One neighborhood council and the Council of Councils meet Jan. 24-28. Council of Councils meets at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 in the Gibson Room upstairs at the Civic Center. Each of the city’s nine Neighborhood Councils will be represented along with two City Commission members. Agenda items include fireworks, a police department update, legal department update on new ordinances and
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The City Commission appointed Commissioner Joe McKenney during the Jan. 18 meeting as its representative to the governing body for the Cascade County City-County Health Department. McKenney replaces Mayor Bob Kelly as the representative to that board since Kelly has since joined the joint city-county health board as the city’s representative on that public body. Health board selects officers; county
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Cascade County added 733 new COVID cases over the last week, a spike from recent weeks, according to the weekly update from the City-County Health Department. The new case rate is 128.7 per 100,000, the highest rate since the pandemic started in 2020, exceeding the spikes in the fall of 2020 and the fall of 2021, according to data from
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Updated at 11 a.m. Jan. 19 The Cascade County City-County Health Department is holding a immunization clinic from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Holiday Village Mall, 1200 10th Ave. S. in space 21 on the west end of the main corridor. COVID-19 and influenza vaccines will be available. For COVID-19 vaccinations, both primary doses and booster
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Great Falls Public Schools will reopen for in-person learning as normally scheduled on Jan. 18. Health officials are recommending masks and GFPS is recommending that people wear masks when they return on Tuesday but they are not requiring them, Superintendent Tom Moore said on Jan. 16. Some activities and sports may not be on their normal schedule due to staff
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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking public comment on draft environmental assessments for two proposed projects in the Great Falls region. The first project is to increase the number of Westslope cutthroat trout within the Belt Creek watershed. The species has “undergone substantial reductions in distribution and abundance throughout their native range. Genetically unaltered WCT presently occupy 6.2 percent
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Great Falls Public Schools officials reviewed the district’s COVID-19 numbers on Jan. 14 and have more than 250 infections among faculty and staff, according to the district. “That is the highest number of infections we have experienced since COVID-19 hit our community in the winter of 2020,” according to the district. All GFPS schools going remote due to COVID Jan.
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The Great Falls Public Schools district is launching a citizens academy. The academy will meet six times starting Feb. 3 to offer participants an in-depth look at the district and its programs. The Citizens Academy will be limited to 35 participants. Participants must be able to commit to the entire meeting schedule (Feb. 3, Feb. 17, March 3, March 17,
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Cascade County added 414 new COVID-19 cases over the last week, bringing the cumulative total to 17,677, according to the weekly update from the City-County Health Department. It’s an increase over recent weeks and the new case rate is 72.7 per 100,000, according to CCHD’s update. The case rate is the average of new daily cases over the previous seven
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The filing period for federal, state and county primary elections open Jan. 13 at 8 a.m. Filing is open through March 14 for the June 7 primary for county seats. On the county ballot this year are the county commission seats for District 1, a six-year term, which is currently held by Joe Briggs; and the unexpired term for the
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