On Tuesday, City Commissioners will consider awarding a $7,569 contract to Falls Mechanical Services for the evaluation of the sanitary sewer system at all four city fire stations. The contract will also include a storm sewer investigation at Fire Station 1 downtown. Sewer collapses were discovered at two fire stations earlier this year. During a July meeting, Great Falls Fire Rescue
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The City of Great Falls is requesting proposals for the full-time operation of a café/restaurant at the Community Recreation Center. The current area consists of 710 square feet of customer seating/serving area, 648 square foot kitchen area with walk in cooler and 1,420 square feet of additional space adjacent to the restaurant. “The city is interested in providing a quality
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The city’s new water tower on Gore Hill will be coming into service sometime between now and Monday. The new 500,000-gallon tank was filled Thursday afternoon and once the disinfectant tests are completed, new tower will come on-line, Jim Rearden said Thursday evening. Last fall, the City Commission approved a $2.4 million contract to Landmark Structures I, L.P. for the
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Now that the gymnastics center is up and running in the former Pacific Galleries building on 9th Street North, property owner Dan Bateman is working to further fill the 65,000 square building. This week, the city planning board unanimously voted to recommend that the City Commission approve Bateman’s request for a conditional use permit to allow for an “indoor sports
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The city has temporarily discontinued its live stream of meetings on the city website. Antiquated equipment and incompatibility between newer pieces of equipment and software has caused continued problems for the web live stream. In October, the City Commission approved a $7,200 contract with AVI Systems Inc. for engineering services to upgrade recording and streaming capabilities to high-definition in the
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Grant Harville, music director at the Great Falls Symphony, will be hosting a symphony preview at noon on Nov. 29 in Heritage Hall at Great Falls College MSU highlighting this weekend’s holiday performance, Voices of Christmas. The preview is free and open to the public. This year’s concert features the Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir, joined by the community chorus
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Canned Food Day is Nov. 30 at Great Falls Municipal Court. For those making monthly payments on court fines, if you bring 10 cans and/or boxes of food, it will count for one $50 monthly payment that will be applied to December or any payment thereafter. Any non-perishable food will be accepted. More cans may be donated, but the maximum
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The building at 111 Central Avenue is returning to its German roots and will open for the Christmas Stroll on Dec. 7. Jolene and Matthias Schalper bought the former theater building last fall and are opening the KellerGeist Pub Theater. “Matthias and I knew that we wanted to do something downtown,” Jolene said. They didn’t know what and then the
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Cascade County Commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a $848,519 contract to Dick Olson Construction to remodel the Paddock Club at Montana ExpoPark. The bid is nearly $100,000 over estimates since the original plan was to use the existing bathrooms, but during the demolition work, the county discovered that they weren’t on a good foundation, according to Brian Clifton,
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Great Falls Fire Rescue has been impacted by the national paramedic shortage and has been developing local solutions to grow their own. The department is working with Great Falls College MSU to develop a condensed version of the paramedic program with plans to pilot the course with eight current GFFR firefighters. The details are still being worked out and GFFR
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