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After a month and a half of online schooling and a Christ-mas break, Lincoln students returned to their classrooms Monday morning. The school had been closed since Nov. 19 out of concerns about COVID-19 and close contacts with infected individuals that impacted both students and staff. The Lincoln School Board opted to return to in-person classes at a special Dec. 28 meeting via Zoom, due largely to the impact distance learning was having on the students. "A lot of the high sc...
A sizable group of people gathered east of Lincoln on New Years Day to take advantage of the warm weather for a bit of classic wintertime fun....
Heidi and Jim Agner have lived in Lincoln since 2013 and are the husband and wife duo behind Lincoln Gulch Engraving and Leatherworks. They live with their two dogs, Shep, a collie, and Sally, a springer spaniel. Heidi handles the leatherwork part of the business, and Jim does the en-graving, though they got their starts at different times. Heidi began working with soft leath-er over 30 years ago, she said, using deer skin and similar materials. She eventual-ly started...
Judith (Judy) Spinler, 78, of Rudyard, passed away peacefully of natural caus-es at Northern Montana Hospital on Dec. 28, 2020. Judy was born to Ger-ald (Jerry) Stuker and Edna Minnick on July 22, 1942 in Havre, Montana. Judy loved fishing, hunt-ing and camping. She had a passion for gardening. She loved to can and share the vegetables from her garden. She worked for the Eagles Club as a bartender. She also raised fish for local pet stores. She loved bowling and made the...
Lewis and Clark County Com-missioner Tom Rolfe was sworn in Dec. 29, 2020 for his first term. Rolfe, who was elected to the position Susan Good Geise vacated, said he started attending meetings almost two years ago, working to decide if running for County Com-missioner would be a good fit. "I've been interested in public policy all my life," said Rolfe, who was elected to the Montana Legislature as the Bozeman and Livingston area representative for the 1973-74 term. "I spent...
Eight years ago, the idea of an international sculpture park in Lincoln seemed like a pretty crazy idea, but as 2020 – a notably crazy year itself – drew to a close, Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild added another feather to its cap as one of five honorees recognized with the Montana Governor's Arts Award. In a Dec. 29 press release from the Mon-tana Art's Council, Gov. Steve Bullock announced the awards, which are bestowed on individuals and organizations that "de...
Despite the relatively thin snow around Lincoln, the Ponderosa Snow Warriors kicked off both the new year and the snowmobile season Jan. 2 with a virtual fun runt and food at the club house on Sucker Creek Road. "This was the first thing we were going to try to do because we had to cancel the club dinner," said the club's new president Forest Mercill. Mercill took over as president last fall from Ron Zarr, who stepped down due to work and other commitments. Attendance to the...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received twenty-two calls for service during the week of Dec. 27, 2020 to Jan.2, 2021 in the Lincoln area. Deputies performed two traffic stops. None of those calls for service generated a case report last week. Other calls for service in the Lincoln area last week were one 911 hang-up, one alarm, one citizen assist, one possible domestic, eight false alarms (six being from the same residence), one suspicious call, one trespass issue, and...
Welcome to 2021! It’s a brand new year. One filled with promise of new things, new endeavors, and new and different beliefs. Rather than address a couple of recent letters that were published in the BVD separately, I thought I would take this opportunity to address them both simultaneously within this week’s column and hopefully give myself and others a chance to grow and see things from other points of view. Just before Christmas, there was a let-ter from Pastor Don Nie...
George Malcom Haggart, 82, passed away on Monday, December 28, 2020 at the VA Hospital in Helena, MT. After enduring pain for several years with heart disease and cancer, His Lord Jesus relieved him from his pain and called him home. George was born October 16, 1938 in Weehawken, New Jersey to Malcolm and Carrie Haggart. He now will join his Dad, Malcom, his mom, Carrie, his brother Buzz of New York and his brother, Jim of Pennsylvania. Jim was his closest friend, and they both endured health is-sues over the past few years....
Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild looks forward to a full event season in 2021, after the cancellation and postponement of last year’s events and artists due to the COVID-19 pandemic. BSPW will welcome three artists in residence and one composer in residence to Lincoln this year. Three of the creators are based in Montana. Michael Brolly and Bently Spang had previously been selected for 2020, but their residencies were postponed due to the pandemic. Spang is a Montana artist and has shown work throughout North America,...
