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Helena, Montana– The Montana Department of Transportation 2019 Aviation Career Exploration Academy will be conducted in Helena on June 25th and 26th. Sponsored by the Aeronautics Division, the Academy is designed to immerse high school students in wide-ranging aspects of aeronautics and introduce them to aviation career possibilities. The two-day resident camp will include flights in general aviation airplanes; a tour of a state-of-the-art aerospace manufacturing facility; and visits to a static Boeing 727 flight deck, the A...
U.S. Highway 191 climbs a steep grade out of the Missouri River bottoms north of the bridge at the James Kipp Recreation Area. As it gains the upper extent of the river breaks, a far-reaching, high plains landscape sprawls toward Canada 125 miles to the north. The Little Rockies rise directly ahead, and a rough, rolling prairie flows off to the east. From here, you will experience the vastness of the prairie, seeing firsthand why Montana received the nickname of "Big Sky...
The summer before my eighth grade (1960), my mother, who still had hopes for me, got the idea that I would do well to attend my last year of grade school in Deer Lodge, where I would be going to high school. I was all for it. Living with our grandmother and entering into the Deer Lodge elementary school society was exciting - and a year earlier than expected. Maybe I had a future, after all. The school population was accepting, of course, and I was quickly absorbed into its ra...
Helena – Impaired driving is deadly driving. Law enforcement is increasing patrols on the road in Helena and Lewis and Clark County, along with the Montana Highway Patrol statewide around the July 4 holiday to remind motorists to drive sober or get pulled over. Summer is the deadliest time of year for motor vehicle crashes, with nearly half of all fatal crashes happening in the summer months. Over the last five years, 47 percent of these fatalities involved an impaired d...
Music is back on the slate this year at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild with series of free weekly concerts in the Delaney Mill TeePee Burner beginning on the Fourth of July. Last year Sculpture in the Wild added music to its annual September artistic offerings, with Composer-in-Residence Adele O'Dwyer curating a series of concerts culminating in a Cafe Music Night Fundraiser. This year, the music moves to the sculpture park every Thursday evening, with a series of...
The Rocky Mountain Model T Club gave residents from Lincoln to Philipsburg a glimpse into the past and at the most ubiquitous car in history. The club brought 11 "Tin Lizzies" to Lincoln on one of the club's two back road tours they take each year.. "We went up over Huckleberry pass, then back into Seeley Lake, came in the back side there. Then we went down to Philipsburg, went to Garnet and dropped down the back side of Garnet into Bearmouth, Drummond and on into...
Lane Ryan Mannix, 18, of Missoula, was called to be with our Father in heaven on June 17, 2019 in a car accident. Lane was born in Missoula, Montana on November 27, 2000 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Hellgate High School on June 8, 2019, shortly after receiving the Presidential Award for outstanding academic excellence. She was looking forward to attending U of M to become a radiology tech in the fall. Lane's spirit was old beyond her years and she always put other's...
Dear Dietitian, I am sixty years old, and I've always been health conscious. I eat right and exercise three times a week. Recently, I've read that too much calcium may increase your risk of heart attack. Is this true? Also, how much is too much? Mary Dear Mary, How many times did you hear, "Drink your milk" when you were a child? Milk is a good source of calcium, which is needed for healthy bones. Our bodies will build bone until about age 18, then we must consume adequate...
Week of June 9-15 Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received sixteen Calls for Service in the Lincoln area during the week of June 9 through 15. Six of those Calls for Service were traffic stops and two were civil services performed in and around the Lincoln area by deputies. One call for service generated a case: Deputies stopped to check on a female sitting on the side of the highway June 10 around 6 p.m., in the area of Montana Highway 200, mile marker 77. Deputies ran the...
The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department took advantage of an empty house at 728 Main Street in Lincoln to conduct real-world training Saturday, June 22. Using smoke bombs, small piles of burning straw and a simulated casualty, firefighters practiced making their way through a building none of them had been in before, in the low visibility of a smoke-filled building. "It gave us a real-life scenario with live fire and we were able to do different scenarios; from a rescue of an...
The Alliance for Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council filed suit last week in federal district court to halt implementation of the Willow Creek Vegetation Project southwest of Lincoln. The environmental groups claim the Forest Service designated the area as a "threatened landscape" without conducting the proper environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act. Without that analysis, they claim the public has been denied the opportunity to review or...
