Opinion

By Lois Hansen, Clothes Closet, Stevensville   The Joy of Christmas is alive and well in Stevensville! Smiles, laughing, bright eyes and comments like “Oh, Mommy will just love that!” […]

By Tom Tunny, Southside Historical Preservation Committee In November, Kate Hampton from the Montana State Historical Society addressed the Hamilton City Council about the idea of forming a Historical Commission […]

By Donna Thompson, Program Director, Genesis House, Inc., Stevensville Holiday Greetings to our friends, neighbors and folks who would like to learn more about Genesis House, a transitional group home for […]

By Charles Mabbott, Darby In your 12/5 edition there was published a letter which claimed “that CO2-caused climate change is nothing but a huge lie created by globalist schemers to […]

By Trish Foster, Stevensville If you are a landowner within the Three Mile Irrigation Gravity Fed System, then you may have noticed that you have new charges from the Bitterroot Irrigation […]

By Frank Novotny, Captain, U.S. Army, retired, Victor So, Mr. Tester stands with the military. Whoopee! It would be much better if he stood with the Constitution. Remember now, his party has […]

By Clarice Ryan, Bigfork Carbon is a solid black substance. Oxygen is a colorless, odorless gas.  Combine these two and you have CO2, a colorless, odorless non-toxic gas! There is […]

By Bill Geer, President, Montana Wildlife Federation   Montana hunters have been afield pursuing deer, elk and other big game, just as we have done for decades. But new this […]

By Susan McCreary, Stevensville In reply to letter of Hattie Farrell (Bitterroot Star, Nov. 14), I also attended the November 8 meeting of the Stevensville Town Council. I listened to […]

By Russ Lawrence, President, Bitterrooters for Planning   The recently-released report by UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research on “The Impact of Timber Harvest Declines on the Ravalli County […]

By Kirk Thompson, Stevensville   Recently the county commissioners paid $17,000 to the UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research to do a study of what the economy of the […]

By Ed Sperry, Stevensville   The Ravalli County Commissioners deserve a lot of credit for commissioning the report by the Bureau of Business and Economic research at the University of […]

By Bob Brown, Helena   Montana appears well down the road to becoming a one-party, Republican, deeply conservative state, like the states that surround us. Jon Tester’s survival was an […]

Star Editorial   The Stevensville Town Council, or at least two of its members, have appointed Jerry Phillips to fill the vacancy created when Raymond Smith resigned. Councilmembers Stacie Barker […]

By Roger Mitchell, Stevensville   Dale Burk was one of the first people I became acquainted with after I moved to the Bitterroot from Jacksonville, Florida, over eight years ago. […]

By Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis The majority of Montanans had the common sense to return Jon Tester to the senate. Good for us. All Montanans sleep safer tonight […]

By Mike Miller, Stevensville I saw this public Facebook post after the elections from a guy named Jim Skelton; it read: “Republicans lost the house last night. Today there are […]

By Carolyn Cook, Election Judge, Stevensville With all the negativity and animosity that surrounded the campaign, I was not looking forward to working as an election judge at the Stevensville Polling […]