Craft Beer Week returns to Great Falls June 5-10. This year’s week include tap takeovers, dinner pairings, a craft beer obstacle course, golf scramble and the largest brew fest featuring only Montana breweries. Registration is open for the ‘build your own kegerator‘ class on June 7 at the Mighty Mo Brew Pub, when you can learn to build your own
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Big Sky Cheese defaulted on their loan with the Great Falls Development Authority this summer. Brett Doney, GFDA’s president, told The Electric in December that the company hadn’t paid interest over the entire fiscal year on their bridge loan. In February, GFDA filed a civil lawsuit in district court over more than $2 million in unpaid loans and placed liens
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Through decades in business downtown, Sandra Thares has seen the evolution. Her father bought the O’Haire Inn in 1968 and it housed a café they rented out. Twenty years ago, they decided to take it over themselves as a restaurant. The downtown was a happening place in the 1970s, okay in the 1980s and died in the 1990s, Thares said.
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The city planning board voted unanimously during their Feb. 28 meeting to recommend approval of a minor subdivision in West Bank for the planned Highway 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries. The property, owned by Brad Talcott, is located at 17 3rd St. N.W. within the West Bank One development. Business Bites: Emerald City Casino demolition; West Bank Landing permits submitted;
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Cascade County Commissioners approved a contract with Summit Food Services during their Feb. 14 meeting. Commissioners Jim Larson and Rae Grulkowski voted to approve the contract for inmate food services at the Cascade County Adult Detention Center. Commissioner Joe Briggs was absent. In December, commissioners voted to accept the bid from Summit and Tuesday’s action formalizing the contract details. County
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Wildlife health staff with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks recently detected chronic wasting disease in a mule deer buck found dead within the city limits of Great Falls in January. The adult buck was observed acting abnormally by a property owner, who later found the dead deer inside a building on the property. Biologists collected samples from the deer, and
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The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana is working on another project on Stuckey Road. In October, the tribe submitted an application in October to annex and assign M-2 mixed-use transitional to the 3.684 acres at 1301 Stuckey Road. During their Jan. 10 meeting, the city planning board voted to recommend approval of the annexation and zoning. The
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County officials are finalizing a food service contract for the Adult Detention Center. During a Dec. 16 meeting, county commissioners unanimously voted to accept a bid from Summit Food Service and staff are finalizing the contract. The previous contract expired Dec. 19. The contract was on the Dec. 27 commission agenda for full approval but was pulled since it wasn’t
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The Cascade County City-County Board of Health voted unanimously during their Dec. 7 meeting to increase environmental health fees. The environmental health division of the City-County Health Department doesn’t generate much revenue and has limitations on which services they can charge for at the county level, according to staff. License fees are set by state law, while inspection fees for
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Big Sky Cheese defaulted on their loan with the Great Falls Development Authority this summer. Brett Doney, GFDA’s president, told The Electric that the company hadn’t paid interest over the entire fiscal year on their bridge loan. Doney said GFDA was in first position on the land, so they’re concerned but have enough collateral to recover the loan funds if
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