By Bill Geer, President, Montana Wildlife Federation Last fall during the political season, everyone running for the Montana Legislature touted their credentials as being for public access. But what does […]
Kids’ Shopping Day a success
By Lois Hansen, Clothes Closet, Stevensville The Joy of Christmas is alive and well in Stevensville! Smiles, laughing, bright eyes and comments like “Oh, Mommy will just love that!” […]
Remembering President George H.W. Bush
By Bob Brown, Helena I met President George H. W. Bush, our 41st President, when he was a former President campaigning in Great Falls in 2000 for his son, then […]
Historic church building should be preserved
By Tom Tunny, Southside Historical Preservation Committee In November, Kate Hampton from the Montana State Historical Society addressed the Hamilton City Council about the idea of forming a Historical Commission […]
Season’s greetings from Genesis House
By Donna Thompson, Program Director, Genesis House, Inc., Stevensville Holiday Greetings to our friends, neighbors and folks who would like to learn more about Genesis House, a transitional group home for […]
The hoax is the hoax
By Charles Mabbott, Darby In your 12/5 edition there was published a letter which claimed “that CO2-caused climate change is nothing but a huge lie created by globalist schemers to […]
Three Mile water users mobilize
By Trish Foster, Stevensville If you are a landowner within the Three Mile Irrigation Gravity Fed System, then you may have noticed that you have new charges from the Bitterroot Irrigation […]
Politics wrongly threatens conservation program
By Jim Goetz and Paul Burdett In 1987 the Montana Legislature directed Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks to establish a statewide wildlife habitat system to better conserve “our […]
A lefty looney Senator
By Frank Novotny, Captain, U.S. Army, retired, Victor So, Mr. Tester stands with the military. Whoopee! It would be much better if he stood with the Constitution. Remember now, his party has […]
Don’t fall for the hoax
By Clarice Ryan, Bigfork Carbon is a solid black substance. Oxygen is a colorless, odorless gas. Combine these two and you have CO2, a colorless, odorless non-toxic gas! There is […]
Managing CWD will take cooperation from everyone
By Bill Geer, President, Montana Wildlife Federation Montana hunters have been afield pursuing deer, elk and other big game, just as we have done for decades. But new this […]
Another side
By Susan McCreary, Stevensville In reply to letter of Hattie Farrell (Bitterroot Star, Nov. 14), I also attended the November 8 meeting of the Stevensville Town Council. I listened to […]
BBER, county commissioners get it wrong
By Russ Lawrence, President, Bitterrooters for Planning The recently-released report by UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research on “The Impact of Timber Harvest Declines on the Ravalli County […]
Worthless ‘study’
By Kirk Thompson, Stevensville Recently the county commissioners paid $17,000 to the UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research to do a study of what the economy of the […]
Accountability can smart
By Ed Sperry, Stevensville The Ravalli County Commissioners deserve a lot of credit for commissioning the report by the Bureau of Business and Economic research at the University of […]
Almost completely red
By Bob Brown, Helena Montana appears well down the road to becoming a one-party, Republican, deeply conservative state, like the states that surround us. Jon Tester’s survival was an […]
Bitter Root Humane Shelter – ‘We are here, we are here!’
By Christin Rzasa Eve Burnsides, Operations Manager for the Bitter Root Humane Association (BRHA), expressed frustration recently that “too many people don’t seem to know we’re here.” Referring to the […]
Recognizing Dale Burk’s legacy
By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville Dale Burk was one of the first people I became acquainted with after I moved to the Bitterroot from Jacksonville, Florida, over eight years ago. […]
Optimism
By Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis The majority of Montanans had the common sense to return Jon Tester to the senate. Good for us. All Montanans sleep safer tonight […]
Where’s all the protest?
By Mike Miller, Stevensville I saw this public Facebook post after the elections from a guy named Jim Skelton; it read: “Republicans lost the house last night. Today there are […]