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Helmville school students had the chance to get up close and personal with the Helmville Volunteer fire department's equipment Friday Oct. 12 as part of Fire Prevention month. Rather than simply going over exit routes, escape plans and smoke detectors the kids this year also got to try on firefighting equipment, learn how to build a survival fire, use fire extinguishers to put out small fires and learn about the department's firefighting trucks, including Moby Dick, their...
"You can't tackle your mom!" Isn't a phrase you hear at a typical football game, but last Saturday's flag football game between alumni, staff and parents and the high school and junior high football teams was anything but typical. After a disappointing and injury-filled football season that ended with the Lynx forfeiting the remainder of their season, the school staff decided they needed to do something to give the players a proper close to the season. "Kids were disappointed...
Lieutenant Governor Mike Cooney and staff members from the Governor's Office of Economic Development are slated to visit with members of the Envision Lincoln team Oct. 22, as part of the fledgling Montana Main Street- Rural Partner's initiative that launched in Choteau Sept. 25. The initiative, an outgrowth of Gov. Steve Bullock's five-year-old Montana Main Street Project, is part of an effort to bridge the gap between the strong economies seen in Montana's larger cities and...
Irvin Dunlap passed away peacefully at his home in Helena with family at his side. He now joins his loving wife Lorraine in heaven whom he gives credit for instilling his faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Irvin would have reached 90 years of age Oct.19. He lived a long and fulfilling life and was an inspiration to his family as well as others. He was born in Helena to Irvin "Ted" Dunlap and Annie Sloan Dunlap on Oct. 19, 1928. Irv had one sister, Annabelle M. Glenn.... Full story
A Kawai grand piano purchased by Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild and intended for the use of the community and the park has taken up residence at the Methodist church. BPSW President Becky Garland said the park decided to put rental costs to good use by purchasing a fine instrument that could be used by Lincoln School students as well as by the sculpture park and the community at large. Garland said pianist Phil Aaberg, who was a featured artist in several of this...
Working in coordination with Montana Department of Transportation crews, eight sawyers with the Lincoln Ranger District took down dozens of hazard trees along Highway 279 near the top of Flesher Pass. Lincoln District Ranger Michael Stansberry said the trees taken down were those that had the greatest potential for impacting the highway. Questions about removing the dead trees have recurred several times in the last two years, due to the high number of beetle killed trees in...
A listening session to discuss and take comments on a potential Rural Improvement District that would cover the cost of applying dust control to the 4x4 Road filled the meeting room at the Lincoln Library for the monthly Lewis and Clark County Commission meeting last Friday. A 4x4 Road RID has been in the works for several months, but suffered a setback in August when Commissioners denied the request to form the district after learning the boundary included a parcel of state...
The Montana Office of Tourism and the University of Montana are collaborating with Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild to gather data about who visits the sculpture park, and BPSW board members and volunteers were on hand during September's residency to distribute questionnaires to park visitors. Funded by the Montana Office of Tourism to gather information on park visitors, the length of their stay, what services they use and where they spend their money, the surveys...
The Lincoln Community Hall was filled wall-to-wall last Thursday night for the Lincoln Youth Concert, a collaboration between the Lincoln School choir and band programs and the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild concert series. An estimated 180 parents and community members packed the hall as 90 Lincoln students ranging from kindergarten to high school seniors joined BPSW Composer-in-residence Adele O'Dwyer, Violist Aoise O'Dwyer, violinist Marvin Suson, and pianist...
Composer Adele O'Dwyer wrapped up her 2018 stint as Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Composer in Residence with a final concert Friday, Sept 28. The concert at the Lincoln Community Hall featured original musical compositions by O'Dwyer performed by internationally renowned musicians in front of a backdrop of artwork by local students and was attended by more than 100 community members and BPSW supporters. O'Dwyer said she spent several months in preparation for the...
In a special meeting last week, the Lincoln School Board revisited a change to the school's cell phone and digital device policy that went into effect this year and aligned the school's Technology Agreement with the high school handbook. At the regular September meeting, Student Council President Carly Templeton brought forward concerns that the rule prohibiting such devices from classrooms had an adverse effect on the ability of some students, particularly seniors, to complet...
When the Lincoln volleyball court sports a home game with neighboring Seeley Lake Blackhawks, the visitors section for spectators is packed with plenty of out-of-town fans who root for their team at the top of their voices. The roar is intimidating for the opposing Lynx ladies but even scarier is the No. 1 spot the Blackhawks hold in District 13 C. A young Lynx squad, made up of mostly freshman, came out bravely and did their best for Coach Angela Krier, but the game was a...
Still recovering from the flu, 6-foot junior Alexis Cannon was 80 percent her old self as she rocketed six serving aces across the net to the waiting Seeley Lake Blackhawks on Thursday night. Cannon just moved to Lincoln last year and is still honing her skills as the tall tower of the team. Experienced senior Maggie Jorgenson was on track with her usual intensity and fierce play, flying into the floor for digs and scoring on seven of her serves. Reliable setter, senior Carly...
A large box truck carrying cargo from Missoula to Great Falls wound up in a pasture just west of Lincoln after colliding with an injured moose Thursday morning, Sept. 27. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Brandon Uhl said a pickup traveling west out of Lincoln first hit the moose just after 6 a.m., near the Parker Medical Clinic. The driver of the pickup pulled over, but the injured moose remained in the road when the eastbound truck hit it. "It was a bull moose, big bull," Uhl...
The Lincoln High School Football season ended abruptly last week, after the suspension of two players for underage drinking left the school to shorthanded to field a six-man team. The suspensions came on the heels of a series of injuries that sidelined several of the team's players in recent weeks. In addition to the spinal injury suffered by Joey Weiderhold during the game against White Sulphur Springs, the team lost players this season to concussions and ankle injuries. The...
This year the students weren't the only ones new to the Kindergarten classroom. Kurtis Janzen also began his first year at Lincoln School. Janzen spends his morning with the kindergartners and his afternoon teaching math, science and social studies to kindergarten and first grade. While this is Janzen's first year teaching, he began his career in the education system in Conrad, Mont. as a tennis coach and classroom aid. Janzen attended film school in California and returned...
As part of the effort to turn around the failing junior High school math scores that played a role in the Lincoln Junior High's accreditation downgrade to "Advice," the Lincoln School District made a significant change to their math curriculum for K-8 students. This year Lincoln Elementary students bid farewell to Every Day Math, which the school adopted in 2013 to align with the state-mandated Common Core standards. The new program, Ready Math, also aligns with Common Core...
The ephemeral nature of art and beauty is an important theme of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild's 2018 education program, according to BPSW Education Officer Hannah Demma. Demma, who guides children from small Montana communities on interactive tours of Sculpture in the Wild, meets school groups at the Lincoln Ranger Station, where rangers begin the program with a presentation. "This year we're doing bear safety. They've been playing a game with them, and it kind of...
Brewery Follies When the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce brought the Brewery Follies from Virginia City to Lincoln last fall, locals looking for a few politically incorrect laughs turned out in force, turning the Lincoln Community Hall into a standing room only venue. The success of the endeavor, which paid for itself in ticket sales and raised some extra money for the LVCC, prompted the board to bring the show back to town for a two night stint this Oct. 5 and 6, but...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild welcomed fall with Festival in the Wild 2018, a weekend program of events and music celebrating the sculpture park's fifth anniversary. The festival kicked off with a sold-out café music night and fundraiser art auction at the Lincoln Community Hall. The event featured refreshments in a candlelit café style ambiance accompanied by live music from performing artists Phil Aaberg, Pan Morigan, Marvin Suson, Aoise O'Dwyer and BPSW C...
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton identified the man found in the woods north of the old Lincoln Cemetery as Lee Klette, 42, of Great Falls. A man prospecting with a metal detector in the area discovered Klette, hypothermic and near death, on Aug. 24 when he heard moaning near the trail. Klette was discovered with wire wrapped around one leg, about two miles from his rented Ford Mustang, which had been found by a Lincoln resident Aug. 20, on Moon Drive southwest of...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild entered its busiest time of the year last week as this year's two artist-in-residence went to work on the newest installations for the park. Unlike some past artists, neither Cornelia Konrads nor Kate Hunt have released conceptual renditions of the work, which may make this year's launch Sept. 29 feel a bit more revelatory. Konrads in particular prefers to keep her concept, a span incorporating lodgepole logs and barn wood, close to...
Drummond's junior high lady Trojans rolled into Lincoln Thursday, Sept. 13 for a contest with the A and B teams of the local junior high Lynx volleyball teams. The team suited up again Saturday to face the Valley Christian Eagles, a perennial powerhouse school from Missoula. The future looks bright in a few years for the varsity squad because twelve younger ladies are mastering their skills and winning attitudes now. It's been quite a few years since so many Lincoln athletes...
The early snowfall that hit the area last September may have dampened the wildfires burning in the area, but also put a damper on the pair of annual car shows hosted in Lincoln by forcing the cancellation of Lambkin's annual Lincoln Rod Run and prompting only 16 cars to come to town for the annual Wilderness Car Show. This year probably made up for last however, with more than 200 cars in town for both shows, including a few drivers who came up just to show off their classic...
The Lincoln Lynx football team suffered not only a 73-6 defeat at the hands of the White Sulphur Springs Hornets, but the loss of a promising player for the remainder of the season. Sophomore Joey Weiderhold took a hard illegal hit during the game that left him with a compression fracture to one of the vertebrae in his mid-back, as well as a possible concussion. Wiederhold's mother, Jen reported he's in good spirits and though the injury brought an end to his playing ball...
