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MISSOULA – The 2021 general big game hunting season closed Sunday, Nov. 28, with the four west-central Montana wildlife check stations reporting overall hunter activity and harvest totals down just slightly from last season, despite extra mild November weather. In the six weekends of the season, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks operated wildlife check stations in four locations around west-central Montana, where biologists recorded 10,216 hunter stops and a harvest of 192 e...
The Thanksgiving holiday is commonly associated with food, and while turkey is often the main dish, cranberries, Vaccinium macrocarpon, are a complimentary side. Cranberries grow in extremely precise conditions, needing wetland bogs to thrive. Bogs are found in cooler northern climates and often develop in lake basins created by glaciers, according to the National Geographic Society. Bogs tend to be oxygen and nutrient poor, making them uninhabitable for many plant species,...
It might not have been cold and snowy in Ovando last Friday, but Christmas was in the air as the Old West Christmas Fest brought scores of people to town. As with so, so many events in 2020, concerns about the lingering COVID-19 pandemic prompted organizers to scrap the annual festival last year, with hopes for better luck in 2021. And better luck they had, despite some scaling back. "My big thing is I want to make sure everyone knows it's kind of a building year after...
There's no nail-biting, tense show-down in the current win streak of junior high Little Lynx boys basketball games this month, but there are plenty of entertaining moments to entice the fans to come out in support of the team. The "Big and Tall" club of Roegun Dietz, Kayden Tybo and Josh Rios was bigger and taller in the Nov. 18 crushing defeat of Drummond, posting a 58 - 31 win against a visiting squad that fielded twice the number of players as the young home team. Ahead at...
The scoreboard chronicled the relentless march to victory of the Junior High Lynx basketball team against the visiting Helena Christian School Rams on Tuesday, Nov. 23: ahead in the first period 19 – 11; ahead at the half 28 – 24; ahead in the third period 42 – 38; and tied 50-50 with one minute 30 seconds remaining. The crafty Rams, seeing that their only hope of winning in the last seconds was to take star Kayden Tybo out of the game by drawing him into a defensive foul under the Ram’s hoop, succeeded in getting two qui...
Joseph "Joe" William Turner passed away peacefully sleeping on Nov. 14, 2021 at his home in Longmont, Colo.. At 96 years old, he lived a long and abundant life for which he was very grateful. Joe was born on July 9, 1925 in Morgan, Utah to Clara Hyde and Albert Roy Turner. He had one brother and three sisters. Joe grew up on his family dairy farm and helped plow the potato, cabbage and pea fields with draft horses. By age 6, he helped hand milk their dairy herd. Joe had a fear...
The future of paved roads in Lincoln may be in doubt if property owners in town don't get on the ball and sign the petitions for the chip seal projects planned for next year on the town's two Rural Improvement District. "These roads are not asphalt roads. They're double shot chip seal, so ... it's important to keep up with maintenance of that. Once it starts to unravel, it can unravel quickly," said county Special Districts Program Coordinator Jessica Makus Lincoln's two...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received forty-two calls for service during the weeks of Nov. 14 to Nov. 27 in the Lincoln area. Two of those calls were traffic stops performed by deputies. Six of those calls for service generated a case report in the last two weeks: • A deputy responded to an address on Pine Street for a welfare check Nov. 16. The male was believed to be intoxicated. He was physically aggressive toward his family members and the deputy. The male was a...
Want to help our Seniors and Families with Christmas Food boxes? There is a box at Citizen's Alliance Bank. Please, NO "EXPIRED" food. Money donations can be put in the account under "Lincoln Food Bank" To sign up for a Christmas food box, we need you to call and leave a message with your name and phone number. Please talk slow and understandable. The answering machine is always on. 406-362-4504. Sign up no later than Dec. 7....
Want to help with toys for our Lincoln kids? The Angel tree is at Citizen's Alliance Bank now until Dec. 10. All toys need to be returned to the bank with the tag no later than Dec. 14. No need to wrap, but you could include wrapping paper or gift bags! Call Diane at the Lincoln Senior Center 406-362-4504 Best time is 8 to 10 a.m. To sign a child up for the Angel tree, we need your child's name, age, wants. Also include your name and phone number to call for pickup. Bring...
We always talk about the beauty of a child’s unlimited imagination, as if we long to capture and access those curiosities into our adulthood. It is indeed a wonder what children come up with. And maybe if we practice seeing the world through their eyes, we might see the world differently ourselves---one of endless possibilities. So here are a few things born of childhood curiosity. In 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson mixed a concoction of soda powder and water. It was the dead of winter, and he forgot about his little e...
Technology advances at such a rapid pace that it can be hard for consumers to keep up. Something that maybe didn't exist as recently as a few years ago may already be considered obsolete, while some solutions that were on the periphery for years may suddenly become vital to how individuals and businesses operate. Cloud storage likely qualifies as something that, though it's been available for many years, figures to become a bigger part of people's daily lives in the coming...
Following the retirement of Aaron Daniel at the end of October, LincTel has a new General manager, Bryce Daniel. Bryce Daniel, who had been offered the position about a week before his father accepted an early retirement offer, took over the position on Nov. 1. 'We'd been gearing up for it, but it was a pretty quick transition," Daniel said. The planned transition had been in the works for several months. "I'm excited to take over. I've been here for more than 13 years," he sa...
MISSOULA – The University of Montana has launched a major new scholarship to help Montana students pay for college. The Payne Family Impact Scholarship, established with a significant $7.5 million gift from longtime UM supporters Terry and Patt Payne, will be awarded to hundreds of Montana high school students who choose to attend UM beginning in fall 2022. "When it comes to paying for school, too often Montana families find themselves caught in the middle of a financial gap w...
SEELEY LAKE – The Montana Department of Transportation Project Team for the Clearwater Junction Intersection met with the public virtually and at an in-person open house Nov. 18 to share and gather feedback on the proposed alternatives, the evaluation process and the proposed solution. Installing a roundabout was the only alternative of the six evaluated that met all five criteria and is the preferred alternative. MDT is now entering the design phase of the project. While t...
As a hunter and angler who's lived in the Upper Clark Fork River valley between Deer Lodge and Anaconda for more than 30 years, I can attest to the damaging legacy of mining on our waterways. In 1908, a massive flood carried toxic mine tailings from Butte down the Clark Fork River, contaminating the river and the floodplain. To this day, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to clean up these toxic mine tailings in Butte, Silver Bow Creek, and the river. For 30...
As a farmer, I know firsthand that good things take time. Every year, I plant my fields with crops like wheat, barley, peas, and saffron, and in July, August, and September, I harvest those crops and reap what I've sown. Writing laws is much the same – and this fall, after a long spring and summer of working with Republicans and Democrats, Montana is set to reap urgently-needed upgrades to our crumbling infrastructure and strong economic growth across our state, thanks to m...
Sometimes in life, we find friends that mean the world to us. We just connect with them, and they become part of us. I can count on one hand the number of extremely close friends I have, both in Lincoln and elsewhere. It takes a lot to make my one-handed list. And please don’t take it the wrong way - I have LOTS of friends, and even more acquaintances. It’s bound to happen when you are one of those “people-persons” like me. I am grateful, and value every single one of those co...
The design for a new Dalton Mountain Road Bridge seemed to be popular with locals who use the bridge on a regular basis, but residents of the area still harbor doubts about when the old bridge, which is down to just one lane and now an eight-ton weight limit, will actually be replaced. The Dalton Mountain Road Bridge open house hosted by the Montana Department of Transportation Nov. 18 provided some insight into the state's plans for the bridge replacement, The processes and...
Sometime during the night of Nov. 21 or the early morning hours of Nov. 22, thieves broke into eleven storage units at Mini Storage of Lincoln behind Mountain View Co-Op. Gerry Malek, who checks on the storage units at least twice a day for Maggie and Tim Mulcare discovered the break ins during his morning rounds. It's unclear at this point what all may have been stolen from the various units, although hand tools and fishing poles were among the items reported thus far....
