By Michael Howell Five awards were presented to conservationists last Tuesday, October 17 at the annual Conservation Roundtable banquet held this year up the Rattlesnake in Smoke and Thelma Elser’s […]
Archives for October 24, 2017
‘Pink’ event takes on new meaning for founder
By Carlotta Grandstaff This year an estimated 252,710 American women, one in eight, will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Last July, Jean Schurman was one of them. Schurman, life-long resident […]
Sapphire clinic gets funds to address opioid epidemic
By Michael Howell Sapphire Community Health (SCH), the non-profit, federally-qualified health center located in Hamilton, celebrated its second anniversary on Monday, October 23. The clinic is also the recent recipient […]
Forest fee increases proposed
By Michael Howell The Bitterroot National Forest is looking for public comment on a proposal to increase fees at fourteen campgrounds, group sites and rental cabins and to begin charging […]
Lost Horse Guard Station may enter FS cabin rental system
The Bitterroot National Forest is proposing to add the historic Lost Horse Guard Station to its cabin rental system. The change is being considered as part of a region wide […]
Broncs upend Dillon to win conference
The Hamilton Broncs were ranked No. 3 in the state when they went to Dillon on Friday night to take on the undefeated Dillon Beavers for the conference championship and […]
Darby Strong!
A young man from Darby, Jake Sanders, is in a battle in Salt Lake City at the Utah Children’s Hospital. He was recently diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins T-Cell Lymphoma and is […]
Hamilton girls fall in soccer semi finals
Even though the Hamilton soccer team played extremely tough defense, they could not get the ball into the net and fell to Laurel, 1-0. In a game that saw a […]
Corvallis boys cross country team wins state championship
The Corvallis boys’ cross country team brought home another state championship Saturday. The team scored only 109 points compared to second place Frenchtown who had 133 points. Hamilton finished in […]
Volleyball results
The season is winding down for the valley’s volleyball teams. The Class A and C schools will have district tournaments. Hamilton, Corvallis and Stevensville will be in Frenchtown. Victor and […]
Re: ‘smoke and flames’ – Daines wrong
By Michael Hoyt, Corvallis If you live in Montana, you recently received a flyer titled “Smoke and Flames” from Steve Daines, one of the state’s two senators. Besides the […]
America – change it or lose it
Having read Marty Essen’s letter and the “rebuttal” by Mike Miller, I find the latter to be completely without substance or solutions. Miller seems to dribble personal insults and […]
Tired of fire excuses
Hiking up Sweeney Creek a couple of years ago I was intrigued by a grove of trees between Peterson Lake and Duffy Lake. I believe it was made up […]
No one is deplorable
No one is deplorable. No one deserves our contempt. We have all gotten to where and what we are by doing our best with what we had in […]
Transformation by tweet
Through his signature tweeting campaign, Donald Trump began to transform the footballers’ protests (taking a knee) into a misrepresentation of the underlying motivation for their peaceful displays of dissent, […]
Stop Trump now!
Watching the massacre that just took place in Las Vegas, Nevada has left me wondering how many more will we be witness to? Looking back on previous acts of […]
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Wednesday, October 25 Montana Conversation The Darby Community Public Library hosts a Montana Conversation on the bestselling book “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance, on Wednesday, October 25 at 5 […]