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On September 12, 1928 the Anaconda Standard merged with Butte Miner to form The Montana Standard. [3] At the time it was owned by the Anaconda Company. [4] In 1959, It was sold to Lee Enterprises. [4] In 1971, under the leadership of Betty Danfield, the paper's women's section won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence. [5]
Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. [170] The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper. [171]
Lewis Johnstone Duncan (May 4, 1857 – January 26, 1936) was an American Unitarian minister and politician who served two terms as mayor of Butte, Montana. [1] He was Butte's first Socialist mayor, [2] and the first to be re-elected. [3] He was recalled from office in 1914. [4]
Durston Building, Anaconda William A. Clark - The Anaconda Standard political cartoon, 28 Oct 1900 This is a list of newspapers in Montana . Current news publications
Kearney wrote occasional news and sports articles for The Montana Standard up until his death, the final one about the 100th football game between Butte High and Billings Senior High School in 2014. He was also devoted to recording Butte's history as the Anaconda Copper era ended.
In 1981, evoking the doctrine of separation of church and state, Catholic priest Father Edward Hislop was quoted in The Montana Standard as saying, "Although the statue is on private ground, it is clearly in a public place. The East Ridge has always belonged to the people of Butte, and that might be offensive to some and pose difficulties." [4]
Montana School of Mines, 1900. In 1900, Butte opened its first institution of higher education, the Montana School of Mines, which is contemporarily Montana Tech of the University of Montana. [30] Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing a Mayor on the Socialist ticket in 1914. [31]
Jim Courtney attended Boys Central High School, Carroll College and Montana State University. [4] Courtney was a history and journalism teacher at Butte High School. [5] Courtney served in the Montana House of Representatives [3] from 1977 to 1979. Jim Courtney died on September 23, 2023, at the age of 87. [6]