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Smurfit-Stone deal breathes new life into Frenchtown, Montana mill, community

May 6, 2011/

For one sunny afternoon at least, it felt like a new day had dawned in Frenchtown and western Montana.

Wednesday’s surprise announcement that the Smurfit-Stone Corp. pulp mill had been sold to a company that did not intend to scrap it was "sort of too good to be true," Missoula Mayor John Engen said.

"But I’ll take it. I’m not a skeptic today. I’m a believer."

By KIM BRIGGEMAN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_f36fb3ea-7795-11e0-a847-001cc4c002e0.html

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