Guest Post

In June of this year, after much public discussion and many public hearings, the duly elected members of the Government Study Commission judged it prudent to allow voters to decide […]

North Valley Public Library has been undergoing renovations for about a month in its Circulation Area, which includes the use of computer carrels and the young adult sections. Before reconstruction, […]

This is in response to Mary Fahnestock-Thomas. You sound like many of the uneducated Americans that have not ever picked up a Koran and read it, nor have you studied […]

Lemmings leap off cliffs into the sea when they exceed the carrying capacity of their life-sustaining habitat. That is a good thing; it increases the chance of species survival given […]

We would like to thank Cyndi Kenck and her nurse of The Goodman Group along with The Village Senior Residence, The Village Health Care Center, Riverside Health Care Center, Hillside […]

This is an open letter to health providers, health departments, news media and all concerned citizens. A new report, Protecting Children’s Health, that will hopefully prompt you to help protect […]

By Jeff Burrows, Chairman, Ravalli County Board of Commissioners This letter is in response to the misinformation and political hit pieces in regards to the Big Sky and Morado Mountain […]

I really enjoy Jerry Haslip’s responses to my letters on the economy and ObamaCare. He reliably uses many exclamation points (!), somehow figuring they’ll provide proof to his fact-less diatribes. […]

A letter last week inquired whether Col. Allen B. West’s speaking at the Hamilton Fair Grounds dinner on October 17th would constitute a new low in guest speakers. Emphatically not! […]

We human beings make a lot of mistakes. And when we fail to learn from mistakes, the results can be destructive. Case in point is this awesome Northern Rockies ecosystem […]

My gun walked into a school and wandered down the hall. I watched it from afar, wondering where it would go. My doctor walked down the hospital corridor to my […]

I have just become aware — rather late — that some armed, “patriotic” groups in this country were calling for anti-Islam/anti-Muslim demonstrations last weekend, October 9-10. As far as I […]

By Bob Williams, Stevensville I got mighty frustrated trying to understand words Pope Francis was voicing, in front of the US Congress. Since he was reading from a carefully composed […]

In the United States, you could stand in the midst of a pack of wolves, swim with a shark, and then camp near a grizzly bear and her cubs—all within […]

I see where the Ravalli County Republican Central Committee (RCRCC) is bringing Fox News political commentator and former Florida Congressman (one term) Allen West to the Bitterroot this month to […]

After all the horrible fires we have had, and the thick as pea soup smoke, hazardous to our health, the headlines of the Ravalli Republic… The Forest service would like […]

I would like to thank all the businesses in Stevensville and especially Valley Drug for their continued support of the Aid For Mammography Fund at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital. These […]

Representative Zinke is sponsoring a bill that requires a person challenging a collaboratively based forest activity to post a bond covering costs of the Forest Service to defend against a […]

Contentious conversations in the Bitterroot Star have simmered down a bit since I moved here four years ago. I find this encouraging! I love thoughtful, respectful, and challenging discussions. In […]

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, a brilliant piece of work, was written by a group of people who knew what they were doing. It outlined a new way […]