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More than 30 people showed up to the Cyr property north of Highway 200 to take part in the Lincoln High Social Entrepreneur Classes first Mud Run. The half mile route, run twice, began near the Cyr's gravel pit. Runners navigated a shallow mud pit, and stepped though a set of tires before heading over the hill and dropping down to cross Keep cool Creek. Then it was over a set of hay bales, back across the creek and back up the hill. Runners then had to slide down a slip and...
The Lincoln Junior High and High School music students showed off their talent at the Spring Concert at the Lincoln Methodist Church Wednesday, May 22. The spring concert is the third school concert held at the Methodist Church, which is now also home to a grand piano donated to the communty last fall by Sculpture in the Wild. Lincoln Schools music teacher Melissa Gilbert said the space at the church is better suited to musical performances than the school gym, which she said...
Laura Broussard, the Family Nurse practitioner at Parker Medical Center, submitted her resignation to PureView Health center early last week. Pureview Director Jill Steeley said Broussard will end her tenure with PureView July 12. Her last day of practice at Parker Medical is expected to be around July 1, but Broussard has not been finalized that yet. Broussard is returning to Oklahoma, where she worked previously and where members of her family live. “I have enjoyed immensely working with the people of Lincoln,” Broussard to...
Cyclists and ATV enthusiasts should have more trails to enjoy in the Lincoln area by the end of the summer as the Beaver Creek Trails Project continues to move forward. The project, funded by an $82,000 Montana State Parks Recreational Trails Program grant that was awarded to the Lincoln Ranger District, got its start last year with district personnel designing, flagging and cutting corridors for about eight miles of mountain bike trails and for a series of connector ATV...
Two and a half years after the aging, dilapidated restrooms came down to make room for a new facility, Hooper Park once again has operational bathrooms, complete with showers. Lincoln Park Board President Nyle Howsmon opened the new facilities Monday, May 20 without fanfare, after the Montana Department of Environmental Quality approved water test results from the building's water purification system. The building itself has been in place since last July, when a crew from Thom...
"We are so very excited, the Lincoln Putt Putt was a huge success,"said Bonnie Christian, the event's organizer. "It has grown to be one of the largest events in Lincoln, bringing 360 people into town, some starting Friday night and not leaving until Sunday morning. Motels, restaurants and all our sponsoring bars were extremely busy. Even our grocery store and Mountain View co-op were very busy." The 10th Annual Lincoln Putt Putt Mini-golf Tournament saw a record 72 teams...
In an uncommon arrangement, last Wednesday's Pre K-6th grade spring concert came in two parts. First up the 5th and 6th sixth grade 56 Band playing 'Galactic Episode' and 'Mahna-Mahna,' Two pieces of music teacher Melissa Gilbert said the band put hard work into learning. They were followed by the pre-schoolers, who recited Hickory Dickory Dock, Hey Diddle Diddle and Old MacDonald Had a Farm. "We did a whole unit on nursery rhymes and songs we thought would be important for...
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation says a recently completed land purchase and conveyance will conserve 620 acres near Green Mountain east of Lincoln, protecting elk and wildlife habitat and creating improved public access to lands near Lewis and Clark Pass. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation purchased the property on the east slope of the Continental Divide from the Ingersoll family of Wolf Creek in March and conveyed the property to the Helena - Lewis and Clark National...
Emilee Rivera believes in Youth Dynamics, a Montana non-profit children's mental health agency, and she is working to raise awareness in Lincoln about what they have to offer. Rivera, the wife of Lincoln's resident Deputy Sheriff Robert Rivera, worked for Youth Dynamics when they lived in Shelby and sees a need for their services in Lincoln as well. "I always wondered why Lincoln didn't have it, even when I was in Shelby," said Rivera, who grew up in Lincoln. "When I got...
Lincoln School District Trustee Election Voters selected Sarah Tams for the only contested seat on the school board with a two-year term. Tams earned 126 votes to the 98 cast for Scott Fry. Aaron Birkholz, who ran unopposed for his seat, garnered 196 votes, while James Terman, who also ran unopposed for the seat vacated by M’Liss Weisner, racked up 150 votes. Both seats are for three-year terms. Lincoln Fire District Trustee Election In the Lincoln fire District Election voters picked Don Laroque for the open three-year t...
"I love the light here, and the silence. It's one thing I find ... the quiet is so great," Eldon Beck said . In that great quiet Beck, 87, found a new voice in the form of poetry 16 years ago, during a winter visit to his daughter's home near Helmville. Beck joked that when he began writing poetry at 71, he was called one of the new "young" authors. The view from the window in his daughter Jean Pocha's house inspired a poem called 'The Wind Blows White,' which became the...
Lincoln High School Juniors racked up some of the best ACT scores seen by Lincoln Schools in the past several years, while Lincoln Elementary School took a hit to its accreditation level due to a certification mix up. With an average composite score of 21.2 points, the Lincoln High Juniors bested last year's school average by a full four points and outperformed the historic state average, which hovers at about the 20-point mark According to the Montana Office of Public...
12 marks the tenth year of the annual Lincoln Putt Putt, which raises money for various charities and organizations in the Lincoln Valley. This year the event hit the organizer's goal of raising more than $10,000, although there is no word yet on which organizations will receive funding. This year's top teams were: Highest Team Score – CRS Putters, Bill & Judy Albrecht, Ray & Tami Cooper, Rod Krier. Lowest Team Score - Great Falls, Dos Chicas team. Lowest Score Player – Ty,...
Two vegetation management projects planned for the Lincoln Ranger District are moving forward after recently completing key steps in their respective decisional processes. The Lincoln Ranger District completed consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the Willow Creek Vegetation Project last week, while the extended comment period on the re-vamped Stonewall Vegetation Management Project closed in mid-April. Willow Creek The Ranger District submitted biological...
A May 3 meeting organized by the Lewis and Clark Conservation District to discuss natural resource planning with landowners in the Lincoln area failed to draw any local landowners. The Lewis & Clark County Natural Resource Planning Community Meeting at the Lincoln Community Hall sought to identify natural resource concerns private landowners - particularly those working in agriculture - see as priorities, in light of the new model for allocating Environmental Quality...
Lincoln High School's Azaiah Blotkamp placed second in both the high jump and pole vault at last weekends' KLH Memorial Track Meet in Missoula. Blotkamp cleared 10 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault and set a personal record in the high jump by clearing the 6-foot mark. Senior Maggie Jorgensen saw her season's best performance so far in the women's 100-meter with her 13.82 second run for a 5th place finish. She also placed 6th in the long jump by covering 15 feet, 8 inches....
Explosive growth was on the horizon for Lincoln in early 1969. Just 12 years before Lincoln's population and economic prospects saw a boost when, Highway 200 - then Highway 20 - officially opened in 1957, providing a direct route between Missoula and Great Falls. In 1965, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company began exploring development of a copper and molybdenum ore body in the Heddleston mining district - now known as the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex- and by 1968 there was...
The Blackfoot River Chapter of Ducks Unlimited celebrated 20 years last weekend, and at the same time paid tribute to the man known for developing the organization's largest, most successful sealed bid auction program. Former Lincoln District Ranger Daina Bambe, her husband Dick Denslinger and Ernie and Renee Lundberg started the Blackfoot River Chapter and annual banquet in 1999, as a way to help Ducks Unlimited preserve wetlands and also to help the community's economy with...
The status quo just isn't working. If there's one thing the members of the Upper Blackfoot Working Group agreed on about the management of the National Forests that surround Lincoln that, that is it. In the last two weeks, the Working Group has been methodically unveiling a legislative proposal they've developed to the Lincoln community, starting with area organizations and groups ahead of a public meeting they have planned for the end of May. Made up of locals with interests...
The Lincoln School Board approved the selection of Lincoln Schools Industrial Science teacher Shane Brown as the new part-time principal at their April 8 meeting. The Board acted on the recommendation of the principal selection committee, which included incoming Superintendent Jennifer Packer, school board President Aaron Birkholz and school board member M’Liss Weisner. After receiving five applications, the committee interviewed three candidates for the job. Packer said Brown’s experience with the Lincoln education sys...
Lynn Tefzger's routine, which often incorporates audience members, includes characters like Camelot (a camel), Chloe, a three-year old girl and Simon, her first dummy with a complex about being called a "creepy puppet."...
As the effort to create a skate park in Lincoln takes shape, the Lincoln Skatepark Committee find itself in need of an organization to contract with Evergreen Skateparks for the construction of the facility, and to serve as a fiscal sponsor for the young organizations. Karyn Good, who has been helping coordinate the project with Lincoln School English teacher Phil Reed and the students who make up the skatepark committee, asked the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce at their m...
Last week's meeting of the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce delved into several topics that could impact Lincolns economic future, including Sculpture in the Wild, a plan to provide Lincoln with more say on management of the surrounding National Forest, and the Lincoln Bike Rally. Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild President Becky Garland kicked off the agenda with an update on the organization's plans for this year. Those include a concert series and a Shakespeare...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild earned recognition as the winner of Montana's 2019 Heritage and Cultural Tourism award. The Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development announced the award at the Governor's Conference on Tourism & Recreation in Butte Monday night, April 15. Sculpture in the Wild faced competition for the prize from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena and Libby's Kootenai Country Montana Chainsaw Carving Championship. "We know Sculpture in the...
Last week's meeting of the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce delved into several topics that could impact Lincolns economic future, including Sculpture in the Wild, a plan to provide Lincoln with more say on management of the surrounding National Forest, and the Lincoln Bike Rally. Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild President Becky Garland kicked off the agenda with an update on the organization's plans for this year. Those include a concert series and a Shakespeare...
