Polebridge Mercantile’s world famous cinnamon buns are now baked by the sun as it goes solar.

Gone are the smell of diesel fuel and the background hum of the generator at the Polebridge Mercantile http://www.facebook.com/pages/Polebridge-MT/Polebridge-Mercantile/77072912818 . In the generator’s place stand two solar panels, which provide power to the famous store — silently, and at little cost to the environment — which is exactly what owners Flannery Coats and Stuart Reiswig wanted.

"We had both been interested in alternative energy sources," Coats said. "With the generator glugging away we couldn’t hear the beauty of nature. We wanted (the energy) to come from a renewable source."

By K.J. HASCALL / Hungry Horse News

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