Opinion

We would like to thank Jean Schurman and the Bitterroot Star for their wonderful article about our Bluegrass Festival at Lone Rock School. Your support is truly appreciated. Mike and […]

  Corvallis residents, please consider voting for the upcoming Corvallis School Mill Levy. Passage of the mill levy will not result in an increase in taxes but rather a decrease! […]

  Corvallis School District voters have an opportunity to prevent a staggering $190,000 funding blow to the district’s tradition of quality education by approving a levy to support the school […]

  As a former Florence Carlton School (FCS) Trustee, I want to address misleading information by Richard Paris about FCS and the levy. With more than 551 students and 30 […]

  Why should I vote for the school levy? My kids are grown and gone! The public school system is an integral part of this country. It was established to […]

By Richard Paris, Florence Well, sure as the sun rises in the east, March comes and there is another “Mill Levy” in Florence! The school board uses this (levy) as […]

By Brenda Bolton, Florence What can a school do for you? Maybe it is not foremost in your mind anymore because you are “graduated,” an “empty-nester,” or just busy with […]

Thursday morning, the Ravalli County commissioners agreed with planning board members Jan Wisniewski, Vito Ciliberti, Bill Menager and other appointees who hold Freeman/Posse Comitatus-style extremist views that it is proper […]

I recently had the pleasure of presenting three bicycles on behalf of the Masonic Lodge #43 to the winners of “bikes for books” program at Victor School. I was extremely […]

  I am writing this letter to express the deep regard my husband and I have for our volunteer fire department here in Florence. We had an incident here at […]

Florence is a community full of great people. We support civil discourse. Unfortunately, in the past several years a small pack of adult bullies have been terrorizing our school board […]

All young children in Ravalli County deserve the best that we can give them. Every year, we celebrate Week of the Young Child, which falls during the week of April […]

It is interesting to me that politics takes so much time and energy during election time. Is it really our duty to vote? Is it really making you feel like […]

  In June 2011 you published a picture of residents at Bitterroot Valley Living Center. When surfing the net I ran onto this picture and one named caught my attention […]

  By Anna Paige, Communications and Marketing Director, Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming would like to thank the more than 2,700 volunteers and […]

A growing threat to our freedom of speech is the attempt to stifle religious discussion in the name of preventing “defamation of” or “insults” to religion, especially Islam. A revival […]

The editorial put out by the Ravalli Republic newspaper states, “Several candidates have filed to run in the upcoming election to represent their precinct or state legislative districts as Democrats. […]

Thank you for reporting about the Ravalli County Planning Board’s recent meeting during which Shannon Plocher ignored the concerns of the County Attorney and county residents, and offered a prayer. […]

We, as taxpayers and residents of the Lone Rock Community Park District, are angered and appalled that our Lone Rock Community Park identity has been stripped and that our park […]

By Judy Hoy, Stevensville   Regarding Hamilton School Board’s consideration of providing special protection from bullying for LGBT students: No student, teacher or anyone else should be discriminated against or […]