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On Monday, 91 conservation, sportsmen, and faith-based groups concerned with public lands management, representing more than 3.9 million Americans, submitted a letter to Interior Secretary Bernhardt calling for William Perry […]

Two Stevensville High School students each recently received a new set of tires when their essays on safe winter driving won top honors in a competition meant to honor the […]

It was a gift of the heart to help the needs of some of the Bitterroot Valley’s most helpless residents: school students who have unpaid lunch tabs. When Max Coleman […]

Bitterrooters got a chance last week to hear about the impacts of climate change on wildlife worldwide and some attempts by the World Wildlife Fund to mitigate those impacts on […]

Looking for something to do on New Year’s Eve? The Stevensville Playhouse is hosting a daylong celebration of the performing arts on Tuesday, January 31, starting at 10 a.m. and […]

On December 17, the St. Mary’s Family Center was hopping with cowboys, cowgirls, students and maybe a few angels as they all gathered to put together Christmas food boxes for […]

The Bitterroot National Forest is inviting the public to review and make comments on a new non-motorized trail project located between Lake Como and Tin Cup Creek, near Darby.  The […]

Kyla Morton is the recipient of this month’s Stevi Rocks staff award. According to Stevensville High School Principal Brian Gum, “she has been choir teacher at Stevensville High School for […]

  The Board of Ravalli County Commissioners balked once again at enforcing their order requiring the removal of the private gate blocking public access on Hughes Creek Road. The local […]

Members of Fort Owen American Legion Post 94 stepped up last Saturday to stage their version of “Wreaths Across America.” The national program was started in 1992 to honor veterans […]

Last week project59870 and the Stevensville Civic Club together presented checks totalling $3000 to Beth Perkins, director of the Stevensville Sharing Tree program. The Sharing Tree provides new clothing and […]

After vehemently advocating for a 3% decrease in both the water and sewer rates for months, Stevensville Town Council President Steve Gibson declined to make a motion to that effect […]

In September, former Flood Plain Administrator Brian Wilkinson was terminated “effective immediately” following an investigation into his behavior in the workplace that at least five other county employees found to […]

The Whittecar Rifle Range, a non-profit public shooting range, located on Riverview Road northeast of Hamilton, has, with some ingenuity in design,  squeezed in a brand new shooting range. The […]

On October 30, the Opencut Mining Section at the Department of Environmental Quality issued a permit to mine gravel to Wade Moudy in the Victor area near Bell Crossing at […]

The ethics complaint lodged by Stevensville resident (now council person) Dempsey Vick on October 24, 2019 against Stevensville Mayor Brandon Dewey was dismissed by Montana Commissioner of Political Practices (COPP) […]

The Pampered Hair Salon is a new salon located at 115 W. 3rd, Suite 209 in Stevensville. Alla Yarmolich is the proprietor of the salon and brings six years of […]

By Christin Rzasa Char Hakes of Safe Haven Llama and Alpaca Sanctuary still gets up every morning and spends her days caring for the cast-off, rescued or simply abandoned llamas […]

Acting at the request of the Valley Veterans Service Center, whose board of directors has offered up their resignations, the Ravalli County Commissioners have agreed to enter a three-year lease […]

Jim Crews of Stevensville wants to fly his hovercraft on the Clark Fork and Bitterroot Rivers. He presented a petition to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission at the […]