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Missoula Current
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![Under pressure, USPS pauses plan to move Missoula processing center](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/10/Rankin-post-office.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Under pressure, USPS pauses plan to move Missoula processing center
The United States Postal Service on Monday announced that it will pause plans to consolidate the Missoula processing center and relocate some operations to Washington.
![Under pressure, USPS pauses plan to move MSO processing center](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/10/Rankin-post-office.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Under pressure, USPS pauses plan to move MSO processing center
The United States Postal Service on Monday announced that it will pause plans to consolidate the Missoula processing center and relocate some operations to Washington.
![Shakewell, Desperate Electric hit Missoula for energetic performance](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/05/attachment-Desperate-Electric6.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Shakewell, Desperate Electric hit Missoula for energetic performance
Missoula's pop funk band, Shakewell, was joined on stage at the Wilma Theater on Friday by Desperate Electric, the duo of Katyi Korte and Ben Morris from Butte, to celebrate the University of Montana's graduation week.
![UM grad launches TAPMissoula, ‘hyper-local’ social media platform](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/05/attachment-tech.jpg?w=980&q=75)
UM grad launches TAPMissoula, ‘hyper-local’ social media platform
A new social media tool made its official launch in Missoula this month, providing what its creators describe as a hyper-local tool in an otherwise saturated social media market.
![Missoula’s Mobile Support Team continues to evolve, but seeks funding](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/10/attachment-fire-department.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Missoula’s Mobile Support Team continues to evolve, but seeks funding
As the Mobile Support and Crisis Intervention teams in Missoula enter another year, they continue tracking data to help right-size their response to calls involving a behavioral-health crisis, while working to better ingrate both 911 and 988.
![Viewpoint: Republicans betraying rural Montana](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/05/attachment-Katie-Sullivan.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Republicans betraying rural Montana
Katie Sullivan and Ryan Lynch write, "Republicans fight with each other all the time, but it seems the one thing they can agree on is throwing rural Montana under the bus."
![Harmon’s Histories: A mother fondly remembers childhood on Huntley Project](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/05/attachment-Vesta-Knoke-and-baby-sister-Dena.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Harmon’s Histories: A mother fondly remembers childhood on Huntley Project
It’s important to note that Mother’s Day is singular, not plural. It was created to honor your own mother, not all mothers. In that context, I honor my late mother, Vesta Jane (nee Knoke) Harmon, who wrote her own story of growing up on the Huntley Project in Montana in 1908.
![‘Extreme’ geomagnetic storm lights up the Montana sky](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/05/attachment-Northern-Lights-over-Mission-Mountains-.jpg?w=980&q=75)
‘Extreme’ geomagnetic storm lights up the Montana sky
One of the strongest geomagnetic storms in 20 years lit up the Missoula sky on Friday night, offering viewers what some space physicists have described as a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity.
![Rep. Mercer: Fruit of a Poisonous Tree](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/05/attachment-Bill-Mercer.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Rep. Mercer: Fruit of a Poisonous Tree
Bill Mercer writes, "With the completion of the poll of the Legislature on whether to override the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 442, I want to explain my consistent opposition to the bill, including voting against overriding the veto."
![Low moisture, snowpack means low streams in western Montana](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2024/02/attachment-snow.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Low moisture, snowpack means low streams in western Montana
The past few days of moisture pulled some parts of Montana out of impending deep drought, but western Montana is still critically dry with low snowpack and low streamflows.