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Blackfoot River Ducks Unlimited 23rd Annual Banquet Tammy Jordan The Blackfoot River Ducks Unlimited Chapter will be hosting their 23rd annual fundraising banquet on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at the Lincoln Community Hall. The committee has been hard at work planning, organizing, and collecting donation to make this their best banquet to date. Letters went out to area individuals, businesses, and organizations to solicit donations for the event. If you didn't receive a letter...
Community Social Comes to Lincoln Tammy Jordan It all began with an idea at the Lincoln Community Hall meeting. Now, with more than 20 organizations, the Lincoln Community Social (a.k.a. Get to Know Your Community and Neighbors Social) event is well on its way. The event is hosted by the Lincoln Community Hall and the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce and will take place Friday, April 14, 2023 from 4pm-8pm at the historic Lincoln Community Hall. There were four main reasons t...
Celebration of Life for Harry & Lola Arvidson is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, 6 May 2023 at the Lincoln Community Hall. A potluck meal (salads/dessert) will follow the service. Pulled pork sandwiches will be provided. Please call 208-284-9088 for further information....
HELENA – With warmer temperatures and snow quickly disappearing, shed-antler hunters are anxious to get into the field. Buck deer and bull elk and moose grow antlers each year, some to magnificent size, which drop off to regrow each spring. Hunting for and collecting these "shed" antlers in spring has become a popular activity. Many of Montana's wildlife management areas (WMAs) provide security to wildlife during the winter. However, shed hunters need to be aware that Montana's big game winter range WMAs are closed to p...
The Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received seventy-three calls for service between March 1 and March 31, 2023, in the Lincoln area. Seven of those calls were traffic stops performed by deputies. We had four calls for service create case numbers: Child Protective Services called March 1 to give a cross report with a deputy on a domestic disturbance that was reported to them in the Lincoln area. The investigation is on-going and being handled by the deputy. Deputies responded to an assault between two females in the 500...
HELENA – When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, it put abortion in the state on the line during the 2023 Montana Legislature. Now, lawmakers will soon have their final debates on three bills that would limit access to abortion in three main ways: by limiting Medicaid payments for abortions, by criminalizing abortion except in the case of medical necessity and by excluding abortion from Montanans' right to privacy as it's protected in the Montana c...
Lawmakers Table Bill That Would Have Offered Free School Meals for All The House Education Committee tabled a bill 12-1 last week that would have provided funding for free school meals to all students in the public school system. Rep. Melissa Romano, D-Helena, sponsored House Bill 863, which would require $22 million yearly of the state's general fund to be appropriated to the Office of Public Instruction, which would then distribute the money to public schools to pay for...
NOTICE OF LINCOLN K-12 DISTRICT NO. 38 TRUSTEE ELECTION Notice is hereby given that in Lewis and Clark County on May 2, 2023, an election will be held in the Lincoln Public School Dist. 38 for the purpose of electing one trustee to three-year terms on the Lincoln Public School District No. 38 Board of Trustees and This election will be conducted by mail ballot. Ballots will be automatically mailed to active electors residing within the district on April 14, 2023. Polls will...
The 2023 Montana legislature began its legislative session with an unprecedented surplus, mainly due to the over-collection of state taxes from Montana taxpayers. Since this is ultimately taxpayers' money, I - along with other conservatives in the legislature - were determined to return money to Montana taxpayers and to reduce your taxes in the future. Tax relief has long been an objective of mine, like in the 2021 session when I passed a bill that effectively moved Montana's...
