1+ week, 4+ day ago   (656+ words) On four wooded acres west of Stevensville, kids spend their summer days turning over rocks looking for bugs, building bows and arrows from willow branches and string and swinging in hammocks hung between the trees. There’s a garden, a climbing…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (700+ words) Community members, child care providers, educators, business leaders and lawmakers gathered Thursday at the Ravalli County Museum as nonprofit Zero to Five Montana concluded an 11-stop statewide policy roadshow aimed at identifying barriers to child care and shaping future policy…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (142+ words) Bitterroot Star The rosters for the 2nd annual Montana High School All-Star baseball game were recently announced. The game pits the West All-Stars against the East All-Stars, and will be played on Saturday, August 15, at 3 Legends Field in Butte at 4 p.m. High…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (327+ words) The Western Montana Food and Farm Trail, a new agritourism initiative led by Farm Connect Montana, launches May 30, offering locals and visitors a new kind of food and farm adventure across Western Montana. At the center of the experience is…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (551+ words) Bitterroot Star The Bitterroot National Forest has been selected to be one of the first two priority landscape-scale projects to be implemented as part of the Shared Stewardship Agreement between the U.S. Forest Service and the State of Montana establishing a…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (218+ words) Bitterroot Star The Lone Rock School District is asking community members to vote on a $100,000 Technology Levy in addition to the district’s existing $19,650 perpetual technology levy, which has remained unchanged since 2004. The goal of this levy is simple: to keep…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (430+ words) Bitterroot Star On February 17, I officially filed as a Republican candidate for House District 85. After representing HD 85 for four years in the legislature, I realized our community still needs leaders who are a voice for the people of Ravalli County,…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (375+ words) by Cathy Scholtens, Stevensville I am a Montanan. I am a veteran. And I am done watching your silence masquerade as leadership. I am asking you to join the Republicans who have stood up against the chaos, recklessness, and authoritarian…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1016+ words) Education puts a heavy precedent on reading skills, math skills and the sciences, but according to one educator, social studies is where it’s at. Wes Wells, the department chair of social studies at Stevensville High School, has been holding an…...

8+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (499+ words) At a meeting on January 7, the Ravalli County Planning Board made a recommendation of approval of the Preliminary Plat for the Sunnyside Orchards Subdivision, a 29-lot Major Subdivision on a 31-acre parcel along Three Mile Creek Road northeast of Stevensville....