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Gold Prospectors share skills at monthly meetings
Lincoln's gold mining tradition, dating to the gold mining boom of the 1860's that led to the establishment of the town, continues today as the...
Photos: Rods on Main
Classic vehicles lined Lincoln's main Street Saturday, Sept. 12. The Lambkins Rod Run and Wilderness Car Show The Lambkins Rod Run is now it in it's...
Helmville caps off an unusual summer in traditional rodeo style
The 56th Annual Helmville Labor Day Rodeo wrapped up the Northern Rodeo Association season Sept. 6 and 7, with a shift in weather that presaged the...
Helping the country heal: Keeping workers safe
Editor's note. Corey Butler, a 1998 Lincoln High graduate, grew up in Lincoln and is the daughter of Mike and Renee Campbell. The following appeared... Full story
AirBnBs affect rental availability , but provide other economic benefits
AirBnB and similar services allow individuals, called "hosts," to offer up second homes, cabins and spare rooms as short-term rentals. AirBnB...
The world of direct sales in Lincoln
According to direct sales statistics, there are approximately 16 million people who account for the direct sales workforce in the U.S., generating...
Montana lags in Census response with one month left until count ends
The 2020 decennial Census count started on Apr. 1. With the final day to be counted scheduled for September 30, Montana lags behind nearly every other...
Klara's Plant Pick: Oregon grape
This is the beginning of a sometimes-series about plants in Upper Blackfoot Valley. Are you interested in a particular local plant? Contact the BVD...
Elkhorn COAD partners with LC County to help communities
The Elkhorn COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disasters) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lewis & Clark County to define t...
Lincoln ahead of other rural areas in broadband access
Broadband internet is a big buzzword these days, as employees and students frantically started working and learning from home when businesses and...
19th Amendment marks 100 years of women's voting rights
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, declaring, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by...
Upper Blackfoot Chronicles: Lincoln Telephone
From Gold Pans and Singletrees Mail delivery provided one link with the outside world and within the Blackfoot Valley, and in 1921, citizens of Lincol...
Jansons Enterprises provides small engine repair for wide range of equipment, vehicles
As a child, Kyle Greenwood would watch his father Jim pull lawnmowers out of the trash, repair them and sell them. Jim gave that sideline up for a...
Recovered to death?
Brad Orsted normally avoids naming bears, but Nervous Nelly wasn't an ordinary bear. Over the past decade, dozens of grizzlies, like Nelly, have...
Photos: Rehabbed, recovered & released
Dr. Scott Bovard of the Missoula Veterinary Clinic and Brooke Tanner, director of the Wild Skies Raptor Center released an immature female bald eagle...
A Strange Story--Remarkable Discovery
With the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force reportedly preparing to release a report on UFO encounters, it seemed like a good time...
Bob Orr a Lincoln, telephone company institution
Longtime resident and Lincoln Telephone Company President Bob Orr has lived in Lincoln for the better part of 75 years. "I came with my folks. I was...
Downtown Ovando gets a facelift
Downtown Ovando got a face lift with the buildings on the south side of the town's central square getting a distinctive new paint job this month, upda...
Photo: Monture Mud
Sediment washed down from Monture Creek gives the Blackfoot river a split personality at Scotty Brown Bridge Friday, July 25. Heavy rains that fell...
Ovando property sale takes Flys to someplace familiar
Howie and Peggy Fly’s sale of their buildings in downtown Ovando has meant a move for them, but they haven’t gone far. The home they had been living in - the old Boyd Ranch house that was moved...
A new look for the BVD
Welcome to the new and improved Blackfoot Valley Dispatch. This issue marks our first as a broadsheet since the mid 1990's. It's a return to a format...
Photos: A plant walk with Klára
A biological technician at the Lincoln Ranger District, Klara Varga is a botanist by training, with a fascination for all types of plants native to...
406 MT Mercantile Celebrates Grand Opening
The new 406 MT Mercantile, Lincoln's newest shopping destination, had their grand opening the weekend of June 27. The new retail shop at 224 Main Stre...
A Look into the benef its of Thai Massage
Red Mountain Yoga, owned and operated by Sue Lattin, has been open since 2014 and offers yoga classes , as well as a variety of massages. One of the m...
Lincoln's Concrete Wave
Skateboarders from Helena, Lewistown and Stevensville joined Lincoln skaters Saturday July 11, to celebrate the formal grand opening of the new...
