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The three-year project to install fiber optic lines to all the premises within the Lincoln Telephone Company's service area got underway this month, with work in the Lincoln Valley delayed for almost a month due to high water. The wet conditions here prompted the company to begin work in the Canyon Creek area, with a crew beginning to work its way up Marsh Creek toward Lincoln last Thursday. "If they get up there and the snow's gone they'll just keep coming," Aaron Daniel,...
Authors' Note: This piece is excerpted from a report Clyde Fickes wrote in May 1944. It appeared in "Volume 1 – Early Days In The Forest Service." His words are excerpted with light editing. Fickes retired from the U.S. Forest Service in 1947. He died at age 103 on Dec. 29, 1987 – from an accident on the dance floor. For a Ranger Station, no more isolated or lonesome spot could have been found. Visitors were practically unheard of for months at a time. The nearest nei...
Lincoln's graduating seniors...
The Private Land/Public Wildlife Council will meet on Thursday, June 7 in Helena from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express, located at 3170 N. Sanders Street. This will be the second meeting of Council members who have been re-appointed to continue working on landowner and sportsmen relations issues. Council members will review and discuss their topics and issues related to wildlife and private lands, as well as examine 2019 legislative initiatives. The PL/PW Council, a...
Montana's SuperTag chances for the hunt of a lifetime are on sale. Hunters can win the SuperTag drawing by purchasing one or more $5 SuperTag chances for the fall 2018 hunting season. Eight SuperTag hunt licenses are offered-moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, elk, deer, antelope, mountain lion and bison. Winners may hunt any district open to the species for which they won a tag. SuperTags are available at all FWP offices, license providers, or online at fwp.mt.gov. Click...
Grade school kids from several small schools around the region descended on Lincoln, May 24 for the annual Elementary Track Day. Track Day brings elementary students from Helmville, Wolf Creek and Canyon Creek to Lincoln every year as the school year winds down for a day of fun and games, and has proven to be one of the highlights of the year for the kids here. "They look forward to it, similar to elementary basketball," said Lincoln Health and PE teacher Shane Brown, who has...
Crossing the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex over the Memorial Day weekend may seem like a bad idea, but for a small group of ultralight backpackers the challenges it presents is the very reason to go. The Bob Marshall Wilderness Open got its start in 2012 when Dave Chenault, a social worker who evaluates and writes about lightweight backpack equipment. According to his website, Bedrocks and Paradox, Chenault has a history in both wilderness area traverses and ultra-endurance...
Lincoln American legit Post 9 hosted their annual Memorial Day observance ate Lincoln community Hall Monday May 28....
The Lincoln Rural Fire District is looking at options to fix a well and pump in town that was designed to both fill fire department trucks and improve fire protection for the downtown business district. Bill Frisbee, the Fire District board chairman, said the board made the well its number one infrastructure project for the district at their meeting last week. "The bottom line is the district made a commitment to the taxpayers to put in some sort of water pumping system that w...
The rainstorm that came through the Lincoln area Friday the Stonewall Creek to come out of its banks north of town, flooding houses in the Parlin Park area and turning Stonewall Creek Road and Youderian Drive into small rivers. Lincoln Fire Chief Zach Muse said it appears a flash flood washed debris from the Park Creek fire area into the creek, plugging the channel and causing the flood. He said the water pushed rock and debris into the Stonewall subdivision and flooded yards...
Investing money for retirement is a good and noble goal. After all, who does not want to have a bit of a nest egg to retire on? Social security is ok; it will help you some. But it was not intended to be the main source of one’s retirement fund. For many of us living in rural Montana, there is not the “old-school” safe and secure retirement program that people who worked in industrial areas have often had. Of course even the pension funds that were thought to be secure and s...
Dear Editor: President Trump wants to drain the swamp. What lives in the swamp? Leeches, they only suck blood (money) and contribute nothing. In the real world they are called Democrats....
And again, with no improvements on the grounds. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Forest Service had firefighters camped on the Rodeo grounds and paid big money for this service. In 2017 alone, the Rodeo Club should have made well over $50,000.00. I was hoping to see some more bleachers with shade and maybe shade over the existing bleachers. Sitting on a hill side in the hot sun is no fun. The Rodeo Club should be self sufficient so therefore the monies made from the Forest Service should be free and clear and as a non-profit...
It is optimistic news for Montanans that with only two months remaining in the first year of the current two-year budget, revenue projections are back on track with the Legislature’s original estimate. But even as we optimistically watch the revenue numbers climb each month, we are seeing our most vulnerable citizens suffering the effects of the cuts to human service providers the Governor chose to make when he called the Special Session. Feeling optimistic about revenue projections at the time of the special session, the L...
Water rights are the cornerstone of our agricultural economy. Without certainty, protection for existing water right holders, and a plan to define the federally reserved water rights of the tribes, Montana’s water users would be forced to foot the bill for decades of costly litigation and risk losing their existing water rights. That’s why we support the CSKT Water Compact and why we believe it is critical that our Congressional delegation act now to ratify the agreement that was passed by the Montana State Legislature in...
