Michael Howell

A whopping 52%, or, 3,908 out of the 7,523 registered voters in the Stevensville School District turned out to vote on two bond propositions in the recent election. Both bonds […]

When Van Keele first came upon the ancient Ponderosa Pine that had been felled as part of a Forest Service tree-felling training session in the spring of 2018, he was […]

Stevensville School District has had an advisory program up and running for a few years called Connecting Classrooms, in which classrooms of different grades are “buddied up” with one another. […]

The Department of Environmental Quality recently issued letters of deficiency to a couple of landowners in the Victor area who have applied for permits to mine gravel in the vicinity […]

As part of National Nurses Week, Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital participated with other regional hospitals and medical employers in a celebration of their nursing staffs by soliciting nominations for Nursing […]

Bitterrooters for Planning, a local non-profit organization that promotes planned development, has filed a lawsuit in District Court challenging the Ravalli County Commissioners’ recent decision to grant a third extension […]

More than 650 people “crossed the red line” for a special tour of the new Surgery Center at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital’s open house last week. Chief of Surgery Dr. […]

Hamilton Mayor Dominic Farrenkopf, Rick Hamilton from Solar Plexus, Public Works Director Donny Ramer, NorthWestern Energy District Manager Tim Moody and NorthWestern Energy Management Specialist Shawn Fredrickson were all on […]

Several property owners in Sunnyside Orchards subdivision, located between Stevensville and Florence along the Eastside Highway, have filed a federal lawsuit against the county; developers Donald and Alexandra Morton and […]

A couple of musicians have teamed up to provide the Bitterroot community with an all too rare opportunity to hear some late baroque and more contemporary trumpet tunes performed in […]

It hasn’t been that long since Christopher Driemeyer graduated from Stevensville High School. Like many graduates he went off to college to further his education and had to face one […]

Stevensville’s town hall has been plagued by bitter disputes between the Stevensville Town Council and the Mayor’s office. Town Clerk Audrey Tribbensee recently resigned due to what she called “harassment […]

An accidental wildfire scorched about 391 acres on the west side of the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge north of Stevensville last Friday when a slash pile fire was blown […]

Ann Ellsworth, a Montana State University education professor, has received the 2019 Grammar Teacher of the Year Award, a national award presented by the Assembly for the Teaching of English […]

About fourteen years ago, Rocky Mountain Laboratory sponsored a program at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center on Chronic Wasting Disease research. As part of the National Institutes of Health, RML […]

  Spring is a really busy time in the Bitterroot for almost any kind of work, but if I had my choice, I’d rather go fishing. Some lucky kids get […]

Your chance to walk across the Red Line There is a chance coming up for the general public to do what will soon be forbidden, that is to walk across […]

The Bitter Root Humane Society has been around a long time. It was started in 1972, located where the Hamilton City Wastewater treatment plant is now located. In 1984, Countess […]

The Stevensville Town Council had an item on its Thursday night agenda to discuss and possibly decide “to hold a Committee of the Whole meeting for the purpose of discussing […]

Officials from Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks were in Florence last week at a community meeting sponsored by the Riverview Orchards Landowners Association to address the homeowners’ growing […]