Bitterroot Star

  On October 30, the Opencut Mining Section at the Department of Environmental Quality issued a permit to mine gravel to Wade Moudy. The Moudy Pit Site covers 13.7 acres with 4.7 acres currently bonded for excavation purposes. The permit will allow up to 500,000 cubic yards of gravel to be removed across the 13.7 […]

Hayes Creek Road, located on the west side of the valley south of Hamilton in the Charlos Heights area, will remain open up to the Forest Service boundary where public vehicle traffic is restricted. At a meeting on October 23, the Ravalli County Commissioners took the position that Hayes Creek Road is a public road, […]

The October 24 Stevensville Town Council meeting was not live streamed due to technical difficulties, but an audio record of the meeting was made and is available on the town’s web site. Mayor Brandon Dewey was not in attendance and as a result, Council President Steve Gibson chaired the meeting. Although adopting the final budget […]

Ravalli County Attorney Bill Fulbright recently found former Stevensville Town Council member and current candidate for council seat Bob Michalson’s ethics complaint against Mayor Brandon Dewey to be invalid. Michalson’s allegation against the Mayor had to do with the additional compensation that the Town Council approved on May 23, 2019. Michalson alleges that in accepting […]

After receiving their ballots in the mail, many readers have contacted the Star requesting additional information on the Stevensville municipal elections. The previous resignations of three council members appears to have caused some confusion, as two of them – Robert Michalson and Stacie Barker – did not withdraw their names from the ballot. Here is […]

Former Stevensville Town Clerk Audrey Tribbensee has filed suit in Ravalli County District Court alleging bullying, harassment and poor treatment to such an extent that the she had no choice but to resign. In her complaint, she asks for a jury trial on charges of constructive discharge and requests damages for lost past and future […]

Stevensville Town Council member Dempsey Vick has filed an official complaint with the Commissioner of Political Practices against Mayor Brandon Dewey, claiming that Dewey has violated the law prohibiting a public employee “from soliciting support for or opposition to any political committee, the nomination or election of any person to public office, or the passage […]

Four scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton and several of their Italian colleagues from the Neurosciences Department, Biomedicine in Verona University, the Cellular Biology and Neurosciences Department of the National Institutes of Health in Rome, and the G.B. Rossi Hospital in Verona were all recipients of the 2019 Aspen Institute Italia Award for scientific […]

Grace Lutheran Church will celebrate its centennial on Sunday, October 27, 2019. The church is hoping that Carl Swanson will be able to attend. He was baptized in the original church at 4th and State in Hamilton and has been a member of the congregation since then, according to centennial chairman Catherine Tye. She is […]

What the group of men say while sitting around drinking coffee at the Bitterroot Valley Elks Lodge in Hamilton first thing in the morning is for the most part unprintable. But what they accomplish in the community when not on coffee break is laudable, to say the least. The list of local community projects and […]

At the Bitterroot Trout Unlimited banquet last week, two local fishermen and writers Bill Bean and Chuck Stranahan each received a Golden Trout Award for their decades of writing about the fishing and the fisheries in the Bitterroot Valley. Bill Bean has been writing fishing related articles for the Ravalli Republic newspaper for over 20 […]

Stevensville School Nurse Connie Johnson was named the Montana School Nurse of the year for 2019-2020 by the Montana Association of School Nurses. The award was presented to Johnson at the MASN business meeting in Bozeman on October 17. Her award will also be acknowledged at the National Association of School Nurses 52nd Annual Conference […]

On Saturday, October 26, the American Legion Post #47 will celebrate 100 years of service and camaraderie for veterans from World War I to the Middle East conflicts of the last few years. Coincidentally, this is the centennial anniversary of the national organization as well.  For the Hamilton Post, this celebration will give the public […]

Although the handwriting is on the wall, you might say, marking the coming shutdown of the Ravalli County Recycling Center with closing tentatively set for the end of the year, in the meantime the facility is still open.  “We voted to stay open until December 31 if we could,” said Board President Janice Lee. “But […]