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This year's Lincoln Rodeo faced its share of challenges. Their longtime stock contractor, Pistol Creek Rodeo*, moved on from supplying stock for the open rodeo, leaving the Lincoln Rodeo Club with the challenge of finding a replacement. The Fourth of July fell on a Thursday before the rodeo, not an ideal day. And thunderstorms over the weekend brought driving rain and wind to the valley. While any of those could have spelled disaster, Christ Lewenight with the Rodeo Club said...
The 4th of July Festivities are over, the crowds have slightly thinned, the weather has been wet and cool, but the fishing remains hot! With all the rain over the last couple of weeks, Mother Nature is keeping the rivers flowing. The levels are lower than normal and are a bit concerning. For instance, as of the day of this writing, the Blackfoot at Bonner was almost half of what is considered the ten year average; despite a cool beginning to summer and a decent snow pack this...
For the last 16 years, Lincoln resident and pilot Jerry Cain has hosted an annual fly-in barbecue and potluck at his Lincoln Airport hangar for Montana and out-of-state pilots to enjoy. Lincoln Airport is a state-owned airport managed and maintained by the Montana Aeronautics Division of the Montana Transportation Department. For the last three years, and continuing this year, Cain has hosted a Community Airport Open House and Fly-in Barbecue Potluck. The event is open to the...
The Back Adit Band Kicked off the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild summer concert Series on the Fourth of July....
12's Redneck Olympics...
Everybody loves a parade When New Zealanders Andrew and Diane Scott rode into Ovando July 3, they didn't know they'd be "international ambassadors" in a parade celebrating American Independence the next day. Kathy Schoendoerfer, Ovando's de facto ambassador for cyclists, said they had planned to leave on the morning of the Fourth, but were convinced to stick around for the towns annual Independence Day Parade. "We decorated up their bicycles, put cowboy hats on them and they...
The 2019 Lincoln parade, July 6....
The Annual July 4th Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce fireworks show lit up the sky over Lincoln for more than 10-minutes on Independence Day. This year served as a reminder of the dangers of the privately purchased fireworks when a large mortar on Hooper parks west ball field tipped over. The pyrotechnic shot through the fence and struck a spectator in the shoulder and face. The impact knocked the man down and caught his shirt on fire. He suffered a second degree burn on...
I've been back in the US for over a year, now, and it's time to correct a wrong I left unattended for most of that time. It's embarrassing. I've had the life-long propensity to get myself into desperate situations, then scream to others, begging for help. But with a willing family and good friends who always pulled me out of the mire, life continued so I could do it again. The experience I suffered in Brazil left me emotionally and intellectually catatonic. I gave up on...
Beginning July 1, donations to the voluntary wolf mitigation account will be accepted through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Those interested can submit a donation two ways: By selecting the Wolf Mitigation donation option under the Conservation heading on FWP's Online License Service Website. In person at any FWP License Provider. The voluntary wolf mitigation account was established by House Bill 291 in the 2019 Legislature and became effective July 1. Funding from the...
Malta has an appealing downtown that includes a state-of-the-art movie theater with surround sound joined by a healthy, self-sufficient variety of other businesses. You can find two lumberyards, a hardware store, three banks, a pharmacy, a new brewery and a farm store, currently under construction. A once-vacant storefront is home to Family Matters, a family clothing store established and successfully owned by community members for over 18 years, spawning entrepreneurism and...
Note: As the West enters another fire season, where, how and why federal land management agencies decide to suppress wildfires and implement fuel reduction projects will be hotly debated, as residents, environmentalists, agency heads, and politicians tangle with how much, if any, thinning, logging, and prescribed burning is appropriate to mitigate fire risk. Three trends play an important role in the discussion: hotter and drier conditions wrought by climate change, which have...
For nearly three decades, a converted horse trailer filled with cowboy hats has been a popular fixture at the Lincoln Rodeo, but nothing lasts forever. After Charlie "the Hat Man" Mason passed away in 2011, his wife Geri carried on with the business she and her husband built nearly four decades ago "All in all, 37 years on the road selling hats." Geri said. "(Charlie's) been gone eight years, so I've been carrying on pretty much solo." Despite the fun she has in seeing the...
A small brush fire near Stemple Pass Road Thursday singed grasses and sagebrush along Poorman Creek but didn't cause any major damage. Mona Fitzgerald reported the fire after smelling smoke while in her house. She looked out and saw smoke filtering through the trees at the back of her property, but knewnobody was supposed to be doing any debris burning. When she went to check she saw fire burning in the grass and heard it popping as sagebrush burned. She called 911 and said...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received seventy-five Calls for Service in the Lincoln area during the week of June 30 through July 6. Thirty of those Calls for Service were traffic stops performed in and around the Lincoln area by deputies. Deputies also performed one civil service and completed one VIN inspection. Six calls for service generated a case last week: June 30: In the afternoon, a plane crash was reported at the Lincoln Airport. It was discovered later by...
Dear Readers, A few weeks ago, I printed a column on ultra-processed foods. The National Institute of Health (NIH) performed a study and found that participants on an ultra-processed foods diet consumed about 500 calories more per day than the group who consumed an unprocessed foods diet. As I pointed out, the study was comprised of only 20 people, which is too small to apply to the entire population, although the study was hailed as ground-breaking by the media. Another...
