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Lincoln Fourth of July festivities include rodeo, music and parade
The mountain town of Lincoln promises a wild and wonderful show this weekend during its annual rodeo and Fourth of July festivities.
Visitors and livestock alike will kick up their heels this weekend in Augusta. The small Rocky Mountain Front town hosts one of the state's largest one-day rodeos on Sunday, with activities planned all weekend.
Atna Resources consolidates Seven-Up Pete holdings
Atna Resources Ltd. paid $500,000 to buy nine patented mining claims and a half-interest in two more patient mining claims, the Golden company said Monday.
Lincoln Getaway Days starts Friday
Lincoln celebrates the beginning of the summer season Friday, Saturday and Sunday with its annual community-wide sale, Lincoln Getaway Days.
Authorities ID boys killed in Missouri accident
LINCOLN - The Lincoln Chamber of Commerce will host a public meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. in the community hall to discuss the Forest Service Summer Travel Plan on Helena National Forest lands near Lincoln.
Ninth Circuit Outrage: States Immune from Fifth Amendment
In 1991, at a cost of $70 million, a group of miners and mining entities known collectively as Seven Up Pete Venture acquired mineral rights on land, near Lincoln, Montana, believed to contain over four million ...
Veteran recalls war, fallen comrade
A few weeks ago, Gus Cutrone ran into Joe Rappa, a fellow World War II vet and neighbor.
Secretary of State says feds can learn from Montana
“I guess it's just a lot better to burn it up than cut it down”
"I would certainly hope the day would come when we would see more ability on the part of the state to dictate those management practices because clearly the management of state timberlands is superior to that ... via The Clark Fork Chronicle
'The only person I ever loved'
“He said he would kill them in order to keep them from taking me”
I II. Ted and Dave Kaczynski spent most of their adult lives far apart, but their letters tell a story of two siblings constantly trying to understand and protect one another. via Chicago Tribune
Blackfoot Valley creek being restored
LINCOLN - A troubled tributary of the Blackfoot River, Lincoln Spring Creek, is being restored along its course through ranches and farmland in the Blackfoot Valley. via Great Falls Tribune
$37 million deal would remove Mike Horse Dam on Upper Blackfoot
“It's a huge threat to the watershed”
A proposed settlement between state and federal governments and the owner of the polluted Mike Horse Dam area near Lincoln sets aside $37 million to remove the dam and hundreds of tons of mine waste threatening ... via Great Falls Tribune
FWP commission meeting in Helena next week
The Montana Wilderness Association will celebrate 50 years of 'keeping it wild' with its golden anniversary April 25-27 in Great Falls. via Great Falls Tribune
Two men charged in 2001 triple murder
“They've had seven years, and they have yet to give us a page.”
MISSOULA - Two men have been charged in the November 2001 murders of three women at a Florence hair salon, a seemingly random act that shook the western Montana town and stumped investigators for years. via Great Falls Tribune
Get reservations to Central Catholic High fundraiser event by March 24
“It will be wonderful to invite friends, alumni, and families to enjoy a party celebrating our new home”
Central Catholic High's fundraiser, 'Celebration Home Forever,' will be March 29 at the school's new home, 2800 18th Ave. via Great Falls Tribune
“Once that is all cleaned up, it will go out for a bidding process and then FWP would have the opportunity to meet that high bid”
Two ranches in northcentral Montana are moving slowly through the process by which one could become a new primitive state park and wildlife management area and the other could become additional winter elk ... via Great Falls Tribune
Museum to present three awards for historic preservation
“Most people didn't know who we were and what we did”
Awards for historic preservation will be presented this week to the Great Falls-based Center for Mental Health, operators of Sieben Live Stock Co. via Billings Gazette
Several roads near Browning remain closed or open to emergency travel only
Several roads around Browning are closed or limited to emergency travel, as a winter storm moves through the area. via Great Falls Tribune
“My mission and campaign theme is to promote 'Progress Not Politics,'”
One week into the filing period for state offices and House District 17 already has a contested primary race and Senate District 9 has garnered the attention of a long-time House legislator. via Choteau Acantha
Parole Board denies release to prisoners
HELENA - The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole has denied parole to several prison inmates, including a Lincoln man convicted of fatally shooting a man during a drunken argument and a Billings man convicted ... via Great Falls Tribune