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  By Michael Howell In its ongoing review of existing resolutions the Stevensville Town Council decided to dump one that requires any citizen wishing to ask a question of the […]

  By Michael Howell The Hamilton City Council, at a meeting on October 1, decided on a 4 to 1 vote to submit a grant application to the state’s Community […]

  By Michael Howell Ravalli County Recycling is about to move its operation to a new and larger space located on Highway 93 north of Hamilton. The business is currently […]

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has extended the comment period, a second time, on a draft of an updated conservation and management plan for grizzly bears in southwestern Montana. The […]

  By Michael Howell The U.S. Forest Service has adopted new rules governing the objection process to proposed projects on the national forests. In the past all environmental reviews would […]

  The Stevensville boys’ soccer team secured a home playoff berth throughout the playoffs as they clinched the Southwest A soccer championship on Thursday. The Yellowjackets defeated Frenchtown, 6-1. As […]

  By Michael Howell In a letter dated September 20, Regional Forester Faye Krueger informed Bitterroot Valley resident Tom Maclay that she would not be conducting any further review of […]

  Montana’s U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester helped usher a one-year extension of the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program through the Senate last week. The SRS program brought […]

  By Michael Howell   Municipal election forums, sponsored by the Bitterroot Star and KLYQ Radio, were held recently in Hamilton and Stevensville. An old fashioned debate format was used […]

  By Michael Howell Stevensville Mayor Gene Mim Mack received a letter last week from Governor Steve Bullock expressing the governor’s appreciation for Mim Mack’s efforts at addressing longstanding, institutionalized […]

  By Michael Howell   The Town of Stevensville received notice last week from Attorney General Eric Holder’s office that it was awarded a 2013 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant […]

  By Michael Howell The Hamilton City Council made a few decisions about employment contracts at its last meeting on September 7. The Council confirmed the appointment of Clayton Moore […]

    By Michael Howell The Ravalli County Commissioners, for the third time this month, have refused to accept Title X funding for the coming fiscal year, basically rejecting about […]

    By Michael Howell Municipal election forums, sponsored by the Bitterroot Star and KLYQ Radio, were held last week in Hamilton and Stevensville. An old fashioned debate format was […]

  By Carlotta Grandstaff The jury in the Harris Himes trial split the verdict down the middle, with guilty verdicts on the three counts of securities fraud and three acquittals […]

  By Carlotta Grandstaff James Bryant took the witness stand Thursday morning and testified for his co-pastor and co-defendant Harris Himes. He told a horrific tale of violence, which, though […]

 By Carlotta Grandstaff Pro-gay rights and pro-abortion activists are behind the criminal case against Pastor Harris Himes. So said Himes himself, not to a jury but to Missoula’s Talk Back […]

  By Carlotta Grandstaff Harris Himes’s alleged victim, Geoffrey Serata, took the witness stand today and told a tale that’s as old as humankind itself: innocent, unworldly naïf comes into […]

  By Carlotta Grandstaff Harris Himes, a self-described Christian pastor from Hamilton who is charged with six felony counts of theft and securities fraud, has been through two attorneys and […]