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The site plan for the future Don's Home Center, a merger of Copper City Hardware and Anaconda Building Center, is shown in this Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Commission packet graphic.

 
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 20:26
Commission gives the go-ahead on Don's Home Center

Proposal for Arbiter subd

The Tree of Remembrance stands inside the AWARE building on East Park Avenue

 
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 18:48
'Tis the season of remembrance, and hospice hopes to help grieving families cope with loss during the holidays

Remembrance service will

Lincoln Primary School Backpack Program Director Rose Wells stashes some food into a backpack for children in need. Leader photo: Nikki Johnson

 
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 18:46
Backpack Program sending help home for the holidays

Local food security program aims to do more for kids during Ch

Two bucks lock horns in Anaconda earlier last month. Photo courtesy of Carly Moodry.

 
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 19:22
Commission may consider creating new advisory board in order to address issue of urban wildlife

The Anacon

Paula Arneson, secretary at the MSU Extension office at the courthouse, holds one of the "Gifts With a Lift" that have been donated so far. Leader photo: James Rosien.

Fri, 12/01/2023 - 18:48
'Gifts with a Lift' has been a MSH holiday tradition for over 70 years

 

Top Stories

  • The site plan for the future Don's Home Center, a merger of Copper City Hardware and Anaconda Building Center, is shown in this Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Commission packet graphic.

     
    Commission gives the go-ahead on Don's Home Center
    12/06/2023 - 20:26
  • The Tree of Remembrance stands inside the AWARE building on East Park Avenue

     
    'Tis the season of remembrance, and hospice hopes to help grieving families cope with loss during the holidays
    12/06/2023 - 18:48
  • Lincoln Primary School Backpack Program Director Rose Wells stashes some food into a backpack for children in need. Leader photo: Nikki Johnson

     
    Backpack Program sending help home for the holidays
    12/06/2023 - 18:46
  • Two bucks lock horns in Anaconda earlier last month. Photo courtesy of Carly Moodry.

     
    Commission may consider creating new advisory board in order to address issue of urban wildlife
    12/01/2023 - 19:22
  • Paula Arneson, secretary at the MSU Extension office at the courthouse, holds one of the "Gifts With a Lift" that have been donated so far. Leader photo: James Rosien.

    'Gifts with a Lift' has been a MSH holiday tradition for over 70 years
    12/01/2023 - 18:48
  • Rescuing the Anaconda Pintler Search and Rescue building
    12/01/2023 - 18:44
  • The Northern Hall Tap Room is open for business as the newest addition to the bar and pub scene on the 100 block of Main Street. Leader photo: Nikki Johnson

     
    Northern Hall Tap Room opens in newly-renovated space as the Smelter City's newest place for a nice evening out
    11/29/2023 - 20:31
  • Bill Dee, left, and Mary Johnston present Dave Fenchak with the 2022 Good Neighbor Award. Good Neighbor Day is taking on a new format this year. Leader file photo.

     
    The Good Neighbor Day spirit is returning in a new format
    11/29/2023 - 20:28
  • Tips sought after four elk poached near Anaconda
    11/29/2023 - 19:08
  • Joe Casey, now in his 10th year as Copperhead wrestling head coach, works with a couple of young grapplers at an AAU event in 2022 in Anaconda. Leader file photo

     
    Wrestling coach looks ahead to start of the season – his 10th at AHS
    11/29/2023 - 18:52
  •  Aaron Arthur's no turkey, even as he's dressed as one, as he raises his hands after finishing the "Jog and Hog" 5K Thanksgiving Day Fun Run at Washoe Park on Thursday. 

     
    Joggin' before the Hoggin': Fun run raises funds for XC teams
    11/29/2023 - 18:51
  • Anaconda Community Intervention (ACI) operates the Lovinaid Stand, which it received from the Anaconda Community Foundation, as one of its efforts to support substance abuse prevention efforts for youth in Anaconda. Leader file photo.

     
    Learning all about ACI
    11/24/2023 - 18:35
  • Brightly-decorated trucks are one of the features of the annual Parade of Lights (pictured here in 2022) kicking off the Christmas Stroll in Anaconda. This year's parade starts at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 24 at the courthouse, with the tree-lighting at 6 p.m. at Kennedy Common. Leader file photo

     
    Christmas Stroll kicks off Friday with Parade of Lights
    11/22/2023 - 21:50
  • Anaconda Copperhead Speech Team members Zoe Hoscheid, left, Daylee Swanson and Ada Calhoun hold up their individual certificates from the Corvallis Invitational on Oct. 28, where the team as a whole took first place for Class B/C. Courtesy photo

     
    More Copperheads are finding their voice as Speech Team members
    11/22/2023 - 18:35
  • An elk herd congregates near Bowman Field this past summer, but that was then and this is now and the harvest is down during general hunting season in the area. Photo by Donna Bahr.

     
    'Where are the elk?' General hunting season is slow going
    11/17/2023 - 20:13

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The construction of one of the many smelter stacks that comprised the original Washoe Reduction Works -- which Marcus Daly gave the green light to build before his death in 1900, and which opened in 1902 as the replacement for the Upper and Lower Works -- is pictured here. It's possible this stack was part of the converter.

Building the first Washoe Smelter
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Above: Brigadier General Jay MacKelvie. Top: MacKelvie is pictured at right with the War Plans Division, War Department General Staff in 1942; seated fourth from left is future President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower. War Department photos.

 
General whose troops may have fired the last shot on the western front in WWII helped build the BA&P Railway
News

The Copperhead state championship-winning boys' golf team of Bradley Wolfe, left, Tanner Cromwell, Kohl Wolfe, Jacob Sawyer and Aidan Tuss lock arms at the Anaconda Country Club on Thursday where they shared what their achievement – and their reception by the community – means to them and to Copperhead golf. Leader photo: Patrick Williams

 
Boys' golf team and their coach reflect on making history
News

Stacy James holds up one of the game pieces or "flyers" along with the complete game she created called "Don't Lose Your Head" ahead of the game's unveiling at Coppertique in Anaconda. Leader photo: James S. Rosien

 
Local woman creates new game and you might just 'lose your head' over it
Sports

Bradley Wolfe – joined atop the Anaconda Fire Department's ladder truck by Copperhead boys golf teammates Jacob Sawyer, Kohl Wolfe, Aidan Tuss and Tanner Cromwell, as well as by Copperhead girls' All-State golfer Logan McKay and fellow state golfer Quincy Saltenberger – holds up the Montana Class B Boys' Golf State Championship trophy the team won at the state golf tournament in Shelby last week. Check out the Leader on Friday for more coverage of Anaconda's golf champs. Leader photo: James S. Rosien

Riding high with the hardware
News

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, fifth from left, stands beside Montana Department of Corrections staff at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge on Wednesday where he signed House Bill 3 into law boosting correctional officer pay

 
Governor visits MSP, signs pay rise for correctional officers
News
AOH packs the house for Ceilidh celebration
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Gypsy Soul Ray – and yes that is indeed her name – holds up a copy of her book, "Gypsy Soul: Memoirs of a Hippie Kid." Leader photo: James S. Rosien. 

 
‘Gypsy Soul: Memoirs of a Hippie Kid’ tracks local therapist's ‘terrifying but hilarious’ childhood, and offers lessons on enduring through trauma

News

The site plan for the future Don's Home Center, a merger of Copper City Hardware and Anaconda Building Center, is shown in this Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Commission packet graphic.

 
12/06/2023 - 20:26
Commission gives the go-ahead on Don's Home Center

Proposal for Arbiter subdivision would see hardware store, buildi

Grant round opens soon on Urban Renewal TIF proposals
Be sure to be safe out there
'Tis the season of remembrance, and hospice hopes to help grieving families cope with loss during the holidays
Backpack Program sending help home for the holidays
Community Hospital of Anaconda recognized for performance leadership

Sports

12/06/2023 - 18:32
Copperhead boys wrestle their way to victory over Dillon

Anaconda wrestling is off to a great start, with t

Lady Copperheads blaze past Blue Devils, 51-33
Local hoopsters have a ball at Santa Slammer
Anaconda hoops 'Head into 2024 with high hopes
Eleven months after major knee injury, Makena Patrick is back just in time for basketball season
Santa Slammer looks to bring 3,000 people to town for two-day tourney

Opinion

12/01/2023 - 19:23
The mental health crisis needs more than money

 

Losing Medicaid means losing my medications
Unmasking the threat of vaping in rural Montana high schools, and offering solutions to combat it
Make your voice heard to help rebuild behavioral health, developmental disabilities systems in MT
Learning to say thanks is easy; learning to ask for help is what's hard
Support your local retailer this holiday season

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Obituaries

12/01/2023 - 18:40
James “Jim” Richard Bishop

 

The Honorable Thomas M. McKittrick
Jacqueline Niland
Jacqueline “Jackie” Niland
Kathleen Mavourneen O’Dwyer
Lani Maria Kleinhans

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St. Pat is Back
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