Opinion

  The many, many Bitterroot residents who expressed their concerns over the impact the Legacy development will have on surrounding communities, the Teller Wildlife Refuge and the remaining heritage of […]

  Citizens of Ravalli County, you have been dismissed. Last week, despite overwhelming and substantive opposition from the public to the thirty-year construction zone in a formerly-rural corner of our […]

Following the recent approval by the Ravalli County Commissioners of the Legacy Ranch subdivision (town), I have read several complaining letters. I’m confused. As I recall, the previous commission was […]

What are the solutions? Let’s say you want pizza for dinner. You order meat lover’s and the waitress says you have to have mushrooms and anchovies. It is their policy. […]

  To the patients of Teresa Baldridge, MD: If you are as dismayed as I am over the July 11 dismissal of our MD Teresa Baldridge, I urge you to […]

By Peter MacLachlan, Hamilton   When Mr. Maclay’s ski area proposal was presented to us a few years ago, as a long-term addicted alpine (downhill) skier, I wanted it to […]

By Bill Lyon, Stevensville Well, our Ravalli County Commissioners have done it again and voted against the overwhelming desire of the people by approving the Legacy Ranch subdivision. We can […]

I am writing to address the inaccuracies in the July 3, 2013 article titled “NV Library loses board chair, director.” The article describes my resignation from the position of Director […]

I am writing in response to last week’s Star article about the North Valley Public Library. It is unfortunate that the article emphasized the mysterious disappearance of our former director […]

  97% of scientists say manmade climate change is real. I am not an activist and I don’t even own a soapbox but enough of this disinformation is reaching our […]

  I am writing to address a situation I became aware of upon dropping off clothing to the Clothes Closet a little while back. My grandchildren and I had become […]

By Marty Essen, Victor What do gun deaths and environmental destruction have in common? Three letters: GOP. As I type this, yet another mass shooting is in the news. Even […]

  Western Heritage Day provided a fantastic event for Historic St. Mary’s Mission. We wish to thank the Stevensville Main Street Association and Joan Prather for bringing the Salish Drummers […]

  Let it be known to all Bitterrooters that the Ravalli County Off-Road User Association (RCORUA) is appealing the 3 Saddle Vegetation Management Project on the Bitterroot National Forest (BNF) […]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. In this you will see that nowhere does it state “separation of church and […]

  What a shame! I commend Rachel Bartlett for her letter encouraging people to write letters expressing their opposition to the Legacy “Ranch” housing development. Looking back on my eight […]

Van P. Keele’s blathering in the Bitterroot Star newspaper on 21 May 2013 about sequestration requires a response, for the following reasons: 1. Government spending has been significantly out of […]

  Stevensville Council #13093 of the Knights of Columbus says thank you to the local merchants, our friends, neighbors and Hamilton Council #6130 for donating their time and money so […]

By Jill Davies, Director, Sustainable Living Systems I am submitting our report: “Bitterroot Valley Food System Community Food Project – Assessment and Planning”, dated 2009, for the record in the […]

  If you are a Bitterrooter you either have lived here your whole life, or you are a transplant. If you are a transplant you love this valley and appreciate […]