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Last month, Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild took advantage of a new way to raise funds by working with AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile, or smile.amazon.com, is a shopping website run by Amazon that allows shoppers to designate a nonprofit charitable organization to receive .5 percent of the purchase price of the items they buy. “It is Amazon, but with tying in with the greater community who order off them, Amazon has decided to contribute to charities,” said Sculpture in the Wild Artistic Director Kevin O’Dwyer. “They...
A male bluebird defends a nesting boss by diving at a marauding swallow that got to close. Swallows have a knack for taking over bluebird boxes for their own nests. (Roger Dey Photo)...
SEATTLE - "I had never, at any point in my medical training, sat in a room where at the same time you tell a patient they have a diagnosis, you also tell them they will definitively die from that diagnosis." This was Dr. Nicholas Vitanza's memory of meeting his first patient with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an inoperable brain tumor found in children. As a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Seattle's Children's Hospital, he has since delivered the same message to many... Full story
Between phone calls to the Blackfoot Angler asking if Browns Lake is open yet (it's not, except where someone dropped the front end of their truck through the ice), Kathy Shoendoerfer spoke with a lingering trace of disbelief in her voice about Ovando's recognition as Montana Tourism's 2018 Community of the Year. "We really, really, really wanted it, but I don't think we understood we really had a chance," Schoendoerfer, owner of the Blackfoot Angler and Ovando's self-describe...
Spring seems to finally be here, but last week's snow storm made it look like winter hadn't given up on Lincoln....
A presentation on the life of one of Lincoln's most colorful characters visited the Community Hall last week. Sponsored by the Montana Historical Society and the Lewis and Clark Library the presentation "On Her Own Terms: The Outfitting Adventures of Mary Faith Hoeffner" highlighted varied aspects of Mary Faith's long and eventful life, retelling the history to those who knew her best, including several of her family members, friends and former employees. Originally part of...
Snow creates a frozen wave on the edge of a drift that formed on a sidehill along Stemple Pass Road during last week's snowstorm....
This year when winter ends, and yes someday it will, talk will turn from snowfall and ice depth to snowmelt, runoff and flooding. Old timers will recall the great flood years from the 1960s and 1970s. More recently came high water in 1993 and 2011. Those were tough years for many of us. We may not like floods, but they serve a purpose in nature. Whether birds, amphibians or fish, many prairie wildlife species profit from excess water. Which brings us to the basic question:...
Kids had an extra challenge finding the eggs at this years Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department Easter Egg Hunt. When it became clear there was still going to be too much snow at Hooper Park, Assistant Fire Chief Aaron Birkholz contacted Lincoln School Superintendent Carla Anderson about using the school grounds, since it was one of the only places in town that had either been plowed or where things had been packed down enough that kids wouldn't have to wade through the snow....
It's rare to find something that four out of five folks agree upon these days. But that is how many Montanans - 81 percent of us - recreate outside, whether we're hunting, snowmobiling, fishing or picnicking. When we're out in the woods, how often do we think of the trails we're using? Do we consider the hardworking crews that hike hundreds of miles each summer lugging saws and pulaskis into the backcountry to maintain our expansive trail system? Those men and women work...
