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.

-Delaney & Marx

I just got home a little while ago and the roads could not be more like a sheet of ice. The sanding trucks have been out but it’s barely doing any good with how iced over everything is out there.

Be careful, buckle up, and leave for your destination with some extra time to get there!

-Delaney

-Delaney & Marx

Our site has been moved to the new server mostly all the way….

I’m not going to say completely because I’d rather not jinx it right now. There are still a couple questionable things I’m going to look at more tomorrow after I’ve had some sleep.

This is a test of posting and then I’ll also test-post over at the forums just to make sure that everything is working fairly well over there.

If anyone notices anything wonky, please let us know. And thanks for your patience!

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(Okay I just looked a little more closely and it looks like we’ll have to rebuild the blogroll from scratch because wordpress doesn’t include it in the export file and that never occurred to me. That may take some time….)

-Delaney

We seem to have outgrown the server space that has been freely allotted to us by a very nice friend of ours, so now we are faced with the task of moving ButteTalk and the forums to our new space. The addresses won’t change, but it may take a little bit of time for the DNS to go through and for us to get all the bugs out.

We’ll be back up and running as soon as we can.

And if you were trying to get to the forums and were re-directed here…. click here for Butte Chat…

-Delaney

The Elk Park VFD is planning its annual Snomobile Fun Run Sunday, February 11th. Regestration for this fun event will start at 9am in the Elk Park Fire Hall. This is a family ride, so all are welcome to come out for some fun.

The fundraiser will include 50/50 tickets, food and drinks, and donated door prizes.

For more details and to donate, call Mike Zemljak at 494-2058 or Randy Santifer at 494-8442.

-Delaney & Marx

The Montana Repertory Theatre is touring with Neil Simon’s Lost In Yonkers right now, and they’re coming to Butte with the show.

See it Thursday, February 1st at 8 p.m. at the Mother Lode Theatre in uptown Butte.

I haven’t been able to suss out what the tickets are running–I think it’s a state secret or something. I do know that whatever they’re asking, I’m sure it’s reasonable and Marx and I will certainly catch this one.

For details and to reserve your seats, call the Mother Lode at 723-3602; or visit buttearts.org

-Delaney

Have you seen the newly designed Montana Standard Website?

I love it. It’s beautiful, functional, and everyone responsible deserves a big round of kudos.

It is a long time coming and it came together wonderfully.

Check it out!

-Delaney

If you live in Butte, or just love it, you’ll want to check put the special Butte issue from Montana The Magazine of Western History that will be available in early January.

Check out what the issue contains:

• Entering Butte by Robert R. Swartout Jr.

• ‘See America the Bountiful’ – Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the American Culture of Consumption by Timothy J. LeCain

• Another Look at Burk’s Butte: What We Learned from the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial by Frederick E. Hoxie

• Caring for the Dead: The Development of the Funeral Business in Butte by Zena Beth McGlashan

• 1,000,000 Glasses a Day: Butte’s Beer History on Tap by Steve Lozar

• Driving Haul Trucks in the Berkeley Pit: Reminiscences of a Gritty Job by Bill Long

• About Butte by Wim Wenders

• The Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark by Martha Kohl

• Bioprospecting in the Berkeley Pit: The Search for Valuable Natural Products from a Most Unnatural World by Andrea Stierle

• Our Lady of the Rockies by Kris King

Montana The Magazine of Western History has been published by the Montana Historical Society since 1951 and circulates to all 50 states and to over a dozen foreign countries. It is one of the most prize-winning magazines in the nation receiving several Spur and Wrangler awards.

Copies of Montana The Magazine of Western History should be available on newsstands now or very soon or can be ordered by calling 1-800-243-9900 or (406) 444-4708.

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P.S. Thanks to reader Jools for the heads up on this.

-Delaney

The Butte-Silver Bow Public Works Department has been running a Christmas Tree recycling program since 1992. A recent release says that over 67,000 trees have been recycled in the past fourteen years.

More information on the program:

The tree recycling program saves valuable landfill space and provides material to be used in the compost production at the Butte-Silver Bow Landfill. The tree collection is a major portion of the 6,000 cubic yards of tree trimming and yard waste that are diverted from landfill disposal each year.

All residents are asked to remove all decorations, nails, tinsel, wire, ropes, plastic bags and nailed-on stands before putting the trees at the collection sites.

Recycle your tree through the month of January by leaving it at any of the following locations:

1. Civic Center parking lot
2. Stodden Park
3. The empty lot on the southeast corner of Platinum and Excelsior
4. Continental Drive South of St. James East
5. The Mountain Con Skating rink at Main St. and Minah St.
6. High Altitude Speed Skating Center parking lot
7. Compost Area at the Butte-Silver Bow Landfill

For more information: Contact the Public Works Department at 497-6515 or 782-1463.

-Delaney