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SEELEY LAKE – After two years, the Seeley Lake Driftrider's returned to the Seeley Lake Community Hall for their annual Snowball Banquet and fundraiser Feb. 26. Attendees enjoyed the Fiesta with dinner catered by the new Casa Caro Mexican Restaurant, games, raffles, a dessert dash and live auction. The fun continued Sunday for the 35-mile annual Fun Run from the West Side Trailhead. Driftrider's President Bill Swain said the event went smoothly and they liked being back in the Community Hall. In...
SEELEY LAKE – "This is the very first of Oskar Murphy productions," Playwright and Seeley-Swan High School Senior Oskar Murphy said about "The Play." It will be performed Thursday, March 3 at 6:45 p.m. by the Seeley-Swan High School Drama Class. Attendees will watch this original script unfold as a mad king attempts to control and dominate the princess. "The Play's" theme is about a woman overcoming adversity. "I just liked the story of being told you can't do something, and knowing something i...
With a slushy start and temperatures in the high 40s Saturday, Feb. 12, Seeley Lake musher Jessie Royer took an early lead in the 300-mile Race to the Sky and never gave it up. First to all the check points, she returned to Lincoln Monday night just after 6:30 p.m., more than four and half hours ahead of second place Josi Thyr of Olney, Montana. Rounding out the top three was Cindy Gallea, a musher who started her racing career in Seeley Lake in 1991 and now lives in Wykoff, Minnesota. Gallea...
SEELEY LAKE – After a hiatus for COVID last year, the Seeley Lake Biathlon returned this year Feb. 5. More than 90 racers took to the Seeley Creek Nordic Trails to test their skiing ability and marksmanship in the 21K, 9K and 3K races. Tim Swanberg was the only racer from the area that participated in the 21K. He finished in 1:32:52.18 taking second for the men. Representing Seeley Lake in the 9K Adult Female's race was Claire Muller and Ryen Neudecker. While both are avid skiers, neither had p...
The second happening of telling our stories, “Why Did We Come Here, Why Do We Stay” is just around the corner on Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Community Foundation Building. Please join with us if you are able. Masks will be available. If you are not able, the Pathfinder is again allowing this Community event to be seen live on their Facebook page. In excess of 200 folks watched the full Oct. 13 gathering and we would love to have you join. Our October event had a good cross-section of our community telling their stories. What is cle...
SEELEY LAKE - Montana’s own Race to the Sky 37th anniversary sled dog race, will be held Feb. 11-15. This year there are 28 mushers in the field - 12 competing in the 300-mile race including local mushers Jessie Royer, Josi Thyr and past-resident Cindy Gallae, now from Wykoff, Minnesota. In the 100-mile, there are 16 mushers with the closest musher being Nicole Lombardi from Lincoln, Montana. This year’s race will pay tribute to Dave Armstrong. Armstrong passed away at age 100 last spring. He was one of the original founders of the Sac...
SEELEY LAKE - "If you come to the concert without expectations, you'll rapidly learn what's possible with a euphonium," states U of M Tuba and Euphonium Consort's conductor Benedict Kirby. "You'll hear soaring melodies and blazing technique. We're calling the concert Big Bop Nouveau Tuba! - because the concert will move through some funky styles. It will move through some jazz waltz. It will move through what we would call, perhaps, classical sounds. It's a tour de force." The concert will be...
MISSOULA – The fourth In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Literary Festival announced its biennial gathering will be held June 24 - 26 at the Missoula Public Library. This year's Festival is named "Public Land & Sacred Ground: Western Writers Bear Witness" and will feature nationally prominent authors who will discuss the unique heritage of American wilderness, public lands and sacred grounds. The last day of the Festival, June 27, will feature day hikes in the Seeley-Swan. Admission is free t...
HELMVILLE - Basketball teams from Butte, Missoula, Helena, the Hi-Line and Helmville descended on the Helmville Community Center for the Helmville Community Club's 55th Annual Basketball Tournament Jan. 28-30. The purpose of the Tournament is to contribute to funding the Community Club scholarships, community needs and the upkeep of the Helmville Community Center. The current Helmville Community Hall replaced the old dance hall in 1958. The old dance hall was the venue for many dances,...
SEELEY LAKE – "Conditions could not have been better for the 40th running of the OSCR cross country 50k ski race," Mike McGrew said in an announcer voice and laughed. President of the Seeley Lake Nordic Club and OSCR veteran since 1984, McGrew's light-hearted comment captured the race well. Not only were the courses groomed to perfection, the sub-zero temperatures in the morning gave way to sunshine and temperatures in the upper teens by early afternoon making the course fast and the racers h...
The Snow Joke Half Marathon returns in-person to Seeley Lake Saturday, Feb. 26. The largest winter road race in Montana, traditionally is held on the last Saturday of February. The iconic race celebrates its 43rd anniversary this year. “We’re excited that we’ll be live again,” Missoulian and Ravalli Republic publisher Jim Strauss said. “Last year, we held it virtually. We heard from a lot of people who missed that tradition of the Seeley Lake winter road race.” This year’s race will be 13.1 miles, as is tradition. The long-standing...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Nordic Team hosted their largest turnout for their 10th annual SLE Outside Skiesta Jan. 22. Ninety-two skiers from around the area registered for the 20K, 10K, 5K, 3K and 1K races topping their previous record of 83 skiers set in 2018. Seeley Lake Nordic Team Head Coach and Race Director Bridget Laird was excited about the race and said the Nordic Team is working hard and having a lot of fun this year. Skiesta History The first Skiesta was held in 2013, the same y...
SEELEY LAKE – Friday, Jan. 14 more than 50 Seeley Lake Elementary students took the stage for the Missoula Children's Theatre production of "Alice and Wonderland," an original adaptation based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass." Alice, played by Brittney Kelley, Lili Young and Addison Ott, was filled with never-ending curiosity. Her curiosity grows as she follows a White Rabbit (MCT Tour Actor/Director Julia Walsh) into a land of wonder and a...
SEELEY LAKE – Doug Chadwick presented his latest book "Four-fifths a Grizzly," to Alpine Artisans' Open Book Club Jan. 15. The book is less about grizzlies and more about us as humans and our continued survival. Chadwick said, "The idea that we are separate and superior and entitled to do whatever we want as long as we want, that's got to be modified. We have to change that." Chadwick advocates that humans view themselves, as scientists are discovering more and more to be true, in a symbiotic r...
OVANDO – Though COVID canceled Ovando School's Dec. 16 play, on Jan. 12 the Ovando community put their holiday spirit back on and gathered to enjoy the students' performance of "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus." Based on the book of the same name by L. Frank Baum (author of "The Wizard of Oz") and converted into play form by R. Eugene Jackson, the script was an ambitious production for the small student body. Many of the students played two and some even three different roles, n...
SEELEY LAKE – While most people call it the "Dog Days of Summer," the dogs of winter were out enjoying the new snow this past weekend. Montana Mountain Mushers hosted their annual Winter Fun Days Jan. 8 and Jan. 9 at the Morrell Creek snowmobile/musher parking lot. Experienced Seeley Lake mushers Roy Etnire and Rob Loveman answered questions and shared their expertise with members of the public and other mushers. Yuri, a two-year-old Russian Siberian Husky owned by Bob and Lerma Stine of S...
SEELEY LAKE - Doug Chadwick will be presenting his new book at the Open Book Club at the Seeley Lake Community Foundation on Saturday, Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. Masks are required. Please note the earlier start time so people attending can drive in the daylight. The event will also be live streamed on Alpine Artisans' Facebook page. Chadwick is a writer well known to many in this corner of the Rocky Mountains or as we like to say, the South West Crown of the Continent. His notable books and many essays...
SEELEY LAKE - Did you receive a new technology device for the holidays and are unsure how to use it? Have technology questions or issues you want to be resolved? Come by the Seeley Lake Community Foundation Building West Wing Thursday, Jan. 27, between 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., and visit with volunteers. The volunteers assisting are knowledgeable and can help on various devices: Apple to Android, Windows to IOS, and more. Our volunteers are fantastic community members who will try their best to solve your issues. No appointment is necessary. If...
SEELEY LAKE - All mushers (beginning or experienced) and all skijorers are invited to Montana Mountain Mushers Fun Days on Jan. 8 and Jan. 9 at the Morrell Creek parking lot, just north of Seeley Lake on Morrell Creek Road, Montana. Run your dog(s) starting at 9 a.m. each day. Dog mushers and skijorers will be there to assist and answer questions. Whether you are a recreational musher, want to learn how to skijor with your dog, run your first race or are a seasoned dog musher, Winter Fun Days...
SALMON PRAIRIE - The 100-year-old Salmon Prairie Schoolhouse welcomed a mix of people from the community who came to watch the traditional Christmas program. With help from Teacher Holl Hubbard, four students, who make up the student body, put on the production of "Home Alone" Dec. 21. Along with parents and grandparents of the students, attendees included those whose roots go deep in the community. Some attended the school years ago along with a teacher from the long line of those who taught...
SWAN VALLEY – Swan Valley School students lit up the stage Dec. 21 as they welcomed the community to "Christmas at the O.K. Corral." Attendees were treated to singing and dancing by the preschool, welcomed into the planning for the Christmas celebration at the O.K. Corral and listened to a piano solo from pianist Lilly Boyd and music from the Jr. High Band. The O.K Corral opened with plans to decorate for the Christmas celebration. However, Bubble Gum Bart (Collin Skinner) rolled into Snowy G...
POTOMAC - This year's Potomac School Christmas Program brought more than 130 people together for the community event with standing room only. Last year's audience numbers were strictly limited due to COVID restrictions. This year the large crowd was smiling, hugging and laughing as they took photos and clapped while watching the students perform. The evening began with a welcome by Principal John Rouse followed by the winner of the eighth grade quilt raffle. The horse-themed quilt was made by...
SWAN VALLEY – Caravanning from Kalispell on Saturday, Dec. 18, 20 members of the Wilson family dressed up, played and sang Christmas carols all the way "to the North Pole to see Santa," Ally Wilson said. When they arrived at the Falls Creek Guest Ranch Lodge, they were welcomed by the jolly old soul himself, treated to a pancake breakfast, enjoyed crafts, took photos with Santa and left with new toys and full tummies. "This has been so fun," Wilson said smiling as her three children took t...
SEELEY LAKE - The second annual Christmas Caravan of Lights lit up the streets of Seeley Lake Saturday night, Dec. 18. More than a dozen groups decorated their trucks and trailers, UTVs, and other vehicles and drove the streets of Seeley Lake before returning to the Chicken Coop for bonfires and the community gathering. To watch the parade visit https://youtu.be/KzUivP-s_VU....
SEELEY LAKE – The room erupted with excitement when Santa walked through the door at the Seeley Lake Community Hall, Dec. 18. The third annual Seeley Lake Stocking event was a huge success where more than 65 children and a few adults had their photo taken with Santa, received a stocking full of goodies, chose a toy or stuffed animal, and entered to win sleds or bicycles. Thanks to organizer Sheila Czifro and support from the community and local businesses, everything was free. Seeley Lake S...
