Sandy Compton finds sacred ground in stone cathedrals carved by glaciers, in landscapes of cirques and tarns and scree. Hymns in this wild country rely on prolonged notes of silence punctuated by birdsong, by the gurgle of clear-running streams and, in season, by the bugling of bull elk.
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The Lincoln County Health Department reported March 25 that it had received notice of the county’s first positive test for novel coronavirus. A day later, the elderly man died.
G. Scott Tomlin said he was not able to speak to his 77-year-old father, Jim Tomlin, in his final days, a reality that made the loss of his father to COVID-19 especially painful.
The Montana Supreme Court concluded in a unanimous decision March 11 that federal law does not shield the BNSF Railway Co. from potential liability for its alleged role in contributing to asbestos contamination in Libby.
The June 2 primary election ballot will include one contested race and one uncontested race for two elected positions in Lincoln County – county commissioner, District 1, and clerk of district court.
Mark Peck used the word “ludicrous” at least three times to describe a draft document received Feb. 27 by Lincoln County officials from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
Robyn King wanted to know what grizzly bear expert Chris Servheen thought about hiking trails that travel through core habitat for the threatened species, especially when the trail passes through a small population of grizzlies in the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem.
The 2019 sampling for chronic wasting disease began April 1 and ceased near the end of January. Among other results the testing yielded Montana’s first detection of the disease in moose and elk.
