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Lincoln volunteer firefighters put the Ponderosa Snow Warriors clubhouse to use Friday night as a training location to practice the actions they take during their first ten minutes on a structure fire. Lincoln fire chief Zach Muse said the evening's training provided both veteran and rookie firefighters a chance to get on the same page when it comes to the tasks and tactics of an initial attack. "Everything from truck positioning to initial hose layout to setting up water...
For 21 years, a secluded 1.4-acre parcel of land less than half a mile east of Stemple Pass Road remained relatively untouched since the day the FBI hauled away the 10-foot by 12-foot plywood shack that served as home to Ted Kaczynski for 25 years. Split firewood left behind by Federal agents, who stockpiled it for warming fires while they searched the property, remained stacked against the old chain link fence that surrounded the site of the now-infamous cabin. Down the...
The Lewis and Clark County Bridge Crew began work last week to repair the washout on North Lincoln Gulch Road, but has hit a snag that will delay the project two to three weeks. Doug Nisbet, the Lewis and Clark County Road and Bridge Operations superintendent, told the BVD Monday that the 85-foot long, 90-inch wide culvert delivered last week came with tapered ends. Plans for the repair called for a culvert with no taper. He said the repair project will proceed according to pl...
Senator Steve Daines visited members of the Montana Army National Guard's 495th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion last weekend with a delivery of home-baked cookies and Hi Country Beef Jerky. Steve Fehrs, General manager at Hi Country, said Daines' office contacted them on short notice late last week about procuring some jerky he could give to troops on his trip. Fehrs said it was too late to ship it, but they linked members of his staff up with their driver in Bozeman,...
The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest announced Friday that it has a new plan for the Stonewall Vegetation Project west of Lincoln. The new proposed alternative, outlined in a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, includes 1,435 acres of treatments including commercial thinning, 270 acres of prescribed burns and other activities. Forest Service crews would have to construct less than a mile of temporary road and perform maintenance on 27 miles of established...
Lincoln's America Legion Post 9 hosted thenir annual Veterans Day observance at the Lincoln Community Hall Sunday, marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the first world war at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. As part of the World War I remembrance, the presentation began in a slightly different way as Post 9 joined in the "tolling of the bells" at 11 a.m. The World War I Centennial Commission asked organizations, churches and...
Ovando's Annual Old West Christmas Fest once again offered families and guests a small-town respite from the commercial excesses of Black Friday with a return to its traditional timeframe, immediately following Thanksgiving Day. "A lot of people don't want to go to town and deal with those crowds," said Leigh Ann Valiton, who took over as the event's lead organizer this year. In 2015, the celebration of the holiday season moved to the first weekend in December to give...
A horse belonging to Joe Youderian had to be put down Sunday, after being hit by a vehicle on Stonewall Creek Road sometime over the weekend. The horse, named Harley, survived being hit by the vehicle, but suffered a shattered leg. The injured animal managed to make his way back to the ranch’s shop, where he was discovered Sunday afternoon by Youderian’s son-in-law Scott Zarske. “I found the horse lying next to the shop and realized something was wrong,” he said. He went over to look and saw the horse had a compound fractur...
When the Montana Logging Association needed to find a 30-foot Christmas Tree for the Montana State Capital this year, they turned to Lincoln-based logger Wayne Sherrill for help. Sherrill, who said he's been a member of the MLA for about 20 years, found the perfect Douglas on the McDonald Family Ranch near Canyon Creek, where he and his sons, Jared and Jesse, have spent much of the year working on logging and thinning projects. "I asked the landowner if it'd be alright and...
Fans of this years Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild concert series who missed out on the debut of composer-in-residence Adele O'Dwyer's "Songs for the Blackfoot Pathways" in September can now watch the performance online. Starret Artists of Stevensville recorded the performance and recently completed the final edit of their video footage of the performance and posted it to the video sharing website Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/298453602. O'Dwyer, joined by violinist...
Mark Christian is deeply concerned about the future of the Ponderosa Snow Warriors and hopes to see some of the younger snowmobilers in Lincoln step forward to lead the club into the future. "The club's 50 years old. It got started with a great corps of people who were all friends. They took care of the club as long as they possibly could, and people got spoiled because they did all the work. Unfortunately, time is time, and either we lost those great people or they're unable...
Robert Rivera has spent the last month getting to know the community of Lincoln, after taking his post as the towns resident deputy sheriff in late October Rivera takes over the position previously held by Chris Joyce, who opted to leave the LCSO in September. A trained glazier, Joyce chose to focus on both his family and on his business, Hollow Point Glass, a side job that grew into a full-time occupation for him. Rivera has been with the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's...
The Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce began making plans to relocate their annual skijoring event to a new location. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday, Nov. 8, Bill Cyr offered to let the organization use his hayfield at the corner of Highway 200 and Beaver Creek for the event this year. At 45 acres, the location is about three times the size of the Lincoln Rodeo Grounds and offers ample room for parking and for the skijoring track. Cyr warned that the site lacks...
The construction season at the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex is expected to draw to a close this week with the completion of winterization work at the site. According to Karen Ogden, Community Involvement Coordinator for the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, work that has been successfully completed this year includes the removal and reconstruction of the stream channel and flood plain from the confluence of Mike Horse and Bear Trap Creeks down to the Water...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Ezra Schwalm is hoping someone may have information on a bull elk that was shot and left to waste along Beaver Creek Road last week. Aaron Birkholz discovered the dead five point bull elk on state land Thursday afternoon, Nov. 8, while heading out to go hunting with his son. Birkholz said the elk was only about 30 yards off the road and fully visible from the road. "At first I thought somebody had shot it and went to get some help,...
A downed power pole, located across Highway 200 from Hi Country Snack Foods, knocked out electricity to about 700 Lincoln-area residents. According to Butch Larcombe with Northwestern Energy, the company's town manager Shea Forkan rerouted power and restored service to 580 customers within about 20 minutes but the remaining customers had to wait until a new power pole was in place. By 8:30 p.m., all the affected customers had their power restored. "We appreciate their...
More than a hundred costumed kids hit downtown Lincoln for the annual Halloween Walk, Oct. 31 The walk has given Lincoln kids a chance to trick or treat safely, going door to door at local businesses on Main Street, since the late 80's. Lincoln School Superintendent Carla Anderson said the walk iss usually for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade, but this year's addition of a preschool bumped up the number of kids, as did the parents who joined in with younger kids who...
An assembly at Lincoln School provided the administration with a perfect time to honor Gwyn and Scott Jensen for their volunteer work at the school for the last two years. The Jensens, from Helena, wrapped up a two-year mission for their church during which they volunteered at Lincoln School two days a week to help Lincoln Elementary School teachers with everything from math and reading to teaching kids to tie their shoes. Scott said the recognition, which included crowns for...
Lewis and Clark County is hosting an interment ceremony Nov. 20 at 10:30 a.m. for the cremated remains of 153 individuals who died in the county over the years, but whose remains have never been picked up. County Commissioner Susan Good Geise told Lincoln Government Day participants that the remains have been stored at the coroner’s office or at area funeral homes, and in some cases date back to the 1930’s. She said just leaving them sitting on in a shelf is not a proper place for them, so they will be interred at a vau...
In honor of his years of effort fighting the War on Weeds, County Commissioners declared Nov. 2, 2018 "Bob Bushnell Day" in Lewis and Clark County. Commission Chairman Andy Hunthausen began Lincoln Government Day last Friday with a reading of the proclamation, which detailed Bushnell's volunteer efforts on the Lewis and Clark Conservation District, the Lewis and Clark Weed District, the Montana Noxious Weed Management Advisory Council and the Ponderosa Snow Warriors. The...
"When I was 18, 19, 20 years old, I'd hay during the day and bartend at night," said Helmville native Katie Applegate. "Even then there was discussion of the bar being for sale, and the locals being like 'you should run the bar...'" Earlier this year, the idea that she would one day run the Copper Queen Saloon became a reality when she and her husband Tommy took over the business from Tammi Foell, who ran it for 21 years. "There was always a rumor that once we moved back that...
Republican Congressman Greg Gianforte has served as Montana's sole representative in Washington DC for a year and half, after defeating singer Rob Quist in a May 2017 special election for the seat left vacant by Ryan Zinke, President Donald Trump's pick as Secretary of the Interior. Gianforte is currently running for re-election this year against Democrat Kathleen Williams of Bozeman. Gianforte, who prides himself on getting out to all the counties in Montana and not spending...
The Blackfoot Challenge announced the selection of Charles Curtin as their new Executive Director in February of this year, but just seven months later, the organization and Curtin have parted ways. The Blackfoot Challenge has been tight-lipped about why they parted ways with Curtin in September. In response to an inquiry form from the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch, Challenge Communications Manager Sara Schmidt said the details are an internal matter and that "it just didn't work...
Last Wednesday, about twenty people boarded vans at Hooper Park for a three-hour tour of the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex for a look at progress that has been made since remediation and restoration work began there in 2014. Cleanup of the UBMC resumed this year on July 23, nearly a full year after efforts were suspended due to a debate among the partner agencies – the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program and the U.S. F...
