A five and a half week work plan was laid out at Missoula’s City Council meeting on Wednesday. Chairwoman Emily Bentley said the council is ready to dive head first into the Missoula Mercantile demolition debate.
'Save the Merc' proponents brought in 'the big guns', so to speak on Wednesday, in their efforts to stave off the possible demolition of the iconic Missoula Mercantile Building.
The 175-foot smokestack of the former Peninsula Plywood mill in Port Angeles, proved to be stronger than expected and failed to fall with explosives as planned, prompting demolition crews to cut pieces of reinforcing steel by hand and then pulling the structure down by a cable attached to an excavator...