The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
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The early snowfall that hit the area last September may have dampened the wildfires burning in the area, but also put a damper on the pair of annual car shows hosted in Lincoln by forcing the cancellation of Lambkin's annual Lincoln Rod Run and prompting only 16 cars to come to town for the annual Wilderness Car Show. This year probably made up for last however, with more than 200 cars in town for both shows, including a few drivers who came up just to show off their classic...
Two hundred motorcycles rolled into Lincoln Friday, Sept. 7, as the annual Bikers Against Bullies ride stopped in town for lunch at Bushwackers. The ride, said to be the largest in the state, raises awareness about bullying and raises funds for a variety of organizations that help kids, including Boys and Girls clubs, Big Brothers, Big Sisters and Special Olympics. Steve and Leona Cannon, the new owners of Bushwackers, shut down for most of the day Friday to handle the...
A Saturday at the biggest little Rodeo in Montana. Check out more Helmville Rodeo photos. Click on 'Photos' at the top of the page....
LINCOLN - The fifth anniversary of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this September promises to elevate further the surprising art park in this small mountain community. In addition to playing host to renowned sculptors Cornelia Konrads and Kate Hunt who will be working on new installations in the 26-acre sculpture park on the eastern edge of town, visitors and residents will be treated to an eclectic range of musical concerts curated by Composer-in-Residence Adele...
As I scrambled to organize and finalize the details on 70 outfits the night before the second annual Heritage Day Vintage Fashion Show, I couldn't help but wonder why I would ever agree to spearhead such an event. Finding volunteers and working around their schedules for fittings, planning outfits, organizing timing and semantics, obtaining, dating, cleaning and repairing the clothes– nearly none of these tasks can be delegated. As a result, no matter how I try to prepare, i...
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...
LINCOLN - Five years ago some 60 Lincoln-area residents got together in the school gym to hear of a new vision for this small mountain community. Logging and mining were continuing to fade as foundational components of the area's economy - not gone nor forgotten, but surely diminished. The speaker that evening was Irish sculptor Kevin O'Dwyer, who arrived in Lincoln as the guest of renowned Damascus steel knife maker Rick Dunkerley, whom he met at Pratt Fine Arts in Seattle,...
Although Ted Kaczynski's cabin has looms large in the narrative of his story over the past 20 years, the full-scale reproduction of it, sitting in the original location with its door facing away from anything resembling civilization, highlights how almost shockingly small and nondescript it was. Stepping into the 10 foot by 12-foot building, with it's low ceiling and an interior packed with items that replicate what the FBI discovered after Kaczynski's arrest in 1996, the...
After 35 years, the annual Bob Purdy Memorial Softball Tournament is still growing strong. The tournament got its start in 1983, shortly after Bob Purdy, a strong advocate of sports, died in a logging accident. Sponsored by the Wheel Inn, this year's tournament saw the maximum number of teams -15 – sign up, but only 14 participated. The Wheel's Laurie Richards said they had several teams on standby, but the team that pulled out did so at the last minute due to too few p...
Downtown Ovando came alive last week as the Blackfoot Challenge hosted a Summer Party in the town square to celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary. The celebration kept things small and local, reflecting a renewed effort by the Blackfoot Challenge to reconnect more directly with the communities in the valley. "It became apparent in 1993 that we'd sort of forgotten a lot of stuff. We forgot about this, about bringing communities together," Blackfoot Challenge Chairman...
Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs provided more than two hours of live and energetic bluegrass to round the day during the Lincoln Arts Festival Saturday....
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...
This years fun run, with 160 hands and 50 riders, was the largest since the inaugural run in 2014. Last year, the Park and Arrastra Creek Fires limited the size of the fun run, but this year they were able to run the entire route of about 50 miles. Since Terman was dedicated to helping kids, the proceeds of the fun runs always go to benefit causes for kids that people don't always donate to. This year, the money will go to help the Junior High Track program and the cost of a...
In 1942 Steve Stocks joined the Coast Guard at 17 years old. Four months later he was on a brand new fast transport headed to a base of operations on an island on the south end of New Guinea that had only recently been liberated. "I went to an Island called Good Enough Island on the southern end of New Guinea," Stocks said. "The Japanese had just been chased out of there by the Australians." The trip took 19 days. Over the course of the war, Stocks made similar trips a dozen...
In a press release late Monday afternoon, Sen. Steve Daines announced more than $20 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for improvements to airports throughout the state. The announcement included a $95,400 grant for construction of a taxiway at the Lincoln Airport. "This funding will help bring our state's infrastructure to the 21st century, and as a result will boost tourism, create jobs, and encourage visitors from around the nation to come...
This story is part of The Montana Gap project, produced in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. The winds of Montana's Rocky Mountain Front buffet the empty Dupuyer Elementary School. At one time the grasslands around it teemed with family-run ranches and Dupuyer, Montana, was the heart of its region. In 1966 there were 63 students. In 2015, only one remained, with a lone teacher to instruct him. It shocked no one when the school shuttered last year. Welcome to... 
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Fishing is going CRAZY currently. The flow is still above normal. The temperature is still cool [thank you mother nature for making this July cooler than the last several years. Feel free to continue this trend]. Salmonflies were still flying around in the evening as of last week. What????? So guides were still using big ole Chernobyls, and fuzzy leggy ugly things. However we believe a change is in the air. Literally, with smaller flying caddis and size 10 or 12 spruce moths...
I moved here in 1982, and wanting to be a stay at home mom, I provided daycare in my parents' house until 1983, when I moved in with a friend and continued to provide daycare. I later moved in with Dan Rundell, and continued with the daycare. In January of 1985, I read in the BVD that Lincoln Ambulance was going to be teaching an Advanced First Aid course with CPR Training, and that the training was thru The American Red Cross. Since I was doing daycare, it would be good to ta...
The Lincoln Rodeo Grounds once again played host to the Treasure State Cowboy Mounted Shooters Association as they brought the Northern Mountain Region Finals to town last weekend. Michael Emch, the president of the Treasure State CMSA, said the finals are the biggest competition of the year for them. It brought in riders from Washington, Idaho and Montana as well as Utah, Texas and even one or two from Canada. He said this is the first year they've brought the finals to...
Occupying their usual spot, just off the main loop in Hooper Park in a campsite among the trees, Leroy and Jean Cyrs' set up, with glittering Rada knives, jams, suspenders and sundry collectibles, is a familiar sight at the Lincoln Flea Market every year. Over the years, the Cyrs have seen trends change and flea markets come and go around the country, but in Lincoln they played a key role in bringing one back to life. Jesse Sallin and Pat Habets started the original Rummage an...
Flooding has caused severe damage in Lewis & Clark County recently. Farms and ranches suffering severe damage may be eligible for assistance under the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) administered by the Lewis & Clark County Farm Service Agency (FSA) Office if the damage: will be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be needed to return the land to productive agricultural use (and generally $1,000 or more) is unusual and is not the type that would...
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...
Just a few months ago, work on Rick Freeland's dream of a non-profit fitness and recreation center for Lincoln had just begun. Now, Freeland and his wife Patti have converted the dated mid-century building that once housed the First Bank of Lincoln into a sleek and modern gym facility. "I think we started work on March 10th," said Freeland, who opened the doors to the Power House in early June. It's a project he's been dreaming about for 20 years. Assisted by Patti, their...
Tales of two fiddles The Irish proverb "The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune" may not always be used to refer to the musical instrument, but Barb Pearson's pair of antique violins prove it to be true. Pearson's primary fiddle was built at a factory in Dresden, Germany in 1906. It belonged to her grandfather Archie Frame of Big Sandy. Pearson said her grandfather traded eggs to a neighboring rancher for the violin, and that it had probably been originally ordered from...
