Opinion

    For three years our Ravalli County has been run by a very conservative government. So how are things shaping up? Where are the jobs, based on “conservative, pro-growth” […]

    There is a saying in science: “In God we trust, everyone else bring data” which leads one to believe that the scientific methods that brought us out of […]

We take privacy for granted. Too often we mistakenly assume that we are the only ones privy to our personal information. We assume it is within our discretion to decide […]

By Van P. Keele, Hamilton   Climate change is real. We know it because we’re living it right here in the Bitterroot – earlier snowmelt, raging wildfires, record high temperatures, […]

  I want to congratulate Dr. Joanne Charbonneau on her newly elected position as Chair of the Board of Trustees at North Valley Library. I work with Joanne as a […]

  If Mike Mercer is going to write a snarky letter (July 10th) accusing me of spreading disinformation about climate change and not doing “my homework” before speaking out, one […]

  We wanted to write and tell the Stevensville Main Street Association how much we enjoyed Heritage Days. We had planned to visit our friends in Hamilton and they sent […]

  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 […]