By Michael Howell – Legislation proposed by Montana’s U.S. Senator Jon Tester and attached as a rider to the Budget Bill approved on April 15, 2011, has put wolf management […]
Stevi considers permanent changes to Water Ordinance
By Michael Howell – A month ago the Stevensville Town Council approved an Emergency Ordinance to change the town’s billing procedure for water service from quarterly to monthly billing and […]
Commissioners rescind approval of airport improvement project
By Michael Howell – In what has become a consistent effort at reversing major decisions made by the previous Board of County Commissioners, the current Board last week rescinded the […]
Calendar
Clubs and Groups Hamilton Senior Center activities Monday – 11:45 lunch, cloggers at 1:30 p.m.; bingo on 1st & 3rd weeks, pinochle on 2nd week, 7 p.m. Tuesday – line […]
Support for Clean Air Act
Montanans value a lot of things about their state: clean air being one of them. But lately clean air in the Big Sky and elsewhere has been under attack. Some member […]
Coordination nothing new
During a recent meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Ravalli County to consider the appointment of a new planning administrator, several people raised objection to coordination and spoke […]
Concern over county airport plans
By ICAARE Doug Nation, Terry Park, Phyllis Bookbinder and others Be watchful of the Commissioners’ actions regarding the airport. Since 2000, ICAARE (Informing Citizens Against Airport Runway Expansion) has been […]
Blue Devils clip Falcons
The Corvallis Blue Devils handed Florence their first loss of the season at the Frenchtown Invitational on Friday. Corvallis won, 13-9, in a game that saw a total of nine […]
Enzler, Conwell, Lengyel and Walczynski win at Bitterroot Invitational
The courts at Hamilton, Corvallis and Stevensville saw a lot of high school tennis action on Saturday with the annual Bitterroot Invitational. With teams from throughout western Montana and even […]
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Valley News
Stevi Class of ’81 reunion The Stevensville High School Class of 1981 will hold its 30th class reunion this year on August 5-7, the same weekend as the 99th Annual […]
Legals
CALL FOR BID/QUOTES INDEPENDENT AUDIT FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2011 WITH OPTION OF AUDITING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR TWO SUBSEQUENT YEARS The BOARD OF RAVALLI COUNTY COMMISSIONERS is soliciting […]
Classifieds
Sales/Auctions Virgelle Merc. Antiques presents the COLLINS COLLECTIBLE & ANTIQUE SALE, Sat. and Sun. May 7th & 8th, 9am to 5pm daily. Sale held at the old Collins Community Club […]
Bucs coach killed in car wreck
Phil Perez, a coach of the Bitterroot Bucs Legion Baseball team, was killed in an early Sunday morning traffic accident on Eastside Highway. Perez was well known on the diamond, […]
Corvallis takes Bob Reed
Stevensville’s annual Bob Reed Invitational Track Meet was held Saturday at the Corvallis Track. Corvallis came away the winner in both the girls and boys team scoring. The event featured […]
Re: Mortenson/Krakauer/60 Minutes
Dear Editor, Since when do we take CBS News and Jon Krakauer as gospel? “60 Minutes” might have a better reputation than Glenn Beck but the ENTIRE CBS News organization (and […]
Weed policy is bad government
Dear Editor, It is interesting to watch the Weed Board with their newly found powers granted by the County Commissioners. I am not a cartoonist, but if I were, my political […]