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Billings-based band Arterial Drive performed a free concert at Hooper Park, July 6. Band frontman Drew McDowell, had a family reunion in Lincoln and took the opportunity to entertain the community The band which includes violinist Meg Gildehaus, bassist Juliano Chavis , drummer Josh Reedy and keyboard player Ryan Suppola, who's also adept on the trumpet, developed out of an earlier incarnation called DDX, an "alternative funk-pop band" that included McDowell, Cahvis and Gildeh...
Twenty students, some adults and a few toddlers joined in the fun events around Lincoln on Saturday, July 7 to celebrate the 100th birthday of our unique Community Hall by entering the Chalk Art Contest. Tiana Valler organized the contest held on the cement parking pads at the Lincoln School. Professional artist Lisa Gibson of Lincoln judged the artistic creations. Millie Walter from Helena, who was in Lincoln with her family at their summer cabin won in the 5-9 age category;...
Annie Allen has spent the past couple years developing the property around her home on Blackfoot River Ranch Road into an art exploration site, hosting classes and get together for artists, students and kids at her studio there. Last weekend, Allen's goal of making the site a spot to reflect and relax among art and nature took another step forward with the help of Jennifer Thompson, an artist, teacher and art therapist from Helena. With the help of Allen and several other...
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 Several decades later, Rubottom recorded his recollections of the era in an unpublished...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...
Rodeo Results Bareback 1st J2 Bridges 80 2nd Dalton May 75 3rd Dustin Morigeau 64 Saddle Bronc 1st Kolby Kitson 61 2nd Brett Door 54 Bull Riding 1st Jade Murphy 73 2nd Tanner Therialt 69 Steer Wrestling 1st Ben Ayre 7.99 2nd Garett Yeager 9.33 3rd Tuck Johnson 11.41 4th Caden Camp 15.25 Calf Roping 1st Colt Stonehocker 3.61 2nd Caden Camp 14.83 3rd Ben Ayre 16.05 4th Ty Hedrick 16.54 Team Roping 1st 5.28 Alonzo Skunkcao & Jake Cerni 2nd 5.69 Alonzo Skunkcao & Manny Boggs 3rd...
Kids taking part in this year's Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Summer Education Program had the chance to get "Wild About Art" with artists John and Souheir Rawlings last week. Every year, Sculpture in the Wild partners with Lincoln School's POUNCE after school program to host the four-day program that in one way or another looks to history and the natural world as sources of inspiration for artwork designed by the kids who take part. "This was all based on nature...
The morning sun creates a golden glow in a fog bank that formed over the Lincoln Valley early in the morning of June 21.... Full story
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...
Lincoln's Erin Dey is nearly hidden by a giant puffball mushroom she found on private land south of Lincoln. The mushroom, which measured 25 and a half inches across and more than six feet around, weighed in at 51 pounds. Dey said when she first spotted the mushroom from a distance its sheer size made her think it was a goat lying in the grass. Giant Puffballs (Calvatia gigantea) typically grow to be from 4 to 20 inches in diameter and while it's certainly huge, it may not be... Full story
A drenched Ben Weaver and Keenan Deplanks made their way down Beaver Creek Road during Saturday afternoon's downpour as they continue toward Helena on the Tour Divide. Weaver and Deplanks made the trip over Huckleberry Pass Saturday after Weaver performed a live concert in Ovando Friday night as part of his "Music for Free" project in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Trail. Unlike the ride into Lincoln, the concert caught a break in the...
A group of local quilters are creating bed coverings for a project near Superior that's designed to give service members returning from deployments a place to rest and heal. Tom and Debi Logan are creating the Red Lions Project on 164 acres surrounded by the Lolo National Forest in honor of their son, Marine Cpl. Joseph Logan. Joey Logan served in Afghanistan with HMH 363, the Red Lions, as a crewmember on Irontail 06, a Marine CH-53D Sea Stallion heavy-lift helicopter. He...
The Lattin family takes advantage of the nice weather to paddle around on the clear blue green waters of Reservoir Lake near Beaver Creek Road Friday, June 8. Getting out into the lake also provided some respite from the mosquitoes, which have proliferated in the forest in the wake the fires and flooding...
For most Lincoln residents, the United States Forest Service Trail Crew- a work force responsible for keeping trails clear and usable - has been a fixture in and around the nearby back country for as long as they can remember. This year, thanks in part to Federal disaster relief funds, the Trail Crew has expanded to include more laborers than any year in recent memory. Although the Forest Service has had a presence in Lincoln since the 1920's, the Trail Crew as an entity did n...
Historically, Lincoln hasn't had a great reputation among bicyclists. In a 2013 University of Montana analysis of bicycle tourism in Montana, Lincoln was one of just a few towns in the state singled out for its unwelcoming attitude. One cyclist interviewed for the study said, "It is my opinion that the cowboys in that area would shoot us as look at us." As a community that sits at the crossroads of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route and the major east-west route for touring...
Picking his way across burned patches of hillside above Sucker Creek Road, Joe Lafountaine kept an eye out for the small gnarled mushroom that proliferate in recently burned areas. He was having a good day. "Oh, yeah, really good picking," he said. "Plenty to keep the family in mushrooms over the winter." Lafountaine, of East Helena, makes the trip up to Lincoln every year and said he spends quite a bit of time here at a cabin, but his trip last weekend with his sons was aimed...
Crossing the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex over the Memorial Day weekend may seem like a bad idea, but for a small group of ultralight backpackers the challenges it presents is the very reason to go. The Bob Marshall Wilderness Open got its start in 2012 when Dave Chenault, a social worker who evaluates and writes about lightweight backpack equipment. According to his website, Bedrocks and Paradox, Chenault has a history in both wilderness area traverses and ultra-endurance...
The Cyr Family, owners of BC horses and Scapegoat Wilderness outfitters, move their string of horses and mules through town Sunday afternoon, May 20....
Spring returns to the Lincoln Valley and brings with it new growth to areas burned last summer....
It's not every day you hear a catchy tune about the Plague, but the students at Ovando School found one to dance to. Every spring students at Ovando School cap off the year highlighting the topics they've been studying in history during a performance at the school's annual May Day Tea. This year, with their studies spanning from Viking invasions through feudalism and the dark ages and into the Renaissance, supervising teacher Leigh Ann Valiton said the performance was a bit...
(Editor's Note: Readers of the BVD who have followed Dick Geary's exploits in Brazil during the past year may have noticed there hasn't been a column from him in the last month. Although we initially assumed he was having issues with his computer or the internet there, that unfortunately proved not to be the case. Everyone at the BVD is glad to hear Dick's health is improving and we wish him, his family and his friends all the best as they work through these challenging...
Ovando residents turned out last Saturday for the town's annual Clean Up Day aimed a sprucing up the town ahead of the busy summer season. The spring tradition fell by the wayside several years ago following several years of late season snowstorms, but was revived in 2013....
Filming on the movie 'Ted K,' which looks at Ted Kaczynski's time in Lincoln in the years just prior to his arrest has been ongoing around town. Last Wednesday, May 9, film crews set up a scene at D&D Foodtown featuring Kaczynski doing some shopping. Several locals appear in the scene, including Kaczynski's former neighbor Wendy Gehring, who appears in a speaking role as a cashier.... Full story
The earthquakes that have rattled the Lincoln area intermittently since last July may not have caused any major damage or ripped open cracks in the earth, but Mike Stickney, director of the Earthquake Studies Office at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, said it's nevertheless been a "pretty spectacular earthquake sequence." The latest notable tremors from that sequence hit just this week, with a magnitude 3.7 striking the area Monday morning at 5:11 a.m., followed just...
Last Thursday afternoon, a phone booth re-appeared on the corner of Highway 200 and Stemple Pass Road, in the same spot where one once stood for years. Although the booth differed from the original – some recalled it having red accents rather than blue – it served as the setting for a scene in the independent film "Ted K" currently being filmed in and around Lincoln. That evening, as the crew filmed a scene featuring actor Sharlto Copley as Ted Kaczynski, a choreographed dan...
