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SEELEY LAKE – On the morning of Oct. 16, Mike Boltz, owner of the Seeley Lake Motor Lodge, looked out his kitchen window to see one of his septic tank pumps and its piping laying on the surface of the ground. Unfortunately it was not entirely a surprise for Boltz who said it was the fourth time his septic system has been the target of vandalism in the last six months. This time he reported the vandalism to law enforcement. Boltz said most of the vandalism is more of an irritation than an e...
The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks added a pair of wins to their record last week defeating Plains and the Clark Fork Co-op. The Lady Blackhawks made quick work of Plains Oct. 15 putting them down in three games, 25-12, 25-9 and 25-19. More than a third of the Lady Blackhawks’ points came from aces and kills. Dani Sexton and Jordan Johnson had 3 aces each while Klaire Kovatch and Sariah Maughan had 2 aces each. Kovatch and Bethany Hoag had 5 kills each while Maughan had 4, Aspen Conley had 3 and Trista Wendel had 2. Johnson had 15 of the t...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks hosted the Arlee Warriors for their last home game of the season Oct. 17. The Blackhawks came out strong scoring a touchdown in the opening minutes and then following up with another with four minutes remaining in the first quarter. Both touchdowns were passes where Quarterback Walker McDonald connected with Owen Hoag. The first touchdown was a 29-yard play while the second was for 70 yards. Neither conversion was successful. Both teams had several unsucc...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks defeated the Victor Pirates for their homecoming game Oct. 10. The Lady Blackhawks took game one with ease, 25-11, but had a little more trouble with the Pirates in game two. They led the whole game up until the end when the Pirates gave them a little scare, taking the lead 23-24. The Pirates' luck ran out however and the Lady Blackhawks defeated them 26-24. The third and final game was another blowout, 25-5. Lady Blackhawk Sariah Maughan said the t...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks hosted the Darby Tigers for their homecoming Oct. 9. The Blackhawks offense got off to a rough start after the Tiger's kickoff. They bobbled the first snap of the game, giving the Tigers the ball on the Blackhawks' 23-yard line. The Blackhawks defense held the Tigers to just a couple yards in four plays giving the offense a second chance. Another wild snap nearly gave the Tigers a safety. The Blackhawks cleaned it up and that would be the closest the T...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks had a busy week hosting Clark Fork Sept. 29 and Drummond Oct. 1 and traveled to Darby Oct. 3. The Lady Blackhawks made quick work of the Clark Fork Co-op Mountain Cats defeating them in three sets 25-20, 25-8 and 25-12. Bethany Hoag led the Lady Blackhawks with 7 kills while Ava Thornsberry, Klaire Kovatch and Sariah Maughan served up 4 aces each. Kovatch led the defense with 5 blocks and 6 digs. Drummond proved to be a more worthy adversary. A...
PHILIPSBURG – The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks headed up Flint Creek to face the Titans Oct. 2. The Blackhawks had a good opening drive, marching the ball all the way down to within the 10-yard line before being shut down by the Titan’s defense. After the initial success, the Blackhawks found themselves up the creek without a paddle. The Titans ran in two touchdowns in the first quarter and three more in the second racking up 36 points while shutting the Blackhawks out. The Blackhawks found more success stopping the Titans offense in the second hal...
HOT SPRINGS – The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks faced the Savage Heat on the road Sept. 24. The Lady Blackhawks felt the heat in the first set falling 22-25. They fought their way back taking the next three sets 25-15, 25-20 and 25-17 to win the match. Klaire Kovatch and Bethany Hoag led the Lady Blackhawks at the net with 11 and 10 kills respectively. Setters Aspen Conley and Jordan Johnson had 12 and 11 assists each while Ava Thornsberry had 3 aces. Kovatch led the team on the defense with 4 blocks and 6 digs. The Lady Blackhawks have three m...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks hosted the Clark Fork Co-op Mountain Cats Sept. 25 in front of their biggest home field crowd of the season. The Missoula City-County Health Department backed off on some of the attendance restrictions just hours before kickoff making it possible for 200 fans to attend. The Blackhawks stopped the Cats' opening drive at the 26-yard line but were unable to move the ball forward offensively. They got pushed back to their own 11-yard line before running o...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Sewer District Board continued discussing holding a bond election and rejected an ordinance reinforcing a resolution mandating connections at its Sept. 17 meeting. The Board also received a proposal that would keep the District from having to pay $350,000 in legal bills to defend the District from Don Larson’s lawsuit. In other business the Board approved paying its past due legal bills after negotiations, the Board gave a landowner a letter stating it wouldn’t initiate annexing their property and Director Pat G...
ST IGNATIUS – The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks headed over the mountains to take on the Bulldogs Sept. 18. Ahead of the game the Blackhawks accepted an invitation to participate in a presentation and discussion on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The Blackhawks and Bulldogs stood together as one team during the presentation. In a letter of gratitude and thanks to Seeley-Swan's coaches and athletes, St. Ignatius' Principal Shawn Hendrickson explained that St. Ignatius has students and staff w...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks faced two opponents last week starting off in Victor Sept. 10 and then back on the home court Sept. 12 facing Granite. The Lady Blackhawks blew the Victor Pirates out of the water in three sets, 25-19, 25-9 and 25-16. More than a third of their total points against the Pirates came from kills and aces. Bethany Hoag led the way with 8 kills followed by Klaire Kovatch, Kyla Conley and Aspen Conley with 4 each. Sariah Maughan had two kills and led w...
THOMPSON FALLS – The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks traveled to take on the Blue Hawks in Thompson Falls Sept. 11. It was brutal game for the Blackhawks. They were down 22 points by the end of the first quarter and 38 by the half. While the second half wasn’t quite the blowout of the first, they fell 0-52. The Blackhawks struggled to move the ball on the ground or in the air. It wasn’t for lack of trying as they had 32 carries but were only able to average 2.6 yards per carry for a total of 84 yards in the game. The Blackhawks were only able to complet...
SEELEY LAKE – The Blackhawks kicked off to the Victor Pirates Sept. 4 for their opening game of the season. The Pirates' opening drive came to an abrupt end after just a couple plays with a fumble that was recovered by the Blackhawks' Hunter Carpenter. The Blackhawks' offense took over on the 20-yard line. After two unsuccessful runs up the middle, Blackhawks Quarterback Sawyer Shelmerdine went to the air. He sent a lateral pass to Owen Hoag who, with help from Ben Haley blocking, was able to ta...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks improved their record to 2-1 with a pair of wins last week against the Valley Christian Eagles and the Lincoln Lynx. The Lady Blackhawks traveled to Missoula to take on the Eagles Sept. 3 and defeated them in four sets: 25-23, 25-15, 19-25 and 25-23. The match was a first for the Lady Blackhawks playing without their fans attending due to COVID-19 restrictions. At their home games the number of fans has been limited but not eliminated. Senior A...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks volleyball team took to the court for the much anticipated season opener against Charlo Aug. 27. The Lady Blackhawks fell to Charlo in the first two sets 17-25 and 16-25 before coming back to take the third set 25-17. The fourth set was hard fought with neither team being able to build much advantage over the other. The Lady Blackhawks had a small lead mid way though but that would soon evaporate and Charlo took the set 20-25 to win the match. K...
SEELEY LAKE – An early morning thunderstorm Aug. 19 was a rude awaking for many in the valley but it proved to be especially rude for the Bertsch family who lives on Boy Scout Road in Seeley Lake. About 15 minutes after a lightning strike shook their house their son received a call from his friend Ben Haley informing them their shop down the road was on fire. Ben and his mom just happened to be driving by around 7:30 a.m. when he spotted what looked like smoke. He kept looking as they drove b...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Sewer District Board had a marathon meeting stretching over four hours on Aug. 20. The board covered many topics ranging from a cash shortfall, potential bond election, mandating hookups, legal bills, water testing results and other regular business. District Manager Jean Curtiss informed the Board that the District has around $34,000 to operate in the coming months after paying this month’s invoices. The first half of this year’s property tax bills are not due until the end of November so the District won’t...
Ryan Craig, the editor and publisher of the Todd County Standard - a weekly newspaper in Elkton, Kentucky, ran a story encouraging farmers to attend a very important meeting on agricultural zoning. The future of farming could be changed at this meeting but the crowd at the meeting was sparse. The next morning at the local greasy spoon, Craig walked up to the table full of farmers and asked why they didn’t come to the meeting. Didn’t they know how important it was? One of the farmers stopped eating his eggs, looked up and said, “We didn’t go bec...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Sewer District Board voted to stick with a market value excluding improvements method for spreading the cost of the annual District operating budget at a Special Board meeting Aug. 3. Then they set the assessments at a hearing Aug. 6. The Board held another special meeting following the hearing, where they voted to continue seeking information regarding a bond election that could change how the District pays for the proposed sewer system. At the Aug. 3 special meeting Manager Jean Curtiss presented the Board w...
Sunday, Aug. 6, marked the 75th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Seeley Lake resident Cheri Thompson shared her father Ivan Odom's account of the aftermath. Odom served in the Air Force as a cargo pilot and flew C-47s during the Pacific Theater in WWII. He joined the Air Force in February, 1943 and received orders to return home in December of 1945. During his time in the Air Force Odom wrote many letters to his parents including one...
SEELEY LAKE – At the July 16 Seeley Lake Sewer District Board meeting, Missoula City/County Health Department Environmental Health Specialist II Jim Erven told the Board that if the proposed sewer system were scrapped by the voters in the District, there would be a government response of some kind. “One thing that will not be acceptable is a do nothing option,” said Erven Erven felt the need to make a statement at the Board meeting after the Health Department saw the agenda item considering putting the proposed sewer to a vote of the elect...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Sewer District Board covered a wide range of topics at their July 16 meeting. They signed a resolution recommitting to move the project forward while considered a different method of financing, discussed appealing the denial for attorney’s fees in the lawsuit against the District and reconsidered the annual fee assessment methodology. The District also received an invoice from Beal Law Firm for nearly $15,000 for the lawsuit filed and then withdrawn on behalf of the District against newly elected President Tom Mor...
MISSOULA – District Court Judge Leslie Halligan denied the Seeley Lake Sewer District’s motion for award of attorney’s fees against Don Larson but granted the District its Verified Bill of Costs totaling $510.24. Halligan declined to rule on a motion by the Plaintiffs to disqualify the District’s attorney Jon Beal. Halligan dismissed the lawsuit that was filed by Larson in June of 2018 on May 21, 2020. Approximately a week after the case was dismissed, Beal filed a motion to award attorney’s fees. In the order denying attorney’s fees, Halli...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Sewer District held a special meeting June 22 to take action on issues stemming from their attorney resigning from his position as the Board’s business counsel. They also discussed and voted to withdraw a lawsuit initiated by the District and filed on June 12 against newly elected Directors Tom Morris and Jason Gilpin. The meeting started out with a discussion on what was on the agenda and what was not. On the District’s website, information for the meeting listed several actions the Board may take, however, the a...
