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The Council of Commissioners recently unanimously voted to approve purchasing the current facility for $2.2 million.

Butte is close to developing a master plan for its historic Uptown to make improvements to its infrastructure and even its overall appearance.

131-Year-Old Montana Bar Lost to a Fire 131-year-old Butte staple, the M&M Bar and Cigar Store caught fire and burned this morning, Friday, May 7th. According to locals in Butte, the roof was completely burned out, and the inside of the establishment totally gutted by the fire. In their original location at 9 North Main in Butte since 1890, the M&M is listed in the National Register of Historical Places and has been operating 24/7 every since, except during the 2020 pandemic, of course. The Ms ...

Editors Note This story was compiled almost completely from the reporting of Lee Montana newspapers’ staff over the past nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It started the way most Montana storms do, signs of trouble coming on the west wind. On Leap Day, Saturday, Feb. 29, Washington state reported the country’s first COVID-19 death, the first healthcare worker infected, and the first known outbreak in a care facility. By early March, a few Montanans began to worry. Many others paid...