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For the past eight years, members of the Seeley Lake Volunteer Fire Company have stood in remembrance Sept. 11 holding flags for 102 minutes in front of the Seeley Lake Post Office. This is the amount of time it took for the first of the two Twin Towers in New York City to fall after being hit that fateful day in 2001. This year was no different as they paid tribute to those who lost their lives and all of the medics and firefighters who responded. Seeley Lake Volunteer Emergency Medical...
OVANDO - The Blackfoot Trumpeter Swan Restoration Program marked its 12th year of releasing swans in the Blackfoot Valley Sept. 8. Eight trumpeter swan cygnets were released at Jones Lake near Ovando in an effort to restore trumpeter swans to their historical territory in the Blackfoot Valley. State Coordinator for the Montana Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program Greg Neudecker led the program in which seven area schools participated in the release. While the birds were being banded and...
MISSOULA – Wildland fire officials with the Missoula County Fire Protection Association (MCFPA) have reported widespread rain and cooler temperatures within their jurisdictions. Longer, cooler nights will prolong the rain’s effect on the fuels that are the primary carrier of fire on the landscape. These conditions will move Missoula County fire danger rating from VERY HIGH to MODERATE effective Sept. 7. While the General Outdoor Burning season for yard debris cleanup is closed until March 2017, Prescribed Wildland Burning and Essential Agr...
SEELEY LAKE - Candidates for the November election will present themselves at two Candidates Forums, hosted by the Seeley Lake Community Council. The first one will be held next Monday, Sept. 19, at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Hall. Invitations have gone out to all Democrat (D), Libertarian (L) and Republican (R) candidates. Most have responded positively, some are still unsure whether they will attend, and a few have said that they cannot make it. At press time the following candidates have announced that they will appear: Mike Fellows (US...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Ranger District will host a free half-day (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) National Public Lands Day event Saturday, Sept. 24 at Monture Guard Station. The event will include a tour of the historic Guard Station, demonstrations on the use of primitive tools, packing stock, identifying noxious weeds, analyzing soils, practicing leave no trace principles, operating a district fire engine and more! Bring your family and your lunch and the Forest Service will provide drinks, dessert and free t-shirts (while they last). Meet S...
LINCOLN - Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild (BPSW) launched the 2016 Artist-in-Residence program on Monday, Sept.12. BPSW will host British environmental artist Chris Drury and University of Montana Graduate Emerging Artist Tyler Nansen during the three-week residency program. The completed sculpture installations will be officially launched at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 2 p.m. Chris Drury, the internationally celebrated environmental artist from the United Kingdom has been creating ground breaking...
SEELEY LAKE – The topic of the Sept. 8 Pure Montana Tales held at SLE Outside was the Crown of the Continent (CC). The featured speakers were Rick and Susie Graetz. Their credentials include more than 30 books, the most recent entitled "Rocky Mountain Front." In addition, Susie is Managing Editor of The University of Montana (UM) Press and Managing Editor of the university's e-magazine "Crown of the Continent and the Greater Yellowstone." Rick teaches four Crown of the Continent courses each y...
SEELEY LAKE - Seeley-Swan High School (SSHS) students returned to school Aug. 29. Along with the renovations to the building, SSHS is participating in the Challenge Success program offered by Stanford University and will be offering Altacare mental health services. Funded by the Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS) bond passed last November, the renovations to SSHS will be completed by Thanksgiving. Once the glass comes in for the front entrance, students will be using key cards for entry and the public will be buzzed in. The public library...
OVANDO - The Ovando Community Education Endowment (OCEE) group will be hosting an old-time community square and folk dance Friday, Sept. 23 at the Ovando School. The purpose of the dance is to raise funds for the endowment and to provide a fun evening to bring folks together to celebrate the school and community. The Ovando School is a two-room schoolhouse that provides a unique and excellent educational experience for the preschool to eighth grade students who attend. The school with its attached gym and library also serves as the center of...
SWAN VALLEY - Fern Kauffman is starting a new chapter after working for the Swan Valley Library for more than 30 years. Kauffman has seen many changes in her tenure. Her biggest joy has been her love of helping patrons find the information they were looking for, whether in a book or on the Internet. The Swan Valley Library opened in 1979. The community built and maintained the building. They were the first branch library with Missoula County Public Library (MCPL). "We are so far from everything...
GREAT FALLS — It’s National Preparedness Month, a time when the American Red Cross of Montana encourages people across our state to create a fire escape plan so that everyone knows what to do if a fire happens in their home. “Large-scale disasters like wildfires and floods always make the news but the most common disaster threat people face across our country is a fire in their home,” said Diane Wright, Executive Director of Montana Red Cross. “Here in Montana, we respond to home fires almost every day. We urge residents to develop a fire escap...
Recycling & Hazardous Waste Disposal Available Sept. 16 & Sept. 17 MISSOULA - An opportunity for residents to bring household toxics such as pesticide, oil, antifreeze, oil-based paint, thinners, fuel, mercury etc for safe disposal. Most items are accepted for free. Non-Missoula County residents and all businesses pay for disposal. For specific items accepted and associated costs, visit www.hazwastemissoula.com or call 258-4890. Event runs 9 a.m. -5:30 p.m. Sept. 16 and 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sept. 17, at the Missoula City Shops Building, 1305 S...
SWAN VALLEY – "June 27, 1992 at exactly 23:17, not that I can remember the date and time," said Missoula County Sheriff's Sergeant Robert Parcell as he quickly recalled the exact date and time he was shot by Gordon Sellner, then 53-years-old, of the Swan Valley. Parcell along with Missoula County Sheriff T.J. McDermott, Undersheriff Jason Johnson and retired Sheriff Doug Chase attended Sellner's second parole hearing Aug. 31. Sellner was denied parole and can reapply in three years. The day b...
SWAN VALLEY - Swan Valley Connections hosted an Open House with the Flathead National Forest (FNF) Forest Planning Team and Swan Lake Ranger District (SLRD) Rich Kehr Aug. 31. Nearly 50 people attended the event to better understand what is being proposed in the draft forest plan, what can and cannot be done on the ground and clear up misinformation. Comments on the proposed draft forest plan are due Oct. 3. The FNF began forest plan revision in the summer of 2013. The planning team did field...
MISSOULA - Senator Jon Tester met with a coalition of timber workers, ranchers, small business owners and conservationists Aug. 30 to discuss potential legislation that could complete the land management reform efforts in the Blackfoot Clearwater watershed. For nearly a decade, Tester and the coalition have been working to finalize the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project (BCSP) — a land management reform effort that consists of timber harvest, forest restoration, conservation and recreation south and west of the Bob Marshall Wilderness. T...
GREENOUGH – Sunset School will be offering bus services to and from school for the first time this year. Majestic Bus Services will be transporting students from three stops in the Greenough area starting the first day of school, Sept. 6. “We have always been told it would cost too much,” said Supervising Teacher Toni Hatten. “I never thought it would happen.” Sunset School board approved the contract with Majestic Bus Services of Missoula, Mont. Friday, Sept. 2 for the 2016-2017 school year. Since Majestic Bus Services is already in the area...
LINCOLN - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) euthanized a grizzly bear on Thursday, Sept. 1. The bear had a history of accessing unsecured attractants at homes sites and eventually began breaking into structures over the past month, in search of food. The 240-pound sub-adult male grizzly bear was originally captured in the Basin Creek area northwest of Boulder, Mont. Aug. 16 after returning to a private residence several times looking for food and causing property damage. FWP relocated the bear to a remote area northwest of Lincoln, Mont. in...
Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) and Swan Valley Elementary School (SVES) are looking forward to another school year with a few new faces in the classroom, continuing many activities funded through the 21st Century Grant and new services being offered. Seeley Lake Elementary SLE welcomes five new teachers this year. Jama Mauldin will teach preschool. Mauldin worked with Altacare last year. Ericka Pitman moved from SVES to teach fifth grade at SLE. Andrew Wyatt, who taught fifth grade last year at SLE, will be the new Title One and International...
POTOMAC - The Montana Department of Natural Resources (DNRC) has installed signs within the Potomac block of land that belongs to the school land trust. The signs, located in Camas and Ashby Creek drainages as well as near the DNRC boundary at Forest Park and Cramer Creek, were installed in early May. According to Missoula DNRC Unit Manager Jonathan Hansen who manages the Potomac area, "The portal signs were put up to better inform the public that the lands within the Potomac Block belong to...
I once saw a poster in the airport of Freetown (Sierra Leone) that said "Beware of Bigfoot". I thought it funny to see those words in Africa but on closer inspection, found that it was referring to the parasitic disease known as elephantiasis rather than the mystic, mountain creature that we are familiar with here in the Rocky Mountains. I've always been fascinated with these exotic diseases. Elephantiasis is quite something to see. Spending two years in Africa without seeing a single case of...
SWAN VALLEY - Nine years ago, Mike Williams and his wife Mai purchased what used to be known as the Wilderness Bar and Café and later Montana Charlie's south of Condon at mile marker 36.5 on Highway 83. They have recreated the bar and turned it into a functional museum. They also added on to the restaurant, making it their home. The Williamses offer tours and will rent the place out for parties and gatherings. In the 1940s, Babe Wilhelm homesteaded on the land and started The 33 Bar. The land...
Seeley Lake Library News SEELEY LAKE - Many of the residents of Missoula and surrounding areas will be reading the same book when the Big Read returns to Missoula Public Library and its branch libraries in September. The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest, created the Big Read as a way to “restore reading to the center of American culture.” This year’s “read” will feature Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine.” The Big Read will also feature a Middle Read, “The Birchbark House” by Louise Erdrich and a Little Read, “The...
SWAN VALLEY - Members of the Swan Valley community reviewed the proposed Flathead National Forest (FNF) Draft Plan and expressed concern about the Management Actions proposed on the Swan Lake Ranger District (SLRD). Resident, Swan Valley Fire Service Area board member and Swan Valley Emergency Services (SVES) volunteer Jimmy Boyd said SVES is concerned the proposed plan would limit their ability to provide for the safety of the community in regard to wildfire suppression. They would like to see the draft plan coordinate with the local plans...
SWAN VALLEY - The Swan Valley American Legion Auxiliary Post 63 hosted their first fundraiser since officially reorganizing earlier this year. The August Auxiliary Fling included an old fashion barbecue, raffle items, live auction, live music and dancing. The Ladies Auxiliary decided to hold a summer barbecue and dance after the Swan Valley Emergency Services quit holding their Firemen's Ball. "So we thought, OK girls, this is a good opportunity to have a dance," said Auxiliary Chair Ronda...
