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Archives for February 5, 2025

New Darby Music Fest joins rodeo

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by John Dowd On June 6, the Yellowstone Darby Xtreme Bareback Rodeo will be rolling out a new partner event to kick off the weekend. The Darby Music Fest will […]

Ravalli Street to see improvements soon

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by Nathan Boddy Fifteen years ago the City of Hamilton engaged in a joint Transportation Plan alongside Ravalli County, which was aimed at determining how transportation systems could appropriately manage […]

Stevensville Hall of Famers inducted

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The Stevensville Yellowjacket Hall of Fame held their 2024-2025 Induction and Awards Ceremony on Saturday, February 1 at the St. Mary’s Family Center. There was also a live auction and […]

Essen says eighth book is his best yet

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Multi-award-winning Montana author Marty Essen has just published his eighth and most mass appeal book to date, “The Silver Squad: Rebels With Wrinkles.” Local author Marty Essen of Victor has […]

‘Spamalot’ next up for Hamilton Players

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by Nathan Boddy Jennifer Floch and Stephen Tucker channeling the cast’s good energy prior to a Sunday rehearsal. Photo by Tucker Boddy (who plays the role of Prince Herbert.) Russ […]

Bitterroot basketball roundup

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by Scott Sacry Florence keeps rolling The Florence girls are now the #3 ranked Class B team in the latest 406mtsports.com poll after their big win over Loyola last week. […]

The season of the blowout

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by Scott Sacry A curious trend is emerging in high school basketball in Montana. There seems to be more lopsided games this year and it’s commonplace to see teams winning […]

Fire fuels management

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by Skip Kowalski & Kirk Thompson, Co-chairs, BFC Recently, there was a LTE in the Star about the forest fire threat on the west side of the valley, lamenting the […]

Thank you, Victor School

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by Jean Schurman, Class of 1972, Victor Last week I had the pleasure of judging students involved in the Victor History Day. The theme of the projects was Rights and […]

A thank you

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by Grace Wilson, Stevensville A huge thank you to the person who turned in the billfold they found in the BJ’s parking lot on January 24. Your honesty is much […]

Housing shortage solution

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by Archie L. Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis A solution to the housing shortage in Ravalli county may be in sight. The Office of Management and Budget sent buy out […]

D Lazy S Meadows subdivision advances

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by Nathan Boddy The D Lazy S Meadows subdivision took a large step forward on Tuesday, January 21 as the Hamilton City Council approved the annexation and zoning request made […]

School bond/taxes

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by Deborah Mason, Hamilton Was I reading this right? After all this talk about lowering our property taxes, I read that the Hamilton School District wants to try another bond […]

Long live the king

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by Don Gardner, Corvallis Hear ye, all who dwell in the Kingdom of America. Laws of the land are hereby changed. By proclamation of the king, all who reside in […]

Musk is dangerous

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by Marilyn Wolff, Stevensville Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire immigrant from South Africa and yet he was illegally given recent access to the $6 trillion US Treasury Payment System […]

2nd Amendment case

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by Glenn Ferren, St. Regis There is a Second Amendment case in Montana you should pay attention to. The second amendment question in this case, can you use a firearm […]

The Trump Effect

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by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis  To all those who proudly voted for Trump, a heads-up. Already people in the Valley are losing jobs due to his Executive Orders. Others are already […]

Margaret ‘Peg’ Whitesitt

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Margaret “Peg” Kathryn Whitesitt, 83, of Stevensville passed away peacefully on January 29, 2025 in Stevensville, MT with her family by her side.  She was born, along with her twin […]