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 complaints about bullying and harassment and her subsequent “constructive discharge” for the sum of $500,000. The offer is being made prior to filing any charges […]
Stevi mayor vetoes council appointment for Ward 2
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. The mayor cites potential violations of the public’s right to know and the right to participate in public decisions as his primary concern. The Town […]
Water use restrictions invoked in Stevi after well failure
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 neighborhood. Public Works Director George Thomas reported that the pump failure was due to sand in the well. A separate well had failed a second […]
Stevi council appoints former mayor Jim Crews to fill council vacancy
Although he had withdrawn his application during the public comment at a June 3 special meeting of the Stevensville Town Council, Jim Crews was unanimously appointed at the June 13 regular meeting to fill the Ward 2 vacancy. The meeting on June 3 was to consider a single agenda item: “Discussion/Decision/Update regarding the Finance Officer […]
Local legislators report on 66th Session
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 (R-Stevensville) gave the 66th legislative session a thumbs up in general. “Not all our bills survived, some were vetoed, but we did our job,” said […]
Local business benefits from recently passed MEDIA Act
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 Studios is the operating and production company responsible for operations of the largest state of the art media production facility, not only in Montana, but […]
Laundry Love Hamilton – ‘do-it-yourself’ laundry service at no cost
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 laundry and bedding once a month for free. “Ask yourself,” LLH Director Stefani Jackson states on the organization’s Facebook page “what was your lowest point […]
Explore Lewis & Clark ‘Descent Trail’
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 area, but to actually walk through it. Program director Dawn Ringer worked through an agreement with the forest service to permit DAE to offer weekly […]
Anaconda Job Corps to remain open, Trapper Creek fate uncertain
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 phoned Trump to discuss the site’s significance to the Montana economy and its top ranking within the Civilian Conservation Corps. “The president… overruled the decision […]
Lewis’s Woodpecker under study
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 from MPG Ranch, located at the north end of the valley, are in their fifth year of color banding these colorful woodpeckers, in an attempt […]
New center at Stevi school will have technology focus
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 program, Stevensville School District Superintendent Dr. Bob Moore is excited about the prospect of integrating the program into the new Trades & Technology Center planned […]
Shooting victim returns home
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. He was shot on the evening of March 14, 2019, in Missoula when he exited his vehicle to check on a motorist who he thought […]