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Missoula Current
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![Harmon’s Histories: Missoula’s last train robbery was a dynamiting doozy](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Clipping-Headline-The-Missoulian-Tuesday-May-30-1905.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Harmon’s Histories: Missoula’s last train robbery was a dynamiting doozy
It was the last of the great Missoula-area train robberies. Dynamite (and lots of it) was used.
![Montana grown and made: Stockman Bank celebrates 70 years](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/12/stockman.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Montana grown and made: Stockman Bank celebrates 70 years
A Montana bank founded in 1953 by a rancher in Miles City has since grown to serve the state, and this month it's celebrating 70 years of business.
![UM enrollment on the mend; largest freshman class in years](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/11/attachment-university-of-montana-2.jpg?w=980&q=75)
UM enrollment on the mend; largest freshman class in years
The University of Montana continued to put its enrollment woes behind it, reporting a 3.7% increase in students - the largest annual year of growth in 14 years.
![City-owned properties ripe for redevelopment; interest high but market tough](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/05/attachment-Sleepy-Inn-construction.jpg?w=980&q=75)
City-owned properties ripe for redevelopment; interest high but market tough
Development interest in a number of properties owned by the City of Missoula is high, and officials believe activity could begin within the coming year on some of them.
![As good as the ’90s: Counting Crows warm a cool Missoula night](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Counting-Crows.jpg?w=980&q=75)
As good as the ’90s: Counting Crows warm a cool Missoula night
William Munoz writes, "The Counting Crows have succeeded to be a 'good' band, one that Robbie Robertson recognized all those years ago."
![Blackfoot Clearwater wilderness bill headed to Senate floor](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Blackfoot.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Blackfoot Clearwater wilderness bill headed to Senate floor
The act would add about 78,000 acres of wilderness to the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and create two recreation management areas for snowmobiling and mountain biking.
![Climate Connections: 5th Annual Expo celebrates climate momentum](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-climate2.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Climate Connections: 5th Annual Expo celebrates climate momentum
Amy Cilimburg and Abby Huseth write, "Five years ago at our first Expo, our community was just beginning to explore options for reaching a goal that seemed audacious at the time: 100% clean electricity for Missoula."
![Viewpoint: Forest Service logging makes mockery of Biden’s climate pledge](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-logging.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Forest Service logging makes mockery of Biden’s climate pledge
Mike Garrity writes, "Biden’s climate pledges are meaningless unless his Forest Service ceases its ever-increasing and illegal logging."
![City officials: Property taxes at “breaking point” under state system](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2021/07/housing-growth.jpg?w=980&q=75)
City officials: Property taxes at “breaking point” under state system
The state's shift in property taxes away from corporations to homeowners is reaching a breaking point as households struggle, Missoula city officials said.
![MRA officially adopts new Missoula workforce housing program](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/01/Housing.jpg?w=980&q=75)
MRA officially adopts new Missoula workforce housing program
A pilot program that looks to boost the construction of workforce housing and direct revenue into the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund was approved by the Missoula Redevelopment Agency's board of commissioners on Thursday.