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The Lewis & Clark Library plans to host their 15th annual National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in November featuring the poetry book An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo. "Big Read is a chance for the community to get together and read the same book and share their thoughts on that book and the ideas that they found, and have that shared community feeling of experiencing the same thing...and then getting together to talk about it," said Library Director John Finn, adding, "It...
The Helena NRCS field office is excited to announce two new programs for private landowners in portions of Lewis and Clark County. Using the county-level long range plans and local interest, staff have developed two new Targeted Implementation Plans or TIP's. The two maps included in this article provide a general boundary for each project one of which is located in the Wolf Creek area, the other near Dalton Mountain Road. Staff at the Helena NRCS office are available to...
International Bat Week is celebrated annually on the last week of October, from the 24-31. Organized by Bat Conservation International and in partnership with groups like Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the event is meant to highlight the need for bat conservation and demonstrate the important role bats play in the ecosystem and economy. Bats belong to the order Chiroptera and are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. There are over 900 species of bats, acco...
Bear activity in Lincoln has been picking up recently as bears looking for as much food as they can find ahead of hibernation ahead of hibernation are finding unsecured garbage and other attractants in town Last week saw some significant bear activity ln Lincoln's west side, with several bear sightings and encounters on the south and west edges of town, areas that are close to the Blackfoot River and the wetlands southwest of town. According to Facebook posts last Wednesday,...
The last scheduled volleyball match of the year for the Lincoln Little Lynx on Oct.15 was canceled by the Drummond Lady Trojans because of their exposure to COVID-19. But coach Danielle Fry didn't want to end the season on such a disappointing note, so she scheduled a Friday night shoot out between her young, skilled and enthusiastic Junior High players vs. the older, terrified-of-being-embarrassed Moms and Dads of the Lady Lynx. To keep the 'players vs. parents' theme going,...
AUGUSTA, Mont. October 17, 2021 - Following two new human-caused fire starts, the Rocky Mountain Ranger District, and the entirety of the Scapegoat Wilderness on the Lincoln Ranger District, have returned to Stage 1 fire restrictions as of 12:01 a.m. on October 17. "Our district is working to contain the Crown Mountain Fire and yesterday, we received reports of two new human-caused starts, putting us at 6 human-caused starts on the district in the last month," said Rocky...
Black plastic trash bags lined Highway 200 at random intervals Friday morning Oct. 15, as fourteen junior high and high school members of Lincoln School's chapter of the Business Professionals of America joined the Ponderosa Snow Warriors to cleanup the borrow pits along Highway 200 from the Lincoln Ranger Station to the Landers Fork Bridge. Divided into several groups, the clean up crew scoured the roadsides for trash thrown from vehicles, blown out of trucks or trailers...
A new shade structure will provide visitors to the Lincoln skatepark with respite from the sun or the rain. The shade, completed last weekend by DC Construction of Helena, was paid for by an $8000 grant from the American Academy of Dermatology and is the lates, but not the last, improvement to Hooper Park, which saw a record-setting summer season. "We did real good on revenue," said Lincoln Park Board President Nyle Howsmon. "We almost increased $10,000 over last year, which...
Virginia Lambkin Horner marked a milestone birthday Oct. 8 as she turned 100. The eldest daughter of Leonard and Mary Lambkin, Virginia was born in Great Falls in 1921 and spent much of her life in Lincoln, growing up at her parents' hotel, the now -iconic Hotel Lincoln. Brenda Vehrs, Virginia's granddaughter, said Virginia and her younger sisters Ellen (Mulcare) and Betty (Disney) were "all kind of special girls" for their time. "They all got to go to college," Vehrs said....
As Lincoln School headed into Homecoming week, the premature end to the Lincoln High School football season and difficulties in finding substitute teachers both saw extensive discussion at the Lincoln School board meeting Monday Oct. 11. Lincoln Schools Athletic Director Shane Brown said football season started off with high expectations but circumstances such as COVID-19 and poor practice attendance affected players eligibility to the point the team couldn't be sustained...
Stoney Owens, 79, of Lincoln passed away Sept. 24. Stoney was born in Seymour, Indiana. He later relocated with family to Sandpoint, Idaho where he was raised. Stoney graduated from Sandpoint High in 1961 and shortly after enlisted with the US Army. He was stationed in Germany from 1961-1964. Stoney was preceded in death by his father Oliver Owens; mother Leona Green; step-father McGinty Green; sisters Sharon and Elizabeth Jo (Jay); step-sister Cheryl; brothers Jack, Gene and...
October is here, leaves are falling, and perhaps Montanans should not be surprised that the Montana Democrats on the Districting and Apportionment Commission are carving up our state like a pumpkin. While they claim they want to create a "competitive" district, their maps go far beyond that. So far in fact, that they fail to meet the mandatory criteria in the Montana Constitution, that the districts be as equal in population as is practicable, be contiguous, and be compact....
Democrats, led by President Biden, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, are rushing a reckless $3.5 trillion tax and spending spree bill through Congress that would reshape the very foundation of America and push the U.S. down the path of socialism. The Democrats’ massive bill is the largest spending bill in our nation’s history and will create all sorts of new entitlement programs. To pay for it, Democrats plan to hike taxes across the board, making this bill the...
There is an ongoing battle regarding the $3.5 trillion reconciliation plan proposed by the Biden Administration, which includes a provision that would require financial institutions, such as our credit unions, to report to the IRS transactional data for any account with at least $600 of inflows or outflows annually. This unlimited access to consumers' financial data should raise alarms for anyone with a bank or credit union account. First and foremost, this plan violates...
TheGoogle Street View Car Stopped in Lincoln Oct. 5. The driver of the car pulled in to take a break form gathering updated imagery of Lincoln and Highway 200 for Google maps and Google earth. While the satellite imagery of the Lincoln area used by Google dates to 2015, the Street View images date to 2008.The driver, who didn't give her name, said there have been lots of changes in the area since then...
Helena - The Montana Department of Transportation would like to announce and invite the public to comment on a proposal to install safety improvements at three sites around the Helena Valley. The proposed work includes adding safety measures at the following three sites: SITE 1 – Prospect Ave & Gibbon St Intersection – Remove the Gibbon St southbound left-turn movement and replace the left-turn bay with raised concrete refuge island for pedestrians. Install ladder-style cro...
In this last segment of my repeating history series, I’d like to point out a few things about our recent history, within the last ten years or so, and how all of our history is affecting us today, how it will affect us tomorrow and in the future. In our not-so-distant history there was a time when the right to choose whether a women could have a legal abortion, and whether it would be covered by government funding, was at play. There were women everywhere (not all women, j...
