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.