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GREAT FALLS -Sara Mayben will serve as acting forest supervisor for the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest while Bill Avey, the current forest supervisor, temporarily serves as the national fire and aviation director of the USDA Forest Service. The transition took place June 1. "There are inherent dynamic tensions in how we manage the Forest for visitors, resources, and fires and I am confident in Sara's ability to find balance," said Forest Supervisor Bill Avey. "Sara is...
When unusual weather occurrences happen, like snow storms in late May, it can alter the migratory paths of wildlife, and species may be found in places it is uncommon for them to be. Among birds, this is sometimes referred to as an irruption, where one or more species moves south out of their normal ranges in search of food. As happened in Lincoln this spring, birds may also be seen at lower elevations than their normal ranges. A few varieties of birds that aren't usually...
"On the Wings of a Snow-White Dove", DuWayne Curtis Price, 78, left his home in Lincoln, Montana and entered Heaven on May 27, 2021. He was greeted by and wrapped in the loving arms of his mom, Hilda. DuWayne was born Aug. 2, 1942 in Fargo N.D., lived on a farm in Wolverton, Minn. and graduated from Barnesville, Minn. High School in 1960. He joined the U.S. Army and served one year in Vietnam. DuWayne had many enjoyable careers. In 1975 he graduated from The North Dakota...
Lighting that moved through the area on the evening of June 3 caused two small fires near Lincoln that required a response by firefighters. Bill Cyr with the Montana DNRC reported at the June 4 Lincoln Government Day that one fire was on the McInnis property along the Blackfoot River, near Highway 279. The second was near Moon Drive in the Lone Point area. Cyr said they also had reports of two other fires, but had no information on them. One was reportedly in the Stemple Pass...
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...
Lincoln students who completed the Montana History class in the 2019-2020 school year were unable to go on the class field trip to Yellowstone, which was canceled due to the pandemic. This year, those students were able to make the trip, and to explore other aspects of regional history. The three day trip took the six students who completed the class and hadn't yet graduated throughout Montana and into Wyoming. "It was busy, but we crammed a lot in," said Lincoln science teach...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Sharon L. Blake, 78, of Lincoln, Mont. passed away on Sunday, April 11, 2021 in her home, surrounded by her family, after fighting a courageous battle of cancer. She was born in San Francisco, California on Aug. 22, 1942 to Norman and Dena Bennett. Sharon moved around to many states and finally settled in Lincoln with her late husband Carl Blake in 2006. She was an active member of the Lincoln Baptist Church and ran the local variety store in town. She enjoyed quilting,...
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....
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...
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...
Master Planning Envision Lincoln continues to work on master planning. Lewis and Clark County and the Montana Business Assistance Connection were awarded two separate grants totaling $47,000 to fund development of a professional master plan. "The one thing we will have to do is a (Request For Proposal) for a contractor to develop a master plan," she said. A committee will develop the RFP based on templates used by other communities and then it will be submitted to the county...
Life is too short to live in a negative state of anything. It’s too short to live in pain, it’s too short to live in fear, and t’s definitely too short to keep wishing for time to go by. Believe me, it goes by quickly enough all on its own without wishing the time away. It’s too short to argue about things that don’t matter, and it’s too short to surround yourself with people who don’t see or appreciate your value. It’s also too short to be stuck doing things that don’t bring you joy, or make a difference in this world someho...
Montana State Parks awarded a Recreational Trails Program Grant to the Lincoln Ranger District for construction of a trail segment identified by Envision Lincoln in the In-Town Trails Plan developed in 2018. It will be the first trails from the plan to come to fruition. A one-mile, figure-eight loop, the trail will be built on the15-acre parcel of Forest Service property adjacent to the east side of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild. "It will connect the sculpture...
LINCOLN, Mont. April 21, 2021 - Rob Gump has been selected as the new district ranger for the Lincoln Ranger District, the western most district on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. Gump will begin the new position in mid-June. "Rob's background working on fire-dependent ecosystems as a silviculturist-ecologist, managing recreation, Wilderness and trails programs, and his leadership and collaborative-mindset made him a great fit for the position," said Forest...
Despite receiving bipartisan support and passing through the House with at 60-39 vote on March 2, a joint resolution to support the designation the Montana Trail 406 was indefinitely postponed and declared "probably dead" on April 1 after failing to pass the Senate with a 23-27 vote. "Probably dead? I was shocked. I felt like I had been kicked in the gut. We had no inkling that that's what was coming," said local business-owner Laurie Richards, who helped establish Lincoln as...
The Lincoln School Board has two seats open for election this spring, and four candidates have thrown their hats into the ring. To provide voters with additonal insight into the candidates, the BVD asked each of them a series of four basic questions Ballots went out in the mail last week, giving voters the option to return them by mail or drop them off at the at the Lincoln School Monday through Thursday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., or on Election Day May 4, between 8 a.m....
The Lincoln Airport Foundation met April 16 to discuss several upcoming changes and improvements, as well as safety concerns and the return of the Lincoln Fly-In this summer. Through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and subsequent funding such as the American Rescue Plan, the Lincoln Airport is set to receive more than $29,000 to support a variety of projects. Additionally, Montana Aeronautics Division Administrator Tim Conway said the Yellowstone Airport...
In September, a thirty acre piece of ground along Highway 200 just west of the MDT equipment shop at about milepost 68.5 was sold to "Lost Moose Meadows" a business partnership that proposes to build an RV campground there. Plans, which we have seen, were filed with the Montana Department of Transportation. As the land owners immediately to the west of this property, we want to bring your attention to some of the problems it poses. We're sure that many of you will agree with...
Editors Note: Rick Graetz with the University of Montana selected Lincoln to be the first town featured in a new series of community profiles in the 'This is Montana Community Vitality Program.' Graetz allowed the BVD to be the first publication to run the Lincoln article before it goes out for wider distribution. A limited human presence, single main street, towering ponderosa pine trees reaching up toward snow covered peaks, a lumberjack atmosphere, and a ranger station is...
