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Editors Note 2021: This story, looking back 20 years later at the media deluge following Ted Kaczynski's arrest and the aftermath, ran in our April 7, 2016 issue. Included are images from 2018 following the filiming of 'Ted K,' a movie filmed on location that should be released in in late 2021 or early 2022. Editor's note: This is the second of two stories looking at the events surrounding the arrest of Ted Kaczynski. For a couple long weeks in April 1996, Lincoln was the...
Editor's note 2021: The BVD originally published this story, a look back at the arrest of Teoheodore Kaczynski 20 years later, in our March 31, 2016. I've included more recent images from 2018 as an addtioanl Editor's note: I know full well many people would just as soon never hear the name Ted Kaczynski again. While Kaczynski deserves no press, the story of his arrest and it's impact on the community, like it or not, is a fascinating and indelible part of the town's history a...
Lincoln has a new smaller bus to help transport students. It joined the three larger buses last spring as part of the D&L Bus fleet owned by Laurie and Doug Richards, but has only made it on to the road this school year. "We were in the process of buying it before COVID hit. They were having to do some work on it. They got it done a month after we hadn't been in school. I said, we can't buy this bus and have it sitting, but that's exactly what we did. We'd been on the search...
Most years, April 3 passes unnoticed, but it's a significant date in Lincoln's history that brings a renewed interest in the community every five or ten years. This year is no exception. Sunday marks 25 years since the FBI arrested Theodore J. Kaczynski at his cabin south of Lincoln for the Unabomber bombings that killed three people and injured 23 others. Kaczynski had been responsible for a dozen bombings between 1978 and 1987, killing one man in 1985. He went silent for...
The town of Helmville a parade on St. Patricks Day every year. While small, the parade celebrates the significant Irish heritage of the residents of the town and the Nevada Creek valley....
The American Red Cross comes up to Lincoln every eight weeks to host a blood drive. If you've donated at one of these drives in the last two years, you've likely met Sherry Sidell, Sue Anderson and Ellie Schouten, the trio that coordinates Lincoln's blood drives. Sidell had previously worked on blood drives in Seattle more than three decades ago. "This is a little bit different because it's a smaller community, and we didn't have computers back then," Sidell said. She said...
With sunshiny days and warm weather, it's difficult not to start thinking about spring. One of the first harbingers of spring in the Lincoln Valley is the sagebrush buttercup, or Ranunculus glaberrimus. Buttercups are one of the first flowers to bloom in the Rocky Mountain west and the flowers can be found locally by mid-to-late March. They prefer sunny damp slopes and, as the name suggests, are often found in sagebrush and grassland areas, particularly spaces with southern sl...
"Financial planning" is an umbrella term that can be applied to various aspects of money management. Many people associate financial planning with retirement. However, effective financial planning can help people confront today's challenges just as much as it can help them prepare for their golden years. The pandemic that spread across the globe throughout 2020 posed numerous challenges, including a recession sparked by widespread job loss and declines in economic activity. Th...
Seeley Lake – Just after sunrise Saturday, Jan. 9, local wolf trapper Rob Henrekin fired up his snowmobile to check his trapline, something he has done every day since the wolf season opened Dec. 15. While he had seen tracks from a pair of wolves Dec. 24, he had not had a single visit to his 40 plus foothold traps. "It is such a rush everyday, even when I don't catch a wolf," said Henrekin. "If I'm just patient and everything is working, they will be back. Whether I catch t...
When Jen Dailey and her daughter-in-law Becky went in search of a big buck a friend had told them about, they didn't know the buck they found would be a Boone and Crockett Award qualifier. "I've been after a buck of that caliber for years. It was a deal with my dad. I needed to get a bigger buck than him. One of our friends called and said, 'Hey, I think I found Jen a buck,' so Becky and I drove over," Jen Dailey said of the 2019 hunt. Jen and Becky parked on the east side of...
The sights and sounds of vintage snowmobiles around Lincoln Saturday hearkened back to the towns days as one of Montana's earliest snowmobile destinations. For the fourth year, the Bootlegger Inn hosted their Vintage Snowmobile Show and Fun Run, featuring sleds built prior to 1996. Bootlegger owner Allen Brandt said this year brought in the largest group of historic sleds in the event's history, with upwards of 50 vintage snowmobiles taking part in the fun run. The route for...
The new movie "Ted K," directed by Tony Stone, debuted Mar. 1 in Berlin at Berlinale, the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Sharlto Copley as Ted Kaczynski and "portrays him here on the basis of his diary entries and his written pamphlets," according to the Berlinale film description. The description goes on to say music and intense images combine with text fragments to "create a hypnotic composition about violence, isolation, and the nature of the...
A brief but intense snowstorm blew through the Lincoln Valley Saturday afternoon, dropping about a half-inch of new snow across the landscape just a couple hours before the Ponderosa Snow Warriors and the Montana Department of Disabled American Veterans kicked off their joint Moonlight Fun Run Saturday, Feb. 27. Ponderosa Snow Warriors President Forest Mercill said they expected at least 75 people to take part in the ride, which coincided with the full Snow Moon. "We double...
Bill O'Neill graduated from Ronan High School and was drafted into the Army in September of 1953, when he was 18 years old. O'Neill was inducted in Butte and attended basic training in Fort Ord in California. From there, he headed to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for combat engineer training. After training, O'Neill's company was shipped to Korea, where they were attached to the Air Force and served as maintenance and guard to an F-86 Air Force Base. He earned his military...
As the snow piles up and the wind chill goes down, my thoughts turn to gardening. Hi, I'm Jean Pocha and have been learning from our vegetable garden in Helmville for the past 30 years. This time of year I really want some fresh veggies and that spurs me to start planning the garden. With seeds ordered in December, I've got all the "basics". Now I'm getting the calendar out and deciding when I can plant things where, and what that means about when to start some seeds in the...
Nine years ago, doctors diagnosed Caden Shrauger with stage-four neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that developed in his nerve cells and spread throughout his body. At the time, doctors told his family he had a 50 percent chance of survival. Caden underwent numerous rounds of treatment to fight back, and eventually, he won his battle -- but not before the chemotherapy damaged his hearing. Now, the 12-year-old Bozeman boy is on his second pair of hearing aids, which, he told...
Sixty miles east of Missoula on Interstate 90, at milepost 166, a highway marker shows an exit for Gold Creek. In the absence of signs designating this as a significant spot in Montana's chronicles, motorists zip by at 80mph without a thought of stopping. A southerly glance shows the peaceful ranch lands of the Clark Fork River Valley gradually ascending upward toward the Flint Creek Range's peaks. And just a bit east of the road into this small community of about 200 people,...
February 22, 2021 marks the 10th Anniversary of the opening of the new building at Parker Medical Center! The Parker Medical Center was created by and is sustained by the people of Lincoln. The people of Lincoln, Montana have a long history of seeking medical services for the Lincoln area as exhibited by the ad placed in a newspaper that brought Dr. Elmer Smith from New York to Lincoln in 1957. That good doctor served Lincoln for twenty-five years until he retired at the age o...
The Lincoln Loggers Wrestling Club has seen many successes since it started in 2016, placing twice as a team at State Little Guy Wrestling competitions, taking home the 2017 first place trophy for small teams. This year, the Loggers are looking to build on those successes with the purchase of new mats and uniforms with the help of several community partners. Mats are a significant expense for the wrestling club, with 6-foot by 30-foot mats costing an estimated $765 each. The...
Butte, Mont. – The winter weather gripping most of Montana will continue several more days, with some areas experiencing temperatures well into the negative double digits and some forecast to receive more than a foot of additional snowfall, according to the National Weather Service. Higher energy demand due to prolonged deep cold is reflected in higher customer bills. Customers can see the comparisons provided on their bill that displays usage patterns for the current billing...
If you've been around in the Blackfoot long enough, there's a good chance you've heard the words "Murphy right" or "Milltown right" thrown around. If you're an irrigator in the watershed, you've probably been affected by one or both of these instream water rights. Due to recent changes in water law, any surface water rights with a priority date junior to 1904 could be called in a drought year if flows in the Blackfoot River are low enough to warrant restrictions. Luckily,...
Winter can be an awe-inspiring time of year. Snow-covered landscapes and opportunities to enjoy sports like skiing and snowboarding make winter a favorite time of year for nature enthusiasts and athletes. As fun as winter can be, many people struggle with the transition from warm weather and long, sunny days to cold weather and reduced hours of sunlight. Sometimes mistaken or misidentified as the "winter blues," this phenomenon is known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD....
While Lincoln didn't see a record breaking dump of snow, the weekend-long storm reportedly brought up to three feet of snow to some areas of the Lincoln Valley, according to unofficial local measurements. Officially the National Resources Conservation Service SNOTEL sites in the Lincoln area recorded between 11 and 17 inches of new snow. Nevada Ridge, south of Lincoln, showed an additional 15 inches of snow between the morning of Feb. 5 and Feb. 7. North of Lincoln, the...
Jim Oly, who debuted his drumming for Lincoln on Dec. 6 - while dressed as Santa to spread some cheer - kept folks around parts of western Montana entertained with his musical endeavor and offbeat humor during the holidays. He returned to Lincoln for the encore performance as a benefit for the Lincoln Food Bank. During his two hour 'set,' a number of people stopped by, donating about 100 pounds of food, as well as some cash, for the Food Bank. Oly said the effort was in honor...
Fireweed, or Chamerion angustifolium, is a native species found throughout Canada and in the vast majority of the United States, except for southeastern states and Texas. A circumboreal plant, it can commonly be found in coniferous and mixed forests, in aspen parklands, and alongside snowberry, thimbleberry and juniper. The name fireweed comes from the plant's ability to quickly establish in areas burned by fire, appearing as soon as three months after a fire, according to...
