There are two Neighborhood Councils are meeting next week. Neighborhood Council 6 meets at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in the Sunnyside School Library. Agenda items include Sunnyside Park funds, open burn permits, Council of Councils special meeting recap, City Commission work session topics and neighborhood concerns. Masks are required. The Great Falls Public Schools mask requirement applies to any meetings
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Nikki Lopez, the owner of Sora & Company downtown, has been charged in federal court with 14 counts of wire fraud. Lopez is charged for making $611,665.22 in unauthorized payments from M&D Construction accounts to pay her personal credit card bills between January 2017 and through at least January 2020, according to the federal indictment filed Sept. 17. If convicted,
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Missile maintenance facility completed Malmstrom Air Force Base officials held a ribbon cutting for the now completed missile maintenance dispatch facility that will be used for storage for missile field components, space for repair and testing, and keep vehicles out of the weather to accommodate dispatch and recovery missions. Construction on the $18.68 million facility began in July 2019 and
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(Rendering above by LPW Architecture) Touro College and University System is breaking ground on its proposed new campus of a medical school near Benefis Health System on Oct. 6. The school has partnered with Benefis for clinical education for the new campus of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (New York). The medical school is scheduled to open with 125
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City Commissioners approved a three-year parking management contract with SP+, the current contractor, during their Sept. 21 meeting. In October 2020, the city planning department issued a request for proposals for parking operations and management services. The city received four proposals and the Parking Advisory Commission voted in December to recommend the SP+ contract. Parking program resumes generating revenue, begins
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Cascade County added 450 new COVID-19 cases over the last week, bringing the cumulative total to 13,010, according to the weekly update from the City-County Health Department. Of the new cases, 103 were in people 19 and younger, according to CCHD. Here’s this week’s age breakdown of new cases from CCHD: Age New Cases (9/23 to 9/29) % of Total
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City staff has been working for the last several years on revamping the development review process in an effort to streamline the process and make it more predictable. Last week, City Commissioners approved new engineering fee structures as a part of that revamped process. The first group of fees is for land development engineering review and other work done by
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The city planning board unanimously voted to recommend approval of a zoning change for a 14.9 acre property off River Drive North from light industrial and mixed-use transitional to planned unit development. The property is the former Wausau Building Supply site. TC Glass and the Great Falls Development Authority have been in discussions with city staff for the last few
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Great Falls Montana Tourism is relocating operations to 15 Overlook Drive and is seeking an artist to create a mural in their office space. Demolition started at the city-owned building last week and construction was also starting last week. City Commission asked to set Feb. 2 public hearing for visitor center lease In February, the City Commissioner approved a seven-year
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The Great Falls Public Schools board approved the selection of Catalyst Commercial during its Sept. 27 meeting to serve as the real estate agent for the sale of Roosevelt Elementary School and the Campfire house. Catalyst will now develop the timeline for next steps in the sale, according to GFPS. Over the summer, the board approved the disposal and surplus
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