Goats have returned to Malmstrom Air Force Base for year two of a three-year weed management project. About 350 Spanish Boer Cross goats leaped from two livestock trailers Tuesday afternoon and raced to find the best weeds to munch on. They started in a field they’d worked in last year and would spend maybe an hour in that patch before moving
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Due to rain forecast for Saturday, June 16, the River’s Edge Trail Luminaria Walk and Lewis and Clark Festival has been rescheduled for Aug. 25. River’s Edge Trail Luminaria Walk is June 16 The Bluegrass in the Park Concert scheduled for June 15, hosted by Lewis & Clark Foundation, will go on as scheduled in Gibson Park. For tickets to this
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A new mural of Paris Gibson, the founder of Great Falls, has been added to the Baum-Trinastich Building at 114 3rd St. S. The building was built in 1914 and is the home of Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams, P.C. Law Firm. The mural was done by Jim DeStaffany and Andrew Fowler of Conrad, and is the third mural the
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The city planning department put a stop work order Tuesday afternoon on work at Great Falls High School. The Great Falls School District had closed a street, begun demolition of a city sidewalk and was cutting down trees without obtaining any city approvals or permits. The district has submitted civil plans for the project, according to Craig Raymond, city planning
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The reconstruction of Fox Farm Road from East Fiesta to Dick Road is underway. United Materials began work on June 4 and the roughly $3.5 million project is expected to last through Oct. 1. Beginning June 13, southbound traffic on Fox Farm Road will be detoured at 45th Avenue South to Flood Road and back to Fox Farm via Dick
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The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment has a full roster after a tumultuous six month process. During Tuesday morning’s meeting, the County Commission voted unanimously to appoint Michele Levine to the vacant seat on the board. The application period closed last week and the county received 16 applications for the vacancy. Hearing rescheduled in county lawsuit; ZBOA application period
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The Air Force had planned to award a contract for the UH-1N Huey replacement program sometime this month, but that has been pushed into the fall. The Air Force is working to replace the Huey fleet of 84 helicopters, which are primarily used to augment security in the missile fields of Malmstrom, Minot and F.E. Warren AFBs. Those bases operate
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Several projects are set to go before the city Planning Advisory Board on Tuesday. Among those actions is the final plat for Buffalo Crossing, a 2.2 acre parcel along the Missouri River that was subdivided into six parcels, earlier this year. The owner, Holman Grain, is hoping the action will help spur development of the property on the corner of
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Montana State Parks is seeking public comment on a draft Environmental Assessment for a proposed equipment/maintenance building project at Giant Springs State Park. Comments will be accepted through 5 p.m. July 9. The proposed project would construct a new 24’ x 40’ concrete pad and post frame equipment/maintenance building next to the existing enclosed storage area located at the northeast
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Plans for the new student center at the University of Providence are moving forward and the project goes before the city’s Design Review Board on Monday. The new University Center is located within the 4.3 acre campus, on the west side where the 20th Street South parking lot currently sits. Design Review Board to consider for Broadwater Bay office building,
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