Michael Howell

National Institutes of Health scientists have used human skin cells to create what they believe is the first cerebral organoid system, or “mini-brain,” for studying sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). CJD […]

  Last Friday the Town of Stevensville received a letter from attorney Nathan Wagner, of Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind representing former Stevensville Town Clerk Audree Tribbensee, offering to settle Tribbensee’s […]

At a press conference on Friday, Stevensville Mayor Brandon Dewey issued a veto of the Town Council’s recent resolution appointing Jim Crews to fill the vacant Ward 2 council seat. […]

Last Thursday, June 20, the Town of Stevensville implemented water conservation practices due to the failure of a well pump in the Town’s well field adjacent to the Twin Creeks […]

Although he had withdrawn his application during the public comment at a June 3 special meeting of the Stevensville Town Council, Jim Crews was unanimously appointed at the June 13 […]

Local legislators gave their assessment of the 66th Legislature at a luncheon at The Catered Table in Stevensville last week, sponsored by the Stevensville Main Street Association. Senator Fred Thomas […]

Legislators, economic development specialists, investors, and members of the general public recently attended an open house at Montana Studios located south of Hamilton at the turn-off to Skalkaho Highway. Montana […]

Laundry Love Hamilton (LLH) is a non-profit organization working out of Fast & Fluffy laundry service in Hamilton that offers homeless and low-income people an opportunity to do their own […]

The Darby Adult Education (DAE) program is offering Bitterroot Valley residents and visitors a unique opportunity to not just learn about the history and the flora and fauna of the […]

Montana Senator Steve Daines is taking credit for convincing President Trump to keep the Anaconda Job Corps Center open. Daines stated in a media conference call last week that he […]

Lewis’s Woodpecker populations are declining throughout their range, but the Bitterroot and Missoula Valleys have some of the highest densities anywhere in the world. Researchers Kate Stone and William Blake […]

Successful Coding for Kids program helps lead the way By Michael Howell After partnering with the local non-profit organization Coding for Kids for a few years now as a summer […]

  Shooting victim Casey Blanchard has returned to his home in Stevensville from the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City where he received treatment for severe gunshot wounds. […]

Montana’s U.S. Congressmen are moving quickly to try and reverse the planned closure of the Anaconda Job Corps Center. Having been under the control of the USDA since its inception […]

The Smithsonian National Museum of History exhibit “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World” has come to the Bitterroot and is on display at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton thanks […]

Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer got an incredible welcome from the community last week as he returned to his home in Stevensville from the Salt Lake City hospital where he […]

The Stevensville Town Council went awry last week when one of the two applicants for the vacant council position withdrew his application during the public comment period and the other […]

In a press release from its U.S. office in Philadelphia, PA, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced recently “$100 million of new investment in its manufacturing site in Hamilton, Montana to expand the […]

The Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor’s Office in Hamilton hosted an open house last Thursday to provide bear awareness information to Bitterroot Valley residents. The free event featured the Montana Bear […]

As predictable as the return of loons in spring, young students from across the valley who have participated in the Earth Stewardship Program sponsored by the Bitter Root Water Forum […]