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By Erin Nicholes, The Montana Standard, Butte Aug. 6--ANACONDA -- A permit that would allow a youth center to operate in a residential neighborhood is temporarily on hold, the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Commission decided Tuesday. Commissioners agreed to send a special use permit for Donna's House -- a youth center trying to move to 212 E. Fourth St. -- back to the county planning board. Anaconda PCA, which runs the center, requested the application be tabled. "PCA has pulled this off the...
By Erin Nicholes, The Montana Standard, Butte Jun. 20--ANACONDA -- The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission has given the nod to a 300-acre purchase west of town, aimed at protecting habitat and access. The commission approved the purchase of 296 acres adjoining the 1880s Ranch, off North Cable Road, a news release said. If all goes as planned, FWP will close on the first phase of the purchase this spring and the remaining land next winter, said Ray Vinkey, area FWP biologist. "It...
By Erin Nicholes, The Montana Standard, Butte Jun. 17--WARM SPRINGS -- Regular church services are part of Stephen Safronoff's routine at Montana State Hospital. "I've been going to services quite a while now on Wednesdays," he said. He joins other patients for Mass in a small classroom on the hospital's campus. While grateful for the services, Safronoff said patients would feel a stronger spiritual connection in a chapel. "I think it would be a much better place for the pastor to work,...
