Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital has teamed up with Inland Imaging and Dr. Jason Roth to help boost its radiological services. The new arrangement has already greatly enhanced the speed and accuracy with which CT scans can be read and analyzed and will soon be providing a new service as Dr. Roth adds CT scan guided […]
Stevi subdivision proposal moves off the fast track
At its last meeting on September 3, the Stevensville Planning and Zoning Board took a step back from considering the subdivision application for Burnt Fork Estates. It was announced at the meeting that the developers, after meeting with the Town staff, had made some modifications to the proposal to address certain concerns and that those […]
Hamilton considers new fire truck, new fire hall
Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department Chief Brad Mohn and Hamilton Mayor Dominic Farrenkopf have been mulling over the status and needs of the Fire Department for a couple of years now and both feel it is time for the issue to get some serious consideration. According to Mohn, the Fire Department has at least two urgent […]
Forest withdraws approval of massive Gold Butterfly project
Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Matthew Anderson, on Friday, August 28, withdrew his Record of Decision approving the Gold Butterfly Project. The project area stretches over 10 miles in the Sapphire Mountains from Stevensville to Corvallis covering an area of 55,147 acres. The vegetative management component of the project included commercial logging on 5,461 acres, prescribed […]
Demand high for public input at Stevi council meetings
Dissatisfied with the way public input at Stevensville Town Council meetings has been handled or mishandled, depending on your point of view, over two dozen people, many carrying signs, gathered outside Stevensville’s Town Hall last Thursday as a Zoom meeting over the internet was being conducted by Mayor Brandon Dewey from his home. Although Dewey […]
County Health Department: wearing masks works!
Aware that some people in the valley, even some influential public officials, are under the false impression that wearing masks in public is not an effective or otherwise essential way to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, Ravalli County Health Department officials want to get the word out: wearing masks works! According to Joseph Hopkins, Public Information […]
State may purchase additional acreage at Fort Owen State Park
Montana State Parks, a division of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP), is seeking public review of its proposal to acquire fee-title acquisition to an approximately 0.9-acre parcel of property immediately south of its Fort Owen State Park located northwest of Stevensville. The parcel would be added to the existing state park and developed as […]
Special drone being used over Cinnabar Fire
For the first time on the Bitterroot National Forest a drone is being used to map and provide live surveillance of the Cinnabar Fire in the Welcome Creek Wilderness northeast of Stevensville. An Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) team from Bozeman-based Bridger Aerospace (BA) arrived on Friday and set up a mobile ground station in the […]
Rule changes bring increased hunting and fishing opportunities to Metcalf Refuge
Following passage of the “Great American Outdoors Act,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has expanded access on 2.3 million acres of public land for sportsmen. The National Wildlife Refuge System is an unparalleled network of 568 national wildlife refuges and 38 wetland management districts that receives more than 59 million annual visits. National wildlife […]
County considers establishing a polling place
Ravalli County Commissioner Jeff Burrows told the Bitterroot Star on Monday that the County Commissioners were considering establishing a single polling place at the Fairgrounds First Interstate Building for the upcoming November 3rd elections. The meeting to make the decision was scheduled to take place Tuesday morning. A public meeting on the issue was already […]
C. Ben White Memorial Fishing Access Site one step closer
The Ravalli County Commissioners put one of the final pieces of the puzzle in place last week when they approved the use of Ravalli County Open Lands Bond Program funding for the acquisition of approximately 97 acres of private land along the West Fork of the Bitterroot River for creation of the C. Ben White […]
Stevensville adds public participation options to virtual meetings
After coming under fire for excluding public comment at the Town’s meetings on the Zoom platform, Stevensville Mayor Brandon Dewey has announced that under the new operating procedures citizens will have a chance to participate in the town’s decisions prior to the making of any decision by phoning in. Guidance is provided on the town’s […]