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Life is changing, there’s no way around it. It changes each day. Sometimes those changes are small and incremental, while other times, they are a wham, bam, thank you, ma’am, knock you off your feet, welcome to your new reality kind of change. Sometimes, you’ve known the change is going to happen. You know you’re starting a new job, a new venture, moving to a new place, starting school or finishing school. Sometimes, it comes without warning. A new boss has arrived and is...
What does a cowboy think? How does he describe his world? I have always wondered about the who, what, where and why of cowboys, and now I've found an answer. My muse is (was) Richard Geary. His world could be explained by some of his definitions: "Calf: 80 pounds of hope when born; 500 pounds of disappointment when sold." Or, "ATV: a small four-wheeled vehicle used to rush from one hopeless situation to another hopeless situation." (What Ranchers Mean). His authentic rendering...
seems to be passing very quickly with so many things to still get accomplished. The Board of directors and some of our members have been working all summer to accomplish several tasks needed done by our club. The last big job was getting Big Mountain Trail open over the top. Working with the Forest Service, the area was open to the public to get many loads of firewood, which was cut and laid on the side of the road. We were able to get enough wood moved to open the trail over...
A trip up Stonewall Mountain provided a chance to meet the goats that keep the lookout company....
For the last two years, the Music in the Wild performances in the Delaney Mill Teepee Burner have brought some of the state's best musicians to town nearly every weekend throughout July and August. It provides a free, unrivaled chance to hear a wide variety of musical styles – from blues to jazz to country, as well as the occasional guest speaker – in a one-of-a-kind setting....
The Lincoln Rodeo grounds was the site of "full blown chaos" as nearly 16,000 water balloons, 40 or 50 kids, a couple dozen adults and two fire trucks came together for a wet and wild water balloon fight Saturday, July 30. Before the melee got underway, adults gathered around several heavy rubber stock tanks filling balloons as the kids waited impatiently in the shade of the large camouflage net by the rodeo grounds snack bar. Several of them pressed up against the arena...
Chip sealing of the streets in both the Lincoln and Lambkin's Rural Improvement Districts is scheduled for Aug. 16 – 17. Lewis and Clark Public Works director Jenny Chambers reported at Lincoln Government Day that crews have completed pothole patching on the streets in town in advance of the surface preservation project. Additionally, the corner near the Hotel Lincoln, which was little more than a mass of potholes, has been blade patched to improve drainage. Chambers said t...
untry to stage dramatic hearings about January 6th. Hiring a TV producer to create the greatest impact on the public. Characterizing this event involving a few hundred people as the greatest threat to our Democracy since the civil war! An event they must be familiar with since Democrats started it to protect their rights to keep slaves. Their objective: destroy Trump and hopefully charge him with a crime, based on speech and actions before the riot and slow response to stop...
Q: I watched a documentary in school about the "tales" of the Bible and the afterlife. The one that bothered me the most was the lie about there being many roads to Heaven and that because Hell is a fictional place, there are no roads to this awful place. Most of the students believed the documentary over the Bible. Didn't Jesus speak of Hell often? - T.R. A: Many answers about life after death are deceiving and will lead people right into Hell; the very place they are told...
The Wheel Inn marks is 75th year with a change in ownership. Shea and Melissa Forkan took over ownership of the historic tavern two weeks ago after four months of wading through red tape and the state's bureaucracy to meet the requirements for buying the tavern. The Forkans signed the final paperwork Thursday, July 28, taking over the bar from Doug and Laurie Richards, who owned it for 33 years. Given the long-term success of the Wheel Inn under the Richards tenure, the...
While the annual Lincoln Clothing Giveaway has been a success every year, organizer Nadine Yonkovich said they like to think every year is better than the last. And this year may have been the best in its 35-year history, even surpassing last year's donation windfall. "Last year it seemed like we had more donations than ever before, because the tables were just mounded. But this year I'm saying we got more donations than even last year," said Yonkovich. "It is just amazing...
The Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received sixty-seven calls for service during the weeks of July 24 to Aug. 6, 2022 in the Lincoln area. Nine of those calls were a traffic stop performed by deputies. We had four cases created over the last two weeks. Deputies responded to the 100 block of Spring Creek Lane July 25, for a report of a domestic disturbance. Both parties were separated. It was determined to be mutual combatants, and no one was taken to jail. A deputy responde...
After nearly 10 years publishing the Seeley Swan Path finder in Seeley Lake, Andi and Nathan Bourne sold the newspaper to brothers Jesse and Lloyd Mullen, owners of Ponderosa Publications. The newspaper will be managed by the Mullen Newspaper Company, with Andi staying on as editor during the transition, which they hope to have completed by Sept. 1. "After nearly 10 years, we recognized that we had taken the Pathfinder as far as we could and were getting burned out," Nathan said in the Pathfinder article on the sale. "We...
At the end of June, the Lewis and Clark County Commission approved a $55,000 request from the Lincoln Rural Fire District to use funds allocated to the county through the American Rescue Plan Act to develop a water filling station at Hooper Park. The proposal called for creating a pumping and filling station at the park, which has a wellhead near the main parking lot. The plan for the filling station, which Lewis and Clark County Public Works has the lead on implementing, would include a buried pressure tank and use the...
