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Missoula Current
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![Missoula County joins others in seeking opinion on state mills](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2021/11/housing-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Missoula County joins others in seeking opinion on state mills
Missoula County on Tuesday placed its official support behind an effort lead by Beaverhead County that's challenging the state's “consistent” levying of certain mills despite a provision in Montana law that requires a reduction in mills when taxable values increase.
![MSO Music: Lindsey Stirling a dancing phenom with violin](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Lindsey-Stirling6.jpg?w=980&q=75)
MSO Music: Lindsey Stirling a dancing phenom with violin
William Munoz writes, "Stirling has taken playing the violin to another level. If you are thinking classical violin or bluegrass fiddle, you will be disappointed. You don't play intense and rapid notes and dance with the physical movement that she does."
![Viewpoint: Homeless, city, county violating right to clean environment](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/10/homeless-main.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Homeless, city, county violating right to clean environment
Liz Heaney writes, "There is no accountability for drug users, drunks, crime or trash. What are the homeless contributing to Missoula?"
![Final oil lease retired in the Badger Two Medicine area](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Badger-Two-Medicine_Kiyo-Crag-Lake_Glacier-Two-Medicine-Alliance-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Final oil lease retired in the Badger Two Medicine area
A court settlement has eliminated the last federal oil-and-gas lease that threatened to mar the Badger-Two Medicine wild lands of the northern Rocky Mountain Front.
![Popular downtown Catalyst Cafe to close in November](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/05/Downtown2.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Popular downtown Catalyst Cafe to close in November
The cafe has operated at the Florence on Higgins Avenue for more than three decades. Keast and O'Bryne have owned the business for the past 13 years.
![Viewpoint: The grease and the glue](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/10/supreme-court.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: The grease and the glue
James Nelson writes, "The political branches aside, at least we don’t have state or federal judges and justices in Montana in the mold of Clarence the Corrupt and Samuel the Sinful."
![Harmon’s Histories: 1937 brought Roxy Theater to Missoula, and its eclectic fare](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-1937-Roxy-Newspaper-AD-Three-Smart-Girls-Sept.-28-1937.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Harmon’s Histories: 1937 brought Roxy Theater to Missoula, and its eclectic fare
Construction began on May 1, 1937 and was completed in late September of the same year – a five-month build, at a cost of $35,000 (the equivalent of $737,000 in today’s dollars).
![Griz top Butler in football home opener](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Aaron-Fontes-vaults-over-Butlers-Will-Mason.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Griz top Butler in football home opener
The Montana Grizzlies jumped out to a 1-0 start to the 2023 season with a 35-20 victory over the Butler Bulldogs on a warm, early September day inside Washington-Grizzly Stadium Saturday.
![MFD snuffs fire in vacant, boarded structure occupied by homeless](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/11/Fire-Department.jpg?w=980&q=75)
MFD snuffs fire in vacant, boarded structure occupied by homeless
The Missoula Fire Department extinguished a structure fire in a shuttered house frequented by the homeless on Saturday afternoon just before 1 p.m.
![Missoula County, city set Marshall Mountain vote; long-term costs unknown](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/04/attachment-Marshall-Mountain.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Missoula County, city set Marshall Mountain vote; long-term costs unknown
In the coming weeks, the city and county of Missoula will take a detailed look at their option to purchase 480 acres on Marshall Mountain, possibly converting the one-time ski hill into a hub of outdoor recreation. But some costs remain unknown.