The Little Shell Tribe of the Chippewa Indians are requesting to annex 18.4 acres into the City of Great Falls for development of 41 single family homes, 18 townhomes and 46 apartments. The proposed project, dubbed Good Medicine, will go before Neighborhood Council 3 on Dec. 4. The project must also go before the planning board and city commission but
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Two Great Falls neighborhood councils meet Dec. 3-4. Neighborhood Council 6 meets at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 3 in the Sunnyside Elementary School library. Agenda items include crime mapping report, council updates and neighborhood concerns. More information on NC6, including boundaries and contact information, is here. Neighborhood Council 3 meets at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 in the Riverview Elementary School music
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This year’s city Christmas ornament is the Arvon Block. The Great Falls-Cascade County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission selected the block, which now houses the Hotel Arvon and Celtic Cowboy as the 18th in the annual commemorative ornament series. These numbered ornaments, designed by local artist Sheree Nelson, are available for $20 at the in the city planning office at the
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The joint city-county Historic Preservation Advisory Commission is asking the City Commission to allow it to install fencing around the Boston and Montana Barn and to solicit bids over the winter for its stabilization. Rich Ecke, an HPAC member leading the group’s barn committee, told commissioners during their Nov. 18 work session that they’d raised about $30,000 since the spring
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City staff are recommending that City Commissioners accept the lone bid for the purchase of the former Community Recreation Center at 801 2nd Ave. N. Bids were due by 10 a.m. Nov. 19 when they were opened in the Civic Center and the one received was from the childcare facility currently leasing the building for the minimum bid of $800,000. Laurie
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The Great Falls Park and Recreation director position remains vacant. City Manager Greg Doyon said that initially selected four candidates for interviews, but two dropped out. Earlier this month, he interviewed the remaining two and made an offer to one, who then withdrew from consideration for personal reasons, Doyon said during the Nov. 18 City Commission meeting. City names new
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Sen. Tim Sheehy introduced a bill this week to allow a federal income tax exemption on retirement pay for any retired law enforcement officers and veterans who serve as school resources officers. The bill, Strengthening Resources for Our Schools, or SROs, Act, requires that those officers and veterans meet all public officer standards and training requirements. Under the proposed legislation,
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A 152-unit housing development is proposed the east side of Great Falls. The development is on the agenda for the Nov. 20 Neighborhood Council 4 meeting. The project area, known as Beebe tracts, is located on the north side of 3rd Avenue South, between 57th and 60th streets south. The applicant, Cal Kunkel, is planning to turn the 19.2 acres
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The city received one bid for the purchase of the former Community Recreation Center at 801 2nd Ave. N. Bids were due by 10 a.m. Nov. 19 when they were opened in the Civic Center and the one received was from the childcare facility currently leasing the building for the minimum bid of $800,000. Laurie O’Leary, the current lessee, attended
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Updated at 8:45 a.m. Nov. 18 with corrected salary information from the library board The Great Falls Public Library board interviewed two finalists for library director last week and on Nov. 14 voted unanimously to offer the position to Amy Dissmeyer. The board interviewed the candidates and held a public meet and greet with them on Nov.13. During their Nov.
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