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Covering the Bitterroot Valley – “Where Montana Begins!” – Established 1985 – Locally Owned & Independent
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Wednesday, February 9,2022 2022 Wednesday, January Wednesday, June26, 14, 2023 Wednesday, February 2,
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The bitterroots are blooming!
Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell
shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s by John Dowd has come away from watching the therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. flowers with several observations that including therapy coming, but the Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to thea loan, the Bitterroot Health “Education bynew observation,” said she loves to share with visitors. In a Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakPamela PriemHowell when talking about how fenced off area, next to her horses, by Michael and cut the ribbon at last week’sthe andlearned running. at 4433 both theispark loan to finish Three Community and lab services. she soLocated much about her bitteran area she calls her “Bitterroot ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) roots. Every year, Priem reaches out Corral.” When walking through, she Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An openmedical house celebration was for its new the center is on the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 to a list ofweek contacts, announcing when explains that there are more than a they hope to have held last at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe of Lone Rock Park. buildcenter board, worked with through community picnics, the bitterroot flowers are blooming. couple varieties of bitterroot flower, ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large meeting Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of doing This year, hers are soFairgrounds early. they The started and within those groups there are also animal shelter located on bunch of little old ladies.” room, a slope warming kitchen, a working on she calls “minors” and “majors.” Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville atof thePriem’s western property is what Kathienity Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served ain 2012 state-of-the-art audio visual this their loan members. Other major and that they plan home toofhundreds of bitterroot plants, With these names she refers to smaller corner Kootenai double purpose. It included a ribbon Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view andaincorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to and when in bloom they create quite and larger sized flowers. The bitterCreek and Mountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated 2014.also come in a plethora of color reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony injust honor of new inroots come such a long sincethe it was spectacle. “They are so beautiful. expand Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She saidcombinations the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about years I feel aFamfacility, It’s like no other flower and they are from the rare all-white “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, Bitbuilding, and an array of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor rather mysterious,” added Priem. and yellow flowers, to the nearly red care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honor of Having livedCEO, onthe theorganization’s property for and hot pink kinds. She also talks Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are it as were many who said.be as we make good as he itvolunteers can set 50ththat birthday. over two decades, about how finicky the flowers can be, said Marcus on an eastside road that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and Hedgeaptly named Bitterroot Drive, Priem opening only when the sun is shining The private non-profi t organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital had The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced has, time, in been fascinated and for only a few weeks out of the chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was the fisoccer rstentire organized 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The with the little flowers,Bessenyey, which onlythe year. After that, theCommunity bitterrootsSenior disap- Center board members, l to r, ColThree Mile organization conducted a Countess Margarite hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractorsuccessful donated labloom once a year in the spring. leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando See BITTERROOTS, page 16 and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, She gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t See the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run has been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction in the works, costs but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where delays due to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. their vision isthe that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds that Bitterroots bloom in the the Stevensville encountered people most important valley a little early. Photos Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing by Johnabuse Dowd. force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask clinic. She also said thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through hospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Victoria Howell are being recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but on its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often of projections in host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February is don’t fool around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they This are shipmost while thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. ing his department’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee an attorney in amounted of to share information ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for and former council member, the public at the next meeting Halfway through celebration. projections due in large private practice in his oxygen level by Victoria Howell regarding the developsuch opportunity. which the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s appears to be continuing when the council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, ment of a draft forest In early March, a customwas unwittingly send-from a normal of claiming county’s performance have yetto torepbe filled. event. Freeman is also thethat chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management At the second regular er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer in 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). virtual counciltoand mayor how local Chicago, tional council meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate for February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, seemed con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud the council to late join August thetold meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It and unOver victims that a loved has the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having familiar good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told thatpublic the so bad I felt with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commucomment, Crews told experiognizedyear, for stepping in (virtual) were held in meetsaid the committee trouble streaming the The annual Western Heritage mental food for children in-kind donations can also the public process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021.festival will councilfood that insecurity. those mak-Western to handle prosecution Days takesaid place encing bethe really helpful.” this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo andthe Staub the Boxxe paid for release of the hadnotShe breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ingsOverstreet on the internet. At least one In addition toStevensville’s the this year. One of Heritage Days proceeds also went Starck said donation checks became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube chanof the potential victims she opportunity to learn signature events for more thanpicious to the Stevi Food Program, which can behas made out towas Stevensville when now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet while he 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local nel they had was no longer about and participate in could considering recovered address, buton will be ready to three decades, the festival distributes extra food and snacks Schools Backpack andwater Pantry up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing and the process working but they set up the customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch not muster enough volunteer supto children and families throughProgramming – and can be The 10th annual cowboy ball – which in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride not a the question ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing atoclimbing atreatment new Facebook page.this Hower’sisage and $60,000 inSam Mewes at or front door when it arrives. port take theplan, place of retiring out year. and answer” dropped off with started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting “It’s public ” did the work at no charge to District particular cash, all ofSchool “They always direct the organizers. Without helpcomment. from Western the Stevensville ever, members ofwill thecovpublic the session. Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been this Sapphire Lutheran Homes will upgraded celebrate the The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to The event was known for proHeritage Days, these programs office or mailed to: 300 Park St. who had he tried to access the “It’s common senseofto2023 me,”with their free 11th Annual Sumyear. summer topics: surgery, was is when I realized transaction. required,’” she adds. viding a rollicking good time in arehe in would even greater need for donaMThelp59870.she ly that be answering publiclyStevensville, thankbeing Joan fraudufor The Town ofmer Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not UnfortunateConcert Series Montana Shakespeare in the • Review overall “This is the firstand year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not ofsays, lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully downtown Stevensville, with the questions tions. from the public. Fran Schmitz, director the ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet Parks. objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19. taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to unique Chuck Wagonasked Cook-offly, it was not “We definitely would benefit Stevi Food Program, said that her being scammed. “If aSummer person also said that they said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public The Concert Series is free and open ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theofto had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill r, withdrawals Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was obviously seriously enough. Staub’sCrews first continuing citizen anticipates keep track of and presentations by Salish dancfrom to receive comgroup senior of volunteers is 80 years old, and all ofand a will be held on the large lawn on the conversations the public should be prepared for some dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. members of 70 supple$10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said ers and drummers as mainstaytime having munity support to fund the backhanding out about through the issues. Mayorthey’re SteveSapphire Gibson, council Cindy Brown and sudden coming campus into the atmembers The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update 501 N.10th Street in Hamilton. encountered commuSee page 2 week “interesting comments” Overstreet talksprogram,” about his recent brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe attractions, along aGreg street pack said from Lee Starck, mental food bags each this Overstreet. “Itformer hitwithmayor Jim Crews, bank to5withdraw $15,000, itof roomHowell. Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. There is plenty to spread out, soBALL Sapphire See COWBOY page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell such cirnity.See Staub is dance and more. counselor at Stevenssummer. Covid. Photo byelementary Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense Homes tingle.” recommends Lutheran participants bring See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. Each year organizers would ville who runs the backpack pro“We are very grateful for a blanket and enjoyCommissioners the music. FoodapLastchair weekorthe Ravalli County select a worthy project to be the gram. “Costs continue to rise, and $5,000 grant we recently received a lawn Trucks will be on site waiting to serve There proved adoption of a memorandum offood. understandrecipient of the proceeds. In the we have a stable/increasing need from the Rapp Family Foundais a bounce painting, miniature ing with thehouse, Ravalliface County DUI Task Forcehorses, and last few years, the event benefitamong school students/families. tion through Project 59870,” said popcorn, lemonade and balloonAgency. tier. There will be Protection The letter commissioners stated Forest 1987 aspen and whitebark MAPS Media Institute toa produce a video designed byStevensville Michael Howell ed and Lone Rock’s National Funding would beForest preferred inSchmitz, “but pine; we will needthe more $1 raffles held at the concerts with great prizes and to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthatall“Ravalli County objects contains recommendations managetotimber provide school Backpack and Pantry pro- Plan. stead of in-kind donations at this ensuretofood is distributed ior. impacts to grams, which distribute suppletime of year. During the school concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision See HERITAGE, page 2 See CONCERTS, page The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task approved of 3 year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell the Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scope ofthe the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new and Fish, Wildlife signed off The involved creation tions to the Draft SupplemenJasmin Shinn,director founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of kopf, put valentine cards The activities Stevensville Town Counain 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, SEIS thatPark, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece ofthe boats, and you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking community students at of schools by Sean the Malcom operation. Stevensville bridge, an item that wasson and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” I think opportunity it’s [the piecetoon to provide parents“But a learning seethe the source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Joan Some objections to the of the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to Prather, make National project chair considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the the west, securing potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year lopes. the sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the little this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate The love Splash Pad at Stevenssplash padand project, stated meeting. The land ownership willnew now river access pending the disease outcometreatment of see what use theenveland is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now tine’s Day. decorate them for each ville’s Lewis & Clark Park opened pad was resurfaced during the revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the access dispute. only see a liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be able to accommodate on suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of dead and dythese horses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and years resident. Then people to theAbout public Saturday mornoff-season and should be open piece, whichfour is tomostly the Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson he looked upwhat the for ley. are many cars out said sheadoption, tells“There parents is,so “If you don’t look, accounting fion rmlocated with aadjacent branch most can be driven or there, support viable populations ing trees. They claim area said the necessary maintenance having to do with the mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop offsaid valening, June 10th. for the rest of the Bitterroot River on the northwest side she had2023 apotenrealsummer. problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If it you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, the of old growth, is impacted by mountain pine within a 55,000 acre area oftothe to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, was offered the Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propStorm clouds broke over Fundraising for the splash See VALENTINES, page 10 selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby the Sapphire in 2017 Ravalli for use as pad a started roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river,that then weekend, allowing theMounSplash in 2020, with was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. for Willow bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consolPad’s firstbranch day of operation tains east of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea groundbreaking occurring in of its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town the The 2023 season to go off as a hit. the fall of 2021. The Covid-19 original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse At A Time Germany where sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the their owner of land channel and theinclement deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s Local children and pandemic, as well as financial burden of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that the withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the top four vote at the river on trickled the northeast side project hadweather, channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done parents slowly in at the caused delays in conRDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County andbut believe after Friends of the Bitterroot getters. she is especially passionate about attempted to shut off river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been See STEVI, page 16 “Trout Spout” for the first time struction. 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural check2022. followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance for theThe Wild since August original The splash pad consists of and existing agreements. ” “We and realize these old growth like fire, insectsfrom Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift in November Rockies filed suit claiming grand opening of the splashthe pad disturbances multiple water features, species are listed in reducetosediForest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20occurred during the the 109th water curtain dumping concern over impacts to 406-549-4171 agency failed to use bestAn- anda disease; acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of nual Creamery Picnic, last year, buckets and a large mushroom the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At but had but, to beaccording closed prematurely thatwatershed; rains waterimprove down onto roads, especially Willow Creek Director of the NEPAabout RDOequipment.com money to Shinn, Creek 20 horses. She currently clear whether there are other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch Branch elk habitat and didn’t combecause of an the surface anyone below it. The water turns taking care ofissue draftof horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot and the ply with the definition of old being unusually slick with the and off throughout the day, an expensive proposition. Last COon RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• Y OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat . COM istrator In a At letter to the Forest including meadows, fi rst horse that was rescued A Photo by Victoria Howell. of the Environmental growth found in the Bitterroot potential for injury. then shuts down automatically1 Horse Malina Brock of Stevensville test out the Stevensville Splash Pad last Saturday. Photo by This will be the first full seaSee SPLASH, page 2 Sean Malcom.
Public Scammers thwarted, vigilance recognized County budget meeting on track on BNF Cowboy Ball Halfway Climbing through fiscal scheduled year, county Plan
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Hearts full love Stevi toofrevisit refinancing bonds
No Western Heritage Days this year
DUI Task Free concert series Force, MAPS and Shakespeare to partner on special video
Gold Butterfly project draws some objections
Spreading love horse Local draft rescue Stevi to return park land thriving to county
Splash pad in Stevensville opens for summer
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