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Archives for April 2020

Stevensville Schools begins construction project

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The Stevensville School District and Quality Construction have begun demolition work and site preparation just eleven months after Stevensville voters approved $6,369,000 for the elementary district and $14,169,000 for the […]

Let’s come together right now

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By Bob Cumming, Florence In response to David Welch’s contribution in the April 8 Opinion section of the Bitterroot Star, “An Unbelievable President,” pointing fingers at the President or other […]

Thanks, we needed that!

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By F. Jennings, Stevensville On Sunday April 4th, we heard quite a commotion on our street! When we went out to check, there were some 15/20 firetrucks and first responder vehicles […]

Big Government

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By Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Hamilton Apparently to some people “big government” means too many bureaucrats telling us what to do and earning too much money from our taxes. To me “big government” […]

Time for the truth

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By Rep. Nancy Ballance, HD 87, Hamilton Last week, Missoula legislator, Brad Tschida, wrote a letter to the editor making false claims about me. He told my opponent he would take […]

Expert in social distancing

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By Larry Campbell, Darby In spite of yet again ignoring my repeated requests to be taken off his list of contact numbers, I had to chuckle at Senator Daines’ most […]

Let’s clean up

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By Teresa Larsen, Victor Yesterday while riding my bicycle along the Hwy 93 bike path south from Victor to Hamilton, I was saddened and disappointed to see the huge amount […]

Proven principled leader

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By Palmer and Shirley Scott, Florence  We are writing in support of the candidacy of Sharon Greef for House District 88. As an experienced legislator, she has proven herself to be […]

A possible positive

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By Henry Fowler, Stevensville  One possible positive consequence of the coronavirus pandemic is the diminishment of globalism (i.e., the erasure of national borders to ease the global movement of people […]

Support for Olszewski

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By Frank Novotny, Victor To those of you who consider yourself to be conservative i.e. NOT socialist/Communist/Democrat, I recommend voting for Dr. Al Olszewski for governor. He is an honest […]

‘Til we meet again (and we will!)

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By Bob Cumming, Committee Chair, and Victoria Howell, Bitterroot Star (hosting organization), Western Heritage Days Dear friends of the community of Stevensville: We are experiencing a very difficult time within our nation […]

Am I qualified for school board?

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By Carol Peterson, Corvallis As I was reading over the Corvallis School Policy, I asked myself can I do this? A Board member represents the Board and forfeits their individualism. I […]

Pool Board election

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By Chris Porter, Karen Savory, Ryal Weber, Jeff Wolfe To the voters in the Hamilton and Corvallis school districts, Ravalli Park District #2 is the board that runs the Bitterroot Aquatic Center. On […]

Jeanette Lee Lingel

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Stevensville – Jeannette Lee Lingel, beloved wife and mother, passed away of natural causes at age 87 on Monday, February 3, at BeeHive Homes of Hamilton. She was preceded by […]

Alice Nielsen Muir

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Corvallis – Alice Nielsen Muir passed away April 8, 2020, at her home at the age of 88. Alice was born in Jackson, Minnesota, to Walter and Anna Nielsen. Baptized […]