By Gary Milner, Corvallis Regarding the State Land east of Corvallis: To the mountain bikers who are building jumps, making their own trails, and constructing their own routes and play area; please stop. What you’re doing is illegal. To local ethical mountain bikers, please educate the above bikers about proper behaviors on public lands. Their actions […]
Archives for May 2020
Appalling practice
By Gene Mallette, Helena I am disgustingly appalled by the notion that we should keep the names of pandemic victims a big secret! Sure, we need to protect personal discords against our names, reputations and privacies, but to have the name of a positive tested person not appear in the newspaper is a travesty against all […]
Critical divide
By Bob Brown, Bigfork The study of history allows us the luxury of 20-20 hindsight. Looking back, we can see the little events that led up to the big moments, and we can wonder “how could they not have seen it coming?” Of course, it’s much harder to see clearly when you’re living through history in […]
COVID-19 and the USA
By Bob Williams, Stevensville Donald Trump could have been re-elected, with good numbers. All he had to do was follow through on briefings, avoid delusion, and put the right people in the right places, to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic in the USA. If so done, about now, he could be emphasizing how he positioned the […]
Good Old Ernie
Written by Gregory – fellow co-volunteer, submitted by Bill Bean – Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity of Ravalli County Ernie was one of the founding fathers of Habitat for Humanity in our area. He was there before the first house was built or the ReStore was in existence. I built the fence for the ReStore and […]
Vote for life!
By Judy Hoy, Stevensville Our federal agencies, which are supposed to protect humans and all other animals, are promoting even more use of the pesticides that are presently killing vertebrates and invertebrates, in addition to the use of new, more deadly pesticides. In the last three years, those federal agencies were ordered to remove nearly […]
Action and reaction: the consequences to come
By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville Regardless of the source (questionable) or its comparison to other viruses and outbreaks, there is one thing which is clear to me–the response to the corona virus, Covid-19 pandemic, has been completely blown out of proportion to the threat posed by it. It has been and is being proven to be […]
Mine’s impact on trout stream tells story of broken promises
By Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks and David Brooks, Montana Trout Unlimited Clancy Creek, a tributary to Prickly Pear Creek, used to be a fine little Westslope Cutthroat Trout stream between Butte and Helena. About 1,000 feet of it is now confined to a 16-inch plastic pipe, precariously perched on the edge of an open pit left behind […]
Helen Louise Lewis-Hedman
On May 3rd, 2020, Helen Louise Lewis-Hedman passed away, suddenly, at her home in Hamilton. She was 81. Born February 5th, 1939, in Kamiah, Idaho, as the daughter of an early US Forest Service ranger and his wife, Helen was raised on numerous remote wilderness ranger stations in Idaho and Montana. As an only child, […]
Barbara Marion Scrivner
Stevensville – Barbara Marion Biringer Scrivner, 78, of Stevensville went to be with her beloved Savior on Monday, May 11, 2020. She was born on December 17, 1941 in Dover, New Jersey to Edward and Marion Biringer. Barbara’s family moved to Maryland and then to Arizona where Barbara met John Scrivner. On July 16, 1961, […]
Kathryn Marie Street
Stevensville – Kathryn Marie (Frazier) Street of Stevensville, passed away at the age of 49 due to complications from melanoma cancer early Monday morning, May 18, 2020 at St. Patrick Hospital. Kathy was born on March 18, 1971 in Castro Valley, CA to Tom and Kathy Frazier. She was raised in the Sierra Mountains, later […]
Ravalli County Public Health COVID-19 update 5-26-20
May 26, 2020 As of 11 a.m. today there still eight positive COVID-19 cases in Ravalli County. All of the people that tested positive are in isolation. The one person that was hospitalized has returned to their home and is in isolation. No new positive tests have been received by the Ravalli County Health Department. […]