Eastside Highway through Stevensville Motorists in the Stevensville area will need to exercise caution while driving through Stevensville beginning Wednesday, May 20. The Montana Department of … [Read Full Article] about Road, curb improvement work now in progress in Stevi area
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A plea to preserve Old Growth
When Van Keele first came upon the ancient Ponderosa Pine that had been felled as part of a Forest Service tree-felling training session in the spring of 2018, he was appalled. Counting the tree’s rings, it was estimated to be about 565 years old. That means it started growing around the time Constantinople fell and […]
Connecting classrooms and community
Stevensville School District has had an advisory program up and running for a few years called Connecting Classrooms, in which classrooms of different grades are “buddied up” with one another. Once a month, each class “connects” with its buddy class and engages in some project together. Elementary School Principal Jessica Shourd said that the Connecting […]
Applications to mine gravel near Big Creek found deficient
The Department of Environmental Quality recently issued letters of deficiency to a couple of landowners in the Victor area who have applied for permits to mine gravel in the vicinity of Big Creek. The letters of deficiency, dated April 25, 2019, read pretty much the same for both Todd Townsend and Wade Moudy, citing the […]
Celebrating nurses
As part of National Nurses Week, Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital participated with other regional hospitals and medical employers in a celebration of their nursing staffs by soliciting nominations for Nursing Awards based on letters of nomination submitted by their patients and peers. According to Marcus Daly’s Marketing and Communications Director, Amy James-Linton, the hospital performed […]
Land Trust seeks community support for park
In late 2017, Bitter Root Land Trust acquired 70 acres of open space along the Bitterroot River just south of downtown Hamilton. A place where anyone will be able to connect with nature, cast a line, take a walk with a friend, bird watch, feel the breeze, and hear the flow of the water over […]
County sued over subdivision approval extensions
Bitterrooters for Planning, a local non-profit organization that promotes planned development, has filed a lawsuit in District Court challenging the Ravalli County Commissioners’ recent decision to grant a third extension to development timelines for the Morado Mountain Estates Subdivision located six miles east of Florence. The subdivision was first proposed in or around 2006. The […]
Ribbon cut on new surgery center
More than 650 people “crossed the red line” for a special tour of the new Surgery Center at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital’s open house last week. Chief of Surgery Dr. James Zubernis, Dr. Michael Dolecki, CEO John Bishop and Hospital Board Chair Lois Hedg-Peth all have a hand on the scissors as they perform what […]
Solar panels installed at Hamilton sewer plant
Hamilton Mayor Dominic Farrenkopf, Rick Hamilton from Solar Plexus, Public Works Director Donny Ramer, NorthWestern Energy District Manager Tim Moody and NorthWestern Energy Management Specialist Shawn Fredrickson were all on hand last week to dedicate the new solar panel array that has been installed atop a shed roof at the City’s wastewater treatment plant. According […]
Property owners file federal suit over unpermitted road
Several property owners in Sunnyside Orchards subdivision, located between Stevensville and Florence along the Eastside Highway, have filed a federal lawsuit against the county; developers Donald and Alexandra Morton and Sunnyside Orchards LLC; realtor Lee Foss and Foss Realty Inc; Western Montana Excavation; and Starlight Interests, LLC, a Georgia LLC. The plaintiffs and the development […]
Eagle Project helps Victor Fire Department
The Victor Volunteer Fire Department moved in to a new building on Meridian Road south of Victor that was previously a small factory that made model trains. Rooms had to be removed to accommodate the fire department and new rooms and entrances are being built. Dakota Johnson, as part of his Eagle Scout project, organized […]
Special concert set for Stevensville library
A couple of musicians have teamed up to provide the Bitterroot community with an all too rare opportunity to hear some late baroque and more contemporary trumpet tunes performed in concert at the North Valley Public Library in Stevensville. Local trumpeter Elliott Oppenheim will be accompanied by pianist Heidi Schnarr in the First Friday evening […]
Alumnus shares passion with career day at Stevensville High
It hasn’t been that long since Christopher Driemeyer graduated from Stevensville High School. Like many graduates he went off to college to further his education and had to face one of life’s biggest questions for many kids: What to do for a living? Driemeyer has always been a bit of an achiever. His last year […]
Legislature passes public works, Medicaid expansion, more
By Shaylee Ragar UM Legislative News Service, University of Montana School of Journalism HELENA — Montana’s 66th Legislature adjourned Thursday, three days early and after a jam-packed final several days. Lawmakers introduced a total of 1,309 bills this session, ranging from “cleanup bills” that remove unnecessary language in Montana code to bills that deal with […]
UM Report: Visitors spent $3.7B in Montana last year
UM News Service MISSOULA – Last year, 12.4 million out-of-state visitors contributed over $3.7 billion in travel spending to Montana’s economy, according to a recent report from the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. The latest report finalizes preliminary estimates from January with new fourth-quarter tourism data. The new […]