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Last week's meeting on the draft revised Forest Plan and draft environmental impact statement for the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest highlighted concerns many in the area have about the future of access to National Forest land around Lincoln. The Forest Plan Revision Team hosted the meeting at the Lincoln Community Hall July 30 to answer questions about five alternative versions of the draft plan and DEIS, and to provide information for people on how to comment on...
New Food Storage Orders Signed to Cover Remaining Portions of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest HELENA, MONT., August 7, 2018 – Late last month Forest Supervisor Bill Avey signed two new food storage orders to cover the areas of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest (HLC) that were not previously covered by such an order. Now, the HLC has three food storage orders that cover its 2.8 million acre landscape. "Food storage orders are an important step in helping p...
Pre-School 1 box twist-up crayons(8 count) 1 bottles of Elmers glue; 5 glue sticks 10 wooden pencils (not mechanical) 1 pair of rubber-bottomed PE shoes (if they have laces, please be sure your child can tie!) Backpack; Change of clothes Box of kleenex Kindergarten 1 box twist-up crayons(8 count) 1 bottles of Elmers glue 5 glue sticks 10 wooden pencils (not mechanical) 1 pair of rubber-bottomed PE shoes (if they have laces, please be sure your child can tie!) Backpack 1st...
Labor Day marks the end of summer in Helmville and most of Montana. The hay is baled and the cattle haven't come home from the native pastures. Children are either in school or about to start. For ranchers, it's a hiatus between haying and the fall work. Over fifty years ago a number of ranchers decided to take their horses to the old rodeo grounds a half-mile from town and spend the day enjoying various contests that included horses and horsemanship. The day was a success...
This years fun run, with 160 hands and 50 riders, was the largest since the inaugural run in 2014. Last year, the Park and Arrastra Creek Fires limited the size of the fun run, but this year they were able to run the entire route of about 50 miles. Since Terman was dedicated to helping kids, the proceeds of the fun runs always go to benefit causes for kids that people don't always donate to. This year, the money will go to help the Junior High Track program and the cost of a...
Well another year in the books for the Heather Terman fun run. We had quite a few more new riders and sold 160 hands/cards. Everyone had a great time and we gave out some good prizes. Congratulations to the winners! Julie Lynn Zarr got high hand, Dawn Fisher got low hand, and Barb French took the middle hand. The money earned will go to the Jr. High Track and help with a new scoreboard. Again, I'd like to give a big shout out to everyone that donated prizes, bought hands, and...
The Lincoln Community Hall turned 100 years old this year, and it is one of the last log public buildings of its size in Montana. The unique octagonal structure, first dedicated in February 1918, was built by the citizens of Lincoln to provide a centralized home for the social and spiritual well-being to a remote mountain community. That vision has continued today. The list of directors and caretakers over the years include a Who's Who of Lincoln history. They selflessly...
Bailey Grantier returned home to Lincoln Friday night, Aug. 3 after several days at the University of Utah Hospital, where she had surgery to repair three fractures to her jaw following a July 29 dirt bike accident at Pipestone Pass. Kevin Grantier, Bailey’s father, described the accident was kind of a “freak deal.” He said she was riding in an area not far from where they’d unloaded when she hit a rock or a rut hidden by grass that caused her to pitch over the front of her bike. When she came down, she landed on another...
This past week has been a real enjoyable time for me and the members of the Community Bible Church of Lincoln and the Lincoln Baptist Church, and especially for the 32 wonderful people from South Side Baptist Church in Damascus, Arkansas. We have cut a log truck full of firewood for folks, repaired roofs, done some painting and plumbing work for the church building, and several other projects. It has been wonderful time of relational ministry to the Body of Christ and the comm...
In 1942 Steve Stocks joined the Coast Guard at 17 years old. Four months later he was on a brand new fast transport headed to a base of operations on an island on the south end of New Guinea that had only recently been liberated. "I went to an Island called Good Enough Island on the southern end of New Guinea," Stocks said. "The Japanese had just been chased out of there by the Australians." The trip took 19 days. Over the course of the war, Stocks made similar trips a dozen...
A proposed Rural Improvement District on the 4x4 Road east of Lincoln drew about 30 people to the Lincoln Government Day meeting Aug. 3, but with only one County Commissioner on hand it didn't qualify as a public meeting on the topic. An RID for the road has been in the works for several months after residents who use the road submitted a petition to create a district for soil stabilization and dust control on the 4x4 Road, which provides access to the county's 7 Up Ranch...
An apparent electrical short in a Chevy Blazer Jed Hinkle was preparing to take in for scrap ignited fire that destroyed most of the vehicle monday morning, Aug. 6. Hinkle, owner of Pete's Towing, had removed the battery from the vehicle and was preparing to move it from his yard when the fire started. He pulled the SUV out into his driveway, away from the other vehicles and buildings and called 911. Aaron Birkholz, assistant fire chief for Lincoln Volunteer Fire Rescue, said...
