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SEELEY LAKE –The Seeley Lake Sewer District unveiled a resolution to mandate properties within the District to connect to the sewer as it is built at its July 18 board meeting. Board President Pat Goodover read the resolution at the meeting stating that the District’s attorney Jon Beal made edits to the version Goodover received just a half hour ahead of the meeting. The printed copies were already outdated. It took Goodover more than 13 minutes to read it in its entirety with the bulk of it explaining the reasons why the Board needed to mov...
SEELEY LAKE - Two years after Trenton Johnson was killed while fighting the 2017 Florence Fire, an eight-mile section of Highway 83 through Seeley Lake was named in his honor on Friday, July 19. Several Montana firefighting crews were in attendance, as well as community members. The dedication event hosted guest speakers from the Forest Service and others, including Vicki Minor, executive director and founder of the Wildland Firefighter Foundation, Adam Babbitt with Grayback Forestry, Trenton's...
SWAN VALLEY – Even though he was recently promoted to U.S. Army Colonel, former Swan Valley resident Matt Cooper returned to his hometown to march in the Fourth of July parade. Cooper said since there is no active military presence in Condon, youngsters don't have a role model nor an understanding of all the opportunities available to them in the military. He marched, as he has done for the past 20 years, to show Condon children that a kid from a two-room schoolhouse can work his way up w...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Elementary School District Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the following finalists for the position of SLE District Superintendent. Daniel Schrock has been the Superintendent and K-12 Principal of Ekalaka, Mont. since 2016. He previously served as the Dean of Students and Activities Director in Dillingham, Alaska. Schrock holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education from Northern Michigan University and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Montana State University. Leland Stocker was most r...
SEELEY LAKE – Alpine Artisans, Inc. presented the Seeley-Swan Community Food Bank with a donation of $1,084 raised from their Soup Bowl fundraiser at the Loon and Fish Festival over Memorial Day weekend. Local potter and owner of Obsession Pottery Carrie Darrah donated 50 clay soup bowls. They were sold along with soup donated by local restaurants: Blue River Station, Hungry Bear, Pop's Place, Season's Restaurant, Seeley Lake 1-Stop, Seeley Lake Chicken Coop, The Filling Station and The L...
SEELEY LAKE - The Sewer Board circus continues. Last week it approved a resolution for public review which would require EVERY property in the sewer district to hook up. Remember, if you have two lots under your home you will pay two debt service obligations. So, whatever the monthly charge comes out to be....double it if you have two lots under your home. Current cost estimates are already nearly THREE TIMES the statewide average for sewer service and will undoubtedly go higher as the construction estimates come in. Also the Board signed a...
SEELEY LAKE - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) euthanized a sub-adult male grizzly bear named Stevi Thursday, July 18 following a history of breaking into outbuildings and dumpsters and pursuing other attractants around homes and recreation areas, most recently in the Seeley Lake and Woodworth areas. A second young male grizzly bear was euthanized July 19 for food conditioning and sheep predation along the Marias River near the inlet of Tiber Dam. FWP bear management specialist Jamie Jonkel...
SEELEY LAKE - Donate by July 26th to the Change Your Pace Challenge to grow your contribution to Seeley Lake! The Change Your Pace (CYP) Challenge runs through 5pm on July 26, leaving just a few days to increase the power of a donation to your favorite local cause(s), with the help of the CYP Match Fund. The Seeley Lake Community Foundation's fourth-annual Change Your Pace Challenge is a campaign for community-wide giving, celebrating the people and organizations that make our community great....
SEELEY LAKE - The North Fork Cabin bridge that provides access over the North Fork of the Blackfoot River, near the North Fork Cabin on Trail 32 in the Scapegoat Wilderness, will be replaced beginning July 22. Due to the new bridge reconstruction, a trail closure will be in effect July 22 - Sept. 15. To avoid the closure during this time frame, please utilize a flagged reroute on Trail 364, which includes a river ford, to bypass the closure. This reroute will take visitors around the bridge...
For several years there has been an active dialogue regarding risks associated with recreation in wildlands and concern for the safety of people who choose to do so. Much of this discussion has been focused on interactions between grizzly bears and humans when running or mountain biking on trails. There is strong and expanding interest from the public in partaking in these activities (and many others) on the Flathead National Forest and other forested public lands. There are several proposed...
SEELEY LAKE - Nearly 100 people attended the free choir concert at Seeley-Swan High School Auditorium on Tuesday, July 16. The concert kicked off the four-day International Choral Festival in Missoula that is held once every three years. The performance brought Dagilėlis, a Lithuian boys choir, and the Batavia Madrigal Singers from Indonesia to Seeley Lake. The event was sponsored by the festival as part of its Outreach program. The Outreach Program is devoted to bringing culture into Montana...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Fire Board adopted a resolution establishing and implementing a program to charge mitigation rates for fire and rescue emergency and non-emergency services. This is an effort to provide the service that Fire Chief Dave Lane feels the community deserves. Medical and ambulance services billing is established and there will be no change. Lane presented the board with the resolution for fire billing in preparation to transition to a different billing company. He said this is just the first step in making the transition...
SEELEY LAKE - Tamaracks Resort hosted the first annual Ultimate Wedding Giveaway Event at its new wooded wedding venue Saturday, July 20. The event was created to bring local vendors together to make Seeley Lake a spot for destination weddings. According to Kimmel, the plan to make Seeley Lake a spot for destination weddings came after she noticed the rising popularity in lakefront and open-ranch weddings in Montana. "Nobody was in the forest," explained Kimmel. "I really wanted to bring in...
“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.” Mark 10:18 We all want to think of ourselves as good and moral people. But are we? To answer that means we have to define what “good” really means, but more importantly, who defines it. It can be argued that last part breaks down into three main sources, myself, society and God, all of which are often intertwined to varying degrees. The first one is easy...no explanation needed, including the tacit dangers thereof. “Society” is far more complex and far too much to g...
SEELEY LAKE - The Hellgate Civilian Shooters team placed 32 out of 55 teams at the Civilian Marksmanship (CMP) National Championship in Port Clinton, Ohio July 13-15. The team was ranked seventh going into the competition. "The best thing they did was that every one of the kids kept their performance together, they had a shot plan, they stuck to it, they worked through some of their nerves," said Hellgate Civilian Shooters Coach Trace Weisenburger. "That's how we train." The team brought five...
SEELEY LAKE – A couples themed golf night at Double Arrow has brought a whole new attire to the course Thursday nights. Spurred by a golfer wearing Hawaiian golf shorts, pro shop employees Chelsea Cahoon and Lauren Selleck started the event July 11 and it continues to gain popularity. When Cahoon's friend walked into the Double Arrow Golf Course Pro Shop in a colorful pair of Hawaiian golf shorts Cahoon said to Selleck, "Wouldn't it be fun to do a theme night?" They brainstormed theme ideas a...
Dog Park looking for involvement SEELEY LAKE – Seeley Lake resident Laura Wood is looking for people interested in creating a Dog Park in Seeley Lake. Anyone who has ideas or wants to get involved in the process is invited to contact Wood at seeleylakedogpark@gmail.com. Calming emotions with essential oils class, July 27 SEELEY LAKE – Feeling down and need a boost? Join Mari Bergeson and Marjorie Pelletier Saturday, July 27 from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Seeley Lake Elementary Multi-purpose Room to learn how essential oils can reduce anxious fee...
They told us if we got educated then we would see success in our lifetime. Yet, more than 44 million Americans have student debts that combine to total $1.5 TRILLION. Having to borrow money for school is stressful enough; abusive debt collection practices don’t help. And now the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to increase harassment of graduates over their debts. The CFPB wants to allow debt collectors to email and text consumers without consent, while also calling up to 7 times per week per debt. This will disproportionately a...
