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Jim Meinert is retiring after serving as director of The History Museum for the last nine years. Kristi Scott has been hired as the new director and she begins work at the museum March 18. “Her appointment to this position was an outstanding choice by the museum’s board of directors,” Meinert said in a release. Scott served as curator of
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Great Falls made the list of the top 100 places in this year’s ranking by Livability.com. Great Falls made the list for the first time, coming in at 97. Brett Doney of the Great Falls Development Authority told City Commissioners on Tuesday that in the past Great Falls didn’t even make the top 1,000 a few years ago. Billings and
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The Great Falls Original Farmers’ Market is expanding into Central Avenue this year and has launched a new website and logo. Starting in June, the market will expand into Central Avenue from the Civic Center to 2nd Street South. The additional space will accommodate the excess vendor requests the market receives in June and July, according to Erin Borland, chairman
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American vocal quartet, The Four Tops, will perform July 28 at the Montana State Fair and multi-platinum selling Collective Soul plays July 27. The Four Tops quartet, originally called the Four Aims, made their first single for Chess in 1956, and spent seven years on the road and in nightclubs, singing pop, blues, Broadway, but mostly jazz-four-part harmony jazz. When Motown’s
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Rock and Roll group Hairball will take the stage July 30 in the Pacific Steel & Recycling Arena during the 2019 Montana State Fair. “Vocalists Bobby, Kris Vox, and Joe Dandy lead the band through a 2-plus hour, mind-blowing, and drop-dead accurate homage to some of the biggest arena act’s in the world. Van Halen, KISS, Motley Crue, Queen, Journey,
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The Great Falls Symphony takes the stage again this weekend at the Mansfield Theater for Passionate Passages. Saturday’s concert “will take you on a musical journey through Bohemia, Spain and an idyllic, pastoral scene in the countryside,” according to the symphony. The performance will include the Slavonic Dances by Czech composer Antonín Dvorˇák. Great Falls Symphony kicks off 60th season
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