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Former Company Town Faces Uncertain Future – Bonner, Montana finds itself on the cusp of major change.

For the past century, residents here have known two constants. They worked at the local lumber mill, where a seemingly endless supply of timber from the mountains kept saws whirring. And they played at the Milltown Reservoir, fishing and swimming behind a dam that was built at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers to supply electricity to the mill.

Now the mill has closed, the dam is being torn down and a multimillionaire developer from Missoula, Mont., Scott Cooney, is buying up Bonner, one of the nation’s last company towns.

Bonner, Montana http://www.travelmt.com/mt-cities-Bonner.html

By PAMELA J. PODGER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/us/19bonner.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

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