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Billings-based band Arterial Drive performed a free concert at Hooper Park, July 6. Band frontman Drew McDowell, had a family reunion in Lincoln and took the opportunity to entertain the community The band which includes violinist Meg Gildehaus, bassist Juliano Chavis , drummer Josh Reedy and keyboard player Ryan Suppola, who's also adept on the trumpet, developed out of an earlier incarnation called DDX, an "alternative funk-pop band" that included McDowell, Cahvis and Gildeh...
The Lincoln Community Hall stands as the oldest building on Lincoln's Main Street, the sole survivor of the era when the area's original miners were the "old timers," ranching held sway over the community's economy, and summer homes and tourists were the exception rather than the rule At that time, Carter V. Rubottom and his wife Nora ran a cattle ranch about two miles west of Lincoln. Several decades later, Rubottom recorded his recollections of the era in an unpublished...
During last summer's fire season, flames from the Alice Creek fire swept across Lewis and Clark Pass, scorching the area's whitebark pine, damaging the trails in the area and destroying a Forest Service sign marking Meriwether Lewis' passage across the divide on July 7, 1806. Last week, a small group of volunteers recruited by the Montana Wilderness Association and the Continental Divide Trail Coalition replaced that sign and spent five days rehabilitating and re-blazing a...
This year business and organizations heeded the call for additional floats for the parade after a period of years when they were few and far between and people were beginning to notice...
Kids taking part in this year's Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Summer Education Program had the chance to get "Wild About Art" with artists John and Souheir Rawlings last week. Every year, Sculpture in the Wild partners with Lincoln School's POUNCE after school program to host the four-day program that in one way or another looks to history and the natural world as sources of inspiration for artwork designed by the kids who take part. "This was all based on nature...
Lincoln Public School Superintendent Carla Anderson officially announced that they will be offering public preschool for kids as young as three-and-a-half years old at the start of the new school year that begins Aug. 27. The chance to offer preschool came about when Lincoln school received a Montana Comprehensive Literacy Project grant to improve literacy skills for disadvantaged kids at all grade levels, which includes paying special attention to the development in...
Personnel from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Montana Natural Resource Damage Program and U.S. Forest Service provided an update on the status of the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex mine waste cleanup operation during the June 19 meeting of the Upper Blackfoot Valley Community Council in Lincoln. Work to clean up mine waste at the UBMC is expected to resume in July, after a nearly year-long delay that stemmed from a "disconnect" among state and federal...
Six teenagers from Lincoln were among 137 students and leaders from the Montana Wilderness School of the Bible who boarded CH-47 Chinook helicopters from the Montana Army National Guard's 1-189th General Support Aviation Battalion for the long trip home Thursday, June 21. It turned out to be a summer Bible camp week that they will never forget. Governor Steve Bullock's state of emergency order during the catastrophic floods in Lewis and Clark County this month opened the way...
The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department came to the aid of the Montana Department of Transportation last Wednesday when a plugged culvert just east of Roger's Pass threatened the stability of the highway. MDT put the fire department's big 1000 gallon-per-minute pump to use in the effort to remove water from of a deep pool feed by run off from last week's rain that developed on the north side of Highway 200 near mile marker 99. Harry Barnett, Maintenance Chief for MDOT's Great Fa...
Princess Fearless, also known as Mindy Dillard, performs with "Prince Craig" England and he son "the Magical Elf" Cyrus for young and old alike at the Lincoln Branch of the Lewis and Clark County Library, June 27. Dillard, and award winning singer and songwriter, describes herself a 'musical alchemist" and is known for her story telling that blends music and spoken word. Dillard uses her Princess Fearless persona to teach kids about safe risk taking; that it's OK to try new...
Come help us celebrate Lincoln Community Hall's 100th Anniversary on July 7th and 8th. Way back in 1918 when the Hall was constructed, having a place to come together and kick up their heels was a top priority – especially in those long, cold winters. Lincoln's beloved Hall was built with lots of volunteers, donated land, trees cut from surrounding forests then pulled out by horses in waist high snow and dances held as fund raisers. People pulling together when there is a n...
Life is returning to the upper Beartrap and the Mike Horse. At a glance, the two narrow valleys that were once home to most of the mine waste in the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex still seem like a barren moonscape of gray dirt, littered with downed trees and woody debris. A closer look reveals that four years of remediation, restoration and ongoing re-vegetation is paying off as native plants take hold along the reconstructed creeks and on the hillsides. Work to continue the...
Lincoln's Erin Dey is nearly hidden by a giant puffball mushroom she found on private land south of Lincoln. The mushroom, which measured 25 and a half inches across and more than six feet around, weighed in at 51 pounds. Dey said when she first spotted the mushroom from a distance its sheer size made her think it was a goat lying in the grass. Giant Puffballs (Calvatia gigantea) typically grow to be from 4 to 20 inches in diameter and while it's certainly huge, it may not be...
Friday June 15th is being called the unofficial start of fishing the Blackfoot River. Word got out that the river had dropped over 14,000!!!! cfs in the last several weeks, with the water clearing at below 5,000 cfs flow. And the big news: the salmonflies were being spotted from Russell Gates on up the river. With that, rafters were lining up at Harry Morgan FAS to float down the river. Downside: at 5,000 cfs the river is still pretty fast and some were finishing their...
A drenched Ben Weaver and Keenan Deplanks made their way down Beaver Creek Road during Saturday afternoon's downpour as they continue toward Helena on the Tour Divide. Weaver and Deplanks made the trip over Huckleberry Pass Saturday after Weaver performed a live concert in Ovando Friday night as part of his "Music for Free" project in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Trail. Unlike the ride into Lincoln, the concert caught a break in the...
A group of local quilters are creating bed coverings for a project near Superior that's designed to give service members returning from deployments a place to rest and heal. Tom and Debi Logan are creating the Red Lions Project on 164 acres surrounded by the Lolo National Forest in honor of their son, Marine Cpl. Joseph Logan. Joey Logan served in Afghanistan with HMH 363, the Red Lions, as a crewmember on Irontail 06, a Marine CH-53D Sea Stallion heavy-lift helicopter. He...
The new minerals administrator for the Lincoln and Helena Ranger Districts began work at the Lincoln Ranger Station last Monday to help the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest to better manage their mining program and be more responsive to people interested in mining on public land. On the Lincoln Ranger District, Beach Hastings takes over the minerals administration duties from Luke Shimer, who will now focus on the range management and weed control programs. "Minerals adm...
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen granted a motion to remand the Stonewall Vegetation Project to the Forest Service for completion of a supplemental environmental analysis but also vacated project's Record of Decision signed by Helena-Lewis and Clark Forest Supervisor Bill Avey in 2016. Through seven years of analysis and collaboration, government agencies and local organizations, including the Lincoln Restoration Committee, helped developed the project to improve forest...
The Cascade County Sheriff/Coroner's office identified a Lincoln man and his former girlfriend as the victims of a murder-suicide in Great Falls Saturday morning. Great Falls Police, responded to reports of a disturbance at a home on the 700 block of 20th Street North in Great Falls at 3:30 a.m. Saturday and found Ronda "Roxie" Ray, 42, and Michael "Mick" Willey, 56, both suffering from single gunshot wounds. Ray, a former Lincoln resident, and Willey were both taken to Benefi...
After nearly two years, work on the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department's new tactical water tender is finished and the department's latest piece of firefighting equipment is ready for action. Fire Apparatus Repair of Missoula built the 2500-gallon tender on an Army surplus 2006 Freightliner 6x6 chassis acquired in 2016 through the Federal Excess Property program. The cost of modifying the new vehicle was covered by income from the state and the Forest Service for wildland...
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Trail, and in recognition of Ovando as the 2018 Montana Community of the Year for Tourism and Recreation, cyclist and bluegrass musician Ben Weaver is hosting a free concert June 15 at the Stray Bullet from 7-8:30(ish) p.m. For anyone wishing to make an evening of it, Leigh Ann and Fred Valiton will be selling barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers at the Blackfoot Commercial Company and Jean Pocha will...
For most Lincoln residents, the United States Forest Service Trail Crew- a work force responsible for keeping trails clear and usable - has been a fixture in and around the nearby back country for as long as they can remember. This year, thanks in part to Federal disaster relief funds, the Trail Crew has expanded to include more laborers than any year in recent memory. Although the Forest Service has had a presence in Lincoln since the 1920's, the Trail Crew as an entity did n...
Wildlife officials captured three grizzly bear cubs east of Lincoln after a female grizzly was struck and killed on Highway 200 early Tuesday morning, June 5. Jamie Jonkel, the Region 2 Wildlife Management Specialist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said a passing trucker called in the report of the dead grizzly and three live cubs early in the morning. Pat Shanley, the wildlife biologist for the Lincoln Ranger District was the first person to respond to the call, at Jonk...
Historically, Lincoln hasn't had a great reputation among bicyclists. In a 2013 University of Montana analysis of bicycle tourism in Montana, Lincoln was one of just a few towns in the state singled out for its unwelcoming attitude. One cyclist interviewed for the study said, "It is my opinion that the cowboys in that area would shoot us as look at us." As a community that sits at the crossroads of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route and the major east-west route for touring...
Today is my sweetheart’s birthday. He was born exactly three weeks before me, which puts us both under the astrological sign of Gemini – a personality pairing that astrology assures me is either brilliant, or disastrous. Whether or not you set any store by astrology, it’s still fun to read the occasional horoscope or breakdown of your astrological sign. Because each sign encompasses a number of personality traits, one can usually find some example in their own nature to back up the astrological data. Some of us, howev...
