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When you think of mustangs, wide open spaces and lush meadows with a herd of pretty horses in the middle come to mind. But the sad fact is that there are more than 88,000 wild horses and burros on land that can adequately feed and water about 26,000. With the horses, burros and the range […]

Although he had withdrawn his application during the public comment at a June 3 special meeting of the Stevensville Town Council, Jim Crews was unanimously appointed at the June 13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

There probably isn’t a person in the Stevensville area that doesn’t know Nancy Lowell, or at least been touched by her generosity to the area. For years, Nancy was the Stevensville Town Clerk. She began working for the city in 1986 and by the time she retired in 2009, she was the Town Clerk/Treasurer. In […]

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 […]

Sapphire Lutheran Homes will celebrate the summer of 2019 with their Seventh Annual Summer Concert Series and Shakespeare in the Parks. The events include: • “Raise the Roof” begins the season on Friday, June 21, at 7 p.m. This dynamic group provides the perfect tunes for dancing, romancing, scooting and hooting.  Raise the Roof plays […]

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 […]

Connecting youth with history June marks National Get Outdoors Day, and the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail (NPNHT) and its partners are launching new Agents of Discovery App Mission sites in the Bitterroot Valley. Geared toward 4th grade age youth and older, but fun for all ages, Agents of Discovery is an educational mobile […]

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 […]

By Christin Rzasa When the directors of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization voted unanimously in 2017 to change the group’s name to Scouting BSA and allow girls to become members, two young Stevensville residents jumped at the chance. Meline Gardner and Ara Masar had tagged along with their older brothers on various outdoor […]

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 […]

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 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 […]