our well-informed neighbors Novotny and Gibney. I suppose they could believe they are just trying to help those amongst us who are afflicted with sourcing political news from the broad range of fact oriented sources, and have thus become […]
Hamilton tops Corvallis, Columbia Falls
The Hamilton Broncs won a conference game against Corvallis and then, on Saturday, won a non conference game against Columbia Falls The Broncs ran with the ball early against the Blue Devils, and took and early lead but Corvallis battled back in the first quarter to only trail by two points. Carson Rostad was up […]
Corvallis girls tame Lady Broncs
The Corvallis girls started out slowly against the Hamilton Lady Broncs on Friday night. In fact, they only scored one point in the first period. But they came back in the second behind a couple of treys by Calla Haldorson. Haldorson finished the night with a season breakout of 17 points in the 36-25 win. […]
Zachariah Aaron Koerner
Zachariah Aaron Koerner of Stevensville, MT returned to his heavenly home on January 17, 2019. He was born on June 12, 2002 in Missoula, Montana, the son of the late Cindy Lee Smith-Koerner and Keith S. Koerner. Zack was a student at Stevensville High School where he was a member of the Speech and […]
Donald B. Koeppen
Stevensville – Donald B. Koeppen, 96, of Stevensville passed away peacefully at home while resting in his easy chair on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. He was born January 26, 1922 in Walworth, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children born to William A. and Lunetta M. (Simonson) Koeppen. He was raised in Walworth and graduated from […]
Mack Clyma
Stevensville – Mack Clyma, 85, of Stevensville passed away Sunday, January 13, 2019 at The Living Center. He is survived by his wife Carole Clyma; his children, Pam Sams (Matt), Marcie Otting (Tim), Jay Berner (Holly); son-in-law, Pete Watkins (Renee); his grandchildren, Katy Darrenkamp (Andrew), Stephanie Slaven, Samantha Berner, Tyler Berner (MacKenzie), Laura Berner (Kach), […]
Threat prompts lockdown at Florence School on Monday
Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton said law enforcement investigated two separate incidents at Ravalli County Schools on Monday, January 21. The Florence School District went into a modified lock down status Monday morning after two students reported threatening material posted on social media by a juvenile male over the weekend. The suspect male was not […]
Rye Creek death ruled a suicide
On Monday, January 21, Ravalli County Sheriff/Coroner Steve Holton released that the Rye Creek Death Investigation initiated on January 2nd, 2019 has been officially ruled a suicide. Sheriff Holton said the decedent was confirmed to be 34-year-old Keith P. McIntyre of Willington, Connecticut through DNA testing. The evidence gathered through the course of the investigation proved […]