If you have a vision for downtown Great Falls, there’s a chance to share it on Oct. 2. Downtown organizations are hosting a visioning session for specific blocks with the “most untapped potential.” The session is 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Missouri Room at the Civic Center and includes pizza and non-alcoholic beverages. Organizers ask that you RSVP here so they
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Hope you’ve all enjoyed the weather this weekend. Here’s your Sunday reads: CityLab: Parking Reform Will Save the City AP: Bankers Expect Slow Economic Growth Amid Trade War PEW: Yoga, Zumba Narcan: Check Out Your Local Library RTDNA: Elimination of Copy Editors Has Been Disastrous for Newspapers Washington Post: The End of an American Tradition: The Amtrak Dining Car Forbes:
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Through the end of September, the works of two giants of Western art are simultaneously on display at the C.M. Russell Museum. It’s the last week of the Return to Calgary exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charlie Russell’s special exhibition at the 1919 Victory Stampede and in the next gallery is O.C. Seltzer’s West exhibit. Twenty-two of the paintings
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Neighborhood Council 4 meets at Heritage Baptist Church, 900 52nd St. N. on Sept. 26 at 6:30 pm. Agenda items include committee reports, neighborhood concerns, notice of council vacancy and guest speakers. The guest speakers include Terry Thompson and Bruce Pollington, candidates for City Commission; and Montana Department of Probation and Parole Deputy Chief of Region 3 Wayne Bye. Monthly
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Charlies Coffeehouse at 223 Central Avenue is closing at the end of the month. Owner Linda Weninger said “it’s just time. It was a real, real hard decision.” She’s leased the space in the D.A. Davidson building for 11.5 years. Business has been good over the years, she said, and she’s sold most of the equipment and furniture on the
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Jazz is returning to the Ozark Club tonight. The room at The History Museum has held jazz concerts and programming for the last decade and tonight, it’s featuring Afro-Latin jazz with John Roberts y Pan Blanco. The Ozark Club was resurrected about a decade ago and pays homage to a black jazz club that was on the southside of Great
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Candidates for Great Falls City Commission took questions during a forum hosted by Neighborhood Council 5 on Sept. 16. Candidates who attended were Mayor Bob Kelly, who is running unopposed; and commission candidates Bruce Pollington, Kim Rodriguez, Jasmine Taylor, Terry Thompson and Rick Tryon. Incumbent Tracy Houck did not attend. She told the forum organizers that she had another engagement.
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The Cascade County Clerk of Court is resigning, effective Jan. 2. Faye McWilliams notified the County Commission last week of her decision to resign from the elected position. She was appointed in January 2011 to fill the term of another clerk who had resigned and won a 2012 election to the four-year term. She ran again in 2016. Her term
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The future of the Cascade City-County Health Department is uncertain. Since the county split with what is now Alluvion Health, a private nonprofit that took many county staffers with it including the health officer and prevention services division manager, the county has struggled to figure out next steps. By the end of a meeting on Sept. 18 between the County
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As part of the water main river crossing project, the city’s contractor HDD Company will be conducting a pipe pull operation at the intersection of 6th Street Southwest and 10th Avenue Southwest. Beginning at 9 a.m. Sept. 20 through 7 a.m. Sept. 23, 10th Avenue Southwest will be closed to traffic. Northbound traffic on 6th Street Southwest will be reduced
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