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The Lewis and Clark County Commissioners will hold a public hearing for the purpose of obtaining comments from residents of the Lincoln Solid Waste District regarding changes in the solid waste assessment fees. The public hearing will be held on Thursday, June 27th at 9:00 a.m. in the Commission Chambers, Room 330 of the City/County Building, 316 N. Park Avenue, Helena, MT 59623 Proposed assessment rates will be effective on July 1, 2019. The proposed rates are as follows: TYPE OF UNIT CURRENT RATE NEW RATE Taxable Unit...
Lewis and Clark County has the following Lincoln board openings: Lincoln Parks Board Seeking citizens to serve on the board. The purpose of the board is to advise the Board of County Commissioners and the City-County Parks Board on issues relating to the use, improvement, and general maintenance of the Lincoln Planning Area parks. The board consists of five members, with one member to be a member of both the City-County Parks Board and the Lincoln Parks Board. Terms are for 3 years. Applications are available at...
State and local public health officials are reminding Montanans to be aware of the risk for exposure to rabies this summer. Encounters between humans and wild animals often increase in the summer months because of the time spent hiking and engaging in other outdoor activities. Rabies is a fatal disease. The rabies virus is carried in the saliva of infected warm-blooded mammals and is usually transmitted to people and other animals through a bite. Human rabies deaths in the...
Buckling your seat belt should be automatic. It should be the first thing done when you get in the car. Seat belt use should be as ingrained as tying your shoes or brushing your teeth. Still, nearly 10-20 percent of drivers and passengers go without their seat belts. Between 2013 and 2017, seat belts saved just over 69,000 lives in the United States. With the Memorial Day holiday weekend marking the official start to summer, there will be thousands more families traveling the...
As kids, we were always anxious to help our fathers (it was always the fathers those days) in their work. We were participating in the adult life, plus we learned new and fun things. The work was enjoyable until we were old enough to be paid; that's when it became misery. One task that became an annual project for us as children was helping to roll the old barbed wire left by the homesteaders' when they abandoned their claims during the drought years of the late 1920s. Old...
Well, according to some “experts” the dynasty of the Golden State Warriors is over. They were dethroned by the Toronto Raptors in six games. I must confess I am not an NBA fan by any means, but I was sure hoping that the Warriors would get whupped! It is not that I “hate” them but I do get sick and tired of hearing how great they are, when in fact five years from now no one will remember what they did, or who played for them during their fabulous run of five straight NBA fin...
A Blackfoot Valley Dispatch photograph of a falling bronc and rider – and the crowd's shocked reaction - earned recognition as the 2019 Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year at the 134th Annual Montana Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Awards ceremony June 8 in Big Sky. BVD Editor and Publisher Roger Dey shot the image of Blackfoot, Idaho bronc rider Cooper Clemons during a wild ride last year at the Annual Helmville Labor Day Rodeo. "I almost didn't enter the contest t...
When I think of the last week of school, my mind instantly wanders to cleaning out lockers and classrooms, time spent signing yearbooks, talking about summer plans, or tying up loose ends and missing assignments. This definitely wasn't the case for Mrs. Mannix and Ms. Spencer's 5th & 6th grade classes. Not even close. They took this time to plan an overnight outdoor adventure that would take them to the Raymond Ranch, a house originally built around 1917, on part of the Mannix...
Reminders of the Lambkin Park clean up day brought in seven volunteers, including Zach Muse and Markj Christian. A lack of younger volunteers and volunteer leaders to help with Snow Warriors' projects and events, including the Lambkin Park clean up, has been a growing concern of Christian's recently. Many of the most active volunteers who helped make the club one of the largest and most active in the state are growing older and are no longer able to tackle more physically...
Dear Dietitian, My daughter is on a health kick and complains that I use too many processed, convenience foods. She insists these foods are unhealthy and claims that studies prove it. Do you agree with her? Signed, Overworked Mom Dear Mom, One day while working in the hospital, I whipped out a frozen dinner and popped it in the microwave. A co-worker snarled and said, "Ew, that's bad for you! It's processed food!" Aside from the annoyance, which I'm quite sure was intended,...
Bareback bronc rider Cooper Clemons draws shocked looks from the audience at the 2018 Helmville Labor Day Rodeo when the horse he's on loses its footing and rolls backward. The photograph of the Blackfoot, Idaho cowboy, who kept his grip and rode out the roll to finish his ride, earned the top photo award from the Montana Newspaper Association this year....
Two and a half months after local fisherman James Savstrom, 70, was found dead on the Blackfoot River west of Lincoln, the state crime has lab released its findings in his cause of death. Information provided by Lewis and Clark County Sheriff/Coroner Leo Dutton listed Savstrom's primary cause of death was Atherlosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, also known as hardening of the arteries. Hypothermia was listed as the secondary cause of death. According to Dutton, Savstrom's...
Ronald Reagan was President, no one had heard of the internet and deer were more of a traffic problem in Lincoln than cars, trucks or semis when Sherri Wood began her job as library director at the Lincoln Library. "I started when my oldest boy was a baby. He turned 36 and I thought, 'What? I think I've been here a long time,'" Wood said, showing her deadpan sense of humor last Wednesday as her tenure drew at the library drew to a close. More than 25 people (and a large...
