"This is an emergency," said former miner Dan Thompson during the town hall meeting with Governor Butch Otter in Wallace on Monday. The meeting was held to discuss the year shutdown of The Lucky Friday mine in Mullan. Thompson has a son that works at the Lucky Friday. Becky Kramer provides this report on the meeting here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

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