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In last week’s first installment of the Pathfinder’s “winterizing” column, we shared pro-tips from locals for protecting homes, hearths and energy bills in the Seeley-Swan. Now, let’s venture to the place many Montanans care about most — outdoors — and discuss ways to winterize lawns, plants, chicken coops, livestock and more. Because as they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 1. Guard your gutters. When snowmelt can’t drain through your gutters, it turns to ice dams, which will wreak havoc on your roof (which you’ll a...
A change in global atmospheric circulation that affects weather around the world, La Niña is a cyclic weather phenomenon marked by wetter-than-average conditions. And according to predictions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), she’ll make her presence known throughout the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies from December through February, which means denizens of the Seeley-Swan and Potomac Valleys will want to be extra scrupulous about safeguarding their homes, hearths and energy bills from the ravages of Ol...
It's a curious sight - upwards of 120 mountain folks decked out in lobster bibs, trying to figure out how to operate stainless steel seafood crackers. And atop Potomac's Copper Cliff Road, it's become an annual early-fall phenomenon. A robust group of local bluegrass pickers, jamming in a circle, provided the soundscape for the Copper Cliff Cafe's capstone event of the season earlier this month - as they have at every dinner since the operation's 2019 inception. For this year's lobster feast,...
In a move meant to champion public sewer systems, Rep. Ryan Zinke expertly tossed a well casing line down a hole drilled some 40 feet into the ground on School Lane near Seeley Lake Elementary School last Thursday. "Well, I did come from three generations of plumbers," the Republican U.S. Congressman reasoned to the small group of civic leaders and reporters gathered around the groundwater monitoring well Zinke had come to test. Reeling in the well water sample - which was later revealed to...
Nearly 60 community members piled into Seeley Lake's Sullivan Community Hall last Tuesday evening to hear what the people vying to represent them in Helena had to say. Sponsored by the Seeley Swan Pathfinder, the candidate debate, moderated by editor Keely Larson, starred seven hopeful state representatives and senators, plus written statements shared aloud by Larson from one absent candidate. Audience members, about a third of whom wore bright red "Ted Morgan" t-shirts in support of House...
Last Thursday evening, upwards of 30 people piled into the Potomac Bar and Grill's compact upper level to talk secession. While meeting leaders themselves admitted to uncertainty about what jumping ship from Missoula County would look like, how exactly one goes about seceding and how possible, or even effective, such a measure would be, citizens present were aligned on the raison d'etre behind what some are referring to as Potomac's "Secession Movement:" rising property taxes; specifically, a...
On school day mornings, roving rural speech language pathologist Yolie Bodie Jandreau hops into a car well stocked with a colorful array of games, toys, picture books and craft supplies and, depending on the day of the week, motors off to either Swan Valley Elementary School in Condon, Seeley Lake Elementary School, Greenough's Sunset School, or Potomac Elementary School. Depending on the weather and destination, the journey can take upwards of an hour, or a mere five minutes. (As a Potomac...
