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The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
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Impeachment may be all the rage in Washington DC these days, but public land funding was the reason Laurie Richards made a trip to the nation's capitol last week. Richards, owner of the Wheel Inn and president of the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce, flew to Washington Monday, Nov. 11 at the invitation of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition to talk to lawmakers about the impact the CDT and public lands have on Lincoln and other small towns in Montana. Richards joined Aust...
A collaborative program between the Montana Veterans Affairs Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Park's Montana WILD has earned national attention and has been proposed as a positive treatment option by the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The program provides veterans with an opportunity to learn about animal rehabilitation and then to use that experience in the veterans' own recovery process. Each week, veterans in...
3th Grade Nathan Brown 4.0 Alexis Cannon 4.0 Sage Kamps 4.0 Jaken Shelton 4.0 Maya Whittenberg 3.538 Makenzie Storey 3.429 Ryan Greenwood 3.4 Noah Belcher 3.333 11th Grade Nikki Snyder 4.0 Lindsey Weisner 4.0 Bradley Howard 3.167 Trenton Grantier 3.0 10th Grade Alyvia Blotkamp 4.0 Alle Russ 4.0 Jenna Templeton 4.0 Damion Birkholz 3.714 Andrea LaManna 3.714 9th Grade Jessica Zarske 3.846 Jim R Tolan 3.5 Hayden Dempster 3.385 Ivy Corrigan 3.333 Jaylin Lewenight 3.308 8th Grade...
2 years ago Debbie Sayler and her husband, Billy, fell in love with Montana. After many vacations and trips searching for property, they found their perfect home in Lincoln. It's now their fifth year here, after relocating from Maryland. Deb has been doing hair for 36 years and she owned her own salon in Maryland for 19 years. "I had a job lined up with Tammy Pipinich before we moved to Lincoln. I reopened the Hair Cottage as Hairitage House Salon. I credit Tammy Pipinich...
God never send'th mouth but he sendeth meat. John Heywood c.1497 - c.1580 Via cell video calling I visited with some friends in Brazil this week. They were at a churrasco (shur-has'-ko), the ubiquitous weekend pastime of American picnics with roasted meat and drinks. They often include rice and beans with the meal, and it's not rare to see boiled mandioca. But it's just the meat, roasted on a spit over an open hardwood fire, that is the mandatory fare. And cold beer - there...
I am so sad that apparently decent, intelligent Americans like Larry Dillree can be so unwilling to accept facts. (BVD 11/13/19). Facts are not political, but often our opinions are shaped by facts so we have a responsibility as citizens to get the facts right. Before Mr. Dillree says, “ the Democrats have spent the last three and one half years doing nothing,” he should look at the record. Dozens of bills, many with bipartisan support, have been passed: criminal justice ref...
The Lincoln Branch of the Lewis & Clark Library is teaming up with Story Corps to bring awareness and provide resources for The Great Thanksgiving Listen. According to the Story Corps website, the Great Thanksgiving Listen is "a national movement that empowers young people-and people of all ages-to create an oral history of the contemporary United States by recording an interview with an elder, mentor, friend, or someone they admire using the free StoryCorps App." "It's a way...
The Drummond Junior High Trojans marched into Lincoln Tuesday, Nov. 14th to open a two game after-school contest with the Lincoln Lynx. First up was the younger "B" squad of 5th and 6th graders who played with lots of exuberance, put up lots of shots, and even made a bucket every now and then. Ditto for Drummond. The numerous vocal Trojan fans kept their players jacked up, but the tight score, which was tied up six times, motivated the hometown crowd to cheer their boys on, to...
The PTSO held their monthly meeting Monday, Nov. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Library. There were several people in attendance and lots of upcoming events were discussed. First on the list was the upcoming annual Santa’s Workshop, set for Saturday, Dec, 7 from 10 a.m. to noon. Jill Frisbee is in charge of putting everything together and is looking for help with set-up. Next on the agenda was a discussion about “Jingle Bell Jukebox,” the upcoming school Christmas Progr...
Impeachment may be all the rage in Washington DC these days, but public land funding was the reason Laurie Richards made a trip to the nation's capitol last week. Richards, owner of the Wheel Inn and president of the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce, flew to Washington Monday, Nov. 11 at the invitation of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition to talk to lawmakers about the impact the CDT and public lands have on Lincoln and other small towns in Montana. Richards joined Austin Phippen of Chama, N.M. and Kevin and Patrick We...
With Christmas fewer than 40 days away, Lincoln is preparing for the holiday season, bringing local art, shopping and activities to town with several events Saturday, Dec. 7. To get things rolling, The Lincoln Council for the Arts will be hosting Santa's Workshop, now in its' 21st year, between 10 a.m. and noon at Lincoln school. The event offers school-aged students the chance to make gifts for friends and family, along with the opportunity to wrap their presents. The event i...
Dear Readers, Soon we will be celebrating one of America's favorite holidays, a day our ancestors set aside to give thanks for a plentiful harvest. It's a time to reconnect with friends and family we haven't seen in a while, with lots of food, fun, and football. Many of us will settle in for a big meal with turkey and dressing, and pumpkin pie. We may eat more than usual, become a bit drowsy, take a nap, wake up and eat some more! There has been an age-old tale that it's the...
HELENA – Christmas tree permits are now available at Forest Service offices on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. Permits cost five dollars and can be used to harvest a tree on public lands managed by the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Each family can purchase up to three permits. The Forest Service is happy to once again offer FREE Christmas tree permits to fourth graders through the Every Kid Outdoors program (formerly known as Every Kid in a P...
The Public Service Commission has always been a somewhat surly bunch. The PSC's devoted staff has often had to deal with varying degrees of political game-playing, deception, threats and intrigue. Sure. Politicians politic. The question is, at the end of the day, can elected officials bury their egos and ambitions long enough to put the people's business ahead of their own? Recent events would suggest that where the Montana PSC is concerned, the answer is "no." That might...
At one time in American history, signs declared "No Irish Needed." To that, Polson's Irish music quintet, the Montana ShamRockers, say "Oh, really?" The Montana ShamRockers highlighted the irony of those old sentiments with their free performance at the Lincoln Community Hall Thursday evening, Nov. 14, as part of a tour of small Montana towns. Designed as a tribute to America's veterans, their show "No Irish Needed" provided a heavy dose of patriotism bound in Irish pride as...
