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Articles from the May 6, 2021 edition


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  • NorthWestern Energy asks public to report osprey building nests on power lines

    News Release|Updated May 5, 2021

    Butte - Osprey nests can cause power outages and even fires, and their proximity to energized equipment puts the birds at risk of electrocution. NorthWestern Energy has installed hundreds of platforms to maintain service reliability and to provide a safe place for ospreys to raise their offspring. This is the time of year when osprey begin to build nests and NorthWestern Energy asks member of the public who observe nest building on power poles to report their observations by...

  • Photo: All wound up

    Updated May 5, 2021

    The Lincoln Little League teams have 61 kids playing ball, ranging from the four- and five-year-olds playing T-ball to older kids on 9U (Bent Nail Construction) and 11U (Hi Country) teams. Although the teams haven't seen much success yet in their inaugural year, parent Wendi Dietz reports they are having fun and improving with every game. Upcoming home games are slated for Thursday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m., when Bent Nail takes on Great West Engineering, and Friday, May7, when Hi...

  • Upper Blackfoot Chronicles: A tale of two photographs

    Updated May 5, 2021

    These two photographs bookend a journey. The first has been seen by possibly millions of Junior High and High School students over the years. An image from the National Archive, it has became an iconic image of post-civil war westward expansion and has appeared in several U.S. history textbooks. The second image is probably known only to the readers of Gold Pans and Singletrees. Together, they show both ends of the Tuck family's journey from Litchfield, Neb. to Lincoln, Mont....

  • Lincoln BPA students do well at State Conference

    Kate Radford, BVD Contributor|Updated May 5, 2021

    Lincoln's Business Professionals of America students participated in the virtual State Leadership Conference in March with more than 1700 students from across Montana. Two of Lincoln's three high school teams placed in the top 20, and two students from the inaugural middle school chapter qualified to attend the National Conference. "Makena Copenhaver and Delia Tolan placed to go to Nationals in Human Resource Exploration, which was a pilot program for middle school," said BPA...

  • Montana regains second Congressional seat

    News Release, Montana Dept. of Commerce|Updated May 5, 2021

    HELENA, Mont. – Montana will regain its second congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the 2020 Census state population count released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The count reveals that Montana's population grew from 989,415 people in 2010 to 1,085,407 people in 2020 – an increase of 95,992 residents over 2010, or nearly 10 percent. "Thanks to the efforts of Montanans across the state, the 2020 Census shows what we've known to be true – M...

  • Comments on congress: Summing Up Democracy

    Lee Hamilton, Indiana University Center on Representative Government|Updated May 5, 2021

    It's so easy, in the course of our day-to-day lives, to get caught up in the political preoccupations of the moment. What's the Senate going to do about the filibuster? How should infrastructure money be spent? Is the country going to come out of this year as badly divided as it started? These and many other questions matter a lot-but sometimes, it's helpful to step back and take stock of what we've learned over the course of our history. I've been thinking about this because...

  • It's None of Your Business

    Tammy Jordan|Updated May 5, 2021

    There are several things in life that are personal in nature. Some remain private forever, while others are private things you talk over with close friends and family. Politics, religion, health issues and the like are some of those things I see as personal and often private. So why in the world does everyone think it’s their business whether any of us choose to get, or not to get, a vaccine for COVID? In the last two weeks alone I have been asked more than a dozen times wheth...

  • In Session: Legislators complete work

    Becky Beard - R, Montana House District 80|Updated May 5, 2021

    Montana’s legislators completed work for the 67th Session on Thursday, April 29 (ten days ahead of schedule). Our primary Constitutional duty is to pass a balanced budget, which we did conservatively with the mandate of you, our voters. We passed legislation to promote the Governor’s Montana Comeback Plan, reforming taxes to promote job growth and wages. With this approach, income, property and business taxes are set to be simplified and reduced. More of our hard-earned dol...

  • Mont. Legislature adjourns; marijuana plans, $12.5 billion budget, federal relief, more go to Gov's desk

    Austin Amestoy, UM Legislative News Service UM School of Journalism|Updated May 5, 2021

    5 Montana Legislature Adjourns after Near-Marijuana Meltdown and Bill-Resurrecting Blitz The 67th Montana Legislature adjourned on Thursday, April 29, following a week filled with policies brought back from the dead and capped by a failed high-stakes gamble by conservative Republicans to rewrite a major portion of the recreational marijuana plan passed just days earlier. Both chambers adjourned "sine die" -- a Latin phrase meaning "without assigning another day to meet" --...

  • Lincoln High students make plans to help community

    Kate Radford, BVD Contributor|Updated May 5, 2021

    Lincoln's freshmen class plans to host a donation-based car and dog wash at the school June 4 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The event is a social entrepreneurship project that will raise funds for the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department. Each year Lincoln's freshman class plans a project to benefit the community. "They were incredibly responsible in their decision process," said business teacher Laura Allen-Bullis. "They had several class discussions about different organizations in town...

  • Unknown to many, Lincoln Valley Community Foundation Endowment has provided funds for Lincoln since '96

    Kate Radford, BVD Contributor|Updated May 5, 2021

    The Lincoln Valley Community Foundation endowment was established in 1996 and provides grants to local nonprofits. Money for the fund was originally provided as gifts from the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Phelps Dodge Seven Up Pete Joint Venture Mine, according to Jessica Stewart-Kuntz. Stewart-Kuntz is the Vice President of the Montana Community Foundation, which oversees the fund. The bulk of the money came from the LVCC, which had been raising money to build...