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It’s National Preservation Month and the Great Falls-Cascade County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission is hosting their annual awards ceremony on May 30. The event is 6-8 p.m. at the C.M. Russell Museum, 400 13th St. N. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served and the public is invited to attend. During the event, the commission will recognize the preservation of three
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The Night Market is back on Friday night. The event takes over the 300-400 blocks of Central Avenue from 5-8 p.m. May 24. Craft and art vendors will be set up on Central, with live music, art demonstrations and drinks. The event is hosted by the Downtown Great Falls Association and 24 vendors registered for the event. Joel Corda will
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Summer road construction season is approaching and beginning early June, crews will be working on improvements to the bridge deck of Exit 0 on Country Club Boulevard, specifically the bridge over the railroad tracks. Travelers heading east and west over this stretch of Country Club Boulevard, between the Fox Farm signal and Interstate 15, will merge into single-lane traffic in
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The City Commission met Wednesday afternoon to conduct their annual evaluation of City Manager Greg Doyon. The commission met with Doyon in executive session for about two hours and when they came back into the public meeting, voted 5-0 to increase his compensation by four percent of the base salary, retroactive to March. Doyon’s base salary is $149,348 and the
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Beginning July 1, parking meter rates in downtown Great Falls will increase to $1 per hour. The City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday, with Commissioner Tracy Houck dissenting, to increase the meter rate; replace the annual courtesy ticket with one per lifetime of a license plate; and slightly revise the fines for time violations. The new fine structure will be:
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The Cascade County planning board voted 4-2 not to revise the growth policy. After about three hours of discussion the majority of the board decided that the policy that was adopted in 2014 remained adequate today. County reviewing growth policy The board largely agreed that the five primary goal included in the 2014 document had not changed. Those five goals
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Faced with year’s of deferred maintenance that the parking program hasn’t been able to afford, the Parking Advisory Commission has recommended several changes that the City Commission will consider Tuesday night. Last fall’s proposal to quadruple meter rates on Central Avenue was essentially dead in the water and the PAC has since revised the proposal. $2 meter rate hike proposal
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The filing period for city positions is open through June 17. We check on the filings at least once a week and here’s the update for May 20. The positions on the ballot this year are two City Commission seats, which are four-year terms, and the two-year mayor seat. Municipal judge and all 45 neighborhood council positions are open. So
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Two neighborhood councils meeting next week. Neighborhood Council 5 meets in the Great Falls Clinic Specialty Center Conference Room, 3000 15th Ave. S at 7 p.m. May 20. Agenda items include committee reports, neighborhood concerns, introduction of new council member, field of trash next to the east end Walmart and guest presenters. Jim Porter will give an update on the Highland
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The street sweeping schedule for May 20-24 is below. Residents are asked to remove vehicles from the area from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on their scheduled day. The schedule may change or be canceled due to weather conditions. May 20: All streets and avenues in Belview and Westhill additions May 21: All streets and avenues from 3rd Street Southwest to
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