One of the features that will dominate the façade of the new $35 million Missoula Public Library will be a two-story window that will showcase a huge STEM DNA Climbing Structure and research lab.
There are predictions that up to 32,000 new residents may be moving into the Missoula area between now and the year 2040 and various organizations are looking at how that will affect housing availability and affordability at a meeting this week.
The site for the new public library is prepared and waiting for the groundbreaking in late July or early August, according to Karl Olson with the Foundation for the Missoula Public Library.
Not much work was being done on Monday as hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered in Missoula's Kiwanis Park to see the first full solar eclipse to cross the USA for 99 years.