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Born April 2, 1969, Marci passed away at her home in Lincoln, Montana on April 26, 2020. Born in Santa Maria, Calif. To Gene and Shirley Smith, marci lived in Lincoln and worked as a housekeeper. Her favorite Hobbies and activities included snowmobiling, playing with her dogs and reading. She is survived by her children Jacob Smith of Atascadero, Calif., Jayson Montgomery of Corvallis and Dustin Williams of South Dakota; by her parents Gene and Shirley Smith, Atascadero,...
Lewis and Clark County adopted a modified version of Gov. Steve Bullock’s guidelines for easing restrictions related to COVID-19, following Bullocks’ April 22 announcement of a three-phased approach to reopening schools and businesses statewide. Bullocks stay-at-home and school closure directives, issued in mid-March, expired April 24. “Once we begin to reopen, we want to be able to stay open. Our personal responsibility to protect those around us –particularly those most vulnerable –remains just as important as any time duri...
How Lincoln School will end its school year will depend on how the Governor's stay-at-home and school-closure directives are lifted and what the phased reopening of the state looks like. This will impact whether students continue distance learning through the end of the school year, if high school spring sports resume, and how schools handle graduation celebrations. The Office of Public Instruction issued a memo April 9 advising schools to continue their distance learning...
The Lincoln School Board met Wednesday, March 18 to ensure the school was on the right course in what trustee Jay Terman called uncharted waters. The board passed a trio of motions that will ensure the school maintains its funding after Gov. Steve Bullock's ordered schools statewide to close from March 16-27to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The school board formally declared an unforeseen emergency, authorized the staff to provide off-site instruction and authorized Superin...
With the recent closure of schools in the state of Montana, and Lincoln teachers conducting classes remotely, many parents may find themselves taking on a more active teaching role at home. Tiana Valler has been homeschooling her children for the last sixteen years and has some advice for those who may need it now. Among her biggest words of advice to parents is to relax and breathe, and she wants to assure parents they aren’t going to ruin their child’s education in the next two months. “This is something short-term to he...
Charlotte Lorraine Ceartin passed away in the early morning, March 10, 2020 at St. Peters Hospital, after a brief illness. Charlotte was born in Helena on April 30, 1931, she was the daughter of Leonard and Arzeline "Toots" Bailey. Charlotte was raised in East Helena, along with brother Bob and sister Mary Ellen (Babe). Charlotte attended East Helena public schools and graduated from Helena High School. Charlotte married Charles in 1950 and had two children, Carolyn Murgel...
Parker Medical Center PureView Health Centers is coordinating with the Lewis and Clark County Public Health Department and Centers for Disease Control in their efforts to protect their patients and the community against the spread of COVID -19. PureView Chief Executive OfficerJill Steeley said patients at Parker Medical shouldn't see too much in the way of change, but they are taking precautionary measures. "We'll still be seeing people there. We'll just be calling them first...
Lincoln started to feel the pinch of efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 this week, on the heels of a series of emergency declarations, restrictions and closures. Monday morning, Lewis and Clark Public Health Officer Drenda Niemann ordered the closure of most food, drink and fitness establishments throughout the county from Tuesday morning, March 16 at 6.a.m. until 8 a.m. March 23. The order, approved by the City-County Board of Health closed bars, casinos and gyms, and...
School grapples with two week closure The Lincoln School board held an emergency meeting Sunday evening, March 15 to develop a response plan after Gov. Steve Bullock announced a statewide, two-week shutdown of all K-12 schools related to coronavirus. The board focused on the immediate need to prepare for distance learning plans and to continue providing breakfasts and lunches to students in the school's free and reduced lunch program. Currently, the two weeks will not have to...
The Lincoln School Board held an emergency meeting Sunday night to develop a response plan to Gov. Steve Bullock's order to shut down all K-12 public schools in the state for two weeks, as part of an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. There are currently no reported cases of COVID-19 in Lincoln Schools or in Lincoln. There are currently six reported cases in the state, with two victims in Missoula County, one in Broadwater County, one in Gallatin County,...
Groomed cross-country ski trails around the Lincoln School track and through Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild and the adjacent Forest Service property received an expansion onto private property this winter, providing greater access to Lincoln skiers and snowshoers. The Lincoln Outdoor Club works with the Lincoln Ranger District every year to groom trails for students to snow-shoe and cross-country ski on. "They have been terrific at keeping up with the trail maintena...
Lincoln Public Schools introduced a new class this semester to manage the school's website. Four students will be working with technology teacher Laura Allen-Bullis to update and refresh the website and content. "The students are really excited to make it better," she said. The students have already begun work on the website. "We looked at Class C school websites and discussed what we liked and what we didn't, what we need and don't," said Allen-Bullis. The students really lik...
In many communities, law enforcement officers serve in middle and high schools as School Resource Officers, providing mentoring, education, and law enforcement services in the school. Lincoln School will soon have its own School Resource Officer at the school on a part-time basis. The Sheriff's office explained that there are currently SROs provided by the Helena Police Department, but this will be the first SRO at the county level. Lincoln's resident Deputy Robert Rivera,...
From 2002-2007, Lincoln artist Annie Allen decorated five bears as part of Helena's Last Chance Bear Encounter Public Art Project. One of her bears has recently returned to Lincoln. The Bear Encounter was hosted by Downtown Helena both as a fundraiser and a way to make the Last Chance Gulch area of Helena a destination location for families and tourists. Artists submitted proposals for the juried project by mocking up their bear design on a black and white drawing of a bear....
The Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received seven Calls for Service in the Lincoln area during the week of Dec. 8 through Dec. 14, 2019. One of those were a VIN inspection performed in and around the Lincoln area by deputies. No calls for service generated a case report last week. Other calls for service in the Lincoln area were one non-injury crash, one injury crash, one false alarm, one investigative call for service, and one suspicious circumstance. Lincoln Ambulance...
One of the not-so-small gifts of living in a representative democracy is that you can’t accomplish things alone. Whether you’re trying to get a stop sign put up on a dangerous corner or to change US policy on greenhouse gas emissions, you have to reach out to others. And learning how to persuade, motivate, and involve them — learning the skills of active citizenship, in other words — makes this a stronger, more resilient country. So I want to make a case for building and usi...
OVANDO – For 15 years, the Blackfoot Challenge and its partners have released fledgling trumpeter swans into the Blackfoot Watershed in a program aimed at restoring the swans to their native habitat. Next year could be the last year that happens. The goal was to get seven pairs of released trumpeter swans to return to the area, create a nest, produce eggs, raise their young and repeat the cycle for two consecutive years. According to Montana State Coordinator at US Fish and W...
Did you know that during World War II food shortages in Europe, parents were encouraged to forage the hillsides of Britain in search of prairie rose hips, vitamin C storehouses, to feed to their children to supplement war rations? The government promoted this public health policy in response to an increase in scurvy, a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin c in the body. The Ministry of Food actually published several leaflets on how to find, harvest and ingest these and...
I've always been curious as to how the art and artists are chosen for the Sculpture in the Wild. On a misty Saturday morning, I was able to catch up with Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild Curator, Kevin O'Dwyer to talk about this year's artists for the Artist in Residence Program, plans for their work, some upcoming events, and how the park is helping the Lincoln community. During our walk through the park, O'Dwyer was able to provide a lot of insight to how artists...
After a two year hiatus, the Blackfoot Challenge will again host their annual Trumpeter Swan Release Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Rolling Stone Ranch in Ovando. This annual event offers the public a rare opportunity to take an up-close look at Trumpeter Swans and learn about their biology, habitat, and recovery in the Blackfoot watershed. This year, attendees will also be able to purchase raffle tickets for the opportunity to release a swan themselves the morning-of. Releases...
Are you curious about what's going on with that long-vacant lot across from Grizzly Hardware and the Bootlegger? Steve Hartman purchased the property earlier this year and has developed a place for campers and RVs to park in the center of town, while raising money for our local school. "It seems the school is always struggling and I thought this was a way to help them. They're always in need of uniforms for volleyball or football, or something else. Something needed to be...
The first day of school is just two weeks away and students returning to Lincoln Public Schools can expect to see some different faces on the staff this year, but new Superintendent Jennifer Packer said they shouldn't expect any major changes. "Everything's working, we're not going to fix anything that's not broken," she said. Packer took over the Superintendent position from Carla Anderson July 1 and has been settling into her new job over the past month, but the Lincln...
Due to staff changes, the schedules that 7 – 12 students did in the spring will need to be adjusted. Schedule changes for students will be done on August 12th. Students, please come in to finalize your class schedule. 10 – 12 graders can come in anytime from 9:00 – 12:00 and 7 – 9 graders can come in anytime from 1:00 – 4:00....
Lincoln School's POUNCE Program, which for ten years has offered after school programs throughout the school year and educational, cultural and recreational opportunities every summer for Lincoln kids, learned last week it wouldn't receive funding for next year. The program has been funded through a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant, but wasn't among the schools selected to receive funding this year. With funding set to expire June 30, Lincoln Schools POUNCE...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received 25 Calls for Service in the Lincoln area during the week of May 26 through June 1. Eight of those Calls for Service were traffic stops performed in and around the Lincoln area by deputies. Deputies opened four new investigations this week: Monday, May 27, in the area of Dalton Mountain Road and Herrin Lake Road, a Deputy responded to a possible trespassing complaint. The complainant stated an individual drove through private land and...
