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A proposal to restore the Old Post Hospital at Fort Missoula by developing several acres of private property next to it drew wide opinions Wednesday night as the Historic Preservation Committee opened its public hearing on the matter.

Missoula County plans to place the property - settled in the 1870s - on the National Register of Historic Places.

Happy holiday! What holiday, you ask? Why it’s Seward’s Day, of course. I know, it’s only celebrated in Alaska. But I could use a day off, so I’m partying like it’s 1999! Well, actually – like it's 1867!

Jim Harmon writes that the University of Montana "campus newspaper, the Kaimin, reported in 1915 that young women liked donuts as much as young men."

“A jolly little blue bear, illuminated at night, sits above the main entrance inviting all to enter and enjoy themselves,” reported the Western News in Libby on September 23, 1948.