Ellen Crain News Today

Julia Crain has been named Butte-Silver Bow planning director and on another front, Bob Lazzari is retiring as parks director.

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?

Surrender of the rodents to shelters spiked during the pandemic after people who adopted them to stave off loneliness abandoned them.

Ellen Crain is bidding farewell to the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives.

Big plans loom for Congregation B’nai Israel this summer, including tours, lectures and other events. Coming on the heels of a feasibility study done through a collaboration that included Helena

Closed public schools. COVID-19 mandates. Woke curricula. For these reasons and more, parents in blue states are turning to home schooling in droves.

New German beer garden officially open at Butte hotel A beer trailer sits behind a wrought-iron fence at Buttes Finlen Hotel serving pretzels as big as your head, served with authentic Bavarian mustard and a stein of beer. By: Kaitlyn Aguiles and last updated 2021-07-08 17:27:26-04 BUTTE — A beer trailer sits behind a wrought-iron fence at Buttes Finlen Hotel serving pretzels as big as your head, served with authentic Bavarian mustard and a stein of beer. The Goethe Institu...

New German beer garden officially open at the Finlen Hotel Kaitlyn Aguiles and last updated 2021-07-07 19:08:02-04 At the Finlen hotel, a beer trailer sits behind a wrought-iron fence serving pretzels as big as your head, served with authentic Bavarian mustard and a stein of beer. The Goethe Institut and the German government hosted a year of German-American friendship by traveling throughout the country and selling authentic German beers and pretzels from the trailer. Butte was a stop on their...

Documentary in the works about the destruction of two towns in Butte "The company had eminent domain, they have an eminent domain law and we had no choice.." Upcoming documentary explores the story of what happened to Meaderville and McQueen By: Kaitlyn Aguiles and last updated 2021-06-28 19:25:15-04 BUTTE — Dan Fulton and his son want to bring the story of Meaderville and McQueen to the big screen. The two are working together to make a documentary about what happened and ...

and last updated 2021-05-07 22:10:30-04 BUTTE — The last great cigar store has fallen in Uptown Butte. The M&M went up in flames early Friday morning, the roof collapsed inward, and the historic building has been completely gutted. The history behind the M&M is a vast one. Historical photos from Butte Archives The last great cigar store has fallen in Uptown Butte. "So the M&M was constructed in the early 1890s by two gentlemen, Martin and Mosby and they built it as a pool hall and so the ...