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SEELEY LAKE – With players saying this was the best ice in the last nine years, the USA Hockey sanctioned Seeley Lake Pond Hockey Tournament happened without a hitch this past weekend Jan. 4-6. Although the number of teams was around 10 teams less than usual, the tournament still drew players from across the country and Canada. One of the tournament founders and owner of Lindey's Prime Steak House Mike Lindemer started maintaining the ice on Seeley Lake in mid- December. He put 140 hours on h...
Team YMV from Helena was back to defend their two-year title in the most competitive league, called Cup this year. After being undefeated in the pool play, the Brown Stars from Portland, Ore. proved to be a challenge in the championship game. At the half, Team YMV was down by one point. Following a two-minute overtime, Team YMV came out with the win 27-25. Last year's B League was split creating the Competitive and Intermediate Leagues. First year team, the Mighty Merkins from Spokane swept the...
SEELEY LAKE – St. Patrick Hospital now has a CuddleCot™ thanks to Seeley Lake residents Kendra and Jurian Coombes. They have raised more than $6,000 to purchase CuddleCots for both St. Patrick Hospital and Community Medical Center maternity wards in memory of their daughter Huntley. While the Coombes were unsure of their next steps, an unexpected invite from Mended Hearts Missoula to participate in their annual heart bash in February has given them a boost towards their ultimate goal of starting...
SEELEY LAKE - Moises Roseles of Seeley Lake graduated Dec. 15, 2018 from the Montana Youth Challenge Academy. He is now continuing his education with the Clearfield Utah Job Corp. Roseles is son to mothers Crystal Melendrez and Rebecca Bowman and father Refugio Lopez of Seeley Lake. The Montana Youth Challenge Academy is a two-phases academic-based program located in Dillon, Mont. on the campus of the University of Montana Western. The Academy's focus is to assist youth, ages 16-18 by helping...
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley-Swan Search & Rescue volunteers and local experts rescued a lost snowmobiler Sunday, Dec. 30. After he spent the night in the Lake Marshall drainage, the 32-year-old Billings man was reunited with his group nearly 24 hours after he was separated. A group of around eight riders were riding the Little Africa area on Saturday. One of the members of the group, that Incident Commander and Missoula County Sheriff's Sergeant Bob Parcell said was not as experienced of a rider as o...
SEELEY LAKE – The four rinks on Seeley Lake in front of Lindey's Prime Steak House are ready to welcome 34 teams for this year's Seeley Lake Pond Hockey tournament, Jan. 4-6. The community is invited down to the lake to enjoy the tournament. With the cold temperatures and very little snow, Tournament Organizer Megan Lindemer said the ice looks great this year. "We just hope it stays that way," said Lindemer. This year Lindemer said they split the B Division in two – Competitive and Intermediate....
SEELEY LAKE – The phone rang and on the other end was 16-year-old Swan Valley resident Ashly Alexander. She said she had a story that she really needed to get published to help warn other people her age about the dangers of the Internet. Typically all students work with a Junior Journal coach but because she wanted it published that week, I agreed to work with her. By that evening I had the story which required very few edits. Her willingness to call, self-motivation and drive to produce a s...
SEELEY LAKE - "From the moment we finally met [musher Jessie Royer] through our first two days of sledding with her, it was everything and then some - from the quality of her equipment, to the quality of the instruction, to her professionalism" said Colburn McClelland when speaking about his family's tours with Royer and the J Team. "More importantly than all that, is her character and true love and passion for what she does with this sport." Royer moved to Shining Shirt Road near Placid Lake th...
SEELEY LAKE – Stageline Pizza, "your pizza delivery people," is now open for business in Seeley Lake across from Seeley Lake Elementary School. Branch owners Patrick and Cheryl Sheridan look forward to supplying a consistently superior product that tastes the same every time. They also hope it brings more businesses into town by sparking interest in franchise businesses. The Sheridans are from Wisconsin. Patrick worked as a stainless steel welder in food and dairy plants for years and then b...
MISSOULA – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Bill Koppen received FWP's Officer of the Year award at the Missoula County Exchange Club's 46th Annual Officer of the Year Banquet. Koppen was among nine other officers from other city, county, state and federal agencies in Missoula County who received the award. Banquet Committee chair Larry Anderson said the purpose of the banquet is to honor area law enforcement officers. It has also become a major fundraiser for the Exchange Club a...
MISSOULA – With each team trading their only losses for the season, the Seeley Lake Elementary Eagles boys basketball team faced the Potomac Pioneers Dec. 18 at the Adam's Center in Missoula for the Copper League Small Schools Championship. Despite the Eagles trying to close the gap in the fourth quarter, the Pioneers maintained their lead and took the Championship 24-13. Both teams won one game of tournament play before meeting at the championship. The Eagles beat MIS and the Pioneers took DeSm...
SWAN VALLEY - Dozens of volunteers gathered Dec. 22 to help install the new Swan Valley Community Ice Skating Rink in the arena north of the Swan Valley Community Hall on Highway 83. The Swan Valley Emergency Services Volunteer Fire Department flooded the 60 x 100 foot rink, a joint project spearheaded by the Swan Valley Community Foundation and Swan Valley Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. Foundation member Ken Donovan said nearly enough money has been raised to cover the...
SEELEY LAKE – With Christmas music filling the air and lights flashing on the fire trucks, the Seeley Lake Fire Department volunteers and auxiliary members took to the streets of Seeley Lake the evening of Dec. 22 delivering gifts to the 19 girls and boys that were listed on their Angel Tree. Additionally, the annual Giving Tree, organized by the women of Mountain Lakes Presbyterian Church, blessed 55 children. This year some of the givers were recipients when they were children. This was the f...
SEELEY LAKE – With no music teacher or program this fall at Seeley Lake Elementary, the junior high drama class promised a Christmas play before the winter break. However, thanks to the staff, parents and students, the SLE Christmas Play expanded to a school-wide performance on Dec. 20 beginning with the junior high play, "Lights...Camera...Action" followed by the rest of the students singing. In the play "Lights...Camera...Action" by Sally Carpenter, Director J.D. (Cadence Mauldin) had no p...
GREENOUGH – It's been several years since Sunset School had enough students to host their own Holiday play. This year with 10 students from kindergarten through sixth grade, supervising teacher Toni Hatten said she was excited to bring back the tradition with "What Could Go Wrong the Night Before Christmas?" by Kim Kao Hines. For the past several years, Sunset School joined Ovando School for their holiday production. However this year, Hatten said Sunset "brought it home to Greenough." P...
SEELEY LAKE – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks deployed 19 GPS collars on adult female elk on the Blackfoot Clearwater Wildlife Management Area, also known as the Game Range, Dec. 6. This is part of a new long-term elk research project that hopes to help land managers understand elk distribution and use following wildfire. Researchers Mark Hurley and Ross Baty studied elk distribution on the Game Range in the late 1980s and early 1990s using VHF radio collars. Their work identified migration r...
SEELEY LAKE – The Rich Ranch welcomed the community to their annual Community Appreciation Day, Dec. 16. Rich Ranch owner Belinda Rich said that this year was one of the largest gatherings they have had for the event and it was very rewarding to watch the fellowship and feel the sense of community. C.B. and Helen Rich started the Community Appreciation Day back in the 1950's and 1960's when they owned the Double Arrow Ranch. C.B. was Seeley Lake's Santa for more than 30 years. "They strongly b...
SEELEY LAKE – Clearwater Resource Council hosted an Avalanche Awareness program Dec. 6. Missoula Avalanche Center's Todd Glew gave a presentation to help winter recreationists recognize snow instability, avalanche terrain and avalanche triggers as well as establishing safe travel protocols. Glew has been mountain guiding and giving avalanche education for the past 15 years. He has skied all over the world and started working for the Missoula Avalanche Center two months ago. He said he has b...
POTOMAC – Finishing with only one loss for the season, the Potomac Pioneer boys basketball team made it into the Championship Game for the Copper League Small Schools. Assistant Coach Wacey Thompson said the team embraced the fundamentals, the new offense they ran this year and really worked together as a team. This is Thompson's second year coaching with Head Coach Brad Hall. They had 15 players finish out the season playing on the A and B Teams. Thompson said all the boys were eager to l...
SWAN VALLEY - The last piece of The Nature Conservancy’s Montana Legacy Project is now conserved for nature and people in the Swan Valley. TNC donated the last quarter section of Section 31, to Swan Valley Connections, who granted a conservation easement on the property to the Montana Land Reliance. SVC Executive Director Rebecca Ramsey said the organization is grateful for the opportunity the land presents for the future growth of the organization and enhanced benefits to the community. The 160-acres was part of more than 310,000 acres of i...
SEELEY LAKE – "What are you going to be when you grow up?" asked University of Montana President Seth Bodnar of Seeley-Swan High School juniors and seniors Dec. 3. While Bodnar promoted higher education at UM and Montana College answering specific questions and talking individually to each student, he also left them with three important messages that he hoped would help them wherever life takes them. After asking the students what they wanted to do after graduation, some were quick to share a...
SEELEY LAKE – The community ice rink at Seeley Lake Elementary is nearly operational. With the cold weather, Seeley Lake ROCKS is hoping to host the first skating party over the holidays. The Ice Rink Committee under ROCKS started meeting over a year ago. After approval from the SLE School Board to put the rink on school property for three years, they started leveling the area for the temporary rink this fall. ROCKS provided $7,000 in seed money for the project. They also applied for a $...
SEELEY LAKE – The Department of Environmental Quality notified Deer Creek Excavating, LLC’s that their revised application submitted Oct. 5 for an Opencut Mining Permit at the Cottonwood Pit Site in Powell County still contains deficiencies that must be corrected prior to approving the application. The revised application was in response to DEQ’s Feb. 9 Deficiency Notice. If Deer Creek still wants to pursue the application, they can appeal DEQ’s decision within 30 days or submit a revised application that resolves all deficiencies within...
MISSOULA – The Holy Cross Lutheran and Seeley-Swan High School choirs and Seeley-Swan Mountain Bells will all be contestants in the 93.3 Eagle Country "The Last Best Noel" contest starting Dec. 15 through Christmas Day. The community is invited to listen and vote online. Pepsi-Cola of Missoula will award $500 cash to the first place winner and $250 cash to the second place winner. The winners will be announced the week of Dec. 31. SSHS music director Bob Green passed along the contest i...
SEELEY LAKE – Lindey's Steak House opened their dining rooms for the second annual Christmas Bazaar, Dec. 8. Shoppers browsed more than a dozen booths filled with creations from local crafters and artists and products from direct sales consultants. Seeley Lake's Alicia Kues organized the event again this year and felt it was a great event again this year. "Thank you to Mike and Jenny [Lindemer], for all the help and welcoming us into the steak house," said Kues. "Thank you to all vendors for b...
