Monday, December 22, 2025

Burgled Items

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Council Teske

Mark Peck, left, and Brent Teske. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Council Smith

Kristin Smith, left, and Brent Teske. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Geiger

Upper Geiger Lake in August. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Detention Rec Room

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Detention Derry

Mike Derry (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Detention Norman

Pam Norman (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Detention Hoops

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Detention Juvenile

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Soccer Maloney

Senior midfielder Colin Maloney strips the ball from a Bulldog defender in Saturday's match with Whitefish. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Log Kids Three

Teegan Haugen and Zach Sciarrotta drop the last piece of wood from the timber project near Libby Elementary School last Friday. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Log Kids Two

Worth the weight: Lucas Graves hauls a heavy load from the nearby wooded area to the Libby Elementary schoolyard. Graves was one of nearly 300 kids who spent an hour of their Friday afternoon collecting wood to be auctioned off for students Kiye Jenkins and Katherine Lind, both diagnosed this …
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Log Kids One

Nearly 300 Libby elementary students last week spent about an hour collecting wood from five Douglas Fir trees cut down to be auctioned off in October. The auction will benefit Kiye Jenkins and Katherine Lind, two students diagnosed this year with stage four Hodgkins Lymphoma. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Nordic Flags

Montanan, American and Scandinavian flags were on display at the Memorial Center throughout the festival. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Nordic Awards

Libby Chamber of Commerce Director Pam Peppenger and Nordic princesses Kristen Lindgren and Jasmin Snyder award contestants during the 2016 NordicFest. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Nordic Ear

Viking-on-a-stick aside, elephant ears are another festival-food favorite. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Wreck Bowe

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Beach Teske

Gary Beach, left, and Brent Teske. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Soccer Maloney

Battle for control with Park High's Clayton Busby, left, and senior midfielder Colin Maloney vs. the Rangers Friday, Sept. 2. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Triathlon Beach

Jill Beach turned in the following tiimes during Run, Paddle, Pedal 2016: run, 0:31:35; paddle, 1:41:59; pedal, 2:18:53. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Triathlon Hopfer

Juli Hopfer, left, and Marci Collins during the running portion of Run, Paddle, Pedal 2016. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Triathlon Boulware

Myresa Boulware launches her kayak in the second leg of Run, Paddle, Pedal 2016. Her times were: run, 0:28:09; paddle, 1:32:43; pedal, 1:59:41. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Triathlon Serna

Tyler Serna competing in the Run, Paddle, Pedal triathlon 2016. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Triathlon Huck

Hannah Huck: run, 0:21:07; paddle, 1:12:58; pedal, 1:35:53. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Triathlon Watson

Steve Watson: run, 0:29:30; paddle, 1:29:46; pedal, 2:00:27.
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Triathlon Lisle

Carol Lisle: run, 0:27:13; paddle, 1:18:05; pedal, 1:42:42.
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Football Carvey

Junior running back Tim Carvey on the carry vs. Loyola Aug. 27. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Hearing Brown

Tammy Brown (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Hearing Roll

Libby Mayor Doug Roll. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Ignite Wieners

Another classic from Ignite the Nites weekend, free wieners tossed into the crowd. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Ignite Cuda

Spectators surveyed classic cars through the smoke of burnt rubber Friday night on Mineral Avenue. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Ignite Vette

Corvettes from all eras made the Friday night cruise this weekend. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Soccer Forsyth

New girls soccer coach Jay Forsyth. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Exercise Three

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Exercise Two

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Exercise One

(Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Seven

John Michael Montgomery, Big Sky Bash 2016. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Six

John Michael Montgomery, Big Sky Bash 2016 (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Five

John Michael Montgomery, Big Sky Bash 2016. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Four

John Michael Montgomery, Big Sky Bash 2016. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Three

John Michael Montgomery, Big Sky Bash 2016. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Two

Big Sky Bash 2016 (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash One

John Michael Montgomery, Big Sky Bash 2016 (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Wade Two

Devon Wade, Big Sky Bash 2016 (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Bash Wade One

Devon Wade (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Montanian One

All three of Libby's newspapers are on display at Empire Foods. This week's issue of the Montanian (top), was the last edition produced by founders David and Carol Latham. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Switchback

Mike Munro, left,
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Kambel Scrambel

Emily Leisinger, neice of the late Greg Kambel, gave the speech at this year's Kambel Scramble at the Cabinet View Golf Course. She described Greg's enthusiasm for family, sports and golf. "It made me realize that you don't want to wait to be awesome, because we can all be awesome, …
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Logger Riggles

Kraig Nelson, left, and Taylor Riggles earned the titles of Bull and Bullette of the Woods Saturday evening at J. Neils Park. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Logger Nelson

Kraig Nelson, left, tags Brandon Evans in the Bull of the Woods championship. Nelson took first place at the $500 cash prize. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Border Patrol

The "Border Patrol" from left, Brady Bateman, Shayne Walker and Seth Bateman, three Bonners Ferry baseball players who have joined the Libby Logger team this summer. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Upper Cedar Lake

Upper Cedar Lake
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Court Ilk

Michael Gilbert Ilk
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Court Pereslete

Hadassah Preeslete
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Election Three

Absentee ballots await processing as the election night crew dove through the ballots from Tuesday's primary election. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Election Two

Corky Watson prepares to run another batch of ballots through the vote-counting machine Tuesday evening Tuesday evening at the Lincoln County building in Libby. (Seaborn Larson/Daily Inter Lake)
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Election One

Ray Eanes, center, reads a ballot in which someone wrote in Ronald Reagan for president of the United States as Dean Walston, left and Maryln Walston, right, look through over-vote ballots. Another voter wrote Mickey Mouse in for the presidential nomination. (Seaborn Larson/The Western News)
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Attorney Chisholm

New Libby City Attorney Dean Chisholm was appointedd at Monday's city council meeting. Chisholm also practices at Chisholm & Chisholm a Columbia Falls law firm.
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Logger Days Queen

Photo by Seaborn Larson
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Logger Days Pillow

Photo by Seaborn Larson
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Logger Days Cash

Photo by Seaborn Larson
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Glacier Opening

Bob Nystuen, John Johanson and Dan Chery initiate the new Glacier Bank on Wednesday.
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New Dome Theater Projector

Jamie Arnold and the new digital projector.
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Logger Committee

Logger days committee left to right: Travis Warren, Scott Kirschenmann, Jessica Svendsbye, Hope Kirschenmann, Don Smart, Kathy Stern. Not pitctured: Wade Svensdbye, Kayla White
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Grad Reny

Libby High School Class of 2013 Valedictorian Jacob Reny.
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Grad Leggins

Dan Leggins, left, and Lane Luscher.
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