Although their numbers are scant this year, there are only three competitors, the Stevensville cross-country team is enthusiastic and gaining experience with each race they run in. Cross-country for girls […]
Archives for September 2013
Victory bell rings for Yellowjackets
The Yellowjackets rang the bell Friday night, with each player taking a turn at ringing the big bell that sits in front of the grandstand at Stevensville. The Yellowjackets held […]
Stevensville playing tough
Soccer The Stevensville boys are playing some tough soccer right now. The team is made up of eight seniors and eight juniors with a ton of experience between them. That […]
Commissioners stand by rejection of Title X funds
By Michael Howell The Ravalli County Commissioners, for the third time this month, have refused to accept Title X funding for the coming fiscal year, basically rejecting about […]
Candidates tackle town issues at Stevensville election forum
By Michael Howell Municipal election forums, sponsored by the Bitterroot Star and KLYQ Radio, were held last week in Hamilton and Stevensville. An old fashioned debate format was […]
MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHLEEN E. JOHNSON, Deceased. Probate No.: DP-13-59 Department No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS […]
Sales/Auctions Blu-J Estate Sales! Sales Start Day 1 – 5:30-7:30pm Following Days – 9-5:30pm Look for green signs! View at www.bluejayestatesales.com 363-1600 Sept. 25-28 – Florence 4759 Simpson (off Luby […]
Re: no Title X funding revote
Commissioners Stoltz, Burrows and Foss should have, with one voice, called for a revote on Title X funding for their Ravalli County constituents. Further, the result of that revote […]
Stand up against commissioners now
I can’t believe what is happening here. When I first came to the Bitterroot Valley in 1978, I was young and I was broke. Family Planning and Public Health […]
Commissioners take pro disease, pro abortion stance by rejecting funds
Commissioners Suzy Foss, Ron Stoltz and Jeff Burrows voted against us on Friday. They refused to accept our taxpayer dollars back from the federal government for our family planning […]
A question of decency
On Wednesday, September 18th, I accepted an invitation to debate Mr. Clayton Floyd, the opposing candidate in the Mayor’s race. I was pleased that the Bitterroot Star had organized […]
Recovery from mental and substance use disorders is possible
All around us in Montana, there are hundreds of people in recovery from mental and substance use disorders. They are contributing to our businesses, connecting with their families, and […]
Local elections affect us all
By Linda McCulloch, Montana Secretary of State I remember the first time I voted an official ballot. It was 1973, just two years after 18-year-olds were granted the right to […]
Wednesday, September 25 DCPL Write On Club The Darby Community Public Library Write On Club meets Wednesdays after school from 4 to 5 p.m. beginning September 25. All […]
Local pastor found guilty of securities fraud, innocent of theft and conspiracy
By Carlotta Grandstaff The jury in the Harris Himes trial split the verdict down the middle, with guilty verdicts on the three counts of securities fraud and three acquittals […]
Local pastor’s fraud trial, day 4
By Carlotta Grandstaff James Bryant took the witness stand Thursday morning and testified for his co-pastor and co-defendant Harris Himes. He told a horrific tale of violence, which, though […]
Local pastor’s fraud trial, day three
By Carlotta Grandstaff Pro-gay rights and pro-abortion activists are behind the criminal case against Pastor Harris Himes. So said Himes himself, not to a jury but to Missoula’s Talk Back […]
Alleged victim testifies in pastor’s fraud trial
By Carlotta Grandstaff Harris Himes’s alleged victim, Geoffrey Serata, took the witness stand today and told a tale that’s as old as humankind itself: innocent, unworldly naïf comes into […]
Local pastor on trial for theft and securities fraud
By Carlotta Grandstaff Harris Himes, a self-described Christian pastor from Hamilton who is charged with six felony counts of theft and securities fraud, has been through two attorneys and […]
Hamilton soccer team surprises Corvallis
It’s always an unknown when rivals play, no matter what the sport. Thursday, on the Hamilton and Corvallis boys’ soccer team proved this adage. The Corvallis boys are a mature, […]