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Irvin Dunlap passed away peacefully at his home in Helena with family at his side. He now joins his loving wife Lorraine in heaven whom he gives credit for instilling his faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Irvin would have reached 90 years of age Oct.19. He lived a long and fulfilling life and was an inspiration to his family as well as others. He was born in Helena to Irvin "Ted" Dunlap and Annie Sloan Dunlap on Oct. 19, 1928. Irv had one sister, Annabelle M. Glenn....
Lewis and Clark County Commissioners took the advice of county staff at their meeting in Helena Aug. 16, and voted unanimously to deny the request to create a rural improvement district for the 4x4 Road east of Lincoln. The RID would have covered the cost of applying soil stabilization or dust abatement to the main 4x4 Road, at an annual cost of $72.21 per benefitted property The discovery that one such property in the proposed district is a parcel of School Trust Land,...
Lewis and Clark County Public Works is making plans to repair the large washout on North Lincoln Gulch Road, without the assistance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Public Works Director Eric Griffin said last month the project was a priority for this year and expected to work with FEMA on the repair, but concerns about the federal agency's level involvement prompted his department take a new approach. "We don't quite know if FEMAs gonna come in or not come in or...
Visitors to Lincoln's Heritage Day could step back in time last Saturday with horse drawn wagon rides and chances to try their hand at butter making, leather stamping, candle making, flower pressing, embroidery and wool spinning. There were also displays and demonstrations on making rag rugs, metal and gun engraving, pack trains, Dutch oven cooking and gold panning, as well as household and café items from a bygone era. Last year Sallin and Erin Dey decided it was time to...
The Lincoln Ranger District is working through the planning process for rerouting a one mile stretch of Copper Creek Road, located about a mile and a half north of Snowbank Lake, from it's current location near the waterway onto a bench upslope and away from the creek bottom. The goal of the reroute is to help reduce potential impacts to important bull trout habitat in the area. Bull trout are listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Forest Service...
The Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society and Time Traveler's Closet are scheduled to host Lincoln's second annual Heritage Day Fashion Show at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Community Hall. The vintage fashion show first made its appearance at the 2017 Heritage Day event, one of several displays and activities chosen to showcase our rich American history. After a positive response from participants and spectators alike, organizers decided to make the show an annual even...
Despite temperatures in the 90's and a brief rainstorm on Saturday, Lincoln's second annual Arts Festival seemed to go off without a hitch last weekend. The Arts Festival was born last year when Lincoln's Council for the Arts voted to re-energize the annual Art in the Park by updating the traditional summer art show to a festival atmosphere. In the hands of organizers Sue Tynes and Karyn Good, and with the collaboration of several local organizations and sponsors, the 2017...
The new branch manager and loan officer at Lincoln’s Citizens Alliance Bank spent part of his Sunday morning with his wife flipping pancakes and cooking sausage and eggs for the Lincoln Heritage Alliance/Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society pancake breakfast at the Lincoln Arts Festival last weekend. Shayne Lindsay and his wife Jan have only been in Lincoln for about a month, but showed up to help with the fundraiser as a way to get involved in the community. “The longer I’ve been in my career and the older I’ve gotten,...
The Lincoln Community Hall turned 100 years old this year, and it is one of the last log public buildings of its size in Montana. The unique octagonal structure, first dedicated in February 1918, was built by the citizens of Lincoln to provide a centralized home for the social and spiritual well-being to a remote mountain community. That vision has continued today. The list of directors and caretakers over the years include a Who's Who of Lincoln history. They selflessly...
The Blackfoot Valley Dispatch scored six awards in this year's annual Montana Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest. The BVD, a Division 1 publication with a circulation of less than 1250, picked up awards for news coverage, writing, page design and photography. Hope Quay earned the top honor for the paper with the papers only first place award. Her piece, "Swan Renaissance," detailing last year's return of a nesting pair of trumpeter swans to Smith Lake and their suc...
Fourth of July week signified three things this year: Our Nation's birthday, the official Montana start of summer and, this year especially, the official start of the fishing season for the Blackfoot Valley. With waters high and in flood stage an entire three months, they finally receded and cleared up enough by the first week of July to bring out the largest hatch of them all: the fishermen. The rivers have gone from barely a soul on them to, as reported to us just...
The Lincoln Community Hall celebrated the historic building's hundredth year as the heart of Lincoln last weekend with entertainment, exhibits and activities that spanned two days and stretched from the Hall to Sculpture in the Wild. The celebration featured an eclectic series of events and activities spread throughout several locations. Classic cars, family friendly and educational booths, exhibits of historic and civic significance, a collection of oral histories from...
The Lincoln Community Hall stands as the oldest building on Lincoln's Main Street, the sole survivor of the era when the area's original miners were the "old timers," ranching held sway over the community's economy, and summer homes and tourists were the exception rather than the rule At that time, Carter V. Rubottom and his wife Nora ran a cattle ranch about two miles west of Lincoln. Several decades later, Rubottom recorded his recollections of the era in an unpublished...
During last summer's fire season, flames from the Alice Creek fire swept across Lewis and Clark Pass, scorching the area's whitebark pine, damaging the trails in the area and destroying a Forest Service sign marking Meriwether Lewis' passage across the divide on July 7, 1806. Last week, a small group of volunteers recruited by the Montana Wilderness Association and the Continental Divide Trail Coalition replaced that sign and spent five days rehabilitating and re-blazing a...
This year business and organizations heeded the call for additional floats for the parade after a period of years when they were few and far between and people were beginning to notice...
Personnel from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Montana Natural Resource Damage Program and U.S. Forest Service provided an update on the status of the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex mine waste cleanup operation during the June 19 meeting of the Upper Blackfoot Valley Community Council in Lincoln. Work to clean up mine waste at the UBMC is expected to resume in July, after a nearly year-long delay that stemmed from a "disconnect" among state and federal...
Come help us celebrate Lincoln Community Hall's 100th Anniversary on July 7th and 8th. Way back in 1918 when the Hall was constructed, having a place to come together and kick up their heels was a top priority – especially in those long, cold winters. Lincoln's beloved Hall was built with lots of volunteers, donated land, trees cut from surrounding forests then pulled out by horses in waist high snow and dances held as fund raisers. People pulling together when there is a n...
Life is returning to the upper Beartrap and the Mike Horse. At a glance, the two narrow valleys that were once home to most of the mine waste in the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex still seem like a barren moonscape of gray dirt, littered with downed trees and woody debris. A closer look reveals that four years of remediation, restoration and ongoing re-vegetation is paying off as native plants take hold along the reconstructed creeks and on the hillsides. Work to continue the...
The end of this year's flooding may not be here just yet, but with it in sight, the question arose at the June 1 Government Day meeting about what residents should do with the sandbags they used to protect their property. Upper Blackfoot Valley Community Council Chairman Bill Frisbee said volunteers in Lincoln filled close to 15,000 sandbags, which went out to the community here. Earlier in the meeting, the topic of sandbags came up when Lincoln Fire Chief Zach Muse expressed...
Work on the Lincoln Ranger District's first dedicated mountain bike trails and on a series of off-highway vehicles connector trails should get underway late this summer thanks to a $82,393 grant awarded to the district this month under the Recreational Trails Program administered by the Montana State Parks. The Beaver Creek Trails Project includes development of seven to eight miles of mountain bike trails, as well as a series of connector trails that will create looped...
With floodwaters still on the rise in the Upper Blackfoot Valley and a the likelihood of addital flooding in the coming weeks, Lincoln Fire Chief Zach Muse says it’s time for people to put past differences aside and help their neighbors out. “At this point we’ve got so many problems with the flooding; what is going on your property could be affecting the people below you or above you,” he said. “At this point we’re all in it together and we need to really work together to...
A local weed group developed in Lincoln in 2015 secured a $19,400 grant from the Noxious Weed Trust Fund grant program last month to help them implement the first phase of a project to help area landowners pay for weed treatments. The Lincoln Vegetation Management Group originally applied for a grant of nearly $50,000, to help cover weed treatment costs throughout the entire Upper Blackfoot Valley. Karyn Good, who helped develop the group while working as a community coordinator for the Wilderness Society, said she wasn’t sur...
Back in 2012, the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch launched the newspapers first website. At the time, blackfootvalleydispatch.com was meant to be a first step in bringing news of the Upper Blackfoot Valley into the digital realm, so we kept it basic. Too Basic. Unfortunately, it lacked much of what readers were looking for. Little did we suspect it would be six years before we'd take the next step. But on April 4, we debuted an improved, full-featured blackfootvalleydispatch.com....
