Lincoln's Barnett wins Dear Author contest

Local 5th grader Elijah Barnett was one of five winners in the Lewis & Clark Library’s annual Dear Author Contest this January, earning a Sphere SPRK+ robot for himself, four tickets to a Helena Big Horns hockey game, and $150 for the Lincoln School Library.

The contest, which is similar to the Library of Congress’s program Letters About Literature, invited 4th and 5th grade students to write a le...