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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...
POTOMAC - Potomac hosted its second annual Craft Show Dec. 8 at the Potomac Greenough Community Center. Crafts at the event included wreaths, fudge, scarves and hats, wine holders, knives, canned jams, quilts, potholders and more. Potomac youth resident Hilde Hamilton played the violin as people shopped. Potomac eighth graders also helped with the effort. Hazel and Owen Tyler offered wild rice soup at their Paws Up Safe Home and home made knife booth. Each vendor kept their profits. The fee for...
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 - As part of its mission, the Seeley Lake Community Foundation (SLCF) endeavors to help charitable groups in Seeley Lake fund projects to benefit the community. In this capacity, the SLCF strives to be a community resource and catalyst for innovative approaches to improve the quality of life in Seeley Lake. Qualifying non-profit and public organizations are invited to submit proposals for 2019 projects. Applications that address one or more of the five areas of interest – Education, Arts & Culture, Community/ Economic D...
SEELEY LAKE - As a resident of the Sewer District (Dogtown) I try to stay informed and considered applying to fill the vacant board seat. I didn’t, due to other long standing commitments on the same night as the board meetings. I then heard that Troy Spence was planning on stepping down due to the hostile atmosphere of the board and its unwillingness to work towards a common goal as directed by the community through its last sewer board election. Since my commitments have been met, I was ready to seek that position. To my astonishment, the b...
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...
SEELEY LAKE – An informal survey unsurprisingly discovered that while turkey may conjure up Thanksgiving to most folks, Christmas is evoked by a wide variety of foods. A contingent of people boasting Norwegian descent – including Kelli Wold, Laurel Deniger, Deb Brewer, and the Capp Johnson family – continue to serve the traditional lutefisk dinner. Capp added lefse, rice pudding and boiled potatoes to the meal. Daniel Woods said his favorite Christmas food is a nice roast beef with gravy. Eric Samuli and son Nathan said ham is the tradi...
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 – The Seeley-Swan Mountain Bells rang in the holiday season with a concert at Double Arrow Lodge Dec. 6. The Lodge was packed as the 11 bell ringers, led by Director Joann Wallenburn, played traditional religious carols followed by a specially arranged medley of familiar and treasured Christmas tunes. The performance ended with an audience sing-along of six favorite tunes accompanied by the bells....
SWAN VALLEY - Swan Valley Connections Board Chair Barb Raible announced to the Swan Valley Community Council that Swan Valley Connections is the recipient of 160 acres within Section 31 in Condon at the Council meeting Dec. 4. SVCC Chair Ken Donovan also gave a report on the plans for the ice skating rink to be located in the arena area next to the Swan Valley Community Hall. Finally, the council is finishing up the final edits to the Swan Valley Regional Plan and preparing to send it to Missoula County for approval. Raible said that The Nature...
SWAN VALLEY - For the past two years, the Swan Valley community has been able to enjoy ice skating at the local arena turned ice rink during the winter. A group of individuals will bring an ice rink back to the inhabitants of the Valley however, this rink is different than the ones in the previous years. The Swan Valley Community Foundation is spearheading the project along with the Parent Teacher Association. The Foundation has funded several different outdoor activities, such as the Holland...
ANNUAL REAL ESTATE SALES CONTINUE TO TREND UPWARD THROUGH 2018 The year of 2018 has seen great success in home sales in both Seeley Lake and Condon. The local market is maintaining a great balance and generally is not tipped in favor of either buyers or sellers being at a negotiating advantage. Summer is generally the "selling season" and May through September is when a majority of the sales in the valley close. Tourism numbers in Glacier Park have tripled over the past four years, and we have...
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...
SEELEY LAKE – Mission Bible Fellowship's fellowship hall was filled with new and gently used toys and gifts for this year's annual Loving Hearts Toy Sale. While the turn out was less than in previous years, the volunteers were happy for the opportunity to help provide Christmas gifts to local families who may have otherwise had a hard time purchasing presents for their loved ones. Every year, Loving Hearts sets aside new and gently used toys that are donated. They also purchase new toys for the...
We’d have to be marooned on a deserted island or live in a hellhole like North Korea to not know the great Billy Graham passed away. Of all his preaching the one thing I remember most was how it changed the life of one native. I was at a men’s retreat and listened to a man whose testimony was so striking you’d never forget it. His mother left him as an infant on his grandmother’s porch and walked away. Raised without a father or mother, his best friend became John Barleycorn. Passed out on his couch after a drinking spree, he later woke staring...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Elementary Eagles boys basketball team is going into the Copper League Small Schools Tournaments as the first seed. Head Coach Brett Haines said it has been a great season with an athletic, solid team that has continued to improve their offense. This year there were 20 athletes on the A and B teams with seven eighth graders and one seventh grader on the A team. "When you have that many eighth graders you would like to see yourself at the top," said Haines. Haines s...
POTOMAC - Robert "Bob" G. Hall, a true pioneer of the Blackfoot Valley, served his family, community, county, state and nation. He was born Nov. 19, 1919 to Clarence Albert and Nina Gough Hall at Thornton Hospital in Missoula, Mont. and passed away Nov. 28 in Missoula. Bob attended Potomac Grade School and graduated from Missoula County High School in 1938. After high school he took a year off before attending Montana State University (Missoula) and joining Sigma Chi Fraternity. In May of 1941... Full story
LINCOLN CITY, ORE. - Helen Verna Andrews, 87, died peacefully on Nov. 27 surrounded by family in Lincoln City, Ore. at the end of the family's five-day Thanksgiving celebration. Helen was born on April 8, 1931 in Chicago, Ill. to Verna and Cecil Cole. Cecil's career moved Verna, sister Frances and Helen to several states throughout her childhood. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle and attended the University of Washington. Eugene A. Andrews and Helen married on July 14, 1951 in... Full story
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks and Lady Blackhawks took on Drummond for their first home game of the season Dec. 7. The Lady Blackhawks took an early lead over Drummond and kept a couple baskets ahead throughout the rest of the game to a final score of 61-55. Autumn Morse and Ashley Miller each scored 14 points to lead the Lady Blackhawks. Morse scored 2 of the team's 4 three-pointers. Kara Good and Taylor Dillree hit the other three-pointers. Also scoring: Good 9, Chloe Robbins 8,...
High speed chase ends in two arrests Saturday, Dec. 8 at approximately 3:51 p.m. a Missoula County Sheriff Office Deputy attempted to make a traffic stop near West Riverside. The vehicle did not stop and a pursuit began, continuing on Highway 200. The suspect vehicle was eventually spiked near mile marker one on Highway 83 where it came to a stop. Five occupants were in the vehicle, two were taken into custody (driver and passenger). Speeds reached up to approximately 95 mph and some vehicles...
SEELEY LAKE - James P. "Jim" Reilly, 90, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Dec. 8, surrounded by family. He was born October 30, 1928, in Northwood, North Dakota to William A. Reilly Sr. and Ellen Reilly. He married Florence E. Hauge on Oct. 11, 1947, and they were happily married for 68 years. They were blessed with three children, Mary, Teresa, and Timothy. Jim worked 33 years in the wholesale bread business in Grafton, Grand Forks, and Bismark, North Dakota, Ogden, Utah, Harve, Billings,... Full story
