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"There's a lot going on, for sure, but I'm excited," Rob Gump, the new Lincoln District Ranger, told the BVD last Wednesday. Gump, a U.S. Forest Service veteran, took over from Acting Ranger Tory Kendrick last week and is still settling into the job, and he's looking forward to getting to know both the district and the community of Lincoln. "Lincoln is...from the Forest Service side, a quintessential district. It's that place that has all those things you really enjoy working...
"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...
Playing through a schedule that had the team playing three contests in one week, the tired Lady Lynx faced a large bench of Missoula Valley Christian Eagles on Thursday, Sept. 9 at home in Lincoln. A Lady Lynx win in the first set, 25 – 19, seemed to surprise the older Eagle gals who had been looking for an easier victory. Freshman setter Meah LaManna gave credit to the upbeat atmosphere in the home gym to the men of the Lynx varsity football team who had dressed up as cheerle...
After a week off due to the COVID-19 outbreak at Lincoln School, the Lynx Volleyball team was back in action last weekend, facing off at home against the Victor Pirates Friday evening and the St. Regis Tigers Saturday afternoon. The Lincoln ladies started strong during both matchups, overwhelming the visiting teams in the first set, but nevertheless coming away each time with 3-1 losses. On Friday, the Lynx hammered the Pirates in the first set 25-14, before the Pirates...
The last scheduled volleyball match of the year for the Lincoln Little Lynx on Oct.15 was canceled by the Drummond Lady Trojans because of their exposure to COVID-19. But coach Danielle Fry didn't want to end the season on such a disappointing note, so she scheduled a Friday night shoot out between her young, skilled and enthusiastic Junior High players vs. the older, terrified-of-being-embarrassed Moms and Dads of the Lady Lynx. To keep the 'players vs. parents' theme going,...
There's no nail-biting, tense show-down in the current win streak of junior high Little Lynx boys basketball games this month, but there are plenty of entertaining moments to entice the fans to come out in support of the team. The "Big and Tall" club of Roegun Dietz, Kayden Tybo and Josh Rios was bigger and taller in the Nov. 18 crushing defeat of Drummond, posting a 58 - 31 win against a visiting squad that fielded twice the number of players as the young home team. Ahead at...
The scoreboard chronicled the relentless march to victory of the Junior High Lynx basketball team against the visiting Helena Christian School Rams on Tuesday, Nov. 23: ahead in the first period 19 – 11; ahead at the half 28 – 24; ahead in the third period 42 – 38; and tied 50-50 with one minute 30 seconds remaining. The crafty Rams, seeing that their only hope of winning in the last seconds was to take star Kayden Tybo out of the game by drawing him into a defensive foul under the Ram’s hoop, succeeded in getting two qui...
The Lincoln Lady Lynx opened their varsity season Dec. 4 at the invitational tournament in Ronan. Getting a slow start after a Friday loss, the Lincoln ladies were hungry for a win when they faced the Two Eagle School squad from Pablo Saturday. New coach Ray Campos said he is in a skill building year with the team led by senior Jenna Templeton and juniors JJ Lewenight and Jessica Zarske. Athletic underclassmen Kylee Copenhaver and Krymzen Dempster round out the team with...
Winter's here and varsity basketball is in full swing, giving everyone who's looking to avoid Christmas shopping a place to hide out. Taking five eligible men to the Ronan Invitational on Dec. 4, Coach Brown didn't have much wiggle room if any player fouled out, but small schools do the best they can with what they have. That's life. The Friday game was a hard loss, but after making some overnight adjustments, the Lynx hit the hardwood Saturday against Two Eagle River School,...
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...
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,...
It's time for Junior High basketball now that the varsity games are over, and the Lincoln fans have a preview of great things to come from the eleven Little Lynx ladies who make up the "A" and "B" squads, the future Lady Lynx varsity team. In the Monday night away game against Seeley Lake Junior High Eagles, the Little Lynx gals hustled up and down the court and showed that they are leaning the basics of competitive basketball. Coach Shane Smith patiently guided his young...
The Lincoln Lynx played hard and never hung their heads in another lopsided match-up with the visiting Victor Pirates Friday. Starting out with cold shooting, per usual, the Lynx got better as the quarters rolled by. But the home team had their hands full with junior Carson Varner from Victor, a three-sport athlete, football QB and probable all-conference forward who averages more than 20 points per game. Encouraging the fans, Teegan Tybo let a three-point arc swish the net...
If you think of Prospectors as lumbering, pudgy old gold panners, think again. The visiting Lady Prospectors of Granite County High School were quick, wily and nimble on the basketball court Saturday night. With enough players to field two complete squads, Granite never had to tire out their starting five, while the Lincoln Lady Lynx barely had five starters and one eighth grade lady, Krymzen Dempster, as a back up. Though they were out-numbered, the five Lady Lynx starters...
How many times can David face down Goliath on the battlefield of a high school basketball court? "It gets harder and harder to play against opponents who are 60 pounds heavier and five inches taller than me. It's intimidating," said Lincoln Lynx guard Teegan Tybo, When the Valley Christian Eagles filled up their bench before tip off, it was clear this contest was going to be another one of those "character building" opportunities that older people talk about, but for which no...
Andrew Brown scored a game high 13 points on Thursday night to lead the Lincoln Lynx in a respectable showing against the perennial 13C powerhouse Seeley Lake Blackhawks. Shaking off the nerves that come with facing a visiting team whose starting squad averages 5-inches taller and three years older than our home grown JV Lynx, the Lincoln men put up lots of shots that didn't fall. But by the fourth quarter they had settled down and the Lynx matched the Blackhawks in steals,...
When it's time to separate the men from the boys you never know who is actually going to show up. Character, integrity and grit are not worn on shoulders like Boy Scout badges; they emerge amidst trials and struggles. Six scrappy young men at Lincoln High School are showing our town what courage, fortitude and dedication look like on the field of competition when they roll out on the basketball court to face taller, older and more numerous opponents every time they have a...
The Lincoln School Board, in their regular meeting Monday Jan. 11, heard a number of updates on how the faculty and students are handling the return to school. Classes resumed in-person Jan. 4, after more than a month of online distance learning prompted by an increase in possible COVID-19 cases and close contacts in the community. Both Lincoln High Senior Lindsey Weisner, the student representative in the meeting, and Lincoln Schools Superintendent Jen Packer noted initial...
This year's Lincoln Lynx basketball season, which was already delayed due to COVID-19, is hanging on the rim as Lincoln school athletic director and boys basketball coach Shane Brown works to get a handle on the number of students who will turn out to play this season. Brown and girls basketball coach Curtiss Janzen began practices Saturday in an effort to get enough of them in to start the season Jan. 8, but he said the numbers are extremely low. "(For the) girls, we're...
Lincoln District Ranger Michael Stansberry will be leaving Lincoln next month to take over as the Forest Supervisor for the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. Stansberry, who will end his tenure here Jan. 15, said the move is both a promotion and an opportunity to be closer to his family, including his twin daughters who have scholarship offers in Wisconsin and his son, who may be moving to Michigan. "There are lot of unknowns here but this is about being close...
At what age is a person an adult? Why do you think so? "Ten, because then you have had lots and lots of birthdays." Nora Longson, Pre-K "You are an adult when you turn 16, because mom told me." Gabriel Wayne, Kindergarten "You have to be 13 because you can go to college to be a teacher and come back to the Lincoln Lynx to be a librarian and a pre-school teacher, or be like Mr. Kurtis." Allison Leland, 1st grade "I think a person turns adult at 18, because you finished...
Marion Leith Routzahn, 84, passed away peacefully on Nov. 4, 2020 at Son Heaven Assisted Living in Helena, Mont. Marion was born on Sept. 27, 1936 to Tom and Esther Lanning in Havre, Mont.. In Marion's early years, she and her family lived in Big Sandy before relocating to Helena when she was in the fifth grade. Marion graduated from Helena High School and then pursued a teaching certificate from Northern Montana College in Havre, before finishing her bachelor's degree at Carr... Full story
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...
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... Full story
