by Scott Sacry Corvallis was set to host roughly 20 local high school track teams at their annual Blue Devil Invitational on Saturday, March 22, but mother nature had other […]
Archives for March 26, 2025
Bitterroot HS softball season starts
by Scott Sacry Softball season is underway in the Bitterroot Valley as Corvallis, Florence, Hamilton, and Stevensville all have girls high school softball teams. Florence is in Class B, while […]
Tremendous turnout for tennis teams
by Scott Sacry The Bitterroot Valley high school tennis season is set to begin as Corvallis, Hamilton and Stevensville all have boys and girls tennis teams. All three schools have […]
Post-season basketball honors
by Scott Sacry The 2025 All-Conference and All-State teams in basketball were announced and many Bitterroot Valley players were honored. For the Southwestern A Boys, Hamilton’s Canaan Magness was All-State […]
GRWC Woman’s Clubs in the Bitterroot
by Carol Peterson, Corvallis March is Women’s History Month which gives me the opportunity to look back on how the GFWC which was internationally federated in 1890 has contributed to […]
Massive deforestation project halted
by Mike Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies Thanks to our threat to sue the Forest Service over using a categorical exclusion to avoid analyzing impacts on bull trout, […]
Overstreet supports small business
by Chad Smith, RPh-Owner, Valley Drug My staff and I would like to thank Greg Overstreet for supporting HB 740, also known as the Montana Pharmacy Protection Bill. This bill […]
Justice prevails
by Tony Hudson, Stevensville And to the republic for which it stands. In a small courtroom in Hamilton, Montana, Tuesday morning, justice prevailed, rules, and law were followed, a win […]
We the People
by John Greef, Hamilton According to the records in the National Archives, many of our Founding Fathers (John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and others) were opposed to democracy. Those […]
The quiet part out loud
by Mark Van Loon, Hamilton When Tom Homan, Border Czar, says “I don’t care what the judges say…”, that’s grounds for immediate dismissal. For him and any other government officials, […]
A modest proposal
by Jeff Hahn, Hamilton For the upcoming 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding let’s invite the King of England over. He could bring Redcoats and Hessian mercenaries with him, forcibly […]
Social Security in jeopardy
by Dana Henricks, Florence Are you on Social Security or about to sign up for it? And are you one of those people who say, “Oh, they would NEVER dare […]
Who’s doing what??
by Thomas Tunny President Trump on Thursday, March 20, called for a stop to nationwide injunctions and suggested the Supreme Court should intervene as his administration has faced multiple setbacks […]
Have they no decency at all?
by Marc Racicot, former Montana Attorney General and Governor To paraphrase Alexander Hamilton, “only the people can decide, by their conduct and example, whether societies of men and women are […]
Char Bonebright
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, friend, Charlan Lei (Buchignani Summers) Bonebright of Florence, Montana, passed away November 25, 2024, surrounded by family, from a nearly three year battle with cancer. Char […]
Gerald M. Richie
Gerald M. Richie, a devoted husband, loving father, avid outdoorsman and respected outfitter, passed away peacefully on February 8, 2025, in Heber City, Utah, at the age of 94. His […]
Edward Lee Lindquist
Edward Lee Lindquist, 82 of Hamilton passed away Sunday, March 16, 2025 at his residence in Hamilton.Ed was born August 2, 1942 in Hamilton, Montana the son of the late […]