The Anaconda Leader is the newspaper of record in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County and has operated in the heart of downtown Anaconda for more than half a century.Founded by the late Dean Neitz in 1970, the Leader is published on Wednesdays and Fridays each week on our own in-house printing press, and our full-service print shop also prints newspapers from the neighboring communities of Philipsburg and Deer Lodge.Although Dean passed away in 2019, his son Van carries on the family tradition as owner/publisher of the Leader, bringing hyperlocal news coverage of the Anaconda area to our readers each ...