By Christin Rzasa When Sharon Ritter attended the Montana Audubon’s annual Bird Festival with her son in June of this year, she had no idea that she was about to […]
Archives for August 6, 2019
Annual river cleanup set for this Saturday
The Bitter Root Water Forum invites you to help clean up the Bitterroot River on Saturday, August 10th at their annual Bitterroot River Clean Up. Volunteers can sign up for […]
New wildland fire engine comes to Stevensville
Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) officials delivered a new wildland fire engine to the Stevensville Rural Fire Department last week as part of its ongoing County Co-op program. […]
Marcus Daly Hospital celebrates Daisy Awards
Daisy bouquets bloomed in abundance at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital last week as hospital staff, administration and patients celebrated the 2019 Daisy Awards. The Daisy Award program is a worldwide […]
Redistricting in Montana critical
By Fred Thomas, Senate Majority Leader, Stevensville As the Districting and Apportionment Commission begins their work, I am encouraged by the leadership of the Commission’s presiding officer – Sheila Stearns. […]
Community Health Center Week
By Janet Woodburn, Sapphire Community Health, Inc. There is some uncertainty at the root of American health care. Policies change from year to year, from the federal level on down. […]
Immigration problem must be resolved
By Jerry Haslip, Victor I just finished reading the Bitterroot Star’s July 31, 2019 Opinion pages. Letters therein written by Messrs. Gibney, Bohn, and Hicks were spot-on, yet polite! Each […]
Sweet but incomplete
By Frank Novotny, Victor That was certainly a sweet letter from Mrs. Thomas, Lights for Liberty. Now, as Paul Harvey might say, here’s the rest of the story. Do you […]
In response once again
By Bill Stroud, Victor I’d like to dispel a myth which is thrown into the Orange Koolaid over at Fox News. “Liberals want open borders.” What does that even mean? […]
A test?
By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton The term “moral rectitude” has appeared more than once on this page in the last few weeks. Presumably a person of moral rectitude has high moral […]
An invitation to the Gibneys
By Elliott Oppenheim, MD, JD, LLM Health Law, Florence Chabad of Missoula offers a Rosh HaShannah, year 5780, dinner invitation to Mr. & Mrs. Gibney. You will be our guests. We […]
What a team with heart can accomplish
Last week, the Bitterroot Bucs showed what a team with heart can accomplish. The Bucs entered the American Legion State A tournament as the second seed from the western conference. […]