The Ravalli County Election Office anticipates a 3 to 4 hour wait time if you plan on voting on Election Day. The only in-person voting location is the Ravalli County […]
Archives for October 2020
Charges filed in nursing home resident’s disappearance case
On September 22, 2020 at 10 p.m., 81-year-old Carol Nutt was reported missing by staff at the Discovery Care Centre in Hamilton. She showed up a day later at the […]
Stevi sewer main extension project approved
Stevensville Mayor Brandon Dewey recently announced a slate of infrastructure projects throughout the community that are scheduled through 2021. Those projects are already coming to fruition with the Town Council’s […]
Hamilton considering new fire hall
It has been recognized for a long time now that the Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department was outgrowing its accommodations in the historic Fire Hall, located in the downtown area on […]
The message is – don’t wait!
Heidi House, cancer survivor, has a message for everyone: skin cancer can be treated successfully – but the sooner the better! Cancer is a scary word to hear from your […]
Hamilton announces changes for Halloween
The City of Hamilton has sent out a press release stating that Ravalli County health professionals are asking that they discourage door to door trick or treating due to the […]
Proposed Skalkaho Bend Park riverbank protection project draws some criticism
A plan was presented to the Hamilton City Committee of the Whole on October 13 to do a major riverbank protection project and parkland enhancement along the river in Skalkaho […]
‘Hamilton Speaks’ is now online
The City of Hamilton’s new online public meeting platform is up and running! If you are interested in what the city of Hamilton is up to and want to examine […]
Town Pump fundraiser helping food banks serve in crisis
With demand for food bank services surging in Montana during the pandemic, the Town Pump Charitable Foundation is matching $750,000 in contributions during its 19th annual fundraising campaign for food […]
Skalkaho Bend Park – will it remain ‘natural and undeveloped’?
By Kathy Wehrly, Melissa Hughes and Cheryl Waterworth, Hamilton TEN THOUSAND willows, aspens, serviceberry and dogwood shrubs, and cottonwoods planted the length of FIVE football fields, surrounded by EIGHT-FOOT-TALL FENCING, […]
The death of Lulu: How an early and unexpected snowstorm led me to understand America’s direction
By Elliott Oppenheim, MD, JD, LLM Health Law This year has been the worst of years. We are locked in a winter of our discontent. Lulu was dead. She strangled […]
Recall Dewey
By Angela Lyons, Stevensville Mayor Dewey is facing recall for one reason. He broke the law. When he sued the recall petitioner he claimed that the petition was a lie. Ravalli […]
Support for Merrill HD 87
By Sarah Roubik, Corvallis We are so lucky for the opportunity to have Laura Merrill represent Ravalli County in Helena! I have done business with Laura for over 26 years and […]
Support for Romano
By Denise Juneau, Montana State Superintendent from 2009 – 2017; Linda McCulloch, Montana State Superintendent from 2001 – 2009; Nancy Keenan, Montana State Superintendent from 1989 – 2001 For 28 years, we […]
Gorski is the REAL ‘outsider’ for District 44
By Mike Miller, Stevensville In reference and public response to Michael Koeppen, Florence re: “SENATE DISTRICT 44” (Sep 22), he calls Theresa Manzella an “outsider.” Nothing could be further from the […]
Gorski only reasonable choice
By Bridget Johnson, Missoula I’ve known Margaret Gorski for 20 years. She is smart, hard-working, listens, cares and she shows up. Both her work experience and her volunteer experience demonstrate that […]
Manzella created for dividing, not uniting
By Corrine Gantt, Hamilton Theresa Manzella, bless her heart, declared today on her campaign Facebook page, Manzella for Montana, that, in the interest of unity, she will take up the standard […]
Pro gun voter
By Kenneth Brown Jr., Hamilton A firearm has saved my life, both as a combat infantry man, Korean War, 1950, with three Purple Hearts, and as a Treasury and FBI agent, […]
Liberty and tyranny
By Roy Morton, Corvallis The more government plans the less the individual can plan. In other words, the more government plans and controls the life of the individual the less options […]
Remember
By Diane Thomas-Rupert, Stevensville REMEMBER all those “flyers” you received in the mail? Yes, how could we forget? If you look closely at them you will see, if they were distributed […]