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Lincoln AmericanLegion Post #9 hosted their annual Veteran's Day observance for a packed crowd at the Lincoln Community Hall Nov. 11. The day marked 104 years since the end of World War I in 1918 and honored the continued service of veterans to their communities beyond the end of their military careers. "It is about the approximately 19 million U.S. veterans who are still with us today and the millions who have preceded them since the American Revolution," said Post 9...
After a two years without an in-person Lincoln Community Benefit , the fundraiser made arousing comeback Saturday night, Nov. 5. In a break from decades of tradition, the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce handed the benefit off to Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society and the Ponderosa Snow Warriors after it became clear the Chamber didn't have the volunteer manpower to put it on. UBVHS President Erin Dey, who was involved in organizing past community benefits for the...
Ron Lydiard really wanted to do something for Lincoln, Norm Grosfield told the board of the Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society during their meeting Oct. 26. Lydiard was an unassuming but talkative man who lived a quiet life in Lincoln, a town he had a special connection with dating back to 1963. When he was 11 his parents Robert and Neve bought the Silver King Ranch, where he spent most of his summers into the 1970s. Ron passed away from a heart condition at his cabin...
The Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce meeting that is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Thursday Nov. 10 at the Lincoln Library will center on how to keep the business organization viable for the future. The future of the LVCC remains in doubt as the two current remaining directors - President Laurie Welty and Vice President Victor Johnson are set to leave when their terms expire at the end of this year. Former treasurer Erin Dey stepped back into the role on an interim basis, but...
With the 2022 midterms on the line many Lincoln-area residents will be heading to the Lincoln Community Hall to cast their ballots in person in a federal election for the first time since 2018. Voters who live in Precinct 31 - Lincoln and the Upper Blackfoot Valley south of Highway 200 from the county line to the divide, and Precinct 32, north of Lincoln and Highway 200, can vote in person until 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov.8 at the Hall. Bring your photo ID or another other...
The Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce worked with Heart of the Rockies Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture and the Montana Business Assis-tance Connection to host an Oct. 18 presentation on grants, loans and funding opportunities that rural businesses can take advantage of get up and running, or expand and improve. "One of the primary roles of the Chamber of Commerce is to provide access to valuable resources and to support economic development in the community," LVC...
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton and County Attorney candidate Dan Guzynski hosted a meet and greet at the Pitstop in Lincoln Tuesday, Oct. 11 to discuss their thoughts on law enforcement and public safety with Lincoln residents. Guzynski is currently the lead prosecutor at the Montana Department of Justice and is running against Kevin Downs for the county attorney position being vacated by Leo Gallagher, who is retiring after 22 years. Dutton is facing off against...
The Lincoln School Board resolved their recent coaching kerfuffle at their Oct. 10 meeting, approving Superintendent Jen Packer as the head girls basketball coach The recommendation to approve Packer for the position passed in a four-to-one vote, with trustee Wendi Dietz as the sole no vote. Deitz told the BVD that Packer has the credentials and provided the required letter of interest but elaborated on comments made during the meeting. She said her opposition had to do with...
It took a little longer than originally planned, but Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild saw the completion of two fresh installations during the first week of October. Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang put the finishing touches on his new piece, a collection of 30 interconnected lodgepole tripods, during the last week of September. "It just was quite an experience," he said Oct.6, when he returned to talk about his piece with Julia and Shanenon Starrett for a video...
The Lincoln Community River Park along the south shore of the Blackfoot River just east of the Stemple Pass Road bridge got a bit of a facelift following a fall open house hosted by Five Valley's Land Trust Saturday Sept. 24. The open house involved about an hours worth of volunteer work to put up a couple new signs and to give visitors a chance to enjoy sandwiches and refreshments. The event was part of National Public Lands Day. The sign identifying the park, and another...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks will be hosting a meeting in Lincoln Oct. 11 to gather public input on revisions to the statewide Elk Management Plan adopted in 2005. The meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Lincoln Community Hall will seek input on the existing elk population objectives and local elk management challenges that should be considered in the revision, which has been in the works since 2020. The scoping period began this summer and will continue through Oct. 15....
The Lincoln School Board rescinded their vote to hire Shane Brown as the high School girls head basketball coach during a special meeting held via Zoom Monday, Sept. 26. "We have to rescind it," School Board Chairman Aaron Birkholz said after calling the brief meeting to order. "If we don't the district court in Lewis and Clark County will rescind it. I'm advised that it is a very big no-no and that we should do this on our own." The vote to hire Brown was taken on the...
6 has been a rough year here at the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch so when the 'Newspaper Office' sign blew off our building at the end of July, it seemed kind of like an omen. By now the rumors have probably made the rounds around town that the BVD is closing. A couple of weeks ago that was the plan. But that changed last week. Well, sort of. After our Sept. 22 issue, the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch will end print publication, but we plan to keep the paper alive on our website...
Artist Stuart Frost returned to Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this year to create a second installation for Lincoln's sculpture park. Frost, whose known for his wood creations featuring repeating forms and patterns, first came to Lincoln in 2019 to create "A Place is a Place is a Place," the cabin-shaped piece composed of slabs of wood cut in the pattern of a historic cross-cut saw. He planned to come back to Montana in 2020 with his wife, who had a residency...
This year's back to back Sept. 10 car shows drew an impressive array of classic and modified vehicles. Lambkins owner Glen Kolve estimated the Rod Run had about twice as many entries as last year....
A debate surrounding the process for filling the girls head basketball coach position dominated the Lincoln School board meeting Sept.12. The conversation began after Athletic Director Shane Brown finished delivering an update on the school athletic programs and informed the trustees, they had a letter of interest in their packets for the coaching job. The position has been vacant since earlier this year. The school board had hired Dani Fry as coach, but she withdrew from the...
For the past ten-and-a-half years I've seen Lincoln move from a town stuck in an economic rut to one that began to take control of its own destiny. The successful development of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild showed Lincoln can do something new and unexpected and be more than just "stinkin' drinkin' Lincoln." People began look at ways to grow the economy beyond that, without making too many drastic changes to the community. Discussions that had been going on...
"This is my first time doing this," Said Allyssa Roggow, who was leading Lincoln grade-schoolers to various sculptures as part of the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild education program . "I'm a musician based in Great Falls, but I've done some things with visual thinking strategies, which is a way of engaging with art that was developed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City." Roggow said visual thinking strategies is learner centered. Kids take a minute to...
When visitors arrive at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild, the installation they are likely to see first is a cluster of lodgepole tripods created by Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang. "There will be at least 25 forms brought together to call attention to the number of peoples that are still here," he said. "Rather than seeing us in the past, it's symbolic of setting up a lodge, the beginning of setting up a lodge. It's kind of saying we're still here; we're still...
Well, this is it. The final print issue of the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch. From now on the BVD will be keeping Lincoln up to date at www.blackfootvalleydispatch.com, and since we're online we've done away with subscriptions. Our content is now available on the website with a free registration. I know our decision to move to online-only publication isn't popular with everyone, particularly those of you who don't have a computer or just prefer not to be online. As I've said...
Every time the Red Cross shows up in Lincoln for their blood drives, they know they'll be seeing Rich Paul and his trusty four-legged sidekick Whiskey. Last month, ABC Fox Montana Producer Joee Taylor came to Lincoln to interview Paul during the Red Cross Blood Drive at the Lincoln Community Hall after he was selected as their August Good Samaritan for his dedication to blood donation. In the last 61 years, Paul has donated 216 units of blood. That works out to nearly 26...
The Annual Lincoln Art & Music Festival at Hooper Park held Aug 13 and 14 was scaled down a bit this year, with about 20 vendors and three bands on hand for the two-day event. Finding both vendors and bands proved to be a challenge this year, and while the weekend proved to be generally successful, festival organizer Karyn Good said it was a tricky thing to pull together. “It’s getting harder and harder to find artists who will do outdoor events, especially fine art...
Sculpture season returns to Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild in September, featuring an artist originally slated to be here in 2020 and the return of an artists who was last here in 2019. Following a two-year delay, Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang will be here to create an installation reflecting his Native American culture. "We're real excited about him," said BPSW president Becky Garland. Spang was originally scheduled to create an installation during the...
"The future of the Chamber is at a tipping point," Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce President Laurie Welty told the BVD last week. During the chamber's Aug. 11 board meeting, Welty announced that, unless something changes, the LVCC will be without a board of directors early next year. "By February of 2023 when we vote the board members in, there will be no active members on the chamber (board). The chamber can't function without a minimum of three. The bylaws say we can...
The first day of school at Lincoln turned into a full day of recess after problems with the power prompted the administration to close for the day and send the students home. "First day of school; always something on the first day, I tell ya," Lincoln Schools Superintendent Jen Packer told the BVD. Packer said when they got to school, they found there was only intermittent power throughout the building. In some rooms, the lights would come on, but computers had no power....
