The Amber Alert in search of 10 year old Jacob Brown was cancelled today.

Brown was found safely with a family member.

An Amber Alert was placed in effect Saturday afternoon in search of 10 year old Jacob Brown of Livingston, MT.

Jacob is 4′8″ tall and weighs 90 lbs. He has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a black and orange coat, baggy jeans green and white shirt, and black shoes. Missing from his residence residence at 40 Willow Drive in Livingston.

Jacob went to the movie theatre at 4:00pm and was seen being dropped off at his residence at 4:45pm. He has not been seen since.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Brown, call 911 or 877-AMBERMT immediately.

For more information, visit AmberAlertMT.com.

Butte will host the State AA Championship Tournament on January 12th and 13th, 2007. Approximately 600 speakers and coaches from AA and ABC schools around the state will compete for honors inn 11 events. This tournament is being co-hosted by Butte Contral High School Speech and Debate.

No experience is necessory to judge a round of debate, speech or interpretation. There will be a judges clinic offered at 7:00 on Wednesday, January 10th in the Butte High Commons for those wanting to familiarize or review judging procedures. The elevator at Butte High will be available throughout the weekend for judges and participants requiring assistance. For any questions, contact Doug Ruffier at 533-2273.

As you may have heard, Butte will be the site of an Economic Development Summit next spring with ties to some pretty big names in media and business.

From the Billings Gazette:

WASHINGTON – Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw will headline an economic development summit in Butte in April.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is organizing the summit. Gates will appear live via satellite.

“The summit is about working together to boost our state’s economy and create more good-paying jobs,” Baucus said. “We want our kids to be able to stay here and raise their families.”

The summit begins April 30 and ends May 1.

Well, it is an excellent honor for Butte to be selected as the place to host the summit.

One commenter on the Billings Gazette story thinks that it’s a wasted honor.

Hole wrote on November 18, 2006 4:14 PM
Butte is a hole. If Montana were to be given an enima, that is where they’d stick it. How about Billings, Missoula, or Bozeman for such an event!

We are pretty sick and tired of Butte having this rap to the rest of the state. People who haven’t been here in a while really have nothing to base this kind of comment on. Butte’s a changing place. We really are going to have to work extremely hard just to climb out of the “hole” of everyone elses’ biases.

I think the summit will be good for Butte, and it’s no wonder that Baucus would select us for his damn summit. We’re the only place in this state that supports his party in the first place, aren’t we?

So come on Butte, it’s our turn to shine. Don’t let the naysayers have the satisfaction of being even CLOSE to right.

And for the record, we in Butte can manage to spell enema right…

As a follow-up to our last post, Robert Hollister Reneau has been found safe.

According to this story at the Billings Gazette, when he was found he was was very ill and disoriented.

Thankfully it didn’t turn out worse!

Here’s wishing him a speedy recovery.

Robert Hollister Reneau, a Butte/Anaconda area campaign field director for the Montana Democratic Party was reported missing last Saturday.

Reneau was last seen Saturday afternoon in Anaconda. He was supposed to meet people in Butte for dinner later that evening but didn’t show up. He is not answering his phone or any e-mails.

Reneau is described as weighing 180-200 pounds with fair skin, blue eyes, and light brown hair.

He was driving a 1999 Toyota 4-Runner (License 4C-49708) with Jon Tester and other political stickers on it. The vehicle has not been seen since Saturday either.

If you have any information reguarding Reneau’s whereabouts, contact local law enforcement.

Update: A comment posted by a reader at the Billings Gazette says he’s been found safe.

Thankfully wrote on October 24, 2006 10:12 PM
word from his family is, he’s been found safe and sound.

Can anyone confirm this?

It was announced earlier that Interstate 15 from Lima into Idaho a distance has been closed due to a severe brush fire.

When more info becomes available, we’ll keep you up to date.

Edit: Apparently I-15 has been reopened.

The Copper King Express Excursion Train will take its inagural run today at 1 p.m.

It’s part of a weekend of events in Anaconda called Blast From the Past. It’s being done in conjunction with the grand opening of the Anaconda Railroad & Mining Museum.

In 2004, Rarus Railway Company (the successor to the B.A.&P.), purchased some passenger cars and created the “Copper King Express”. With the creation of the excursion train, passenger trains would once again operate over the former B.A.&P. line. It had been 50 years since the last regular passenger train service operated on the line.

The train will run every Friday and Saturday from this weekend until September.

Prices

• Adult: $25
• Students (ages 6-18): $17
• Seniors (ages 60 and over): $17

You can purchase tickets at the website, by calling (406) 563-7121, or by emailing rarusrailway@yahoo.com

Any of you who attends the Blast From the Past celebration, let us know your impressions. Leave us a comment with all the details. And if you take photos, we’d love for you to pass them along.

Related Links

• Gold West Country
• History of the Railroad
• Montana Standard’s news story

These are the possible designs for the Montana quarter:

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

Which design do YOU prefer for the Montana quarter?

Let us know by leaving a comment, and then don’t forget to cast your vote.