Community Briefs

DNRC to burn slash piles

SEELEY LAKE - The Montana DNRC, Clearwater Unit, is proposing to burn slash piles from timber harvest and other treatments in several areas such as: the Seeley Lake area, Placid Lake area, Salmon Lake, Rice Ridge, Kozy Korner, the Game Range, and the Blanchard Creek / Lost Prairie Creek area. This pile burning will occur after approval from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and Missoula County. If conditions are acceptable and the smoke columns are transported in acceptable directions, burns will be conducted. If conditions change dramatically, ignition will not continue.

For questions or concerns, please call the Clearwater Unit, 406-244-5857.

Beyond the Facades – Historical Walking Tour of Seeley Lake Oct. 13

SEELEY LAKE – Where was the Log Cabin Bar? The Key Bar Resort? The Seeley Lake Motel? Sullivan’s Store and post office? Foley’s? Dude and Mary Heath Store? Stage Station? Rovero’s Garage? The “Wive Saver”? Seely’s Big House? Maloney Store? Dunham’s Horse Rental? The Headquarters Store? Freshour’s Store?

If interested in the businesses that came before the ones that are here, or if you have any recollection of historical ones, join the Seeley Lake Historical Society Saturday, Oct. 13 for a walking tour of the Seeley Lake business district. All are invited to hear and share stories about early day businesses.

The tour will start at 12 p.m. in front of the Laundromat, which was once called the Seeley Lake Maul. The walk will be about one-half mile on level, hard surface. Everyone is welcome and the event is free to attend.

For more information email slhistory@blackfoot.net or call 677-2990.

Absentee ballots to be mailed Oct. 12

MISSOULA - Preparations for this November’s general election are underway in Missoula County, as the Elections Office gets ready to mail around 48,000 absentee ballots on Friday, Oct. 12.

Voters who have previously requested absentee ballots should receive them sometime the following week, according to Missoula County Elections Administrator Dayna Causby. Though the exact number of absentee ballots won’t be known until the office generates its official reports for the mailing, Causby said around 60 percent of the county’s 80,000 registered voters opt to cast their ballots by mail.

Registered voters who have not previously requested an absentee ballot can do so by completing the Application for Absentee Ballot, available at https://www.missoulacounty.us/government/administration/elections-office or at the Elections Office, Building 15 at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the general election is Monday, Nov. 5 at 12 p.m.

Absentee ballots must be received, not postmarked, by Election Day. The Elections Office urges voters to mail their ballots no later than Thursday, Nov. 1, and include sufficient postage (71 cents, or two Forever stamps).

Voters also can drop off their ballots at the Fairgrounds during drive-thru ballot drop-off events from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 1-3, and Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 5-6.

Voters planning to cast their ballots on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, can find their polling place on the Secretary of State’s https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/. Polling places and addresses also are listed on the voter confirmation cards mailed before each election.

For more details, call Causby at 406-258-4911 or email dcausby@missoulacounty.us. More election information, including voter registration details, sample ballots and frequently asked questions, is available online at http://www.missoulavotes.com.

Missoula County Sheriff’s Office Call Activity 9/20/18-10/7/18

• 9/20 12:51 p.m., 13XX Bear Creek Road, Potomac: Criminal Endangerment

• 9/28 2:49 p.m., 293XX Highway 200E, Potomac: Driving Under the Influence

• 10/3 6:38 p.m., 321XX Slocum Lane, Potomac: Disturbance

• 10/3 5:38 p.m., 30XX Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Driving Under the Influence

• 10/3 11:39 a.m., 31XX Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Fraud

• 10/4 1:10 p.m., 2X MM Highway 200, Greenough: Accident, No Injury

• 10/7 6:32 p.m., 10XX Evergreen Driver, Seeley Lake: Intimidation

 

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