The Montana Department of Revenue filed an appeal with the Montana Tax Appeal Board this week over a decision by the Cascade County Tax Appeal Board that lowered Calumet Montana Refining’s 2017 taxable value. Calumet had protested the value that DOR set at $538 million. In February, the three-person county tax appeal board lowered to $312.5 million. Calumet had requested
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Jack Allen has worked for the Great Falls Police Department for a quarter of the time it has existed. After 33 years, March 30 is his last day and Lt. Doug Mahlum is taking over as the No. 2 in the Support Services Bureau, which is headed by Capt. Jeff Newton. That means some movement throughout the ranks at GFPD
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UPDATED MARCH 30: Detectives have made contact with the male and the truck has been located. Detectives from the Great Falls Police Investigations Bureau have been working closely with the Cascade County Attorney’s Office regarding the homicide of 45 years old Lloyd Geaudry, as identified by the Cascade County Sheriff/Coroner’s Office. The homicide occurred early in the morning on March
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Downtown Great Falls has been nominated for the America’s Main Streets contest through Independent We Stand, which is sponsored by STIHL The winning main street receives $25,000. Voting is open through April 22 and you can vote once daily per IP address. You can vote for Great Falls here. Butte has also been nominated. The Great Falls nomination reads that
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There’s a new game in town. It’s men’s club rugby with the Electric City Shockerz. Their first home game is this Saturday at 1 p.m. at West Kiwanis Park. The Shockerz are playing the Bozeman Cutthroats. Over the years, there have been several unsuccessful attempts to establish a men’s rugby team in Great Falls. At one point, there was a
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Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, filed a pre-award protest recently with the Government Accountability Office over the UH-1N Huey replacement program. The protest was filed in February. The Air Force had been expected to award the contract by the end of June. Three companies bid for Huey replacement program Sikorsky filed the protest claiming the Air Force’s requirement to own
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Air Force officials recently named the winners of the 2017 Nuclear Deterrence Operations Award and the Nuclear & Missile Operations Award. All three of the operations awards went to airmen assigned to Malmstrom Air Force Base. Nuclear & Missile Operations Award winners are: – Operator: 1st Lt. James Kegyes, 12th Missile Squadron, Malmstrom – Company Grade Officer of the Year:
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After a three-hour meeting, the Planning Advisory Board voted to postpone the decision on the Wheat Ridge development to April 24. Anthony Houtz, planning board member, made the motion and said there were things he liked about the project that would start with the annexation of 20.98 acres as the first phase for 37 single-family lots and three mixed use
Read moreJeff Foxworthy will take the stage in the Pacific Steel & Recycling Arena during the 2018 Montana State Fair on Aug. 3. F oxworthy is one of the most respected and successful comedians in the country. He is the largest selling comedy-recording artist in history, a multiple Grammy Award nominee and best selling author of more than 26 books. In
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The Lewis and Clark Foundation is bringing a one-man performance titled, “York,” to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Theater on April 6 at 7 p.m. In a powerful, one-man performance, David Casteal plays the character York, who was William Clark’s personal slave. York accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition as the only African American man in the Corps of
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