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Shayne Lindsay recently joined Citizens Alliance Bank in the Lincoln, Mont. location as Branch Manager and Loan Officer. In this role, he will be responsible for oversight of the Lincoln branch, maintaining and growing existing banking relationships, as well as expanding sales and customer development efforts in Lincoln and the surrounding Blackfoot Valley area. Lindsay brings more than 17 years of financial experience which includes, Investment Advisor and Branch Manager in...
After 35 years, the annual Bob Purdy Memorial Softball Tournament is still growing strong. The tournament got its start in 1983, shortly after Bob Purdy, a strong advocate of sports, died in a logging accident. Sponsored by the Wheel Inn, this year's tournament saw the maximum number of teams -15 – sign up, but only 14 participated. The Wheel's Laurie Richards said they had several teams on standby, but the team that pulled out did so at the last minute due to too few p...
Downtown Ovando came alive last week as the Blackfoot Challenge hosted a Summer Party in the town square to celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary. The celebration kept things small and local, reflecting a renewed effort by the Blackfoot Challenge to reconnect more directly with the communities in the valley. "It became apparent in 1993 that we'd sort of forgotten a lot of stuff. We forgot about this, about bringing communities together," Blackfoot Challenge Chairman...
During the last few months Lincoln has reported fewer crime to the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Office, and the citizens of Lincoln have had a hand in this. Thefts were the main crime affecting Lincoln. "With the assistance of citizens, we got rid of some people and the thefts and burglaries went down substantially," Lincoln's resident Deputy Sheriff Chris Joyce said. Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton said as a result deputies have been spending more time in other...
It was a busy weekend at Hooper Park during the 35th Annual Bob Purdy Softball Tournament, and for the second year in a row players had to make do with porta-potties and a lack of running water. Although Thompson Contracting of Libby delivered the park's new concrete restrooms on schedule at the end of July, issues with plumbing and the state-mandated public water supply system have kept the facility shuttered. Nevertheless, the end may finally be in sight. (Knock on wood.) At...
With Lincoln School's first class of 15 preschoolers set to arrive in less than a week, Sondra Grigsby said it's been a big challenge starting a preschool from scratch. "Luckily, I've worked in preschools before, but it's been a few years," said Grigsby, who has a degree in early childhood education and has worked as Lincoln High School's grade 7-12 Special Education teacher for the last 15 years. "We did a bunch of touring of preschools prior, but it's a bit of a set up start...
We want to thank all those in the community for the great turn out for the clothing giveaway; to the generous people who cleaned closets and donated all items they didn't use and to the many who shopped for clothing that they could use. This was the purpose of the giveaway when it was started so many years ago. A special thank you to all who came to set up tables and sort, fold, stack, to those who came to box up all unclaimed items for donation to some worthy organizations....
With only a few small fires burning anywhere near Lincoln, the thick pall of smoke that descended on the area seemed to arrive out of nowhere, but was actually the result of wildfires burning in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, and Northwest Montana. The miasma of smoke settled across most of the state during the weekend and prompted the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to issue an air quality alert for all 56 Montana counties Sunday. Air quality in western...
Cooler weather and rain that moved into the Lincoln area over the weekend helped firefighters improve containment of the Trail 467 Fire, which was 90 percent contained at 23 acres Tuesday morning. Progress on the fire allowed the Forest Service to re-open the section of Continental Divide Trail in the Granite Butte area Monday morning. As mop up of the fire continues, a portion of the Helmville-Gould Trail west of the CDT remains closed to the public Helena-Lewis and Clark...
As Lincoln School students head back to their classrooms next week, they can expect to see a few changes to the rules, as new policies enacted by the Lincoln School Board go into effect. Among the most notable changes are those dealing with attendance and cell phone usage. After Lincoln Junior High School's accreditation status was put into the "Advice" category earlier this year, due to issues with absenteeism and failing grades among 7th and 8th graders, Lincoln School...
While writing this today it is currently raining! First time in 40-plus days for this immediate area. And temps are in the 50's. And it is mid-August? What the heck? It is wonderful and may be just what we fisherpeople needed to get the fish back on the bite. It's been a slow month following the infamous spruce moth period where fish were filling up their bellies with those obnoxious little brindle moths. Every day we get hit with the two big questions: "How's the fishing? What are they biting on?" I think I scratched a bald...
Last week's meeting on the draft revised Forest Plan and draft environmental impact statement for the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest highlighted concerns many in the area have about the future of access to National Forest land around Lincoln. The Forest Plan Revision Team hosted the meeting at the Lincoln Community Hall July 30 to answer questions about five alternative versions of the draft plan and DEIS, and to provide information for people on how to comment on...
**Update 8-17** After a day of minimal fire behavior Thursday, firefighters made progress in fighting the Trail 467 Fire, which was listed 23 acres and 50 percent contained Friday morning. Plans call for skidgins to improve the fire line and fuel break while personnel continue to mop up Friday. Aircraft weren't needed Thursday but remain on standby as Red Flag conditions are in the forecast Friday afternoon, due to the possibility of dry thunderstorms and erratic winds.. There...
The Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society and Time Traveler's Closet are scheduled to host Lincoln's second annual Heritage Day Fashion Show at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Community Hall. The vintage fashion show first made its appearance at the 2017 Heritage Day event, one of several displays and activities chosen to showcase our rich American history. After a positive response from participants and spectators alike, organizers decided to make the show an annual even...
Last year, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition based in Golden, Colo. recognized Lincoln as their first Gateway Community in Montana, and as Marty Bannon sees it, Lincoln's location on the CDT, the Great Divide Mountain Bike Trail and the nascent Montana Trail 406 is something Lincoln can really capitalize on as trail use continues to climb. "You've got three of the most remote and challenging trails that meet right in Lincoln. There's nowhere else on the CDT where they...
Family Nurse Practitioner Laura Broussard, the medical provider at Parker Medical Center, moved to Lincoln one year ago in the midst of forest fire smoke and hot, windy days. Despite surviving an epic snowy winter, learning to snowshoe and driving through snow drifts, she says she loves it here. "This has been a wonderful year, full of great memories," said Broussard, adding that she's hoping for a little less snow next winter. Coincidentally, Pureview Clinics is...
Despite temperatures in the 90's and a brief rainstorm on Saturday, Lincoln's second annual Arts Festival seemed to go off without a hitch last weekend. The Arts Festival was born last year when Lincoln's Council for the Arts voted to re-energize the annual Art in the Park by updating the traditional summer art show to a festival atmosphere. In the hands of organizers Sue Tynes and Karyn Good, and with the collaboration of several local organizations and sponsors, the 2017...
The new branch manager and loan officer at Lincoln’s Citizens Alliance Bank spent part of his Sunday morning with his wife flipping pancakes and cooking sausage and eggs for the Lincoln Heritage Alliance/Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society pancake breakfast at the Lincoln Arts Festival last weekend. Shayne Lindsay and his wife Jan have only been in Lincoln for about a month, but showed up to help with the fundraiser as a way to get involved in the community. “The longer I’ve been in my career and the older I’ve gotten,...
The Lincoln Community Hall turned 100 years old this year, and it is one of the last log public buildings of its size in Montana. The unique octagonal structure, first dedicated in February 1918, was built by the citizens of Lincoln to provide a centralized home for the social and spiritual well-being to a remote mountain community. That vision has continued today. The list of directors and caretakers over the years include a Who's Who of Lincoln history. They selflessly...
Bailey Grantier returned home to Lincoln Friday night, Aug. 3 after several days at the University of Utah Hospital, where she had surgery to repair three fractures to her jaw following a July 29 dirt bike accident at Pipestone Pass. Kevin Grantier, Bailey’s father, described the accident was kind of a “freak deal.” He said she was riding in an area not far from where they’d unloaded when she hit a rock or a rut hidden by grass that caused her to pitch over the front of her bike. When she came down, she landed on another...
This past week has been a real enjoyable time for me and the members of the Community Bible Church of Lincoln and the Lincoln Baptist Church, and especially for the 32 wonderful people from South Side Baptist Church in Damascus, Arkansas. We have cut a log truck full of firewood for folks, repaired roofs, done some painting and plumbing work for the church building, and several other projects. It has been wonderful time of relational ministry to the Body of Christ and the comm...
In 1942 Steve Stocks joined the Coast Guard at 17 years old. Four months later he was on a brand new fast transport headed to a base of operations on an island on the south end of New Guinea that had only recently been liberated. "I went to an Island called Good Enough Island on the southern end of New Guinea," Stocks said. "The Japanese had just been chased out of there by the Australians." The trip took 19 days. Over the course of the war, Stocks made similar trips a dozen...
A proposed Rural Improvement District on the 4x4 Road east of Lincoln drew about 30 people to the Lincoln Government Day meeting Aug. 3, but with only one County Commissioner on hand it didn't qualify as a public meeting on the topic. An RID for the road has been in the works for several months after residents who use the road submitted a petition to create a district for soil stabilization and dust control on the 4x4 Road, which provides access to the county's 7 Up Ranch...
An apparent electrical short in a Chevy Blazer Jed Hinkle was preparing to take in for scrap ignited fire that destroyed most of the vehicle monday morning, Aug. 6. Hinkle, owner of Pete's Towing, had removed the battery from the vehicle and was preparing to move it from his yard when the fire started. He pulled the SUV out into his driveway, away from the other vehicles and buildings and called 911. Aaron Birkholz, assistant fire chief for Lincoln Volunteer Fire Rescue, said...
The Federal Aviation Administration honored Charlie Sherman at the Lincoln Airport Open House last weekend with an award honoring him for several decades of safe flying. Jeff Vercoe, a Lincoln resident and pilot who works for the FAA as the Safety Program manager, presented Sherman with the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which recognizes pilots who have flown for 50 years without any violations or license revocations on his record. Vercoe said it's considered the highest...
