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Skateboarders from Helena, Lewistown and Stevensville joined Lincoln skaters Saturday July 11, to celebrate the formal grand opening of the new Lincoln Skatepark. "It's been a long process, but as you can see it was well worth it, so thank you everybody," Jeff Ament said after cutting the ribbon to officially open the Lincoln Skatepark Saturday afternoon. "Thanks for giving us a reason to come back to Lincoln." Behind him, local kids and members of the Lincoln Skatepark...
Amid a sea of lupine, a patch of Indian Paintbrush burns a bright red. Lupine has been exploding into bloom across the forests in recent weeks....
Red Mountain Yoga, owned and operated by Sue Lattin, has been open since 2014 and offers yoga classes , as well as a variety of massages. One of the massage techniques available is called Thai Massage, sometimes referred to as Traditional Thai Massage, Thai Yoga Massage, or Lazy Man’s Yoga. Whatever you decide to call it, Thai Massage is less known than regular table massages here in the United States, but can offer very beneficial results. “Thai massage is good for everyone a...
1 Best Business – Garland Girls 2 Best Club/Org – the 1920's Moonshiners 3 Best Equestrian – K Lazy 3 4 Best Athletic Group – Sparkettes of Great Falls 5 Best Auto – Linda Daugherty, 1966 Mustang 6 Best Antique Machinery – Old Fire Truck Todd Grady, Shawn Warren, Helena...
The annual Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce fireworks show, augmented by the private fireworks set off in Hooper Park's ball fields, lights up the night over Lincoln Saturday, July 4. https://www.blackfootvalleydispatch.com/photos...
Lincoln Rodeo Results Bareback 1st -Tie Will Nordstrom 67 Dustin Morgeaus 67 2nd Dalton May 62 Saddle Bronc 1st Bailey Bench 65 2nd Charlie Lytle 64 3rd Kolby Kittson 63 4th Jason Colelough 53 Bull Riding 1st Wynn Wells 77 2nd Colt Yeager 75 Steer Wrestling 1st Austin Anderson 4.92 2nd Logan Deatte 15.56 Calf Roping 1st SAm Levine 10.05 2nd Chad Johnson 11.76 3rd Will Powell 14.3 4th Dillon HahnKamp 17.69 Team Roping 1st Nolan Conway/Shawn Bird 4.8 2nd Sid Sporer /Dustin Bird...
Lincoln hosts their annual Independence Day parade. https://www.blackfootvalleydispatch.com/photos...
Capt. Meriwether Lewis made the first written record of the Blackfoot River valley in July 1806 .On July 6 he and his half of the Corps of Discovery passed through the area that is now home to the towns of Ovando and Lincoln. July 6, 1806 Set out a little after sunrise passed the creek a little above our encampment. [probably Monture Creek] East 14 M. to the point at which the river leaves the extensive plains and enters the mountains these plains I called (the knob plains)...
Arts Council President Lee York, with consensus from the organization's officers, decided to postpone regular meetings for the Lincoln Council for the Arts until October. "We decided to take the summer to give members a break, recharge, and get organized for the coming year," said York. During the break, officers still plan to meet and will hold special board meetings throughout the summer to review and revise the organization's by-laws, discuss their upcoming membership...
Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils and sufferings and blood of their ancestors, and capable, if wisely improved and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to the latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid, its compartments are...
C. V. Rubottom, one of the builders of the Lincoln community Hall, included a short look at Lincoln's Independence Day celebrations during the years right around 1920 in "The Bright Side of Ranch Life," a chapter of his unpublished Montana Memories.. The following appeared in the UBVHS Gold Pans and Singl trees as part of his description of building of the Hall in 1918. The Fourth of July was always an important holiday in our valley. The women folks usually planned on new...
Lincoln firefighters and volunteers spent most of the day Saturday cleaning out the Lincoln Rural Fire District's new Station 4, just north of the main fire station on Stemple Pass Road, The LRFD purchased the building and the adjacent property between the two buildings in 2019. The building, which was formerly home to Chris Waits' Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts', and before that Chris' Repair & Tune Up, will serve to house some of the Fire Department equipment current...
A northern pygmy owl appears to wink at the camera while sitting on a fence post along Dalton Mountain Road, near Sherlock Lane Saturday afternoon, June 20....
Lincoln was the first pit stop for the vintage automobiles, which left from Helena at about 8 a.m. Monday and reached Lincoln at about 11 a.m. From here they headed out for Fairfield for a lunch stop. The cars cover about 200 miles on the first day of the event, 200 miles on the second day and 100 miles on the third. This year marks the 60th running of The Montana 500, which began in 1961 with a run along highway 200 (then Highway 20) from Missoula to Fairview near the North...
Dozens came to a party for Rhonda McClure last Wednesday to wish her well on her move back to Wisconsin after 40 years in Montana, most of those spent here in Lincoln with her husband Bob. Rhonda first came to Montana in 1980, when she was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls. Although she'd won a four-year scholarship to college in Wisconsin, Rhonda chose instead to enlist. Her parents wouldn't sign for her, so she waited until she turned 18 the summer after...
"It's a wind game," said Rich Debick as he described the key component of competitive shooting Saturday afternoon, June 13.* Gusty cross winds gave members of the Lincoln Sportsman Club a chance to tackle that game during a demonstration of proper bench rest shooting and flag reading at the clubs new range on Wendell Weavers property, off Cooper's Lake Road east of Ovando. Debick, who shoots competitively, brought three of his rifles along to give club members the chance to...
With progress being made toward reconstruction of the historic Matt King House, it seemed like a good time to take a look at what 'Goldpans and Singletrees," the history of the Lincoln area published by The Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society in 1994, has to say about the man . On the edge of some tall pines, one-half mile north of Highway 200 lies some of the richest farm land in the Lincoln valley, its fields irrigated by Spring, Keep Cool, Sucker, and Liverpool...
People were invited to bring chairs and enjoy the movie from the Lincoln School football field, or to watch it from their cars, with audio provided via FM radio. For more on how the showing came about see our Lincolnstock story....
More than 20 volunteers turned out to help with the annual Lambkin Park cleanup June 6. "This is probably the most I've ever seen," said new Ponderosa Snow Warriors President Ron Zarr. Past President Steve Tjaden, who has been a fixture at pastclean ups, made the same observation. PSW treasurer Bonnie Christian said they usually see only a handful of helpers. Zarr credited an effort to get the word out, both in person and o...
After a long year of waiting, On the Rocks Liquor Store has new owners and a new location. Chad and Olivia Dietz became the official owners of the establishment earlier this year. The process began approximately a year ago and came to fruition with the grand re-opening of the store at their new location in late May. The Dietz's purchased the building at 224 Main Street, across from the post office, and began renovating it themselves in March. In addition to the liquor store, t...
During the late summer of 1959 a peculiarly-shaped building rose on the east end of Lincoln's main street. Sporting a design that looked like a square sheet pinned down on opposing corners, yet ready to take flight, Lincoln's Community Methodist Church soon became a landmark for travelers between Missoula and Great Falls. Technically called a hyperbolic paraboloid , the uniquely mid-20th century building soon became affectionately known as the Flying Diaper. This week marks...
Lanna Zobel is the Family Nurse Practitioner currently heading up the medical team at Parker Medical Center here in Lincoln. Zobel hails from Milwaukee, Wis. She and her husband of seven years, Derek, relocated to Lincoln to be closer to family and for their love of Montana. "We have family in Elliston and have been coming out to Montana more and more, over the years. The saying live where you want to vacation stuck with us. Lincoln has everything we love and more. A small...
Lincoln resident Luke Shimer won the Backcountry Hunter's and Angler's national 2020 turkey calling competition, the Struttin' and Cluckin' Calling Classic. Beginning in mid-April, Shimer recorded a series of turkey calls for the digital competition which took place on Instagram. Up to eight callers participated in each state competition. There were more than 250 competitors overall. Shimer advanced through each of the rounds to take first through a combination of judging and...
A bald eagle launches out of the top of a cottonwood near the Lincoln River Park, just south of town Monday morning, May 1....
As part of a larger effort to revitalize the look and feel of Blackfoot Challenge materials, we are excited to unveil our new logo. Early in 2019, the Blackfoot Challenge's Outreach Committee began the process of updating our iconic logo. As the primary symbol of our identity, we felt our logo was due for a refresh – a new look that brought us into the current era while still maintaining a connection to the past. After more than 40 different styles and nine rounds of edits, w...
