According to the April 24 edition of the Bitterroot Star, the Ravalli County Planning Board gave its approval for a 509-lot Legacy Ranch subdivision in Stevensville, Montana. All one can say is, “Shame on them.” What were they thinking? There is not one person impacted by this monstrosity who is for it. The public…
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Letters to the Editor
Shame on planning board
Shame on the Ravalli County Planning Board (RCPB) for its recommendation of a conditional approval for the Legacy Ranch Subdivision on 4/18/13. The board approved it in spite of several public meetings where more than 150 local residents spoke in opposition to the subdivision. The RCPB should change their name to the Ravalli County Real…
Freedom and the Legacy Ranch
The early colonists in this country fought hard against taxation without representation. They gave their lives to be free of Great Britain’s tyranny. It seems to me that the public in Ravalli County has fought to stop the Legacy Ranch from destroying the Stevensville and Refuge areas, asking for their “representatives” to listen, represent, and…
Brain-damaged approval?
Regarding Legacy Ranch Subdivision, I would like to sincerely thank the two Planning Board members who wisely voted against approval. Robert Myers and especially Howard Eldredge showed great wisdom by voting against this abomination. How does pointing lights downward help with light pollution and impact on wildlife? Lights are lights and they have a…
Report from Helena – End of Session
Did we spend too much, or, not enough? The answer of course is in one’s perspective. In the end it turned out that this session had three groups of legislators. Two groups are feeling that they didn’t get their way nearly enough on the spending bills, the liberals and the conservatives, because the outcome…
Unfair utility practices
On Saturday, April 14th, the power up Skalkaho and Grantsdale was out for about half an hour. I’m with Ravalli Electric Co-op who gets their power from NorthWestern Energy. NorthWestern went down, so the coop went down, so 3000 customers had no power for half an hour. When my power came on there was…
Legacy Ranch a looming disaster
The Legacy Ranch subdivision, which has no public support, is an environmental and legal disaster waiting to happen. Behind it is some fishy politics that compel us to follow the money. The environmental catastrophe posed by plunking down an entire town adjacent to Ravalli County’s twin jewels – the Bitterroot River and the Lee…
Open space idea unrealistic
Recently I have noticed heavy coverage in local news about the Flatiron residential planning and most recently the Legacy Ranch residential development. In 1979 when my wife and I built our retirement home on Blodgett Creek, as immigrants from California we obtained Montana tags for our vehicles as soon as possible. Driving with California…
Smear campaign under way
One of the offices that we will be voting for is for a member of the School Board. One of the contenders, Lee J. Tickell, is listed on the ballot. The other, Terry Nelson, will be a write-in opponent Word is being been passed out by someone that Tickell had been accused, at some…
Thanks to Stevensville gallery
The Stevensville High School Art program would like to publicly acknowledge and thank River’s Mist Gallery in Stevensville, owned by Gretchen Spiess. Gretchen donated her gallery for the month of April for the high school student art exhibit. There were more than 50 works by students. Gretchen hosted a reception for the students on…
We must make our voices heard on gun rights
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 carry. If the Town Council, in its infinite wisdom, is going to restrict the right of We the People to defend ourselves, what are they…
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