About 40 people gathered Thursday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Boulder to welcome the Montana Highway Patrol to its new home. The MHP and attorney general’s office met with Boulder officials and residents for about an hour at what was billed as a “Coffee with a Cop” event. The state recently announced it was moving the MHP headquarters from rented space in Helena to the state-owned 48-acre Montana Developmental Center campus in Boulder, which has sat vacant for several years.
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