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3th Grade Bradley Howard 4.0 Lindsey Weisner 4.0 Trenton Grantier 4.0 Makenzie Hayes 3.8 Nikki Snyder 3.667 Allen Walker 3.5 Brodie Henderson 3.2 11th Grade Grace Stein 4.0 Jenna Templeton 4.0 Haden Jennings 3.833 Andrea LaManna 3.714 Damion Birkholz 3.333 10th Grade Jessica Zarske 4.0 Gianna Gardella 3.4 JR Tolan 3.167 9th Grade Kylee Copenhaver 4.0 Miyah Davis 4.0 Maddie Sampson 4.0 Trever Tolan 4.0 Wesson Dempster 3.167 8th Grade Andrea Weisner 4.0 Noah Barnett 3.818...
Editors Note 2021: This story, looking back 20 years later at the media deluge following Ted Kaczynski's arrest and the aftermath, ran in our April 7, 2016 issue. Included are images from 2018 following the filiming of 'Ted K,' a movie filmed on location that should be released in in late 2021 or early 2022. Editor's note: This is the second of two stories looking at the events surrounding the arrest of Ted Kaczynski. For a couple long weeks in April 1996, Lincoln was the...
Editor's note 2021: The BVD originally published this story, a look back at the arrest of Teoheodore Kaczynski 20 years later, in our March 31, 2016. I've included more recent images from 2018 as an addtioanl Editor's note: I know full well many people would just as soon never hear the name Ted Kaczynski again. While Kaczynski deserves no press, the story of his arrest and it's impact on the community, like it or not, is a fascinating and indelible part of the town's history a...
Lincoln has a new smaller bus to help transport students. It joined the three larger buses last spring as part of the D&L Bus fleet owned by Laurie and Doug Richards, but has only made it on to the road this school year. "We were in the process of buying it before COVID hit. They were having to do some work on it. They got it done a month after we hadn't been in school. I said, we can't buy this bus and have it sitting, but that's exactly what we did. We'd been on the search...
Our Lincoln school has suffered a lot through this pandemic. It hit out of nowhere and got our school pretty hard. Thanks to staff and faculty along with parents and students, we now have a long-lasting system for this long-lasting virus. Though students do not like these guidelines, they cooperate out of respect for our teachers and our school in all. This week's update with Lincoln school starts with behavior. Since the start of this school year, students, and even teachers,...
If you could change one rule that your family has, what would you change? "To not pick up my coat and room. Just leave it on the floor and not clean up after I eat." - William Simon, Pre-K "I want to get a treat before I start cleaning rather than after cleaning." - Anthony Reed, Kindergarten "If I could change a rule it would be no consequences for everyone." - Layla Bullis, 1st Grade "If I could change one rule, it would be that you do not have to take showers, because I...
It’s often said gardening clears a person’s mind, puts them in touch with the land and relieves stress. I’ve gardened pretty much since I moved to Montana, but what if gardening is something different, and what if it’s more than what we’d thought it would be? See, my take is that gardening is more like our minds, our energy, than I’d previously thought of in the past. I’m starting to think of it like this quote I read somewhere… probably on Facebook, but unfortunately I...
Most years, April 3 passes unnoticed, but it's a significant date in Lincoln's history that brings a renewed interest in the community every five or ten years. This year is no exception. Sunday marks 25 years since the FBI arrested Theodore J. Kaczynski at his cabin south of Lincoln for the Unabomber bombings that killed three people and injured 23 others. Kaczynski had been responsible for a dozen bombings between 1978 and 1987, killing one man in 1985. He went silent for...
Lincoln Volunteer Fire Rescue hosted firefighters from five other districts last weekend for a Basic Wildland Firefighter course sponsored by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Twenty volunteer firefighters from Lincoln, Seeley Lake, Potomac, Ovando, Helmville and Greenough participated in the twenty-hour course that got underway Friday night and wrapped up Sunday afternoon. "DNRC sponsors these trainings. The fire department is doing the legwork,"...
The future of downtown planning and revitalization took a major step forward this week with the notification that Lincoln has been awarded a Montana Main Street Grant for $20,000 to help fund development of a master plan. Karyn Good, the lead organizer for Envision Lincoln, learned of the award Monday after receiving a call from Gov. Greg Gianforte's office. While the announcement came later than expected, she was fairly confident Lincoln had been successful. Her cautious...
The town of Helmville a parade on St. Patricks Day every year. While small, the parade celebrates the significant Irish heritage of the residents of the town and the Nevada Creek valley....
Last week marks one year since Rocky shut its doors to the public due to COVID-19. Since that time, many of us have suffered loss, illness, and isolation The pandemic has been hard on everyone, but older people carried the very worst of it, both in catching the virus and in the shelter-in-place mandates that created unprecedented social isolation. Our goal has always been getting seniors back to the Senior Centers. Lewis & Clark County and its partners have done a spectacular job in getting people vaccinated, with Rocky playi...
When was a time that you felt lucky? "When I gotted to go to Silverwood." - Syleena Rivera, Pre-K "I feel lucky when I get to sleep in my mom's room" - Adrianna Duffy, Kindergarten "I felt lucky when I found pennies because I can add more to my piggybank. I will have lots of money. My Mom and Dad have a lot of money so we can share it." - Emilynn Romines, 1st Grade "One time, I was so lucky that I got star student four times in a row!" -Jase Fallis , 2nd Grade "When I was 7 or...
Justin McDonough and David 'Tater' Davis expect to have their businesses up and running in town this week, taking over the long-empty repair shop across from the Lincoln Post office. McDonough recently purchased the building, which had been owned by Seeley Lake's Don Van De Riet for several years. With the help of Denny Peterson, Fred Ray, Chad Dietz and Davis, he was busy for much of last week cleaning up the building and removing old or redundant equipment McDonough...
President Abraham Lincoln once said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." The question is are we destroying ourselves? To answer we need to ask, has our form of government changed? Some would say we're a democracy based on the majority vote. I say correctly we're supposed to be a Constitutional Republic based on the rule of law. But today, both are inaccurate. The truth is we are...
Eugene "Geno" Morris died in his home on March 5, 2021. Geno was born in Kalispell, Mont. in 1950 to Robert and Marion Morris. As children of a park ranger, Geno and his three brothers - Robert, Gary and Tom - attended school all over the country and were blessed to be able to live in some of the most beautiful areas in the nation including Glacier, Sequoia, Bryce Canyon and Big Bend. When he graduated high school in St. Louis, Geno enlisted in the Army. After proudly serving... Full story
The American Red Cross comes up to Lincoln every eight weeks to host a blood drive. If you've donated at one of these drives in the last two years, you've likely met Sherry Sidell, Sue Anderson and Ellie Schouten, the trio that coordinates Lincoln's blood drives. Sidell had previously worked on blood drives in Seattle more than three decades ago. "This is a little bit different because it's a smaller community, and we didn't have computers back then," Sidell said. She said...
Easter is just a little more than a week away, and Lincoln Volunteer Fire Rescue is bringing back their traditional Easter Egg Hunt at Hooper Park. Kids up to sixth grade are welcome to come to the park Easter Sunday, April 4 at 1 p.m. to gather up hundreds of the candy-filled eggs scattered around by the firefighters. "We want to start getting things back to normal for folks, especially the kids," Lincoln fire Chief Zach Muse told the BVD. The Hooper Park Easter egg hunt has...
The Lincoln Community Garden is sponsoring a seed exchange and educational programming event at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 27 at Valler's Heritage House. The event is free and open to everyone in the community. Jean Pocha, from Ovando will be leading the seed exchange and discussing the basics of saving seeds. Jean has been gardening in the Blackfoot Valley for many years and is eager to share her knowledge with other gardeners in the area. Please bring seeds you have to trade...
With sunshiny days and warm weather, it's difficult not to start thinking about spring. One of the first harbingers of spring in the Lincoln Valley is the sagebrush buttercup, or Ranunculus glaberrimus. Buttercups are one of the first flowers to bloom in the Rocky Mountain west and the flowers can be found locally by mid-to-late March. They prefer sunny damp slopes and, as the name suggests, are often found in sagebrush and grassland areas, particularly spaces with southern sl...
If you could give one gift to every single child in the world, what gift would you give? "I would give them all a prize and the prize would be a skateboard." - Ridge Bullis, Pre-K "I would give every kid a Godzilla and a Dinosaur." - Brody Nelson, Kindergarten "If I could give every child a gift, it would be gum because children like gum." - Mathew Brown, 1st Grade "It would be food and drinks. You need food and drinks, no pop! Only healthy. No candy...only healthy." -Trayce R...
Lincoln Public School's response to the sale of politically-charged baseball caps last month has led to charges that cancel culture and political double standards are alive and well in Lincoln. Lincoln resident Steve Hartman leveled the accusations at the school after the administration - in response to his fundraising for the school by selling baseball caps critical of President Joe Biden - returned $1406 he had raised since 2019 to help buy an extra-large projector and...
Helena – Temporary weight restrictions will go into effect on certain County roads March 8. As frozen ground thaws, base gravel in the roadbed becomes saturated, causing surface break up and premature failure. In these conditions, fully loaded vehicles can cause severe road damage. The load limits for all restrictions are seven tons for single axles, 14 tons for tandem axles, or 350 pounds per inch width of tire. Temporary restrictions are in place for the following roads in the Lincoln Area: • B Street (At Stemple Pass Rd....
Lewis and Clark Public Health lifted all COVID-19 restrictions - except the countywide masking mandate - Friday morning March 12 after the county fell below the triggering score established by the Lewis and Clark City-County Board of Health's COVID-19 Emergency Rules and Regulations adopted in December. The change removes restrictions on the number of people at an event, and limited operating hours and capacity limits at establishments such as restaurants and bars. "If you're... Full story
A Lincoln man arrested Tuesday, March 2 following a standoff with Lewis and Clark County deputies was released on his own recognizance March 3 after spending a night in the Lewis and Clark County Detention Center. Gregory Scheele, 60, has been charged with two counts of assault with a weapon after making what deputies perceived as threats against two individuals - identified in court documents only as 'C' and 'R.' Deputies arrested Scheele at 11:30 a.m. March 2, after he...
