One Great Falls neighborhood council meets next week. Neighborhood Council 5 meets at 7 p.m. March 16 in the Great Falls Clinic Specialty Center conference room, 3000 15th Ave. S. Agenda items to include presentations on the Montana Tobacco Use Prevention program from the City-County Health Department, NeighborWorks Great Falls and the Montana Department of Transportation. The council will also
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Four Great Falls neighborhood councils meet next week. Neighborhood Council 7 meets at 7 p.m. March 9 in the Gibson Room upstairs at the Civic Center. Agenda items include NeighborWorks Great Falls presentation, Electric City Citizens for Public Safety discussion – Shane Etzwiler, Neighborhood Watch, committee reports and neighborhood concerns. More information, including boundaries and contact information, is here. Neighborhood
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The city has contracted with Montana Materials of Great Falls, Inc. to complete an Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, sidewalk upgrade project. Construction is scheduled to run from March 6 to April 15 and will require multiple full road closures at the intersection of Delmar Drive and Ferguson Drive. Montana Materials will install barricades, cones and closure signs to
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The local 911 dispatch system went down for several hours in the early hours of March 3. The outage was due to maintenance on a fiber optic line that apparently caused a multi-county outage for cell coverage, affecting the 911 dispatch system from about 12:30-3 a.m. on March 3, according to multiple local officials. A reader contacted The Electric on
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Jeremy Virts has been named the new Great Falls Fire Rescue chief, effective immediately. Virts succeeds former chief Jeremy Jones, who assumed the role of deputy city manager in October. Virts began his career with the Great Falls Police Department in 2000, reaching the rank of senior patrolman and serving as a medic with the High Rick Unit. City names
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The city is planning to launch the pilot phase of its proposed strategic capital investment reserve, or SCIR, program. It’s a funding mechanism established when it increased utility rates by about 27 percent last summer with the goal of expanding utility infrastructure and “support strategic development that aligns with adopted community plans,” according to the city. Staff are planning to
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Neighborhood Council 6 meets at 6:30 p.m. March 4 in the Sunnyside School staff break room. Agenda items include a review of the bylaws and updates as necessary, reviewing the Jan. 7 minutes for corrections, an update from public works on traffic concerns, crime mapping report, council updates and neighborhood concerns. More information on NC6, including boundaries and contact information,
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A group of locals is continuing their effort to educate the community about long-term public safety funding challenges and the potential need for a levy. The Electric City Citizens for Public Safety committee initially formed in 2023 to support the city’s public safety levy and bond on that year’s ballot. The levy and bond failed. The vote on the levy
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Neighborhood Council 4 and the Council of Councils meet Feb. 24-26 in Great Falls. Neighborhood Council 4meets at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Heritage Baptist Church, 900 52nd St. N. Agenda items include Calumet community update; code enforcement presentation from city planning staff; council officer elections; bylaw review and neighborhood concerns. More information on NC4, including boundaries and contact
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The Little Shell Tribe of the Chippewa Indians submitted an application to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs for a fee-to-trust transfer of about 136-acres for their proposed entertainment complex that would include: a casino 200-room hotel indoor waterpark bowling alley and arcade 8,200-seat arena restaurants and bars associated parking and utilities The BIA issued a notice of intent for
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