Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

For the past ten-and-a-half years I've seen Lincoln move from a town stuck in an economic rut to one that began to take control of its own destiny. The successful development of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild showed Lincoln can do something new and unexpected and be more than just "stinkin' drinkin' Lincoln."

People began look at ways to grow the economy beyond that, without making...