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‘A Paper for the People’: The story of the Smelter City’s first newspaper
Anaconda has been home to many newspapers over the last 140 years. Most recently, the paper of record since 1970 was the Anaconda Leader, and before that the short-lived Magicland Times – and even before that, the Anaconda Standard. But before all of those, the first was our namesake, the Anaconda Weekly Review.
Read MoreEXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! ANACONDA IS GETTING A NEWSPAPER!
Since the closing of the Anaconda Leader – a family-owned newspaper with a 55-year legacy in the Smelter City – at the beginning of June, one question has permeated the thoughts of Anacondans and others statewide: will the citizens of Anaconda-Deer Lodge County get a local newspaper again? For some, it wasn’t a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. From the day the Leader closed, longtime editor and reporter James S. Rosien was working behind the scenes to start up a paper that could serve the community again, new and improved from the former model.
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