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Click here to comment on our front page stories on the new Bitterroot Star blog! Missoula museum recipient of artwork by Daly’s granddaughterThe Montana Museum of Art & Culture has received a gift of 19 oil paintings and seven charcoal drawings by artist Frances Carroll Brown, granddaughter of Montana copper baron Marcus Daly. More...   Subdivision variance requests remanded back to CommissionersBy Michael Howell District Court Judge James Haynes sent a decision about a couple of subdivision variance requests back to the County Commissioners for reconsideration after finding that the county’s original decision to deny the variance requests was “arbitrary and capricious.” More... City pays for mistake in bidBy Michael Howell According to Hamilton City officials, following a mistake in the advertisement for bids on construction of the new Public Works building, the City will now have to ante up about $73,000 more than what was originally agreed to with J-5 Construction in order to cover the increased costs of wages required to meet state requirements to pay prevailing wages. More... Local Girl Scout camp to be soldBy Michael Howell Hoover has trumped Cooney, in a way, as far as the Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming’s (GSMW) new long range property plan goes. In an aggressive attempt to bring expenses down, the GSMW Board decided to whittle its set of council-sponsored resident camps down to three. In Western Montana, the use of multiple properties for council-sponsored resident camps was discontinued and all future resident camp activities in western Montana were consolidated into Camp Castle Rock near Butte. As a result of the consolidation, four Montana properties will be sold. They include Camp Thunderbird, Choteau land, Camp Scoutana, and a small camp located here in the Bitterroot Valley called Camp Cooney. More... Hamilton Safeway celebrates grand re-openingBy Michael Howell You won’t see a lot of changes in the façade at Hamilton’s Safeway grocery store, but if you go inside, you won’t recognize the place. More... 
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