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SWAN VALLEY – Even though Swan Valley School did not have an audience this year for their Christmas Program, it did not squash their Holiday Spirit. Singing with their class in the fresh snow or in their classroom, students shared songs of the season that were videoed and shared on the Swan Valley School's private Facebook page. Wednesday, Dec. 16 Jamie Matthew's third – fifth grade class chose to do their Christmas Program outside. "We live in such a beautiful area, and we were able to spread o...
POTOMAC - The Potomac School Board unanimously approved the Revised Return to School Plan with an amendment during their monthly meeting on Monday, Dec. 14. In their discussion, the board talked about the transition process into online learning if an outbreak were to take place at the school. They decided that if the school hits its “trigger point,” then it would go online. The trigger point is when two teachers have to quarantine or 33% of students test positive. In addition, board members unanimously voted to revise the Family Onsite Ins...
3/4 cup sifted flour 1 tsp. baking powder 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/2 tsp. salt 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup sugar 2/3 cup canned solid pack pumpkin 1 cup chopped walnuts Cream cheese filling (Recipe follows) Cream Cheese Filling: Beat together 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 - 8 ounce package cream cheese, 6 Tbsp. butter and 1 tsp. vanilla until smoothe. Preheat oven to 375O. Grease a 15” x 10” x 1” jelly-roll pan. line with wax paper, grease and flour wax paper • Sift dry ingredients together. Set aside. • Beat eggs...
GREENOUGH - Sunset Elementary School students were busy on Thursday, Dec. 17 filming their scenes for "Christmas Sprinkles," a brand new anthological holiday program. Supervising Teacher Toni Hatten said she chose the collection of skits because the format could be virtually adapted had the school closed. However, she was glad the students could perform together, even though there was not an audience. "I'm so glad that we didn't have to [go virtual], because I'm not sure technically how we...
SEELEY LAKE - Tanya Fyfe's "The Runaways of Missing Lake" won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best in Teen Fiction, Tuesday, Dec. 15. This is the first award for Fyfe's fourth book in the series about Luke and the Dragons of Missing Lake. For the past 38 years, the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs, recognize some of the finest books published by their members. The Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards are given to independently published books in a wide variety of categories....
SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake Elementary School's third grade class was declared the winner of the school's annual door decoration contest with their snow globe compilation on Friday, Dec. 18. They will receive a hot cocoa bar when they get back from break. The sixth grade class came in second and the first graders came in third. They will respectively win a popcorn party and a treat bag. Organizer Toni Sexton said the intent of the contest was simply to do something fun and help bring a little...
Historical purists might claim the first Christmas card was the elaborately decorated, 33 inch by 24 inch three-panel manuscript given to King James I of England (aka King James IV of Scotland) in 1611. The center panel contained a rose with a Christmas and New Year greeting around it, while the side panels had four poems and a song. Among non-purists, Sir Henry Cole is more commonly accepted as the originator of the Christmas card in 1843. According to the standards of Victorian England, it...
Swan Valley Library is closed until Jan. 4 SWAN VALLEY - Due to COVID-19 quarantine, the Swan Valley Library is closed. Cleaning and disinfecting are taking place. The Library will reopen Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 at 10 a.m. Thank you for your patience. The Swan Valley Library is located on Highway 83 in Condon and is just north and adjacent to the Swan Valley Community Hall. The library is open Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. For more information call 406-754-2521 or 406-754-2377. Applications...
SEELEY LAKE – While serving on a Naval ship in Vietnam, Larry Busby received a letter from a Californian woman he had never met. "It was something to receive that kind of a letter from Gwen," said Larry who was from Oklahoma. "All the guys were envious. I was walking in tall cotton." Larry followed the instructions in the letter that said, "Remember where you were when you open the letter so when you return, you can tell me." Upon his return to the states a few months later, he met Gwen. They we...
SEELEY LAKE - Residents stopped by Tamaracks Resort's Seeley Lake cabin on Saturday Dec. 12 to take pictures with Santa as well as pick up a toy and stocking from Tamaracks' Giving Tree. The event also featured a bonfire, hot beverages and a raffle for prizes courtesy of Energy Partners. Winners were announced on the Resort's Facebook page. On one of the Christmas trees organizers hung envelopes containing free gift cards to Rovero's and Cory's Valley Market. Tamaracks Events Coordinator Tera...
SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake Elementary students spread Christmas cheer at their Winter Program on Friday, Dec. 11 inside the school's gym. K-12 Music Teacher Janet Morgenstern led the entire program including directing the band that incorporated Seeley-Swan High School students. Morgenstern said she was working under several limitations while leading the school's performances for the first time since joining the school in September. Under normal circumstances she would prefer to make larger...
SEELEY LAKE – After receiving grant funds totaling $1,500 to "Light up Seeley Lake," the Seeley Lake Community Foundation has distributed more than a half mile of lights to 28 participants along Highway 83, including two honorable mentions, from the Seeley Lake Historical Museum and Visitors Center north to Energy Partners. Not only is Highway 83 through Seeley Lake offering more of a light display this holiday season, the community as a whole appears to have joined the effort. As part of Reimag...
SEELEY LAKE – For the past two years, students at Seeley Lake Elementary School have the opportunity to be creative in their classrooms thanks to community support through the Alpine Artisans, Inc (AAI) Giving Tree for art supplies. The AAI Giving Tree is continuing again this year raising money for supplies that support art in the classrooms. Seeley Lake artist Kris Gullikson started the Giving Tree for art supplies in 2018. “The idea came from my heart being an artist. I knew that the supplies they had were limited,” said Gullikson. “I saw th...
Missoula County will distribute up to $625,000 in grant funding to help local businesses impacted by the pandemic retain jobs for low- and moderate-income employees through the COVID-19 Small Business Job Retention Fund. Applications opened Dec. 10 and grant funding will be awarded and distributed in January. Application packages will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. The grants will be supported through the Community Development Block Grant Economic Development Revolving Loan Fund, which is comprised of Department of Housing...
SEELEY LAKE – This Saturday community members and businesses are invited to build a float, decorate their vehicles, trailers, UTVs and ATVs and meet at the Seeley Lake Chicken Coop at 5 p.m. for the Christmas Caravan of Lights. Organizer Mike Weigel said the caravan, with their lights and Christmas music playing, will drive around Seeley Lake, through the Double Arrow Ranch and possibly around the lake. There will also be hayrides, a bonfire and music playing at the Chicken Coop parking lot for those that just want to come and have fun. “Just c...
SEELEY LAKE - As part of the movement to "Light up Seeley Lake" coupled with Mountain Lakes Presbyterian Church's mission to bring joy to the community during the COVID pandemic, Mountain Lakes' Worship Ministry Team is offering free luminary packets for community members to take home and display Christmas Eve. Starting Dec. 20, the luminary packets will be available in a basket on the front porch of the Church, 3292 Highway 83 North. Each packet includes five luminary bags, tea lights and...
SEELEY LAKE – At the Seeley-Swan Hospital District board meeting Dec. 8, Partnership Health Center (PHC) Executive Director Laurie Francis updated the board on PHC’s COVID response and operations. The board also voted to authorize an additional $1,250 in legal fees in response to the proposed RV Park on land adjacent to the Seeley-Swan Medical Center. Francis said as of Tuesday, six out of the 16 staff at the Medical Center were currently home due to COVID-19 quarantine requirements. This is a similar percentage at the other PHC clinics. PHC...
SEELEY LAKE - Around 45 people passed through Mission Bible Fellowship on Tuesday, Dec. 8 to pick up some gifts at a heavy discount during Loving Hearts' annual Christmas Toy and Gift Sale. Loving Hearts Manager Mary Newpower said the event had to go forward despite COVID-19 because members of the community were depending on it to give their children toys for Christmas. Most of the products available cost anywhere from $0.50 - $4. "Our community is structured with so many people in service jobs...
Since Thanksgiving, radio and streaming platforms have begun overflowing with the gauntlet of holiday songs Americans have come to expect every year. Over the course of multiple holiday seasons, certain songs return again and again until they are integrated into the wider American population’s consciousness even outside the holiday season. Christmas carols have ventured beyond their exclusively religious contexts and have entered into more secular environments as technology, marketing and distribution have evolved to keep up with the s...
Free meals for students over Winter Break SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake Elementary is offering free meals to anyone under the age of 18 during the Winter Break (Dec. 21 – Jan. 1). A box containing five days worth of breakfasts and lunches can be picked up at SLE from 12 – 2 p.m. on Mondays, Dec. 21 and Dec. 28. To sign up for a food box, please fill out the form https://forms.gle/6vsbPoVC2pz6KFBJA. To guarantee a box for Monday, please complete the form by 12 p.m. on Wednesday. Please contact SLE with any questions, 406-677-2265. Loving Hearts fre...
SEELEY LAKE – After being prompted into action by the repainting of the carved bears and Clearwater Mini Storage's new Welcome sign on the west side of Highway 83, local artist and graphic designer Kris Gullikson replaced the old "Welcome to Seeley Lake" sign. She has been part of the effort to install gateway signs on the north and south end of Seeley Lake for 35 years. "I wanted to be proud of coming home - and have others here feel the same," wrote Gullikson in an email. The idea to brand S...
CONDON – When Mike Williams was two years old, his family moved to Condon and his father went to work at the sawmill at Gordon Ranch. Mike attended grade school in Seeley Lake, high school in Missoula and two years of college at Bozeman. When he dropped out of Montana State University, things started moving fast. Williams said, "We had an early Thanksgiving dinner and somebody went out to get the mail. While I was eating Thanksgiving dinner, I opened my draft notice!" It was 1967, a time of m...
GREENOUGH - "I didn't know snowmobiles could fly," said four-year-old Olivia Bourne in awe as she watched professional riders Seeley Lake native Caleb Kesterke and Kyle Saxton of Big Fork, Montana doing freestyle snowmobile tricks more than 30 feet in the air. While "flying" is a huge rush, both Kesterke and Saxton agree that training at Kesterke's freestyle campus at Clearwater Junction in the off-season is helping them learn tricks that they can incorporate into their backcountry riding this...
SWAN VALLEY - The Swan Valley Community Giving Tree was put up this week at the Mission Mountains Mercantile and is ready to accept gifts. Also added to the Community Giving Tree are tags with varying amounts to support the Alpine Artisans Art Supplies Giving Tree for Swan Valley Elementary. Anyone is encouraged to leave a wrapped gift under the tree to be handed out to those who are less fortunate or alone this season. Please mark the gift for man, woman, boy or girl. The Merc will ensure it...
SEELEY LAKE –While National Forest Service roads generally close to wheeled vehicles Dec. 1, due to the lack of snow this year on the Seeley Lake Ranger District, the roads remain open until grooming begins. There will also be temporary road and snowmobile trail closures in place throughout the winter to provide for public safety during logging and fuel treatment activities. Dec. 1 marks the annual date that Forest Service roads typically transition to over-snow-trails restricting access to motorized, wheeled vehicles. However, District R...
