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Well, the garden season is suddenly upon us. It's already June and our soil is finally dried out a bit from the rain and warmed up a bit from the snow. However, since we live in the mountains, we know that the temperatures drop quickly due to fluctuating air currents and clear nights. Gardeners often have a stash of old sheets and miscellaneous plastic to throw over our tender crops. But there's a product called Row Cover that is lightweight, allows sunlight and water through...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received 64 calls for service during the weeks of May 9 to May 22, 2021 in the Lincoln area. Fourteen of those calls for service were traffic stops performed by deputies. Five of those calls for service generated a case report in the last two weeks: Monday, May 10. A deputy responded to a report of an assault in the Lincoln area. A male allegedly attempted to run a female over with his vehicle. The female had injuries and was checked out by...
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Lincoln Little League took on Helmville Wednesday, May 12. The Lincoln teams also hosted home games May 14, with the Bent Nail Construction 9U team racking up their first win, a 12 - 7 victory over Helena's Rivals Athletics. The Hi Country 11U team didn't fare as well, losing a 2-18 blowout against Miekush Mowing. The next home game is scheduled May 21, with Hi Country taking on Coca Cola and Bent Nail facing Rocky Mountain Computer Supply...
Girls on Shred, a Missoula based skate and snowboarding group, hosted a training day for about 15 of their volunteers at the Lincoln Skatepark Saturday, May 15. Girls on Shred was created in 2010 by the wife of the former owner of Board of Missoula, a skate and snowboard shop that's been in business since 1989. Originally centered on snowboarding, shop manager Samantha Veysey Gibbons expanded the group into skateboarding in 2015. "We provide free clinics and fun get togethers...
Hooper Park officially opened for the season Saturday, as a crew of about 15 volunteers spent the day raking,hauling pine needles, cleaning, sprucing up the campsites and helping plant trees. Improvements at the park got underway recently, with additional projects slated for later this summer. With COVID-19 restrictions being lifted around the country, the park is already seeing quite bit of use. The new skatepark is busy and Little League teams began playing for the first...
Lincoln Schools administration learned May 3 they had been selected to receive funding from the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant for the POUNCE program. In June 2019, POUNCE program director Jackie Grantier received notice just one day before the end of the POUNCE program that the school had not secured the 21st CCLC grant for the next five years, according to a Blackfoot Valley Dispatch article. The grant structure had changed reporting requirements, and two of th...
Lincoln students in 3rd-8th grade competed in the Montana Battle of the Books on May 7. Battle of the Books is made up of three teams of three students each, with one alternate. Beginning in the fall, students on each team read 12 different books leading up to the spring competition. At the competition, students answer questions based on the books, but the questions don't always have obvious answers, so students work hard to read for detail. "It's kind of a funny thing when...
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton is appealing to the public for help following recent activities in the North Hills near Helena that are giving gun-owners and shooters a black eye, increasing the chances of a wildfire and putting access to the area at risk At the May 7 Government Day meeting in Lincoln Dutton explained that in recent weeks people have been shooting irresponsibly and holding pallet parties in the area, which was recently rehabilitated by the Bureau of Land Management following a 2019 wildfire. The...
This past snowmobile season started out a little slowly here in Lincoln. Snow was thin but stoke was high, and as soon as the clouds started dumping, we started riding. Snowmobiling is a way of life here; it's a family-friendly activity, a way to socialize with your friends, it gives us all an opportunity to blow off some steam while benefitting from great outdoor physical activity and is a great way to experience Montana wilderness in the winter. As Lincoln and the...
Lincoln teens got a little return to normalcy this year at the Lincoln High School Prom Friday evening. The original plan for the dance was to host it outside at the Hooper Park pavilion, to allow the kids a bit more freedom without the need for masks. Although rainy weather forced the festivities indoors at the school gym, the announcement that Lewis and Clark Public Health would no longer be enforcing the county mask mandate prompted a decision to forego masks at the dance....
The Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Office awarded Lincoln's Aaron Birkholz with their Achievement Award during Lincoln's May 7 Government Day meeting, for his role in resolving an armed standoff in March. The Sheriff's office recognized Birkholz for successfully convincing Gary Scheele, who found himself in a five-hour standoff with law enforcement March 2, to put away his weapons and surrender to deputies. Scheele had made repeated angry calls to 911 regarding his concerns...
Led by the pitching expertise of Henry Smith and Myles Greany, the newly-formed Bent Nail Construction team gave the visiting Great West Engineering team from Helena a run for their money in Little League action on May 6th in Hooper Park. The score at the close of innings was 11 – 4 in favor of Helena, but Lincoln played well and had loaded up the bases several times. Almost all of these little athletes have never played baseball before 2021, so this respectable showing p...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received fifty-nine calls for service in the Lincoln area during the weeks of April 25 to May 8, 2021 Thirteen of those calls for service were traffic stops performed by deputies. Four of those calls for service generated a case report in the last two weeks: A deputy responded to a cold burglary Wednesday, April 28 in the 4000 block of East Highway 200. It was reported someone had broken into the complainant’s garage over-night and stole s...
Hooper Park in Lincoln received an Arbor Day grant and additional funding from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. "Misty Edwards is kinda the county's liaison with the Park Board, and she knew they were interested in doing multiple upgrades for the park," said Ann McCauley, the Grants Administrator for Lewis and Clark County, who secured the grant and funding for the trees. The grant is offered annually for tree plantings as part of the DNRC's Urban...
If you take a look around, almost anywhere in the state (and likely the country) you’ll notice something in almost every place of business: a “Help Wanted” sign. They are taped to the windows and doors of almost every business and if you’re a social media person, the pleas on Facebook looking for help are endless. Business owners are struggling to find anyone to fill positions, especially in the areas of retail, food service, hospitality, and the like. Getting anyone to appl...
The May 7 Lincoln Government Day meeting featured updates on several Public Works and infrastructure related projects Speed and passing zones The speed limit on Highway 200 east of Lincoln will be going down…a little. Lewis and Clark County Public Works Director Eric Griffin said the Montana Highway Commission, during their April 22 meeting, approved lowering the highway speed limit east of Lincoln out to Airport road from 70 mph to 60 mph. The decision is in keeping with the speed study completed by the Montana Department o...
The Lewis and Clark County mask mandate came to an end Friday afternoon, May 7 with Gov. Greg Gianforte's signing of House Bill 257 into law. The bill, co-sponsored by Becky Beard, R-Elliston, removes the ability of city, county and local health boards or officers to compel businesses to deny customers access to their premises, or to compel businesses to deny customers access to goods or services However, it still allows businesses to require face coverings and does not...
The Lincoln Little League teams have 61 kids playing ball, ranging from the four- and five-year-olds playing T-ball to older kids on 9U (Bent Nail Construction) and 11U (Hi Country) teams. Although the teams haven't seen much success yet in their inaugural year, parent Wendi Dietz reports they are having fun and improving with every game. Upcoming home games are slated for Thursday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m., when Bent Nail takes on Great West Engineering, and Friday, May7, when Hi...
These two photographs bookend a journey. The first has been seen by possibly millions of Junior High and High School students over the years. An image from the National Archive, it has became an iconic image of post-civil war westward expansion and has appeared in several U.S. history textbooks. The second image is probably known only to the readers of Gold Pans and Singletrees. Together, they show both ends of the Tuck family's journey from Litchfield, Neb. to Lincoln, Mont....
Lincoln's Business Professionals of America students participated in the virtual State Leadership Conference in March with more than 1700 students from across Montana. Two of Lincoln's three high school teams placed in the top 20, and two students from the inaugural middle school chapter qualified to attend the National Conference. "Makena Copenhaver and Delia Tolan placed to go to Nationals in Human Resource Exploration, which was a pilot program for middle school," said BPA...
It's so easy, in the course of our day-to-day lives, to get caught up in the political preoccupations of the moment. What's the Senate going to do about the filibuster? How should infrastructure money be spent? Is the country going to come out of this year as badly divided as it started? These and many other questions matter a lot-but sometimes, it's helpful to step back and take stock of what we've learned over the course of our history. I've been thinking about this because...
Montana’s legislators completed work for the 67th Session on Thursday, April 29 (ten days ahead of schedule). Our primary Constitutional duty is to pass a balanced budget, which we did conservatively with the mandate of you, our voters. We passed legislation to promote the Governor’s Montana Comeback Plan, reforming taxes to promote job growth and wages. With this approach, income, property and business taxes are set to be simplified and reduced. More of our hard-earned dol...
Lincoln's freshmen class plans to host a donation-based car and dog wash at the school June 4 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The event is a social entrepreneurship project that will raise funds for the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department. Each year Lincoln's freshman class plans a project to benefit the community. "They were incredibly responsible in their decision process," said business teacher Laura Allen-Bullis. "They had several class discussions about different organizations in town...
The Lincoln Valley Community Foundation endowment was established in 1996 and provides grants to local nonprofits. Money for the fund was originally provided as gifts from the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Phelps Dodge Seven Up Pete Joint Venture Mine, according to Jessica Stewart-Kuntz. Stewart-Kuntz is the Vice President of the Montana Community Foundation, which oversees the fund. The bulk of the money came from the LVCC, which had been raising money to build...
