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Using colored pencils, Garrett Schwalm used a bench in the Hooper park pavilion as a desk as he enthusiastically colored in the landscape around an illustration of a whitetail buck. Schwalm was hurrying to beat the deadline for the Lincoln Prosperity Proposal coloring contest at the Lincoln arts and Music Festival Sunday afternoon. The coloring contest, which had $500 in prizes, made its debut at the festival this year, thanks to support from The Wilderness Society, which not...
In past years, as the third weekend in August approached, Doug and Laurie Richards at the Wheel Inn would call businesses around town and the surrounding area to find out if they planned to sponsor a team in the annual Bob Purdy Co-ed Softball Tournament. Every year the Richards' sponsor the tournament, but this year finding the normal slate of 16 teams for the tournament was far from difficult. In fact, the tournament added teams for the first time. "This year we ended up...
The Lincoln Council for the Arts sponsored the annual Barn Dance this year on Aug. 13. As in years past, the dance took place at Eddie Grantier's barn, and this year, it featured the band Edge 406 from the Great Falls area. The first Barn Dance was held in 2009, said Sue Murphy, who organizes the event. "Terry Mooney had a vision, and she called me up. We went and asked Eddie, and Eddie also had a dream that he wanted a barn dance," said Murphy, adding, "The whole town of...
Each September, Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild invites artists, composers, musicians, and other creators to Lincoln as part of the Artist in Residency program. This year, Montana's 2019-2021 Poets Laureate, Melissa Kwasny and M.L. Smoker, are scheduled to speak and engage with students and the community Sept. 16. Kwasny and Smoker earned a shared $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets to "partner with seven Montana art and historical museums,...
The Ponderosa Snow Warriors received a new groomer this year, donated by Glen and Marge Kolve. The new groomer belongs to the snowmobile club and will give them access to two groomers during the winter season, which will help the club maintain and potentially increase their funding. "The majority of our funding is tied to groomer hours. The state owns the groomer that we have right now. When Gordy goes out, he gets paid for running on the trail system. We get reimbursed for...
A dead deer near the bridge had drew severalTurkey vultures to the area just north of the Blackfoot River near the Stemple Pass Road Bridge. A quick count revealed at least 15 vultures in a pair of cottonwoods, across the road from the deer carcass, with more perched in the trees to the south of the river. Turkey Vultures are a common sight in the skies around Lincoln and are easily identifiable by their two toned brown and gray wings while soaring. In a nod to their...
"A young team having fun" is how Coach Kurtis summed up the Saturday night volleyball match of his Varsity Lynx against perennial powerhouse Seeley Lake. Three new freshman hitters are finding their place among the Lady Lynx volleyball family, steered by veteran senior co-captains Jenna Templeton and Andrea LeManna. It takes awhile to unite as a family, but after a good showing against Granite on Thursday, a contest where the Lynx won some sets, the building blocks for future...
The Lincoln Lynx Volleyball team played their first home game of the season Friday, Sept. 3 against the Granite High Prospectors from Philipsburg. The first set of the game saw the Lincoln team fall to the Prospectors 10-25, but a rally by the young team that began late in the first set carried on into the second, with Lincoln scoring the first point. Although the set ended with Granite beating the Lynx 25-16, the Lincoln ladies kept up the pressure in the third set, earning...
The Lincoln High School Junior Class held a car wash Saturday, Sept. 4. The proceeds earned from the car wash fund will fund prom and graduation....
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received forty-five calls for service during the week of Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 2021 in the Lincoln area. Nineteen of those calls for service were traffic stops performed by deputies. Two of those calls for service generated a case report in the last week: Aug. 30, a deputy took a report of criminal mischief on Moon Drive. Someone had graffitied an address sign. The investigation is on-going. Aug. 31, a deputy responded to a cold domestic in the...
The Lincoln area has experienced a spate of vandalism in the last two weeks as unknown culprits have spray painted traffic signs and damaged both trash cans and traffic pylons. Lewis and Clark County Deputy Sheriff Robert Rivera said vandals first hit the area around Tuesday, Aug 17. "It was reported that somebody on Dalton Mountain Bridge ran over those pylons and destroyed a few of them, then tossed a couple...up in the river," Rivera said. "That same night they drove up...
Richard T. Debick, 77, of Lincoln, Mont., formerly of Bell Township, Pa. passed away Friday, July 30, 2021, in Providence St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Mont. Born July 20, 1944, in Natrona Heights, he was the son of the late Lester R. White and Katherine (Zerebnick) Debick. Mr. Debick was a 1962 graduate of Bell-Avon High School and earned his bachelor's degree from California State College in industrial arts. He retired in 1995 from Highlands School District, where he...
Joyce past away peacefully on Aug. 29, 2021 of natural causes surrounded by her family. Joyce was born to Oscar & Margaret Kampf on Aug.4, 1939 in Havre, Montana. Joyce, along with her Mom, Dad & six sisters lived on a ranch in the foot hills of Beaver Creek south of Havre. Her parents sold the ranch and moved to town when she was about 12. She worked several local jobs, was a member of the local 4-H Club, and graduated from Havre High. On March 22, 1957 she married her high s...
The first thing Myrna Crawford wants to make clear is that the Canyon Creek Country Store is not closing. With the historic store quietly for sale, Myrna and her husband Ron prepared for a living estate sale last Friday. The goal was simply to help clear out some of the antiques and collectibles in the store that they've amassed over the years. But rumors, they do like to fly. As she had explained repeatedly on Facebook posts, Myrna said they were having the sale, so they won'...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received thirty-two calls for service during the week of Aug. 22 to 28 in the Lincoln area. Three of those calls for service were traffic stops performed by deputies. One of those calls for service generated a case report in the last week: A deputy took a criminal mischief report near the intersection of B Street and Stemple Pass Road Wednesday, Aug. 25. The suspect spray painted a stop sign and a speed limit sign. This case is still under...
Lincoln Fire Rescue Statin four received a spruce up last week it a new red pain job on the front of the building. The remainder of the building got a coating of white until funding is available for more red paint. The new color is a stark change from the building's original drab gray. they building began life as a repair shop, which it remained into the 1990s, when then owner and repair shop operator Chris Waits converted the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, which...
The Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society hosted the annual Lincoln Heritage Day last Saturday with approximately 125 attendees. The event highlights Lincoln's history, and gives kids and adults alike the opportunity to try their hand at historic skills and activities. We do it "to show old-time skills, so we don't lose those," said UBVHS president Erin Dey. This year, in addition to candle-making, butter-making and embroidery, the event debuted some new activities and...
The driver of a westbound Kia SUV found himself on a life flight to St. Pat's Hospital in Missoula Friday, Aug. 20, after rear-ending a pickup truck at the intersection of Highways 200 and 141. The collision, which was reported at 10:40 a.m., demolished the driver's side of the SUV and caused the vehicle to catch fire. Helmville Quick Response Unit, Ovando Fire and EMS and the Lincoln Volunteer Ambulance all responded to the scene, but the first people to arrive were...
Concerns about the ability to field a six-man football team this fall loomed at the end of last school year, prompting Lincoln High School to offer cross country as an alternative for Lincoln boys, since the sport only requires three members to form a team. Lincoln Schools Athletic Director Shane Brown said they decided to bring cross county back after an absence of almost nine years, due to an apparent lack of interest among students in either high school or junior high...
Rainy weather Aug. 21 prompted Sculpture in the Wild to re-schedule the Teepee Burner performance by The Wilbur Rehman Quartet until Sunday Sept. 5. The program, slated from 4 - 6 p.m., with special guest MJ Williams on vocals and trombone, will now serve as an informal kick-off to this year's Artist-in-Residence program that begins Sept. 7. "Listen to great Jazz; meet the artists and catch up with the Artistic Director Kevin O'Dwyer," BPSW President Becky Garland said....
A man who ran out of gas between Browns Lake and the Highway 141 intersection has been missing since Aug. 16. The family of Matthew Kalange, 26, is seeking any leads on his whereabouts. Kalange left a note in his car saying he had run out of gas and asking that the car not be towed. It is possible he walked toward Ovando, Lincoln or Helmville to get more fuel. He hasn't been seen since. Law enforcement reportedly is investigating the possibility of foul play, an accident or...
Petitions that will let the county to move ahead with funding a chip seal project for the paved streets in Lincoln and Lambkins Rural improvement districts are still in need of signatures. Jessica Makus, Lewis and Clark County special districts program coordinator told the Upper Blackfoot Valley Community Council last week that they need just 17 signatures from property owner in the Lambkins RID and 65 signatures from property owners in the Lincoln RID to reach the 20 percent threshold that allows the Lewis and Clark County...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received one hundred and fourteen calls for service during the weeks of July 25 to Aug. 21, 2021 in the Lincoln area. Thirteen of those calls for service were traffic stops performed by deputies. Ten of those calls for service generated a case report in the last four weeks: A deputy responded to a report of a deceased 7-month-old baby Aug. 7, 2021. The investigation is still active currently. Due to the age of the deceased, detectives took...
I’ve been on quite the whirlwind of adventures this last month. I’ve traveled to Idaho, Whitehall, Alaska, Eureka and recently just down the road from my house to this past weekend’s Lincoln Arts and Music Festival. During these travels, I’ve encountered many people and many situations where I was reminded how important it is to not only receive a little grace, but to extend a little grace to others myself. Most encounters with the people I interacted with were positiv...
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton hosted the U.S. Forest Service Director of Law Enforcement and Investigation and a dozen sheriff's from around the western United States for a first-of-its-kind exercise in the Bob Marshall Wilderness from July 19-23. In his role as president of the Western States Sheriff's Association – an office he's held since May 16 - Dutton coordinated the outing to the Pretty Prairie area with USFS LE&I Director Tracy Perry as part of an ongoing...
