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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held for medical Bitter Root Association Stevensville to lose popular policecenter chief Three Mile Community Center open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell by John Dowd
shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t have any physical positive impact on the communent additional memberstional of the and community According The park impact on people’s therapy services – nity. He specifically cited Sosa’s out for a special meeting It’s been a long time to Colleen board made to come property taxes. “The town is never going to be able constant efforts to build the reat town hall. The purpose of the including a therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to the loan, the Bitterroot Health to replace Mac Sosa,” saidisStevenslationship and trust there is now meeting waswas topool allow the public Mile Center up who serves on to take out project for by the to – plus imaging held aCommunity groundbreakby Michael Howell anda cut the ribbon atpaid last week’s ville Steve Gibson, about the voiceThree questions and concerns to and Mayor, running. Located at 4433 both thebetween park the community and the loan to finish Mile Community Senior and lab services. ceremony, said concerning ing last Wednesday departing Police Chief. police seeking tothe become SunnysideStevensville Cemetery Road, board and the department. the project. the candidate Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An open house celebration was for new medical The town, and department, chief. theits center is onthe thepolice east side communitySosa will remain in office She said theythe new which raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old are saddened to see theirbuildchief moving until the end of August. He thought it would be good complex that will beThe of Lone Rock Park. center board, worked with “We through community picnics, ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open back to Texas, Gibson. Howhopes to have by then completto have people sales, from the coming contains a explained large they started Farmers State rummage bingo nights built just north of meeting animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” ever, Sosa attributed the move to a ed several tasks. The first is to munity involved,” said Gibson room, a warming working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a Butts, President of the Road in event served couple ofHamilton. things.audio TheThe first was that he ain 2012 train the new officers that have and Sosa, who werethat both presstate-of-the-art visual this their loan Kathie nity members. Other major and they plan corner Kootenai has hadof several friends pass in incorporecently been brought on to the entsaid, atcontributors the“This meeting. So far, double purpose. It included a ribbon Board, organization has system, and a gorgeous viewaway and payments were the they Three on continuing to Creek andrecently, the lineRoad of duty andof tothe whom According to Gibhave tried to include community of the Bitterroot Mountains to rated 2014. reasonable. Mile Fire District, the Lone cutting ceremony in honor new indepartment. come such a long way since it was expand services. Hwy 93. he has been unabletours to payofhis members more, and plan to do so the west. She saidson, the this is the first time he has Those payRock 50 Park and the Rapp started about years ago. I feel aFamfacility, including therespects. whole “We’re bringing the The second was a homesick wife. seen the department, though for future hires. The community The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor Though she and Sosa have in temporarily, fully staffed. The members invited Tony careincluded tosaid theus patients, to the in senior center and thefamily approximateout of park Schmiedeke there terroot Health CEO, those who have come before and ” drink honor of the organization’s the area, they have decided to return second is to help finish the Nagendran, manager of thewho LoneWeekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers he said. make it as good as it can be as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus home, northLone of Houston, Texas. When remodel at town hall, which Dove bar, Jessica Shourd, that serves Rock School. already beingsomehelped on the project, and HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the nextLois 50 years.” Daly Hospital an interview withconSosa, he wantwill create a space for the police K-3 Principal TheInsurrounding park Schmiedeke assessed, the Stevensville TMCSC received reduced and peth, chair of the McCormack said that the was fi rst organized in 1972. In 1984, ed to express his thoughts department to move back into. owner and mantains soccer and baseball on leaving. “got really SchmiedekeJon Vercruyssen, prices from contractors. The Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball he said, involved,” the is proud thatager general contractor donated laAddressing the community, This project has been done by of CJ’s Den. leen Schmiedeke, Joyce fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t “It’s been a privilege. Thank you for police officers on their own time,Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the When the meeting comSee the CENTER, new communitywill center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the BRHA land on Fairgrounds ground and a chance covered raised Bitterroot about have to run giving me the topicnic lead this Road deand these renovations save menced, each person was introhas been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Sixopening years later, pandemic costs partment. Thank you for your the town over $12,000 a year, duced,hit as and well construction as the works, candidate. in the but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, Bessenyey deeded doors andthe giving me the estate information according to Gibson. The last is Todd Schafer, the candidate, is the there were some John Bishop, pictured fifth from left, leads a gathering of people involved in the celebrating the opening of the new animal shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michael Howell. to guide being the type of to hopefully train the new chief. Sergeant at the to Stevenshad current to take out a mortgage finish the landthem to theinto organization where delays dueas towell the as Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The on theisproperty hadHealth housed the Sue McCormack, who serves on agency they wanted to located. be.” There already athat candidate for building villefacility Police Department, the current shelter is The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 Sosa will bereplaces leaving aanvoid as that position, from within theHwy Stevensville School Resource shelter since 1984. theat organization’s of directors will be builtthe on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and 93 new building old that, building the mayor explained, will be difficult Police Department. Officer (SRO).She Headds isvision a retired Matheir that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by NathanStevensville Boddy cumstances, having thatisthe Police Cheif Mac Sosa. Photo courtesy rine and member to fill. Gibson was adamant that Sosa On Friday morning,encountered July 14, Stevensville of the National the Stevensville people most important will be leaving behind a profoundly townaasked severalfalling promi-victimTown of Stevensville. Christinethe Staub, driving way to combat such See CHIEF, page facility will be more4 been providing “quality,to mailDarby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse 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 has been a year since the 2022 year to doing just that. and lead the effort to make BVCC a recontinue in the fall involving converit 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 After following of what potential overall, doing very well levy for the Bitterroot Valley CommuThe15th, manyChief hours of label. hard and honest ality. It is now time for ourwill community sations with local groups, businesses, by Michael by Victoria Howell are being recruited. There also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely saiddiscussions that he wants protocol, and doingto tell us what they want victims are told, but on its tax collections and nity College failed. Since that time, andthe debates among the and need.” and associations. The Bitterroot NaOverstreet has ahas hospitalthis with Hamilton Police Department so in the presence of the shethe knows that they showing revenues over little if anything been heard from Trustees have resulted in an ambitious Beginning summer and “We need to ask tough questional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: an oxygen tank. the fall, BVCC “become roadmap more vocal witness, Staub are, “often of projections or about BVCC; this silence hastobeen to about moving thea Bitterroot Val- wascontinuing through tions, the most important questionin host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February 12th. is don’t fool around! He was home for the good things that happen able to uncover the to say they This are says shipmost departments while being, ‘what did we do wrong?’” intentional. The defeat of the levy ley Community College forward. Board of Trustees is launching its “Ask thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within unfortunate contents ping legal or two or three days. in an by Michael Howell have only Paul Ashcraft, expenses Vice-Chair ofpapers the Trustdemanded takethe community.” “In 2020 Sharour community voted for and Listen” campaign, effort to 30th from the 6 toBoard 8 p.m.of Trustees ing his department’s experi- of this of the package: nearly paperwork.” Other up, it’s goingees. to be an answers event worthy oftoaquestions jubilee attorney inevaluate what happened During that time, amounted 23% of “The to these aan step back, to the establishment community re-connect and re-engage with the to share information with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in says cash, commondue tactics for and former council member, the public at the next Halfway through celebration. in large private practice in next stepsence hismeeting oxygenTrustees level will be particiwill be critical projections in determining future and determine what should college district by a 17% margin,” community. by Victoria regarding theHowell 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 councilpating considers a number programs, training, and coursework be taken. Bitterroot Carrie Guarino, Chair of the Trustees. Stevensville, was wentindown to 51, of summer events ment of aThe draft forest Valley comearly March, a customunwittingly claiming county’s performance that have yetto torepbeoffilled. event. Freeman is also chair ofinterests the Rodeo and festivals, asking local residents to meet thethe needs and our munity sent a strong message thatIn “As elected officials forwas Bitterroot Val- senddiagnosed with from a normal of his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management At the second regular erthe came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer inquestions and collecting theirisCommittee, resent the IRS or in looking pretty good, One big savings was responsrequired a strong response, and ley Community College, it is the charge 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 members. meeting theThe two-member intending a package Illinois. Security according tobeen Ravalli COLLEGE, page the Social budgeted funds for 3 the Board of Trustees to advocate for es.that The “Ask and Listen” campaign will Board of of Trustees have this ofsend which he’s onby forNa12 See years. A real estate February of 2021. 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held oncommitted government should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share in Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, and also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and 10 instructions and aclerk link Jenelle seemed conchemotherapy and But COVID-19 See COUNTY, will tell theirpage at council meetings during Joan Mell, an attorney familiar with the profile of the Berthoud the council to late join August thetold meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put to in he was was no joke. “It Over the victims that a loved one has theand lastunadministration. In from Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having familiar good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told thatpublic the got so bad I felt with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in meet- the public said the committee trouble streaming 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. council that those makto handle the the prosecution $50,000 this year, for the expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe to be paid for release of the had She said andthe breathe, like I ingsOverstreet on the internet. by John Dowd for their safety. At least onethe refuge is 2,871 acres, and is always In addition to the 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 of the potential victims she working to expand. opportunity to learn chanpicious when haswhile now commonly use a legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re getting banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what Tom Reed has been the Leeat a local The original goal, and current aided waswith a resident nel they had was no longer about and participate in recovered address, buton will bemanage ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine water Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge for and focus, for the refuge ismetal.” to audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing the process working but they the customapproximately grab the package from aThe porch 10th annual cowboy ball – which 13boarding years. When he to started there The aswith primarily for migratory birds.actually secin the to had be be provided a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000 in or front door when it arrives. started 11 years ago but couldn’t be held last year manager, there were 13 staff, includondary goal was to provide for public to the bank as well as to the colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting will cov“It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members of the public the session. ingOverstreet. seasonal help. Now, theredue are to only use. The – refuge is open to six wildlife Boxxe Shoppe. the pandemic has been upgraded this The day after that “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 who had he tried to access the three people, including one part-time dependent uses, including hunting, “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, was is when I realized transaction. fraudurequired,’” she adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thankbeing Joan for help-According Thesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, employee. to pointing him, the“This fishing, observation, photography, she out that red Facebook page said it was not Unfortunate• Review overall is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are refuge seems underutilized for what it interpretation and education. center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person could be. With the primary goal of waterfowl said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously first also said that they seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals 80 north years of old, and all of a conservation and management, other The refuge,isjust Stevensconversations should be prepared for some dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and and sudden they’re coming the ville, was created due to the late U.S. intoprograms have seen less attention The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update encountered commuSee page 2 “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, totheSenator Overstreet. “Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank towho $15,000, it Stacie Barker. Photo by Victoria Howell. Lee Metcalf, was funding due toSee government cutbacks, at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page 5withdraw byfrom Michael Howell such cirStaub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” Stevensville, and evenmy went to high according to Reed. He explained that See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. school there. It was financed byLast federthe refuge used to have several educaweek the Ravalli County Commissioners apal duck stamp money, and built upon tionofoutreach programs. said, howproved adoption a memorandum of He understandpurchased homesteads. The ing funds ever, “We are not doing those with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force things and werepine; secured in 1962, and land started the degree that we them.” Protection Agency. The letter the commissioners statedto National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark MAPS Media Institute to produce aonce videodid designed by Michael Howell being purchased in 1963. Currently, to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects containsSee recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. SWANS, page 3 ior. impacts to concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task approved of 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 scopeand 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 Fish, Wildlife signed off creation tions to theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There The are no paid involved employees; it’s an all-of kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatPark, a 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, 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 the bridge, community students Stevensville an item that was at schools 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. Some objections to securing the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, 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 disease sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending 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 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 About years resident. people piece, whichfour tomostly the Then Council 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 fiis 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 member with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal 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 55,000was acre area ofto the to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, offered Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee 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 theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river,that then was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea 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 original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany where sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s financial burden of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the top four vote at the river on the northeast side project had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County and believe after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. about attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been but she is especially passionate See STEVI, page 16 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild and existing agreements. ” “We and realize these old growth Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the disturbances like fire, insects species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of 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 RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; improve 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek DirectorJCCS of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft 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 an expensive proposition. Last habitat The family of swans paddle across one of the Lee Metcalf See Wildlife Refuge reFor the fifth year swans are nesting in the valley. Pictured, See RESCUE, page 65 GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURrecorded, HOME IMPROVEMENT CO.COM istrator of the Environmental In swim a At letter to the Forest firstincluding horse thatmeadows, was rescued 1they Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. growth foundYin the Bitterroot sevoirs. The mom, dad and no less than six offspring. Photo by John Dowd. facing the Bitterroot Mountains. Photo by John Dowd.
Public Scammers thwarted, vigilance recognized County budget meeting on track on BNF Cowboy Ball Halfway Climbing Valley Community College: Bitterroot one year later through fiscal scheduled year, county Plan
Surviving COVID
budget looking good
Hearts full love Stevi toofrevisit refinancing bonds
Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge hosts new family
DUI Task Force, MAPS 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
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