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Steve Brown, currently the Northern Region’s Geospatial Program Manager, has been named acting Stevensville District Ranger on the Bitterroot National Forest following Tami Sabol’s recent hiring as National Forest Service […]

Enrollment open for free Media Arts classes If a 16th birthday can be considered the threshold between adolescence and adulthood, between the formative years and emerging maturity, then the MAPS […]

The Bitterroot National Forest has begun implementing fall prescribed burning projects. The majority of the burns planned include understory burns to reduce forest fuels and improve wildlife habitat and pile […]

Dr. Tina Barrett, Executive Director and co-founder of Tamarack Grief Resource Center (TGRC), received the Association of Death Educators and Counselors (ADEC) 2019 Community Educator Award in recognition of her […]

If you look up at St. Mary’s Peak from the valley floor around Stevensville on a clear day you can see a small cube-shaped dot protruding from the ridgeline at […]

Parking in Hamilton can be a thorny issue and conflicts over residential parking during the Farmer’s Market, which occupies portions of 3rd, 4th and State Streets on weekends in the […]

At a special meeting on Sept. 5, the Stevensville Town Council approved lighting district assessments for Twin Creeks, Creekside and Peterson subdivisions but without the administration’s recommended 3% increase.  Mayor […]

Last spring, while en route to Boise for their son and grandson’s graduation from lineman school, Nancy Lowell and her daughter Jamie were in a serious accident in the wilds […]

  Last week, a group of firefighters from Bellevue, Washington, made their way through the valley on their way to Colorado Springs. This was a fundraiser for the Gary Sinese […]

In early 2020, fourteen linemen from electric cooperatives across Montana are joining forces to bring first-time electricity to Villa Cotoca in Pando, Bolivia. Three employees from Ravalli Electric Co-op (REC) […]

It’s that time of year again when all the scarecrows come and congregate in Stevensville. This year they will not only be lining the bike path leading into town, they […]

The Bitterroot National Forest is inviting the public to review and make comments on a proposed vegetation management, fuels reduction, and transportation system project on the West Fork Ranger District, […]

Ravalli County Commissioners lifted the open burning restrictions in Ravalli County today, September 9, effective at 10 a.m.  Widespread precipitation has lowered area fire danger to MODERATE.  Although the valley […]

Not much appeared to get resolved at a meeting between U.S. Forest Service officials and official “Objectors” to the Bitterroot National Forest’s Gold Butterfly Project last week. Time was the […]

There’s no question about it. The South Valley Civic Group has put Darby on the map. The town shines like a precious gem on the latest map of the Lewis […]

A new video web series featuring Bitterroot Valley wildlife scavenging on deer and elk carcasses is soon to be released as part of a partnership between MPG Ranch, Raptorview Research […]

For 30 years, Marty and Kim Auch have walked out their back door and walked across the parking lot to Hamilton Pack. But now they have moved out of the […]

Over the last few years a number of businesses have sprung up along the Eastside Highway north of Stevensville. One of the latest is a truss manufacturing business called Quality […]

Stevensville Council member Robin Holcomb appeared relieved to have a full set of council members to conduct business once again after having been the lone member on the four-person council […]

Lone Rock School officials are planning to continue after-school programming despite being notified earlier this summer that their application for continued grant funding for the program was not approved. “It […]