Police seek suspect in Thursday stabbing

Powell police are seeking a 20-year-old Lovell man in connection with a reported stabbing Thursday afternoon.

Just before 2 p.m., police received a report of a man having been assaulted with a knife in front of Northwest Trading Post, at 410 S. Clark St.

The man was reported to have been involved in a altercation with 20-year-old Raymond Ortiz, said a press release from Police Chief Tim Feathers sent this (Friday) morning.

"Ortiz allegedly brandished a knife, cutting the victim on the hand and then fled the scene," Feathers wrote.

Responding officers searched the area, but were unable to locate Ortiz. Feathers said that as a precautionary measure, several Powell schools were put on lockdown during the search.

Anyone with information regarding Oriz's whereabouts is asked to contact local law enforcement immediately. Powell police can be contacted at 754-2212, anonymously via the 764-8400 Crime Tips Line or by email sent to crimetips@cityofpowell.com.

"This has been referred to the Park County Attorney for charges to be filed and application is being made for a warrant for Ortiz’s arrest," Feathers wrote.

Ortiz is described as being 5’9” tall, 170 lbs with brown hair and brown eyes. His photo is below.The man allegedly cut in the altercation was treated and released from Powell Valley Hospital.

We'll have more on the incident in Tuesday's Tribune, and post updates here as needed.

*UPDATE* Tribune site disrupted by hacking

There's a bad reason why this week's Powell Tribune stories are not up on powelltribune.com -- our site was apparently hacked over the weekend.

We're working to fix the problem.

We had been having trouble with our site since Monday, but it wasn't until today that we learned the problem wasn't just a technical glitch.

As a Google search for "Powell Tribune viagra" reveals, some spam pages were added to our site to promote websites hawking certain types of pharmaceuticals. We apologize to anyone who has clicked through to one of these sites while following what they thought was a powelltribune.com link.

There's no reason to think the hacking had anything to do with any of our news content or that there was any particular reason for the timing. It appears the Tribune's site was vulnerable, and someone just happened to take advantage of that vulnerability. It happens relatively often on the Internet.

We've seen no evidence that any of the stories currently on our site have been manipulated in any way to spread misinformation. You can feel free to continue browsing old stories on powelltribune.com as the added web pages promoting the pharmaceuticals are not accessible by clicking around on the site; that's partially why it took us so long to figure out we'd been hacked.

The Tribune blog you're currently reading is hosted on completely different servers with a wholly separate interface and is not affected. Similarly, folks with an electronic subscription to the Tribune can continue to log in and read our latest issues without interruption. We're also confident that our print edition currently on newsstands remains 100 percent hack-proof.

We are currently working to relaunch the Tribune website, but do not have a timeline as to when things will be back to normal.

We're sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we work to resolve these issues. We'll keep you posted.

College trio releases free EP

There is no particularly profound story as to how The Orienteer came to be known as The Orienteer.

The recently-formed three-member band of Northwest College music students had been struggling to come up with a moniker for themselves, but they were about to record a video and a reporter from the Northwest Trail was coming to do an interview.

The name The Orienteer "ended up sort of being the one we agreed on," said Wes Hogg, who plays guitar and sings for the trio.

Collin Ingram (on stand-up bass) Amos Helvey (playing the mandolin and sharing vocal duties) fill out the band's roster.

The group recently released a three-song EP, titled "The Dichotomy of Parting," and it can be downloaded for free here.

Hogg said putting out a free EP seemed to be "the fastest way to get our name out there and lets people know what we're about."

If the names already sound familiar, there's a reason for that - the three are also members of Home Brewed, a six-member alt country band in Park County.

Ingram, Helvey and Hogg (of Cody, Cody and Meeteetse, respectively) all ended up at Northwest College this fall and found themselves without the time and money to get together and practice with their fellow Home Brewed members, Hogg said.

So they started a new group.

"The Orienteer came about as a result of us still playing together and coming up with new ideas that weren't necessarily appropriate for Home Brewed's style," said Hogg.

The Orienteer describes its music as "progressive acoustic." I asked Hogg to explain what exactly that means.

"I would consider progressive acoustic any kind of acoustic music that doesn’t fall into any typical acoustic categories like bluegrass or folk," he said. "Despite our instrumentation, our songwriting is much more influenced by early emo and post rock bands like American Football, Good Luck, and Thrice than it is by Lester Flatt or Carter Stanley."

This video of the band performing, filmed by Orienteer-friend Levi Wells, probably explains it best:

The EP and above video were recorded in Northwest College's recently-finished studio, which Hogg dubbed "amazing." He rated it higher than a professional studio in Arizona, where Home Brewed recorded this summer.

"The studio at NWC offered much better tools for creating a quality product," Hogg said.

The Orienteer isn't meant to replace Home Brewed, but while that band is on hiatus, The Orienteer members are hoping to spread their music as far as possible.

Hogg said the group hopes to tour next summer and "play as many folk and bluegrass festivals as will have us."