June 26, 1976:
On this date 50 years ago, the State Board of Natural Resources gave conditional approval to the construction of two huge power plants in southeastern Montana. The vote was 4-3 on a motion to allow the construction with 14 specific conditions attached, and a spokesman for Montana Power Co. said that one condition alone would add $10 million in costs (about $5.85 million in today's dollars) to the already $1 billion (roughly $5.85 billion today) project.
In other front-page news, District Judge Jack L. Green ordered the prosecutor in the Levi Stump murder trial to charge his star witness with perjury and the fiercest single battle of Lebanon's civil war raged into its fourth day.
June 29, 2001:
On this date 25 years ago, Missoula City Council members voted for a resolution to remove Milltown Dam and the sediments in the reservoir to safeguard the Missoula aquifer. Mayor Mike Kadas cautioned that the resolution "gives absolute primacy to drinking water over all else, and there are other resources at stake."
In other front-page news, academic explorers from UM were set to embark on a mission to create a national curriculum around the Lewis and Clark expedition, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress can limit political parties' spending on their congressional candidates, and three environmental groups were in court to block timber sales.
