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Plans to bring a skatepark to Lincoln are gaining momentum as Lewis and Clark County officials’ enthusiasm for the project grows. Community Coordinator Karyn Good, who agreed to help the Lincoln Skatepark Committee with organization and outreach, as well as funds sourcing for the project, presented a proposal prepared by Evergreen Skate Parks to County Commissioners and other officials at Lincoln’s Government Day Meeting, Feb. 4. “We reached out to (Pearl Jam drummer Jeff Ament) and he put us in contact with Evergreen Skate...
Andrew Bernard Anderson went to be with the Lord on Friday, January 18, 2019, at his home in Helena, Montana with his family present. Andrew was born to Robert and Lillian Anderson in Havre, Montana on March 20, 1946. He was raised on the family farm at Augusta, Montana and attended Augusta grade school and high school. He enrolled at the Helena Vo-tech where he took a two-year course in diesel mechanics. In 1967, he finished the mechanics school, married Karleen Hammer from...
After a couple of lucky breaks, the Lincoln Volunteer Ambulance was recently able to bring home a new ambulance to serve Lincoln. "We found it on one of our EMS sites on Facebook – a volunteer ambulance department out of Chesterfield, Va. was selling it," LVA president Aaron Birkholz said of the "new" ambulance, a 2006 model on a Chevy C4500 frame with only 65,000 miles on the odometer. The LVA had been saving for a new ambulance for years and had around $47,000 in savings a...
After 34 years as a clerk at Mountain View Co-op, Emily Rundell is happy to be the Lincoln Ranger District's new information receptionist. Her duties, as the first person most people meet when visiting the Lincoln Ranger Station, include answering phones, office management and providing information to tourists and locals about the District. Rundell was scheduled to start work there Jan. 7, but due to the government shutdown, she didn't begin her new role until Feb.4. "After...
Note: A special thanks to Pathfinder Editor Andi Bourne for letting us run her story and photos, since I missed both the vet checks and the entire Race start. Instead, I spent much of Saturday trying unsuccessfully to dig our only running car out of the three-foot drift in our driveway I didn't quite get through. - Roger SEELEY LAKE – With temperatures below zero and wind chills estimated at -47 degrees, it was a frigid start to the 34th annual Race to the Sky in Lincoln, M...
Lincoln High School Junior Nathan Brown surpassed the 1300-point mark for his high school career during the Lynx win against the Clark Fork Mountain Cats Saturday. Brown sank the 23 points against the Mountain Cats that pushed him over the 1300 point mark, and his performance Friday saw him rack up 32 points against Victor, which accounted for half the Lynx points scored in the home-game loss. Brown's father, Lincoln High Basketball Coach Shane Brown, said there's a pretty...
After eight years with the Montana Department of Transportation, Lincoln native Hayes Feeback is moving on to pursue a lifelong dream. "This summer I...did a check ride for my private pilot's license," Feeback told the BVD. "I've always been intrigued by the flying part of it and my grandfather was a pilot, so my whole life I was always told about being a pilot. I decided this summer that I was going to try it out. I went up and did my first check ride in Helena and fell in...
An agreement to re-open the federal government saw the staff of the Lincoln Ranger District return to work Monday even as the possibility of a second shutdown in three weeks’ looms. The Lincoln Ranger district offices have been closed, and most of the employees furloughed, since Dec. 22, when an impasse between President Donald Trump and Congress over funding for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico left about 25 percent of the government, including the Department of Agriculture, without funding. The agreement reached la...
November 17, 1964- January 16, 2019 James William (Bill) Frisbee Jr., from Lincoln, Montana, passed away due to medical complications on January 16th, 2019 surrounded by his family. Bill was 54 years old. He was born in Verdun, France on November 17, 1964 to James William Frisbee and Rosellen Decker Frisbee. Bill graduated from Capital High in Helena, Montana in 1983 and married his best friend and college sweetheart Jill Marie Pitsch Frisbee in Hardin, Montana, on January 26,... Full story
In March of 2015, Lincoln area Game Warden Ezra Schwalm was all set to move forward with an application to a Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks public fishing pond grant program. Schwalm, who originally became aware of the program via a work e-mail, envisioned a community-driven project to bring a family-friendly fishing pond to Lincoln; a safe place where, ideally, kids could walk with their fishing poles. Schwalm sits on the Lincoln Park Board and felt at the time that Lambkin Park would be an ideal location for the pond,...
Big Montana Hug and Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our “Lincoln Community.” A big grateful thanks all who took a tag from the angel tree at the bank and did some shopping or helped in other ways. Also thank you for the food donations left at the bank and money to help with our Christmas Food Boxes. We helped 69 kids to have a very nice Christmas this year. We sent out 42 Christmas Food Boxes. This year we sent out 10 Thanksgiving Food Boxes at Thanksgiving. Last year we gave three boxes of cereal to eac...
A sign on the door of the Lincoln Ranger Station serves as a reminder that the dozen or so full time employees there are still furloughed from their jobs as the longest government shut down in U.S. history approaches its fourth week. Locally, the closure of the Ranger District office is the most obvious impact of the partial government shutdown, the effects of which have been largely minimized here due to the winter season. However, as the shutdown drags on, its impacts may...
The retirement of Lincoln Schools Superintendent/Principal Carla Anderson at the end of this school year could mean a change in the structure of the school's administration. Anderson, who has served four years in the combined role of Superintendent and Principal, submitted her retirement announcement to the School Board in December, citing health reasons. Although the Board expected Anderson to seek a renewal of her contract, which expires in June of 2019, her intention to...
Times change, and kids grow up, but for twenty-six years George Pierce, recognizable in his trademark daily ties, has remained a fixture at Lincoln Schools. When Pierce hired on as the school's only science teacher in 1993, it was his first teaching job. A native of Illinois, Pierce first visited Montana as a child, and decided then that he would someday make the Big Sky State his home. "I came through Montana when I was eight years old, and I knew I was coming back as soon...
Lewis and Clark County Public Works Director Eric Griffin reported that work on the North Lincoln Gulch Road culvert repair is moving along. At the Lincoln Government Day meeting Friday, Griffin said the latest reports from the crew working on the repair is that the culvert had been installed, the headwalls are in place and plans called for them to start backfilling Monday, if weather permits. They hope to have backfilling complete by the end of the week and to begin placing r...
Since the concept for a skate park in Lincoln was first introduced last fall, it has won the support of the Lincoln Community Council, Lincoln Park Board and, most recently, the City-County Parks board. However, at Friday’s Lincoln Government Day meeting, it became clear there are still a few hoops to jump through. Commissioner Susan Good Geise, who was replaced on the board by Commissioner Andy Hunthausen at the first of the year, apologized for a scheduling snafu in December that forced the Skate Park Committee to make t...
Alan Henry Heikkila entered the world Feb. 16, 1955 in Monterey, Calif. to parents Henry and Anna Marie (Pederson) Heikkila. They lived in California briefly while Henry was in the Army, and then returned to Montana where they settled in Ulm. Alan received his education in Ulm and Cascade High School. He proudly played football and wrestled as a Cascade Badger, graduating in 1973. As a young man Alan began a life-long career in construction. He happily drove the back roads of... Full story
An act included in the 2018 Farm Bill signed by President Donald Trump Dec. 20 could help the Lincoln Volunteer Ambulance replace some of its aging equipment. The Supporting and Improving Rural EMS Needs (SIREN) Act of 2018 establishes an annual $10 million grant program for nonprofit or governmental emergency medical service agencies that serve residents in rural areas. The bipartisan act, first introduced in the House of Representatives last April by Montana’s Republican R...
The wheels of the 66th Montana Legislature began churning out government business Monday, Jan. 7 in Helena. This session, the 58-member Republican caucus elected House District 80 representative Becky Beard to the leadership position of Majority Whip. HD 80 is a rural district that encompasses Elliston, Avon, Helmville, Ovando and most of the Lincoln valley. In the old days of smoke-filled rooms and backroom arm twisting, the office of Majority Whip used to be the "enforcer"...
Some of the first towns in Montana were Virginia City, Helena and Ft. Benton. In the 1860's these small collections of huts, founded on natural resource extraction or river boat trade to support the gold fields, grew quickly. They evolved from settlements into camps and from camps into towns. The towns all had the same things in common in the early days: saloons, banks, doctors, newspapers, churches, law enforcement and schools. What makes a town? Real communities are not...
For a little more than three years, the Matt King House has been home to several cats who have taken up residence among the stacked timbers of the building. The disassembled building has been stored behind the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch office since 2015, after Heritage Timber disassembled and moved the structure from its original location east of Sucker Creek Road. Since then the Lincoln Heritage Alliance, which formed as part of the effort to save the historic building, has b...
A survey funded by the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development gathered insights last fall into the demographics, local spending and perception of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild by out-of-area visitors. The survey, developed by the University of Montana's Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research and administered by BPSW Board members and volunteers during the artist residency in September, surveyed 397 sculpture park guests. It provides some of the...
Citizens Alliance Bank held its third annual customer appreciation luncheon Friday, Dec. 14. Customers from as far as Ovando and Augusta gathered together at the bank to enjoy conversation and food. The bank hosted about 200 guests who enjoyed a lunch made by the Wheel Inn, with dessert from D&D Grocery. Lincoln Branch Manager, Shayne Lindsay, said "We appreciate the communities support we have received over the years and are happy to be able to show our thanks and...
A new public health program that launched in September is aimed at lowering the stigma associated with mental health issues like depression and suicide, and providing a friendly environment for Montana men to address the care of their mental health "the way a man would do it." Lewis & Clark County "Man Therapy" Project Lead Jess Hegstrom visited Lincoln in mid-December to raise awareness for the program, which launched in Montana in September. "We have the highest suicide...
Lincoln Public Schools superintendent and principal Carla Anderson informed the Lincoln school board of her decision to retire from the dual positions when her contract expires June 30, 2019. Anderson submitted her formal retirement announcement at the Dec. 10 School board meeting, citing concerns about the toll the job has been taking on her health since she suffered a stroke in 2015. "I have enjoyed my four years here, in this capacity, and have made lifelong friendships...
