Vendor opp The Fairgrounds is partnering with the Bitterroot Valley Chamber of Commerce to provide a New Year’s Resolutions Solutions Expo. This event will showcase the wide array of […]
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Archives for December 2013
De Groot joins Tompkins & Peters CPAs, P.C
Tompkins & Peters CPAs, P.C. is pleased to announce the addition of John De Groot, CMA to its Hamilton office. John is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and brings a […]
Mark Henry Heller
Stevensville – Mark Henry Heller passed away at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula on December 2, 2013. He was 60 years old. Mark was born in 1953 in Arkansaw, Wisconsin […]
Suellen Mary Schertenleib
Suellen Mary Schertenleib went to be with the Lord on December 3, 2013 in the comfort and peace of her home at the age of 57. She was surrounded […]
Anne (Casson) Sullivan
Stevensville – Anne (Casson) Sullivan died December 14, 2013 at Marcus Daly Hospice Center in Hamilton from the insuperable challenges of advanced age. Anne was born May 5, 1912 […]
Hamilton wins own tournament
The wrestling season began with a bang for the Hamilton team on Saturday. The Broncs won their own tournament by almost 30 points in the 11-team field. Hamilton picked up […]
Utah rep stumps for transfer of federal lands to states
By Michael Howell “Federal control of public lands is destroying forests and water sheds, shutting off access, constricting economic opportunity, breaking the state and local budgets, and threatening our way […]
UM professor urges cooperative effort in managing federal lands
By Michael Howell Last Monday, December 9, Martin Nie, Professor of Natural Resources Policy at the University of Montana, came to the valley at the request of Bitterrooters for […]
Florence wins two
The Lady Falcons of Florence opened on the road with a couple of wins. They were at the Manhattan Tournament. They opened against Whitehall and came out playing […]
Valley basketball teams open on the road
The basketball season is upon us. This weekend all of the valley’s teams took to the road to compete in Ronan and Polson, St. Regis, Manhattan, and Harlowton. This […]
Stevi awards grants to community non-profits
By Michael Howell The Town of Stevensville first began considering helping out a few of the non-profit organizations in the community a few years back when Chris Weatherly came to […]
Burst water pipe closes Hamilton Middle School
By Michael Howell A frozen water pipe in the Hamilton Middle School burst and flooded the basement, destroying three boilers and a hot water heater last Tuesday, December 10. […]
Medicine Tree rumor put to rest
By Mary H. Williams, Tribal Relations Coordinator, Bitterroot National Forest A December 4 letter to the Bitterroot Star contained an unfortunate and all-too-widespread piece of misinformation regarding the death of […]
Another bad idea
I just sat through two relentless hours while Ken Ivory from Utah told me and fellow Bitterrooters how much better off we’d be if our federal lands were turned […]
Rudeness inexcusable
Wednesday night I attended a meeting in Hamilton. In six years of volunteering in local Ravalli County politics, I can truthfully say, I have never been to a meeting where […]
Next ‘Sagebrush Rebellion’
The Sagebrush Rebellion has arrived in the Bitterroot at the invitation of County Commissioner Suzy Foss, who brought in Ken Ivory, a slick lawyer from Utah. He delivered a […]
Caution advised on public lands
A fresh snowfall and warmer temperatures invite Montanans to enjoy the outdoors for skiing, hiking and Christmas tree hunting. But Footloose Montana urges people to use extreme caution on […]
Move to Kabul, take Treasurer and Planning Board Chair with you
I read in the paper that one of our esteemed commissioners, Suzy Foss, recently returned from a Heritage Foundation/American Lands Council convention in Utah and is now starting a […]
We couldn’t have foreseen
How we got here, Corrine Gantt, Ravalli Republic, Dec l2, 2013. She is right, many of us did vote in favor of five commissioners because prior to that, in […]
MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES ADOLPHE STANKER, SR., Deceased. Case No.: DP-13-88 Department No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS […]