Opinion

  Good Samaritan, Donald Slaughter, while riding shotgun in a friend’s truck just south of Lolo last Thursday, spotted an unattended 15-foot by 15-foot fire burning. He jumped from the […]

  My attention was drawn to financing higher education by the Guest Column in the Sunday, June 2, 2013 Missoulian. I would like to add that Montana does a terrible […]

By Attorney General Tim Fox Looking east from Montana toward Washington, DC, the view can be grim at times. Congress and the president are too often bogged down in rancorous […]

The “mainstream media” and Obama are strange bedfellows. For some reason, only one news channel has significantly challenged the Obama administration’s involvement in three major scandals until recently! Those scandals […]

Pantry Partners would like to thank everyone who participated in the May 11 Post Office Food Drive. We brought in a total of 2,037 lbs. of food. Stevensville donated 1,346 […]

  To the County Commissioners of Ravalli County: As an individual who has been looking to move to the Bitterroot Valley for a year now, doing my research, it was […]

County Commissioners: I have lived in the Bitterroot since the early 70’s and watched the slow development, such as Hamilton as a two-lane tree-lined street turn into the strip, making […]

  The Legacy Ranch Subdivision is coming up for review by the Ravalli County Commissioners in a few days. There is no question in our minds here at the Bitterroot […]

  The Legacy Ranch Subdivision was originally denied approval retroactively as a result of the passage of the “One house per Two Acres” petition of November 2006. A lawsuit was […]

  I am not an economist. I need help to balance my checkbook. I suffer through a few months of income tax preparation every year before I take it to […]

SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/bitterrootstar/Desktop/Opinion5-29-13.doc Blame must be shared I have been quiet for a long time but that doesn’t mean that I have not been watching and reading. We moved to the Bitterroot […]

By Dallas D. Erickson, Stevensville I count Don and Alexandria Morton as my friends and am grateful for that. If I was to believe the media, and some letters to […]

  As bad as the impacts to the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge will be if Legacy Ranch is approved, the implications for the rest of this incredible Bitterroot Valley […]

  It’s feeling a lot like summer lately, even though it’s only spring in the Bitterroot and I haven’t planted my tomatoes yet. Things are drying out fast, temps are […]

  Participating in recycling of our household products is not always easy in Montana. We are often confused by the on-and-off-again ability to recycle glass, for example. Most of the […]

  I was born in France in 1942 and our city, Vitry-le-Francois, Marne was bombed in 1944 and 93% destroyed. It was later rebuilt and it is a lovely community […]

By Kevin Hammons, Stevensville Stevensville Town Council is considering renewing its ban on concealed carry in parks, government buildings, government meetings, and schools and expanding the ban to include open […]

  If you were in the service and something unusual happened on your watch, you would be required to accept at least some of the responsibility for whatever occurred. I […]

  If we are afraid, are we free? I appreciate Chris Martin’s response to my letter about guns and fear. It reflects two fears that are common to many of […]

The Stevensville Main Street Association would like to thank all of the people who made pies and created auction items for the Pie in the Big Sky Pie Auction that […]