Legal Notice The Ravalli County Planning Department is inviting public comment on a floodplain permit application to cover the installation of improvements to two existing irrigation diversion/pump systems within the floodplain of Three-Mile Creek. The existing in-stream diversion and open-ditch conveyance structures will be replaced with off-line diversion boxes with debris screening, and buried conveyance […]
Archives for December 2018
Hearing on Name Change – Leeta Marie Karpati
Montana 21st Judicial District Court, Ravalli County In the Matter of the Name Change of Leeta Marie Karpati, Leeta Marie Karpati, Petitioner Cause No. DV-18-498/6 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Leeta Marie Karpati to Abia […]
Notice to Creditors – Edna M. McCarty
MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EDNA M. McCARTY, Deceased. Probate No.: DP-18-118 Department No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their […]
Notice to Creditors – Lynda Rae Rygmyr
MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LYNDA RAE RYGMYR, Deceased . Cause No. DP-18-127 Dept. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present […]
Food bank makes sure folks have a holiday meal
Every year, the week before Christmas, volunteers from Pantry Partners and the Back Country Horsemen gather at St. Mary’s Family Center in Stevensville to make Christmas brighter for many families in the north valley. In addition, several students from Stevensville and Florence were also volunteers. They gathered to put the Christmas food boxes together. People […]
Stevensville’s ‘We the People’ class headed to state competition
This is the second year that We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program has been integrated into teacher Wesley Wells’ Advanced Placement (AP) Government and Politics class at Stevensville High School. The program promotes civic competence and responsibility among the nation’s upper elementary and secondary students. According to Wells, the program’s interactive strategies, […]
First Riverside Crossing cooperative cottage completed
It’s been a long time coming but the door of the first completed cottage at Riverside Crossing Active Adult Cottage Cooperative in Hamilton was open to the public last week for a walk-through before the new residents move in. Paul Travitz, Executive Director of the Ravalli Council on Aging, was obviously proud of the new […]
Commissioners quiz consultant on natural resource policies
The Ravalli County Commissioners questioned Marty Gardner last week about his work as a consultant helping a couple of counties in Idaho revamp their Natural Resource Policies. Gardner was hired to help both Idaho and Clearwater Counties to update their policies as a tool in collaborating with the local National Forests as those forest […]
Hannah’s Hope Fund awards grant for school reading room
Hannah’s Hope Fund has announced that a second distribution from the fund was used to purchase much needed and more durable furniture for all the activity that Hannah’s Reading Corner experiences in the Victor School Library on a daily basis. Amber Lynch, Victor School K-12 Library Media Specialist, applied for the grant this summer and […]
Montanans want new approach on WSAs
By Kathy Hundley, Chris Marchion, Karen Aspevig Stevenson, and Andrew McKean A year ago, Senator Steve Daines introduced legislation that would strip protection from five wilderness study areas (WSAs) comprising 450,000 acres of our most valued public lands. A few months later, Congressman Greg Gianforte upped the ante with a bill mirroring Daines’ and […]
Looking for good deed doer
By Cathy Scholtens, Stevensville Last week I lost my wallet, filled of course with everything one needs: credit cards, cash, driver’s license, etc. I had no idea where I had lost it and was quite frantic. When I called Burnt Fork Market they happily reported “a teenager turned it in.” He found it in the […]
Only some of the news
By Mike Miller, Stevensville I got to read the actual Bitterroot Star ‘paper’ recently; I usually only have access to your online version. I saw some interesting items and made a mental note to follow up online later to reread these items. Couldn’t find them online, even with specific word searches. I placed a call […]