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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.