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Ancient Order of Hibernians members, Project Care Food Bank volunteers and others gather for a group photo from the 2025 St. Paddy's Day Race Food Drive. This year's food drive is now underway. Leader file photo.
Fri, 03/06/2026 - 23:39
The late Ed Cummings, pictured in his obituary photo from 2020, is among the Montana Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 inductees. Courtesy photo.
Fri, 03/06/2026 - 22:27
Pictured in the Montana Hotel office looking from the front entrance in Anaconda on Sept. 6, 1889 is Marcus Daly, seated second from right, where he is joined by a Mr. Law, superintendent of the Montana Union. Fittingly the former Montana Hotel, now the Historic Montana, will be the site of historian Brenda Wahler's book launch event for "Marcus Daly's Montana Empires: Copper Mining, Racehorses and Politics" on Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m. Photo courtesy of Copper Village Museum and Art Center.
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Ancient Order of Hibernians members, Project Care Food Bank volunteers and others gather for a group photo from the 2025 St. Paddy's Day Race Food Drive. This year's food drive is now underway. Leader file photo.
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Pictured in the Montana Hotel office looking from the front entrance in Anaconda on Sept. 6, 1889 is Marcus Daly, seated second from right, where he is joined by a Mr. Law, superintendent of the Montana Union. Fittingly the former Montana Hotel, now the Historic Montana, will be the site of historian Brenda Wahler's book launch event for "Marcus Daly's Montana Empires: Copper Mining, Racehorses and Politics" on Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m. Photo courtesy of Copper Village Museum and Art Center.
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A 2012-2013 Anaconda High School yearbook page shows coaches, managers and a few of the Copperhead wrestlers that year who wrestled under head coach Jerry Arneson (top left). Arneson will speak on the history of the Copperhead wrestling program at the next installment of the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Historic Resources Board's "Anaconda's Past" historic speaker series, which is set for Thursday, March 12 at noon at The Forge. Photo courtesy of Jerry Arneson.
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The front cover of Brenda Wahler's new book, "Marcus Daly's Montana Empire: Copper Mining, Racehorses and Politics," is pictured in a courtesy graphic. The book, covering Daly's life from 1883, the year of Anaconda's founding, up to his death in 1900, will be released on Tuesday, March 3 and will have its launch event Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m. at the Historic Montana, 200 Main St. in Anaconda.
02/28/2026 - 00:02 -
Addie Olson (No. 20), middle, fires off a jumper on her way to 11 points – eight of them in the fourth quarter – in the Lady Copperheads' 42-32 first-round victory over Darby at the District 6B Basketball Tournament in Anaconda on Thursday night. Anaconda's girls will take on Florence tonight at 5:30 p.m. while the boys are playing Deer Lodge today with tip-off at 1 p.m. Check back in with us on Wednesday for our coverage from the district tournament. Leader photo: James S. Rosien
02/27/2026 - 23:23 -
Anaconda Junior/Senior High School celebrated the 21 seniors in basketball, cheerleading and band, as well as their families, for Senior Night on Feb. 20 as part of the Copperhead and Lady Copperhead basketball games against Powell County High School. They are pictured in no particular order other than to fit all 21 seniors and their families onto the page, and to keep each cohort together – starting with boys basketball (first seven), then girls basketball (next three), then cheerleading (next two) and then band (the final nine). First: Shane Schalk.
02/27/2026 - 23:06 -
While they didn't last long in the warm winter weather, here are the entries from Discover Anaconda's Ice Sculpture Contest, a cornerstone of Anaconda's Winterfest. Top row: first place, as noted on Wednesday, went to Dan Kelly's phoenix outside Northern Hall Taproom;
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Anaconda Fire Chief Cody Tocher coordinates the response to a mile-long grass fire east of town in July during a power outage that disrupted emergency communications in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County. Leader file photo.
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Ancient Order of Hibernians members, Project Care Food Bank volunteers and others gather for a group photo from the 2025 St. Paddy's Day Race Food Drive. This year's food drive is now underway. Leader file photo.
The late Ed Cummings, pictured in his obituary photo from 2020, is among the Montana Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 inductees. Courtesy photo.
Here they are, your District 6B Boys Basketball champions, the Anaconda Copperheads, who defeated Loyola-Sacred Heart in overtime, 67-62, on Saturday, Feb. 28 to win the title on their home court. They are (not in order pictured): No. 1, Jesse Jones; No. 2, Shane Schalk; No. 3, Brody Galle; No. 4, Teague Cromwell; No. 5, Rory Cromwell; No. 10, Gavin Browning; No. 11, Carson Lacey; No. 12, Bridger Mattson; No. 20, Travis Dye; No. 21, Reid Maes; No. 22, Treyton Patrick; No. 23, Kyson Patrick; No. 24, Ryder Anderson; alternates, AJ Moses, Bodhi Keeland and Bridger Swanson; managers, Renzo McCarthy, Brett Dahood, Tripp Mitchell and Bryer Anderson; head coach, Dakota Norris; assistant coaches, Henry Huber, Carson Hritsco and Dan Lacey. See page 7 for our story on the district tourney, page 8 for the brackets for the upcoming Western B Divisional Tournament in Pablo, where both the Copperheads and Lady Copperheads will compete, page 14 for photos from the exciting finish to the championship game, and Friday's paper for more photos from districts. Leader photo: James S. Rosien
Pictured in the Montana Hotel office looking from the front entrance in Anaconda on Sept. 6, 1889 is Marcus Daly, seated second from right, where he is joined by a Mr. Law, superintendent of the Montana Union. Fittingly the former Montana Hotel, now the Historic Montana, will be the site of historian Brenda Wahler's book launch event for "Marcus Daly's Montana Empires: Copper Mining, Racehorses and Politics" on Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m. Photo courtesy of Copper Village Museum and Art Center.
Anaconda Elks Lodge No. 239 Exalted Ruler Shawn Hansen, third from right, joined by fellow Elks members Duane Brugman, left, Margaret Ulstad, Errol Eileraas and Betty Ann Eileraas present a $4,000 donation to Joan Wilder, middle, and Terry Vaughn with the Project Care Food Bank to help purchase food for local families in need. This contribution was made possible through the Elks National Foundation’s Beacon Grant Parogram, which are designed to address critical community issues and require active lodge involvement. “There is a definite need in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County to help keep Project Care’s shelves stocked, and it is a privilege to support both the organization and our community,” Hansen said. Leader photo: James S. Rosien
A 2012-2013 Anaconda High School yearbook page shows coaches, managers and a few of the Copperhead wrestlers that year who wrestled under head coach Jerry Arneson (top left). Arneson will speak on the history of the Copperhead wrestling program at the next installment of the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Historic Resources Board's "Anaconda's Past" historic speaker series, which is set for Thursday, March 12 at noon at The Forge. Photo courtesy of Jerry Arneson.
State Sen. Sara Novak, left, joins Anaconda Junior/Senior High School students Alaina Moore, Casey Sweet, Sadie Schultz and Ashley Porter, Special Education Director and Curriculum Coordinator Norah Barney, students Alicia Lovell, Katelynn Moses and Kyson Moore, along with Montana Tech TRIO staff Kaitlyn Kerr and (not pictured) Matt Buerkle in celebrating National TRIO Day on Feb. 20 at the Hearst Free Library. TRIO/Upward Bound staff and students participated in icebreakers, performed community service at Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Head Start, met with local leaders to discuss the importance of TRIO programs, and hosted a students in leadership meeting. The Council for Opportunities in Education website states: “Established by Congress in 1986, National TRIO Day encourages communities to focus on educational access, academic persistence, and the power of college opportunity to change lives and strengthen the nation. This event celebrates the work of the Federal TRIO Programs, which were first created through the landmark Higher Education Act to remove barriers to postsecondary education.” Leader photo: James S. Rosien
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