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The kids had to delay their annual Halloween Walk this year after a surge in COVID-19 cases closed the school and sent kids home for remote learning from the end of October through the first week of November. The youngsters had yet another chance at Halloween fun Saturday, Nov. 13 at the PTSO Fall carnival. See pg. 10...
Lincoln-area kids had a second go at Halloween Nov. 13, at the rescheduled Lincoln PTSO Halloween Carnival in the Lincoln School gym. Despite the fact the Halloween festivities were delayed by two weeks thanks to a COVID-19 outbreak at the school, Danielle Barnett with the PTSO said it was one of the things they just wanted to be able to do. "We were a little worried about whether people would want to come," she said, and though there weren't quite as many kids in costume as...
3th Grade Jenna Templeton 4.0 Grace Stine 3.8 Andrea LaManna 3.667 Allesondra Russ 3.6 Damion Birkholz 3.5 Justin Fry 3.5 Jaden Jennings 3.0 Josey T Rios 3.0 11th Grade Jessica Zarske 4.0 Gianna Gardella 3.333 Jaylin Lewenight 3.167 Tristan Lauer 3.143 Hayden Dempster 3.0 10th Grade Kylee Copenhaver 4.0 Miyah Davis 4.0 Maddisen Derossett 4.0 Maddie Sampson 3.857 Trever Tolan 3.714 Wesson Dempster 3.143 Logan Joyce 3.0 9th Grade Noah Barnett 4.0 Andrew Brown 4.0 Andrea...
As Lincoln School headed into Homecoming week, the premature end to the Lincoln High School football season and difficulties in finding substitute teachers both saw extensive discussion at the Lincoln School board meeting Monday Oct. 11. Lincoln Schools Athletic Director Shane Brown said football season started off with high expectations but circumstances such as COVID-19 and poor practice attendance affected players eligibility to the point the team couldn't be sustained...
The Lincoln High Homecoming football game scheduled for Monday, Oct. 11 has been canceled due to attendance and eligibility issues that have whittled team numbers down to just five players. The cancellation of the game has also led to the cancellation of the homecoming parade, which had been planned for Monday at 1 p.m. The cancellation won't affect the homecoming volleyball games scheduled that week on Oct. 14 and Oct. 16. The volleyball games will give fans the chance to...
Lincoln School District's new first grade teacher, Cailey DenBoer, grew up in Lincoln and is excited to return to the town as an educator. DenBoer attended school in Lincoln from kindergarten through her sophomore year, ultimately graduating from Capitol High in Helena, and then attending the University of Montana-Western. "I have a bachelors in elementary ed, and a minor in early childhood education. When I was in college, I worked at the elementary school in Dillon as a...
A homecoming parade for Lincoln school, featuring floats made by the high school classes, is slated to go through town Monday, Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. as Lincoln Schools celebrate homecoming week. In recent years, homecoming parades have been held during the homecoming football games, with floats making a lap around the track at the football field. This year, however, the school decided to move it to main street to help spread school spirit and get local businesses involved. The week will culminate with a homecoming dance for 9th...
Lincoln School students spent this week out of school as they returned to remote learning following an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at Lincoln Schools. The administration made the decision when it became clear the number of confirmed and suspected cases among both staff and students was high enough that in-person classes weren't feasible. "There are 11 percent of the staff who have tested positive, and all are breakthrough cases," Packer told the BVD in an e-mail. "At least 16...
The Lincoln High School Junior Class held a car wash Saturday, Sept. 4. The proceeds earned from the car wash fund will fund prom and graduation....
HELENA - As students across our state return to the classroom, Attorney General Austin Knudsen and the Montana Highway Patrol are reminding motorists to follow all school bus and school zone traffic laws, including new laws going into effect this year. By simply following the law and taking necessary precautions, motorists can help ensure Montana students get to and from school safely. "If one child gets injured on their way to or from school this year, it will be one too...
Concerns about the ability to field a six-man football team this fall loomed at the end of last school year, prompting Lincoln High School to offer cross country as an alternative for Lincoln boys, since the sport only requires three members to form a team. Lincoln Schools Athletic Director Shane Brown said they decided to bring cross county back after an absence of almost nine years, due to an apparent lack of interest among students in either high school or junior high...
Gary Roberson, who taught history for Lincoln Schools, retired this year after about 15 years with the district. "I started back in 1992, and I worked close to ten years," said Roberson. "I went back to Virginia to help take care of my parents. Then we came back again, and I've been teaching these last five years." In addition to Montana history, U.S. history and world history, Roberson taught psychology, geography and government. He said he probably enjoyed Montana history...
Lincoln Public Schools won't be requiring students to wear masks when they return to school Aug. 23, but some of the COVID-19 protocols from last year remain. Superintendent Jen Packer discussed the school's protocols with the Lincoln School Board during at their Aug. 9 meeting. There is strong agreement among local state, county and federal agencies that students need to return to in person learning, but the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases related to the Delta Variant threw a...
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Lincoln students who completed the Montana History class in the 2019-2020 school year were unable to go on the class field trip to Yellowstone, which was canceled due to the pandemic. This year, those students were able to make the trip, and to explore other aspects of regional history. The three day trip took the six students who completed the class and hadn't yet graduated throughout Montana and into Wyoming. "It was busy, but we crammed a lot in," said Lincoln science teach...
Lewis and Clark County Deputy Sheriff James Turpin and Deputy Robert Rivera joined Lincoln fifth graders for their D.A.R.E. Graduation at the Lincoln School Wednesday, May 19. Turpin has taught DARE - Drug Abuse Resistance Education - at Lincoln School for around ten years. He comes to Lincoln each fall and presents short lessons to2nd through 4th graders, and a complete hour-per-week program to the 5th grade. The main educational program targets fifth graders and helps give...
The Lincoln School Gym hosts a full house for the Spring Concert May 19....
In last weeks issue we didn't catch that we had inadvertently identified Jenna Templeton (left) as her sister Carly....
Lincoln Schools administration learned May 3 they had been selected to receive funding from the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant for the POUNCE program. In June 2019, POUNCE program director Jackie Grantier received notice just one day before the end of the POUNCE program that the school had not secured the 21st CCLC grant for the next five years, according to a Blackfoot Valley Dispatch article. The grant structure had changed reporting requirements, and two of th...
Lincoln students in 3rd-8th grade competed in the Montana Battle of the Books on May 7. Battle of the Books is made up of three teams of three students each, with one alternate. Beginning in the fall, students on each team read 12 different books leading up to the spring competition. At the competition, students answer questions based on the books, but the questions don't always have obvious answers, so students work hard to read for detail. "It's kind of a funny thing when...
Lincoln teens got a little return to normalcy this year at the Lincoln High School Prom Friday evening. The original plan for the dance was to host it outside at the Hooper Park pavilion, to allow the kids a bit more freedom without the need for masks. Although rainy weather forced the festivities indoors at the school gym, the announcement that Lewis and Clark Public Health would no longer be enforcing the county mask mandate prompted a decision to forego masks at the dance....
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...
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...
After being forced to cancel their visit last year due to COVID-19, the Missoula Children's Theater returned to Lincoln this spring with their production of 'The Emperors New Clothes.' The play, a lesson in being true to oneself, rather than trying to impress people with expensive clothes, drew 19 kids who took part in the production. "It's a lot of work but we were lucky to have some kids who were really excited about it and decided to go out and do it," said Danielle...
