By Ed and Gina Schallenberger, Tim and Anita Meuchel, Marty and Peggy Lorentz, Joel and Susan Shelden, Joe Elhard and Donna Severson, Ted and Kristie Heiland, Jim Dullenty, Dolores Meuchel, Mike Meuchel, Neil Maki, Ryal and Felicia […]
Archives for December 2019
‘The high cost of despair’
By Mike Pyatt, Hamilton One needn’t have read the writings of Albert Camus or Jean-Paul Sartre to understand the subject of despair. The Carpenters popularized a hit, “Rainy Days & Mondays” […]
Wayne Arthur Hedman
Wayne Arthur Hedman, 80, passed away peacefully in the early hours of Sunday, December 2nd, at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula. Diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in August, 2018, he […]
Linda Roberta Comstock
Linda Roberta Comstock, 69, passed away on Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 at the Living Centre in Stevensville of natural causes. She was born May 5th, 1950 in Missoula to Robert […]
Norma L. Wirgau
Norma L. (Smith) Wirgau passed into the arms of her Lord Jesus Christ at the Valley View Estates in Hamilton, Montana on Thursday, December 5, 2019. She was born October […]
Donna Lea Jensen
Stevensville – On Friday, December 6, 2019, Donna Lea Jensen, loving wife and mother of three children, passed away at the age of 85 due to natural causes. Donna Lea […]
Bluejay Estate Sales
BLU-J ESTATE SALES, www.bluejayestatesales.com, 363-1600. Dec. 19-21 • Hamilton Fairgrounds. WE Design Home and Realty Staging Inventory closeout and reset. Beautiful home decor and furnishings! DAY ONE 4:00-6:00 PM. LINE NUMBERS GIVEN AFTER 2:00 PM. 2 per person. FOLLOWING DAYS 9-12
Call for Bids – County Legal Notice Printing
CALL FOR BIDS The BOARD OF RAVALLI COUNTY COMMISSIONERS is calling for bids on the printing of legal notices for the Ravalli County Offices in a local newspaper within the […]
Call for Bids – County Display Advertising
CALL FOR BIDS The BOARD OF RAVALLI COUNTY COMMISSIONERS is seeking bids for Display Advertising for our Ravalli County Offices in a local newspaper within the County of Ravalli for […]
Floodplain Permit Application FA-19-17
Legal Notice The Ravalli County Planning Department is inviting public comment on a floodplain permit application to cover a utility re-route/relocation project within the floodplain of the Bitterroot River. The […]
Floodplain Permit FA-19-13
Legal Notice The Ravalli County Planning Department is inviting public comment on a floodplain permit application for work to be performed within the floodplain of the Bitterroot River. The project will […]
Notice to Creditors – Edward Neil Ames
David T. Markette Dustin M. Chouinard Megan S. Winderl MARKETTE & CHOUINARD, P.C. 601 S. First Street P.O. Box 515 Hamilton, MT 59840 (406) 363-1110 DavidM@mcpcattorneys.com Attorneys for Personal Representative […]
Providing safe haven for camelids
By Christin Rzasa Char Hakes of Safe Haven Llama and Alpaca Sanctuary still gets up every morning and spends her days caring for the cast-off, rescued or simply abandoned llamas […]
County takes the reins at Valley Veterans Center
Acting at the request of the Valley Veterans Service Center, whose board of directors has offered up their resignations, the Ravalli County Commissioners have agreed to enter a three-year lease […]
FWP Commission to hear petition exempting hovercraft from watercraft regs
Jim Crews of Stevensville wants to fly his hovercraft on the Clark Fork and Bitterroot Rivers. He presented a petition to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission at the […]
Stevensville council decides against property purchase
At a special meeting on Tuesday, November 19, the Stevensville Town Council decided not to exercise its Right of First Refusal on a 26.4-acre parcel of land adjacent to its […]
Stevensville airport receives federal grant
The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that it will award $650,000 in an airport infrastructure grant to the Town of Stevensville for an apron replacement project at the Stevensville […]
FWP Commission should ban hovercrafts on Bitterroot River
By Chuck Stranahan, Hamilton The issue concerning hovercraft – or any other motorized pleasure craft – on the Bitterroot river was settled years ago. Jet ski operators (spurred by one […]
Pesticides must be banned now
By Judy Hoy, Stevensville We constantly hear, ‘If you see something, say something.’ For 23 years we have been reporting yearly a high prevalence of birth defects, cancer and death, on […]
CSKT Water Compact – if something’s not broke, why fix it?
By Ed Sperry, Colonel USAF (ret), Stevensville I want to express some thoughts about the proposed CSKT Water Compact. I’ll be very frank, politically incorrect, and frankly hope to stir up […]
