The Montana Department of Transportation is seeking public comment on a proposal to resurface about 1.2 miles of roadway on Fox Farm Road. The project begins at reference post 0.1 which is located just north of Alder Drive and extends 1.2 miles south ending just south of E. Fiesta at reference post 1.3. Proposed work includes cold milling, applying a
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Cascade County Commissioners approved a $95,000 contract with Water and Environmental Technologies, Inc., or WET, for their continued work assisting in the review and planning for the cleanup of the Black Eagle Superfund site. The contract is being funded with funds the county received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency earlier this summer under the Superfund program for the engineering
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Cascade County Commissioner voted during a special meeting on Oct. 31 to approve a $221,510 contract with Motor Power of Great Falls for two 2021 Kenworth T800 semi trailer trucks for the public works department. The county published bids in September and October in the paper and on the county website and received three bids by the Oct. 11 deadline.
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Recycling has been a topic of discussion during many Neighborhood Council meetings this year and several said they wanted more information from the city on why the city doesn’t provide a program. Based on that interest, City Manager Greg Doyon invited representatives from the city’s sanitation division, Pacific Steel and Recycling, Steel Etc. and Republic Services, a company that acquired
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Members of Neighborhood Council 5 asked members of the city’s other eight councils during the Oct. 29 Council of Councils meeting to sign on to their resolution asking the city to study the potential impact of the Madison Food Park. “This conversation is a call to action,” Eric Ray, Council 5 chairman, said during the meeting. Council 5 voted during
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A Montana native was killed while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, according to a Department of Defense release. Sgt. Nathaneil G. Irish, 23, of Billings, died Oct. 27, of a non-combat related incident at Camp Taji, Iraq. The incident is under investigation, according to the release. Irish was assigned to 25th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright,
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We accidentally skipped Sunday reads last week, but now we’re back on track and present your reading list for what is apparently going to be another week of snow. TIME: Low wages, sexual harassment and unreliable tips. This is life in America’s booming service industry NPR: Dog people live longer. But why? Route Fifty: Dollar Value of Outdoor Recreation For
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It’s long been a chicken or an egg scenario as to whether downtown businesses would stay open later to bring people downtown, or if people would have to be downtown before businesses would stay open later. But starting Nov. 7 and running through the end of the year, several downtown businesses are staying open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays in
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The Council of Councils meets Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Gibson Room at the Civic Center. The Council of Councils includes delegates from each of the city’s nine Neighborhood Councils and two members of the City Commission. The council meets three times annually, generally in January, May and October, to discuss issues of citywide importance and share goals/projects
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Neighborhood Council 5 voted during their Oct. 21 meeting to adopt a resolution requesting that the city formally evaluate the proposed Big Sky Cheese and Madison Food Park. The council’s area borders the eastern city limit line and would the close to the proposed food park complex. The council’s northern boundary is 10th Avenue South, the eastern and southern boundaries are
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