Kayla Desroches

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The Montana Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced lease applications are now open for some of Montana’s oldest standing buildings in central and southwestern Montana, now with longer lease times and, theoretically, more reason for private businesses to invest. The current application period is the result of a new law the legislature passed in May that extends lease times from 20 years to up to 99 years.

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Butte-Silver Bow city-county commissioners voted 11 to 1 this month to raise the rainbow flag at the county courthouse as the community has done for more than a decade, according to Heidi Doxey with the Butte Pride Foundation. “It is a historical precedent here in town to have that flag flown outside the courthouse during June,” said Doxey. Up until recently, whether or not Butte would be able to raise the flag was in doubt.

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Pride events are scheduled statewide, from Missoula to Billings, where nonprofit 406 Pride is organizing the local events. Marcus Frye is a youth pastor at Billings First Congregational Church and 406 Pride’s board president. “Every year at Pride, I see groups of young people walking around who have just put on their rainbow clothes, they’re wearing flags around their shoulders as capes, they’re walking around with their friends and just having a good time,” said Frye.

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A new exhibit at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings reflects the rocky, High Plains climate of northeastern Wyoming, where the artists created the pieces during their residencies with the UCross Foundation. The more-than 40-year-old Ucross art residency program is located east of Sheridan, at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains that cross into southeastern Montana.

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is observing three decades of distributing books to readers five years old and younger. Elizabeth Clinton with affiliate social services organization United Way of Yellowstone County says families who sign up receive a free book delivered to their doors monthly. The model is aimed at making access to reading convenient and affordable.