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"Sometimes I get really tired of playing and I have to take a break from playing. Then, when I take a nap, I can play more." – Grant Keester, PreK "Not being strong enough to pick up heavy things." – Shawn Conover, Kindergarten "The hardest thing about being a kid is listening to my mom to clean my room." – Emilynn Romines, 1st Grade "The hardest thing of being a kid is to try not to get hurt." – Chris Walsh, 2nd Grade "The hardest thing about being a kid is doing my homewor...
Ken Crymble has worked with the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department for about 15 years, and recently celebrated his 50th year as a firefighter. Over the years, Crymble has worked in city fire departments, in mines and in rural departments like Lincoln. Crymble started out fighting fires in February, 1970 when he first got on with the Fire Department in Riverton, Wyo. "Then I got into the EMS part of it, too," said Crymble, who was part of the second group in the state of...
Lincoln's Post 9 of the American Legion held their monthly meeting at the Community Hall this past week. We had all kinds of things to cuss and discuss. The two big things we talked about were Santa's Work Shop and Veterans Day. We came up with a great plan for our portion of Santa's Workshop. We're excited to share it with our annual participants on Dec. 5. We're still working out the details of how we are going to get the gift kits out to everyone, but it will be so much fun...
The Lincoln School's annual Halloween Walk is set to proceed this year on Thursday, Oct. 29. Pre-K through 6th grade students will dress in costumes and walk through the town, trick-or-treating at local businesses. As with previous years, preschool-aged children are invited to attend the walk as long as they are accompanied by an adult, Lincoln School secretary Danielle Barnett said in an email interview. Despite some changes necessary due to COVID-19, the school hopes the...
Chris Buster joined God's logging crew on Wednesday, Oct. 21in the mountains he loved above Lincoln. Buster was born Oct. 26, 1975 in The Dalles, Ore to Curtiss and Bobbie Buster. He graduated from Wahtonka High School in 1993. In 1994 he made his home in Lincoln. Over the years he learned every tree and mountain in the valley. A drive with Chris wasn't complete without him pointing and saying, "I skidded that." He was the proud father of Dianne and Bruce. In 2012 he took a...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received fifty-seven calls for service during the weeks of Oct. 11 to Oct. 24. Deputies performed three civil services in the Lincoln area. Two of those calls generated a case report in the last two weeks: A deputy took a sexual assault complaint in the Lincoln area Monday, Oct. 19. The investigation was turned over to the Criminal Investigation Division. A deputy responded to Highway 200 near Hogum Creek for a welfare check Monday, Oct. 19....
As you all know, the Lincoln School was shut down due to coronavirus exposure. We were remote learning for two day's from Tuesday to Wednesday. As of October 19th, the school is up and running and will hopefully stay that way. As for the coronavirus in general, Fox news stated Oct. 20 there is a common toiletry item you might use to deactivate the virus. Mouthwash is apparently rumored to be the antidote, scientists say. So that means to stock up. Red Ribbon week is also just...
The BVD picked up 15 awards in the 2020 Montana Newspaper's Association's Better Newspaper Contest. The Dispatch, a Division 1 newspape with a circulation of fewer than 1250, picked up seven first-place awards, three second-place and five third-place awards. This year marked the most awards Lincoln's newspaper has won since first entering the annual contests in 2014. The BVD won a first place award for page design for the page featuring Lincoln High School Entrepreneur Class'...
I must admit, I was very glad to see the Montana Department of Transportation conducting speed studies on Highway 200 on the east side of town where the Sculpture Park and Ranger Station are, and I'm glad they are addressing concerns surrounding those destinations specifically. One of the questions I have is whether or not is has ever been proposed, or a study conducted in order to put a stop sign in at the end of the Sculpture Park driveway as cars head onto Highway 200? I...
Lewis and Clark County's new undersheriff is a familiar face to Lincoln residents. Sheriff Leo Dutton selected Helena native and former Lincoln substation deputy Brent Colbert to fill the position held by Jason Grimmis until Sept. 30. Colbert's promotion into the position became effective Oct. 14. Grimmis retired after 27 years with the LCCSO to pursue a new career as the first director of campus security and public safety at Carroll College. Colbert was one of three members...
The storm last weekend that dropped about five inches of snow in Lincoln resulted in a handful of slide-offs and accidents along Highway 200 in the Upper Blackfoot. Lincoln Fire Rescue and the Lincoln Volunteer Ambulance started Saturday morning off with a 5 a.m. call concerning an accident about 16 miles west of Lincoln, between the Highway 141 intersection and Browns Lake, but both were called off before leaving Lincoln because other responders were already on scene. A...
Lincoln School reopened Monday morning after being closed last week due to concerns about a possible close-contact coronavirus exposure. The closure resulted from a message about a possible close contact with someone who had COVID-19 and was largely a precautionary measure, said Shane Brown, Lincoln Elementary School principal and the COVID-19 response team leader. Brown saw the message, sent late Monday night, at about 4 a.m. Tuesday morning. "That's when we started doing...
John "Johnny" Thompson, age 90, passed away peacefully of natural causes on Oct. 15, 2020. Johnny was born on Sept. 19, 1930 to John and Vivian Thompson in Basin, Montana, the oldest of three children. In 1941, Johnny's parents moved him and his siblings, Anita and Norman, to live at the Mike Horse Mine outside of Lincoln, where he and his father had a trucking contract for the mine. After moving to Lincoln in 1954, he met the love of his life, Katie. Johnny and Katie were mar...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received thirty-two calls for service during the week of Oct. 4 to Oct. 11, 2020. Deputies performed six traffic stops in the Lincoln area. Two of those calls generated a case report last week: A deputy responded to the 4000 block of Snow Fleury Lane for an animal complaint involving puppies, Monday, Oct. 5. Deputies investigated the animal's home and care. Currently there is no evidence of animal abuse. A deputy took a report of a stolen...
Of all the things you are learning, what do you think will be the most useful when you are an adult? "I think the ABC’s." – Emma Dey, Pre-K "Eating lunch." – Anthony Reed, Kindergarten "You need to know your mom’s phone number because if you’re alone and you need your mom, then you could call her." -Stella Davis. 1st Grade “Of all the things I have learned, what I think that is useful when I am an adult is Reeders notebook. Because it teaches me spelling” -Ryan Perez, 2nd Grade “When I am an adult I think science will th...
Last year the Sheriff's Office and Lincoln Public Schools together decided the DARE program that was currently being taught in the elementary grades would be expanded to include the middle school students. As the DARE instruction expands, here are highlights of the program's evolutions since its inception in the 1980's. DARE was created in Los Angeles in 1983 as it became clear that enforcement of drug laws were not enough, and that resistance education was necessary to effect...
Today's update for the Lincoln Public Schools actually does not concern COVID-19. It has most to do with rules and policies coming back to life, such as today's topic: Zero Zeros. Zero Zeros was a big deal for the school in the past, but was taken down due to POUNCE grants. Now, Zero Zeros is back up in running, and has been enforced starting Monday, Oct. 5. If any of you don't know what Zero Zeros is, it is an after school program for students who have missing work/tests,...
Diane Krier earned recognition this year for her work as the Lincoln Schools cafeteria manager and food director with the Wonderful Outstanding Worker award from the Montana School Nutrition Association. Patrice O'Loughlin, the awards chairperson for the MTSNA, made the trip up to Lincoln Friday Oct. 9 to present Krier with the award for "exceptional service and devotion to Montana students," and that, according to the MTSNA website, "recognizes any school food service...
Capt. Dan Bushnell was promoted to the rank of Major in the Montana Army National Guard. The son of the late Bob Bushnell and brother to Jeanette Nordahl, both of Lincoln, Bushnell currently serves as the Montana National Guard Public Affairs Officer at the Helena Armed Forces Reserve Center at Fort Harrison. He has deployed twice to Afghanistan with the Montana Army National Guard's 495th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion....
"The planted larch trees are burnished gold. What a wondrous forest they have become." -Tomonari The western larch, or Larix occidentalis, is also known as the western tamarack or hackmatack. Montana is home to a second species of larch, the Larix lyallii, also known as the subalpine larch, the alpine larch, and the woolly larch, but these usually grow at a higher altitude than the western larch. Larch trees are known as deciduous conifers, meaning that although they may look...
A new book by Dr. Amy Dempsey, entitled Destination Art is set to showcase Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild as one of only about 200 worldwide art destinations. This is the second edition of the book Destination Art published by Thames & Hudson and is due out April 2021. It will be the first time BPSW has been featured in a book. Kevin O'Dwyer, artistic director and curator of BPSW, had a previous project called Sculpture in the Parklands included in the first...
This past weekend was the annual Alpine Artisans Tour of the Arts. Artists were featured at galleries through the Seeley Swan Valley, Ovando and Lincoln. With advertising in Helena, Missoula, Great Falls, Seeley and Lincoln newspapers, people came from as far as Idaho and Billings to see artists and their artwork in the Blackfoot Valley. While some galleries saw more traffic than others, Lincoln artists Lisa Gibson, Sally Bogart, Gwendolyn Hendricks, and Tammy Jordan, all disp...
4 may go down in history as a generally abysmal year nationally, but locally the Lincoln Ranger District completed a series of enhancements to local outdoor recreational opportunities on the National Forest around Lincoln this year. "Some long-term projects got wrapped up this year," Josh Lattin, District Resource Specialist, told the BVD. Roger's Pass Although the COVID-19 pandemic impacted traffic on Continental Divide Trail this year, next year hikers will find an...
Last Thursday, several members of the Lincoln Community gathered at Ellie Schouten's home in the Sleepy Hollow Trailer Park to begin construction of a roof over her trailer. The older trailer, which has a damaged roof that cannot support any type of weight, became a concern for Schouten over the summer. She was told the easiest way to protect the roof and keep it from collapsing was to build a second roof over the original roof. A letter, hung at the post office and posted on...
Ballots will be mailed out Oct. 9 to all active and provisionally registered voters in Lewis and Clark County and should begin showing up in mailboxes Oct. 10. According to a press release from Lewis and Clark County, the election system allows for one active ballot at a time per registered voter. People wishing to vote in person, or who have already voted in person, may still receive a ballot in the mail, however, if a person has already voted in person, the mail-in ballot...
