Katy Moeller

The “Bowe is Back” celebration was shaping up to be a showdown, with protesters bombarding the city with angry phone calls and threatening to flood the tiny Central Idaho town during the annual June event, previously called “Bring Bowe Back.”

An Anchorage pilot whose brother was flying a single-engine aircraft that disappeared east of McCall on Dec. 1 is part of a team making a final winter push to locate the plane.