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Lincoln School students, sporting their Halloween costumes, made their annual tour of Main Street Oct. 31. Halloween walks or parades have a long tradition in Lincoln. The Nov. 6, 1968 issue of the Lincoln Gazette featured an image of Lincoln students parading down Main Street in costume on their way to a Halloween carnival at the Community Hall. (There was no mention of whether they stopped fr candy on the way.)...
The Lincon Valley Chamber of Commerce Hosted the 45th Annual Lincoln Community Benefit at the community hall Saturday Nov. 2. This year's benefit featured the annual performance by the Lincon Community Players, who put on their version of the TV classic western Gunsmoke. 'Gunsmoke: A Fractured Fairy Tale' was a mashup of Gunsmoke and Snow White tells the tale of a group of gold mining dwarves and their money-hungry boss, Snow White, upsetting the peace in old Lincoln. Stu...
Klara Varga, Lincoln Ranger District biological technician and a botanist, led the group, comprised of three women and a good dog, on a Native Plant Walk Oct. 26 that included a variety of terrain. From the riparian ecosystem of the Blackfoot river to the hillsides at Alice Creek, she explained how to identify native plants in their winter environment. "If there's some interest in another plant walk in early summer. I'm willing! Perhaps we will have another in May or June"...
Basketball rolled onto the Lincoln gym floor Saturday afternoon, Nov. 2 when the Granite County Prospectors tramped in for a two game match-up with the hometown Lincoln Lynx junior high boys. The premier "A" game, featuring mostly 7th and 8th grade players, was a peek at the future varsity Lynx, a glimpse that gave fans a tantalizing preview of high times to come in the next few years. Pulling out a win after a last ditch surge by Granite, the Jr Hi Lynx posted their first...
Restoration work at the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex wrapped up for the year due to weather and the Forest Service re-opened Meadow Creek Road to the public Oct. 31. "That area is now officially back open," Lincoln District Ranger Michael Stansberry said at the Lincoln Government Day meeting Nov. 1. "At this point it's a month earlier than we normally open." National Forest land in the area has been closed to the public since the end of May, as work to clean up mine waste in...
In the coming weeks, the Montana Department of Transportation will begin soliciting design consultants for work on a new Dalton Mountain Road Bridge, Roger Balz, Lewis and Clark County Chief Administrative Officer, reported at the Lincoln Government Day meeting Nov. 1. County Engineer Dan Karlin told the BVD earlier last week that MDT accepted the bridge replacement project into their off-system bridge program in July, when they began requesting the county send them...
The Montana Fish & Wildlife Commission will meet Nov. 12 at FWP Headquarters in Helena. The meeting will be streamed live via video to all FWP regional offices. The meeting will also be audio streamed online at fwp.mt.gov. The meeting begins at 8:15 a.m. and will end at 1 p.m. The commission will hear the following presentations and proposals: Madison River Petition presentations from Madison River Foundation, Montana Sportsmen Alliance (Trout Unlimited, Skyline Sportsman Association, Anaconda Sportsmen Association, and the P...
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is the one day a year when people affected by suicide loss gather in their local communities to find comfort and gain understanding as they share stories of healing and hope. Survivor Day was created by an act of Congress in 1999 and since then has been sponsored and supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In 2018 there were 370 total events, including 32 international sites in 19 countries. For many loss survivors, attending a Survivor Day event is an...
Today we are here to celebrate and to honor and to commemorate the dead and the living, the young men who in every war since this country began have given testimony to their loyalty to their country and their own great courage. I do not believe that any nation in the history of the world has buried its soldiers farther from its native soil than we Americans -- or buried them closer to the towns in which they grew up. We celebrate this Veterans Day for a very few minutes, a few seconds of silence and then this country's life g...
In keeping with tradition, the Lincoln School’s Student Council has again decided to run their annual food drive to benefit the Lincoln Senior Center and Thanksgiving baskets. Student Council President Jaken Shelton and Vice President Sage Kamps explained that they decided to do the food drive again, not just out of tradition, but to create a fun way to collect food and to help the community. Kamps said the students really like helping the seniors in the community and Shelton...
“The Lincoln Council for the Arts discussed upcoming events and continued collaboration with other organizations and local businesses at its monthly meeting Monday, Oct. 21. The Montana Shamrockers concert Thursday, Nov. 14, is the first of several upcoming events. The Shamrockers will first perform for the students at the Lincoln School at 3 p.m. That evening they will be at the Lincoln Community Hall at 7 p.m. where they will do their rendition of “No Irish Needed,” a tribut...
It’s been a little quieter at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild now that the weather has changed and all the summer activity with artists, students and the Café Night fundraiser have come to a close. Over the summer, articles highlighted the curator’s and the artists’ perspectives, but important insights for the park can come from the volunteers who make all the events and behind-the-scenes planning for the park happen. Several volunteers make all the events possib...
Susan Hemmer, age 73, of Lincoln, passed away Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. Services will be held at a later date. Visit Anderson Stevenson Wilke Funeral Home online at helenafuneralhome,com to offer the family a condolence or share a memory....
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received fourteen Calls for Service in the Lincoln area during the week of Oct. 27 through Nov. 2, 2019. Three of those Calls for Service were traffic stops performed in and around the Lincoln area by deputies. No calls for service generated a case report last week. Other calls for service in the Lincoln area were one 911 hang-up, one non-injury crash, one citizen assist, one disorderly person, one extra patrol request, one false alarm, one...
Dear Readers, It is estimated that the common cold is responsible for 150 million missed workdays each year in the United States (1). With cold and flu season fast-approaching, many of us will be headed to the nutrition supplement aisle in an attempt to ward off these nasty viruses. But do these supplements really work? We investigated four of them, and this is what we found: Elderberry- In one small study, elderberry syrup given four times daily was found to improve symptoms...
