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SEELEY LAKE - The Montana Coaches Association (MCA) voted Seeley-Swan High School Track and Field Coach Mike Haines "Coach of the Year" for Class C Girls Track and Field after the team won the Class C state title this year. This is his third time receiving the award. He was recognized in 2014 and 2019 when the girls track team won the Class C state title. Haines described receiving the award again as humbling. "I'm blessed with having coached really good athletes and I have really good...
Spring Wildflower Hike, June 19 SEELEY LAKE – Clearwater Resource Council invites you to its second guided nature walk event June 19 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Gather friends, grab your boots come learn about spring wildflower identification! Steve Shelly, retired Forest Service Botanist, will be the guide and interpreter. The hike will be approximately three to four miles. It will occur rain or shine and will not allow dogs. Dress appropriately and provide your own water and snacks. The event will be limited to 20 participants. Please RSVP at htt...
GREENOUGH – The Sunset School families and friends gathered May 25 for a year-end celebration and to recognize their eighth-grade graduates Aiden Eichenlaub and Jase Root and kindergartner promotions for Hudson Skelton and Lily Kihara. This is the first time since 2014 that Sunset has graduated an eighth grader. Supervising teacher Toni Hatten said despite the global pandemic, Sunset's goal was to offer in-person learning and they achieved that all year. Although things were different, school w...
SWAN VALLEY - Veterans and residents gathered together on the Cold Creek Bridge in Condon to honor fallen military members at their Memorial Day ceremony Monday, May 31. During the ceremony, Edward Klassen, Swan Valley American Legion Post 63 commander, spoke about the history of Memorial Day and its incarnations across the U.S. before it became a national holiday in 1971. "These American veterans of all American conflicts are at rest now," he said. "We must bear the burden of carrying this...
GREENOUGH - Jesse D. Sims, 24 from Stevensville, Montana, succumbed to his injuries following a single-vehicle ATV accident in the early morning hours of May 29, near Clearwater Junction. No other persons were involved in the accident. Sims was a former Grizzly defensive lineman. A #37 legacy jersey holder, Sims was a four-year starter for the Grizzlies who earned All-Big Sky honors at defensive tackle following his senior season in 2019. Highly respected among his teammates and coaches, he was also a two-time recipient of Montana’s Larry M...
Lakeside Campground will be temporarily closed for the next two to four weeks due to a small landside in a recent construction area. Spring precipitation and runoff has made the area unstable. The group reservation site #3 will remain open/accessible to reservation holders only (through www.recreation.gov) and the campground host will facilitate access for those reservation holders. All other sites within Lakeside Campground will remain temporarily closed. Crews will work over the next few...
SEELEY LAKE - Late in the evening on May 25, a small debris slide was discovered covering a portion of the Cottonwood Lakes Road #477 adjacent to the Rice Ridge fire burned area. The slide is located ¼ mile west of the junction of Cottonwood Lakes Road #477 and Lower Cottonwood Road #9976. The slide is the result of heavy rain and soil saturation in the area which caused the slope above the road to slump and slide over Cottonwood Lakes Road #477. As a result of the slide, a 4-mile...
GREENOUGH – The public is invited to attend one of two Virtual Open Houses June 16 at 12 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to learn more about the Clearwater Junction Intersection study, provide comments and ask questions. The goal of this project is to reconfigure the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 200 to improve safety and traffic flow for all highway users. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and contracted engineering firm Robert Peccia & Associates are exploring improvement options for the intersection of Highway 200 and Highway 83, mo...
SEELEY LAKE – Nearly 100 members of the community joined together Monday, May 31 to remember and honor those veterans who sacrificed and gave their lives in service to our country. People looked through the name plaques that were recently mounted to the new kiosk to find those they loved and remember others from the community who served. "Our presence here is in solemn commemoration of all these men and women, an expression of their tribute to their devotion to duty, to their courage and p...
SEELEY LAKE - Students from Seeley Lake Elementary and Seeley-Swan High School showed off their talents at "Spotlight," a talent show featuring acts from both schools in the high school's small gym Tuesday, May 25. Acts ranged from a variety of fields including singing, dancing, magic tricks and science experiments. Music teacher Janet Morgenstern opened the show, highlighting that talent comes in many forms - what one sees as talent can be different for someone else. This was followed by a...
MISSOULA COUNTY - The results of a recent Missoula County Community Needs Assessment (CNA) survey showed that 68% of residents felt that the county should prioritize projects that increase the supply of housing affordable for all income levels. Based on these results, CAPS will communicate these priorities with County Commissioners. The Missoula County Community and Planning Services’ Grants and Community Programs Division divulged the results of their recent annual CNA survey during a virtual meeting Tuesday, May 25. This assessment was i...
SEELEY LAKE - Seeley-Swan High School graduate Locke Hassett is looking forward to returning to his hometown as he takes on his new position as Seeley Lake Elementary School Outdoor Program leader. He previously worked for the Outdoor Program in 2017. “I’m really just looking forward to seeing how much it’s grown,” he said. “When I worked there a couple years ago, back in 2017, we had maybe 10 kids max. And after speaking with [Program Director] Bridget Laird, she said that it’s grown quite a bit. So it’s just going to be really interesting t...
SWAN VALLEY - The Swan Valley Elementary School Board held a discussion on how they should approach advertising an open part-time principal/teacher position during a special meeting Wednesday, May 26. They unanimously voted to have Erin Lipkind, Missoula County superintendent of schools, and District Clerk Heather Mincey create an advertisement for the position on the school’s website with the stipulation that it could be modified at any time. They also certified their new trustee Sophie Trull. Ralph King served as the school’s principal for...
MISSOULA – At the University of Montana, 2,550 undergraduate students made the spring semester 2021 Dean’s List or President’s 4.0 List. The University of Montana Western named 540 students to the 2021 spring semester Dean’s List. Several students from Condon, Potomac and Seeley Lake were included. To qualify for the UM Lists, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits. Double asterisks after a name indicate the student earned a 4.0 GPA. A single asterisk indicates...
MISSOULA COUNTY - Missoula County’s Epidemiological Situation Unit provided updates on COVID-19 and vaccinations in the county during a virtual press conference Wednesday, May 26. D’Shane Barnett, Incoming Missoula City-County Health Department (MCCHD) director and health officer, congratulated the county on having the highest vaccination rate in the state of Montana. “I am inheriting a great department,” Barnett said. “And all of the work that has been done has led to Missoula County really leading the way in the state when it comes to COVID-...
SEELEY LAKE - Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) Bear Specialist Jamie Jonkel and Rob Green, an environmental studies graduate student with the University of Montana, unloaded building supplies outside of The Ice Cream Place with the help of restaurant Co-owner Paul Daniels Thursday, May 27. The supplies are intended for an electric fence meant to keep bears from getting into the restaurant's dumpster. Jonkel said he expects the project to take roughly a week with the goal of having it compl...
In celebration of 35 years of the Seeley Swan Pathfinder, each week we will run parts of articles that appeared in the issue 35 years ago and 20 years ago. The entire issue will be uploaded to our website seeleylake.com for you to enjoy. We hope you will enjoy the journey with us as we follow our community through the past 35 years as documented by the Pathfinder. 35 years ago: June 5, 1986 issue Microwave radiation different from Chernobyl radiation The radiation in microwave ovens is not the s...
Trail Condition Report started for season SWAN VALLEY – Trail conditions for the Mission Mountain Wilderness and Swan Front are now available from June through October online at https://www.swanvalleyconnections.org/trail-conditions. Daughter of the Sun Back Country Services provides the reports published by Swan Valley Connections. They include general information, warnings, timely notices and road conditions to favorite hiking trails and designations in the Swan Valley. Applicants sought for expanded Seeley Lake Cemetery Board Missoula C...
MISSOULA - All Missoula County offices will reopen to the public on Tuesday, June 1 with the following guidelines in place: • Masks are no longer required of employees, public or clients within county buildings. It is strongly recommended for individuals who have not had the opportunity to or cannot be vaccinated to continue wearing masks. Signage will continue encouraging the wearing of masks inside. • No individual inquiries as to vaccination status are permitted. Please note that some departments may continue requiring masks in certain are...
Congratulations 2021 Graduates!! SSHS Graduation: Sunday, June 6 SSHS, 1 PM. Guests invitation only Speaker: Sandee Cahoon Valedictorian: Klaire Kovatch Salutatorian: Jordan Johnson... Full story
GREENOUGH - Ryan Sokoloski, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks park manager for Placid Lake, Salmon Lake and Beavertail Hill State Parks, said that the Clearwater Junction RV dump site will be closed indefinitely unless something changes substantially. According to him, in spring 2019 FWP saw the site's system fail repeatedly for a multitude of reasons. The built-in alarm system continually went off and when maintenance workers went in to fix the issue they would have to manually override it to get...
SEELEY LAKE - Volunteers with the Veterans and Families of Seeley Lake (VFSL) did some maintenance work to the Memorial Garden Tuesday, May 18 in preparation for Memorial Day. Aside from cleaning the grounds and removing weeds, the biggest change the site saw was at the kiosk. The wooden plaques were replaced with metal-engraved ones. The new kiosk features metal-engraved plaques that will be protected from the elements under a roof. The previous version had wooden plaques hung on a chain....
SWAN VALLEY - Henry Meyer Jr. and Joan Rodamer celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on May 11. They were married May 11, 1951 in South Carolina. Henry and Joan were high school sweethearts from Lyndhurst, New Jersey. They wanted to get married and have a church ceremony but Joan's parents did not approve of the marriage. The thought of Henry sweeping Joan away to some remote, untamed location and "homesteading" was not what they wanted for their young daughter. Although Joan was 20 years...
POTOMAC - After having studied the Middle Ages, the sixth through eighth grade students together with the staff decided to host Medieval Days May 18 - 19. Social Studies teacher Jessica Van Kerkhove said the goal of Medieval Days was to provide a more hands-on experience for students to learn about the Middle Ages. The Middle School teachers were royalty presiding over their 'kingdoms.' Each kingdom was set in a classroom closely resembling manors. Van Kerkhove explained that each kingdom had...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Sewer District Board appointed Cheri Thompson to serve on the Board and adopted an equal assessment method for next year’s tax assessment at their May 20 meeting. In other business, the Board hired an interim manager, heard a presentation on a water study in the area and discussed studying the groundwater with the Health Department. Thompson was the only applicant to fill Director Walt Hill’s seat after he resigned in February. The Board interviewed Thompson at the meeting. Thompson said the reason she applied is b...
