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Anaconda Fire Department Displays American flag for 25th anniversary of 9/11
The Anaconda Fire Department displays the American flag atop a firetruck's ladder to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. At the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City, an inscription reads, “No day shall erase you from the memory of time,” an adapted quote from the Roman poet Virgil. This 9/11, 25 years after the terrorist attack that rocked the country, the Anaconda Fire Department is making sure that memory lives on, displaying the American flag on top of one of its firetruck's ladders for all driving down Commercial Avenue to see. In front of the firetruck, a memorial sits…
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‘Anaconda’s Past’ September presentation to focus on Montana’s first paved highway and a ‘mystery bridge’
By Kasey Edge-Faur Anaconda Weekly Review Editor Tomorrow’s “Anaconda’s Past” presentation from the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Historic Conservation Board will appeal to road enthusiasts, history buffs, and generally curious citizens. Jon Axline, a historian and cultural resources specialist with the Montana Department of Transportation, will be speaking about Montana’s first concrete paved highway, the old road between Butte and Anaconda, and its connection to the Yellowstone Trail (later US Highway 10 - South). According to Axline, the trail was the country’s first interstate highway. Paved in 1921, the road served heavy supply trucks and industrial traffic that needed a solid…
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ACF’s Fall Grant Application Cycle opens today
Local nonprofits, public agencies and organizations encouraged to apply The Anaconda Community Foundation (ACF) is pleased to announce that its 2026 Fall Grant Application Cycle opens today – Friday, September 4. Local nonprofits, public agencies and community organizations with projects that strengthen and enrich Anaconda-Deer Lodge County are encouraged to apply. The application form and grant handbook are available here: https://anacondacommunityfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ACF_Branded_Grants_Handbook.pdf Applications close on Friday, September 11, 2026. "Through our grant program, the Anaconda Community Foundation is proud to invest in the people, organizations and projects that help make Anaconda a stronger, healthier and more vibrant place to call home.…
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“Our Little Red Schoolhouse” serves more than 150 children
After more than a decade serving local children, Anaconda Disposal Services' "Our Little Red Schoolhouse" school supply drive is still going strong.
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New Nonprofit Newspaper
Members of the Anaconda Community Foundation’s (ACF) and the Anaconda Community Media Company’s respective boards of directors, as well as staff members for both organizations, gather together at Smelter City Brewing for a pint night fundraiser on Thursday, August 27 where ACF announced its awarding of a $25,000 grant to become the first Founding Donor to the Anaconda Weekly Review, a new nonprofit newspaper set to launch in Anaconda this fall. Photo courtesy of the Anaconda Community Foundation.
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Schools, Sports, Outdoors, Obits, Op-Eds & More
All of the things you’ve been missing about Anaconda, in a compact format, delivered weekly to your mailbox. Missing all those Anaconda High School Class of 2026 graduation photos? Or preview stories and coverage of summer events like the Chloe Worl Memorial Fun Run? Or speaking of memorials, the unveiling of the tribute honoring the four victims of the Owl Bar shooting? And what about all those wildlife photos by Carly Moodry? We’ll have them! Our news site, anacondareview.com, will go live by the end of the month and we’ll be in print before the end of next month.
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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.
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EXTRA! 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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