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Being an owner of forested property can bring many upkeep duties. Thinning, burning, road work, and monitoring for tree health can keep a property owner busy. Many large, old Douglas-fir trees on city lots in Lincoln are showing signs of beetle attacks in the last year, including some trees over 400 years in age. Last year's beetle-infested trees can affect your healthy trees if not dealt with in a timely fashion. Most forest insect pests occur naturally throughout Montana,...
The Lincoln Council for the Arts is bringing the Empire Trio for a night of music and entertainment to Lincoln on Thursday, April 6th at 7pm. The performance, which will be held at the Lincoln Community Methodist Church will feature the Trio in conjunction with several local students and residents including M'Liss Weisner, Bill Quay, Elyssa Longson, Dick Birkholz, Diane Krier, Aubrian Van Winkle, and students from the Lincoln School. The Empire Trio has performed at Carnegie...
Hi, it's Bonnie and it's about Putt Putt time in Lincoln, May 7. If you're in for another day of fun in Lincoln, this is it. Get your five member team signed up. Would like to have all teams signed up by May 1st. Signup sheets are at all the participating bars: Wheel Inn, Lambkins, Hotel Lincoln, Montanan and Wilderness. Stop in a get signed up. This is a Lincoln Community Fund Raiser. We raise money every year for our Lincoln Ambulance, our Seniors Citizens and Senior Citizen...
Canyon Creek, Mont. –– The Montana Department of Transportation recently issued new load postings for the Canyon Creek Bridge on Lincoln Road, six miles northwest of Canyon Creek, in Lewis and Clark County. The postings are part of a multi-year effort to update load ratings and postings on Montana bridges as mandated by the Federal Highway Administration. The FHWA mandate is in response to changes in the trucking industry over the last decade. Truck manufacturers are bui...
The Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received thirty-six calls for service during the weeks of April 3 to April 16 in the Lincoln area. Two of those calls were a traffic stops performed by deputies. Six of those calls for service generated a case report in the last two weeks: On April 3, a pistol inside the holster was found by someone walking Stemple Pass Road. If you or someone possibly lost a pistol near Stemple Pass, contact the Sheriff's Office. A deputy took a theft...
March 24 was a school day "on the bus" for Lincoln High School students. A field trip to Freezout Lake, between Fairfield and Choteau, was originally scheduled only for Nancy Schwalm's Wildlife Biology class, but when word leaked out about the adventure, the administration decided that all students in grades 9-12 would go. Have you ever tried to get a teenager out of bed at 4 a.m.? Everyone had to be present at the school at 5 a.m. for a bus departure that would get the group...
The Lewis & Clark County Commission approved the creation of the Lincoln and Lambkins Rural Improvement Districts following public hearings at the Lincoln Government Day Meeting April 1. The Commission approved a resolution of intention to create both districts Feb 24. That vote opened a protest period that ended March 31. County Special Districts Coordinator Jessica Makus said the date of public hearing to protest the creation of the RIDs was sent to all the property owners...
The Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received forty-three calls for service during the weeks of March 20 to April 2 in the Lincoln area. Seven of those calls were a traffic stop performed by deputies. Six of those calls for service generated a case report in the last two weeks: *A deputy responded to a suspicious vehicle parked in the grass next to the library March 20. The deputy suspected the driver was under the influence and performed a DUI investigation. The driver was a...
Damion Birkholz, Lincoln High School Senior, has been selected as the 2021-2022 winner of the Good Citizen Award by Daughters of the American Revolution Oro Fino Chapter. Damion will be honored at the May 2022 Chapter Meeting of the Oro Fino Chapter in Helena on Saturday, May 14. Chapter members invited all seniors in Lewis & Clark, Broadwater and Jefferson counties to participate in the annual Good Citizen Award Contest, which recognizes outstanding young people who exhibit...
Vallers Market closed their retail store and coffee and soup bar last weekend in response to a slump in the business that hasn't shown signs of rebounding. The Vallers will instead concentrate on growing their Valler Coffee business. Jason Valler said their retail business, which included soups and breads, the coffee bar, dairy items, Mannix beef and locally-made crafts, only brought in about half of what it was costing them to operate it each week. He said they have usually...
Helena – After two years, the Library returned to in-person programs and reopened the community and meeting rooms at all branches April. 1. In addition, weekend hours at the Main Branch will be expanded to 11a.m – 5p.m. Lewis & Clark Library Director John Finn explains that "The County's stance is mirroring that of the Governor's Office which is that we have entered an endemic state, rather than a pandemic state. Because of the guidance from these agencies, we have dec...
After more than 30 years with Lewis and Clark County and nearly 28 years managing the county's infrastructure, Public Works Director Eric Griffin is retiring April 15. Griffin is the first and only Public Works Director Lewis and Clark County has had. Before he got the job, the departments that oversaw infrastructure were separate, but in 1994, the County Commission combined the Road and Bridge Department, County Shop, Rural Improvement and maintenance districts, Solid Waste,...
We would like to thank all of the generous folks and businesses from Lincoln, Helena, Missoula and Great Falls, and all the areas in between, for donating either money or auction items. We couldn't make our department what it is without your help! We would also like to thank all the wonderful people that helped put it on. Jackie, Kathy, Diane, Ellie, and Susan back in the kitchen with the 8th grade middle school class making food magic back in the kitchen. KD, Hayes and Jim...
Planning is underway for the Blackfoot River Ducks Unlimited Chapter's annual banquet. The committee began meeting in January to organize the event, which is scheduled be held Saturday, April 23 at the historic Lincoln Community Hall. Tammy Jordan assumed the role of Banquet Chair when long-time organizers of the event, Ernie & Renee Lundberg stepped down after last year's banquet. They had been the chairs for the committee and organizers of the event for more than 23 years...
Lincoln Government Day kicked off with an alarming report from Lewis and Clark County Deputy Robert Rivera. Rivera reported on a few interesting calls that ranged from a person out for a walk mistaking the sunrise for a fire to a UFO crash involving the Navy, to a bear driving off in someone’s car up on Roger’s Pass. The bear was later revealed to be Bigfoot when he was finally stopped near Cascade. That’s what you get for holding a meeting on April Fool’s Day. In no-foolin’ news, Rivera provided an update on his planned t...
Dozens of elementary school kids and their parents filled the Lincoln School gym Thursday March 24 for the return of the school's Read-it Family Literacy Night. Kids from preschool through sixth grade scattered throughout the gym to take part in several Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math activities, all tied to stories presented by staff members. Lincoln school librarian Joanie Templeton said the Read-It program began under Kris Jacobson nearly 30 years ago....
HELENA – The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and their contracting partner Helena Sand and Gravel will begin construction on a project improving the intersection of Lincoln Road and North Montana Avenue, and the Interstate 15 Lincoln Road Interchange (Exit 200) northbound off-ramp and southbound on-ramp the week of April 4. Crews will began placing barrier rail on the I-15 Lincoln Road Interchange northbound off-ramp in preparation for widening work on the ramp. T...
Here it goes: a better late than never, long overdue thank you. I don't know where the time goes but it went by fast. Sorry I'm so late in getting this out. Thanks to everyone who bought gifts and/or helped make so many happy at Christmas time. Our seniors at the senior center had a very nice Christmas dinner. Thank you to the Putt-Putt Bonnie Christian who supplied the roast beef. Thank you, Donna Forkan and Diane Ironi, for flipping the bill and paying for the dinner. Our town donated very nice items, baskets, and money to...
Missoula Children's Theater, working with the POUNCE program at Lincoln Schools, returned to for a second year March 11 and 12 with a presentation of a re-imagined classic Hansel & Gretel. "Last year was supposed to be our off year," said POUNCE director Jackie Grantier, "but it was postponed ... because of COVID, so we did have it last year." Grantier said they had a close to record number of students turnout for the play, with 47 kids taking part. The retelling of the story...
Twice a week, folks from the greater Lincoln community come to Cailey DenBoer's first grade classroom to read to her students and initiate a lively discussion with questions and answers about their book. The children gather around the guest reader in the library corner of the room and listen with rapt attention. One component of the attention-getting events are the new guests. Who are they? What book did they bring? DenBoer's goals for the visit are for the students to practic...
Barney Vanden Bos was born April 10, 1944 in Kalispell to Dick and Geneva Vanden Bos. He passed March 7, 2022. Barney attended grade school in Dupuyer and graduated from Valier High School 1963. He married Claudette Becker in 1965 before serving in the U.S. Army and received a Purple Heart during the Vietnam War. They were married for 55 years, raising two sons, Russell and Roy, on the family farm near Dupuyer. After farming, the family owned and operated a bulk fuel...
Students from Lincoln High School and Middle School Business Professionals of America chapters have qualified to attend the 2022 BPA National Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas, May 3-8. The conference will bring together an estimated six thousand delegates from across the country to vie for top honors in business, finance, technology, marketing and health administration skills competitions; attend leadership and professional development workshops; receive awards for...
With the Lincoln Master Plan Community Surveys out in the community for another week, a series of questions asked at the March 2 Town Hall meeting provides some early insights into concerns community members have about Lincoln and the planning process. After the presentation at the Town Hall, community members broke up into nine small groups of between 3 and 10 people to discuss six questions and provide answers for a large group discussion that was to follow. However, most...
The Lincoln Fireman's Ball returned to its traditional weekend Saturday, with a turnout of supporters that required overflow seating in Station One, next door to the Community Hall. Lincoln Fire Chief Zach Muse estimated they had between 300 and 350 people attend the ball this year, but didn't have an exact figure since people came and went throughout the evening. "This is what it's all about," Assistant Fire Chief Derek Perez said Saturday afternoon as the firefighters set...
The new branch librarian at the Lincoln Library is a familiar to face to those who have dropped in to peruse the stacks or use the computers. Eleanor Pierce has been the assistant branch library for about 20 years, and she stepped up to fill the librarian position left open when Kate Radford returned to Boise to take on a new challenge at the Boise Public Library in December. "There are many opportunities for me to learn and grow," Pierce said of her decision to apply for the...
