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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...
HELENA – A complaint accusing House District 92 candidate Mike Hopkins of campaign ethics and finance reporting violations has been dismissed by Montana’s Commissioner of Political Practices Jeffrey Mangan. The complaint filed by Lee Bridges’ Campaign Manager Bridget Johnson stems from an ad placed by Mike Davis of Turah Mont. in the Pathfinder Nov. 1 attacking Bridges. Hopkins was accused of conspiring with Davis to place the ad, failing to provide Bridges’ campaign with the content of the ad as required by the Clean Campaign Act and failing...
SEELEY LAKE –Children and adults gathered Dec. 29 for the official opening of Seeley Lake ROCKS' new ice skating rink at the Seeley Lake Elementary School field. The Seeley Lake Lions Club supported the event with tables full of cookies and other treats, coffee, hot chocolate, a warming fire and a warm welcome for everyone. They also had a table of donated skates for use for free. Like many of the younger children, six-year-old Virginia Arroyo found her first attempt at skating unsettling and sh...
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...
Many moons ago we lived for a spell in the old Mount Emily railroad logging camp near Starkey, Ore., not far from Ukiah. Anyway, I was cutt'n timber up the Grande Ronde River. It paid 57 cents a log – we had to hustle. We ended up near an old gold mine. The lumber from the camp had long been packed away. Except for one. It was the house of ill repute. I guess no one wanted to admit whatever they rebuilt with it where the lumber came from. The road was maintained by the Forest Service. Every t...
Dear Seeley-Swan residents, Happy New Year! This month I am highlighting the I Ride Seeley Lake Van Service. This is an excellent service provided to us by the Seeley Lake Community Foundation, Seeley-Swan Medical Center Foundation and Missoula Ravalli Transportation Management Association. I Ride Seeley Lake Van Service provides rides to and from medical appointments in Seeley Lake and Missoula, for older adults and persons with disabilities. Rides can be scheduled by calling Yvonne Kinsey, I...
SEELEY LAKE – Alpine Artisans' 2 Valleys Stage Performing Arts Series will be ringing in the new year with The University of Montana's Jazz Ensemble! They will present a community concert at Seeley-Swan High School auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 3 p.m. The University of Montana has an outstanding jazz program, which includes three Jazz Bands and smaller Jazz combos. Students are selected through an audition process. This particular UM Jazz Ensemble is broken down into two smaller ensembles, B...
When a federal judge returned grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area to the threatened species list in September, he cited the bears' fragmented range in the lower 48 states as one of his justifications. It is hard to call a species recovered, he argued, when it is isolated from other wild populations, as Yellowstone's grizzlies are. Earlier this month, two conservation groups took an important step to ending that isolation. Twenty miles west of Missoula, near the confluence of western...
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...
MISSOULA - The Missoula Area Land Use Map and Land Use Element is available for public and agency comment. It is proposed as an amendment to the Missoula County Growth Policy following three rounds of public outreach and a year of gathering feedback from local neighborhoods and stakeholders. A draft of the proposed land use map and land use element is available online at: www.MissoulaAreaMapping.com. This amendment includes recent population projections, 15 new land use designations, implementation strategies and an updated land use map for...
For those of us who are old enough to remember the song “Hokey Pokey” you may remember the words went something like this, “You put your right foot in, you put your left foot out, then you do the Hokey Pokey and you shake it all about.” Why in the world did this song from years ago suddenly pop into my mind? I’m guessing it’s because I was reflecting on the scripture verses, both in the Psalms and in the book of James that talk about a “double minded man.” These verses reminded me that Christians often try to live with one foot in their faith...
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...
POTOMAC - Potomac School is offering a preschool program this year. Jodi Hausmann teaches the Potomac Early Learning Program in the Potomac School Library and History Center. The preschool program is part of Potomac School and funded by the Montana Comprehensive Literacy Project Grant. Potomac School was one of 21 Montana schools awarded the grant. There have been preschool and nursery programs throughout the years in Potomac including Little Lambs Preschool, Bear Creek Daycare and other...
Swan Valley AARP meeting, Jan. 8 SWAN VALLEY - The Swan Valley AARP will meet Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 12 p.m. at the Swan Valley Community Hall. A potluck lunch hosted by Mike Childs and Diann Ericson will begin at 12:30 p.m. At 1:30 p.m., there will be a brief business meeting after which Mike will read from “Teacher of the Year,” the book he is working on. The public is invited. FWP Seeks Input on Proposed Mountain Lion Management Strategy Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is seeking public review through Jan. 15 of a draft Montana Mou...
Thank God a group of Republican legislators have taken the initiative to rid Montana House of Representatives of a 30-year supermajority experiment that has contributed to hyper-partisanship disdained by most of Montana's citizens. The Montana constitution defines only a few cases when a legislative supermajority vote is needed, for example: before spending trust funds, amending the constitution or overriding a governor's veto. Nowhere does the constitution suggest the legislature should adopt supermajority rules that limit debate and centraliz...
