Leona Bacon is a volunteer with the City of Roberts. As people came into town Leona was there with information on parking, camping, options for hotel rooms. She wore a vest which read: The Great Roberts Eclipse. Bacon decided to volunteer because she wanted to be active in the community. “I really like how everyone is loving our small town,” said Bacon. “People from Arizona, Utah, New York, Canada, California, they are all saying that they just love it.”
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August 26, 2017
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Total perfection: Chasing solar eclipse totality
For those lucky enough to have clear weather on Monday, Aug. 21, the path of totality for the Great American Eclipse gave sky watchers around two minutes of undiluted perfection. While the direct shadow of the moon did cross a small patch of Montana, those who wanted to see the real power of a total eclipse of the sun had to travel to get to it. And many Montanans chose to do just that.