Here’s this year’s 2022 Great Falls Greats winners. Voting was open from June 1-15 to the public and the top vote getters in each category are below. Thanks to everyone who participated this year and we’ll be back to do it again next June. Celebrating five years of local news, Great Falls Greats 2022 We celebrated this year’s winners when
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This summer marks the fifth anniversary of The Electric. Five years. What started as an experiment, a hope that this town genuinely wanted local news, has now been around for five years. I won’t lie, I’m extremely proud of this milestone. Exhausted, stressed, never entirely sure if I’m moving the needle, but here I am, five years later, still doing
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Throughout the fall and winter months, we’ll be featuring local businesses who were selected as winners in The Electric’s annual Great Falls Greats contest, which is held in June. This week, Michelle Bebbington celebrated the one year anniversary of ownership at The Living Room. The salon is two-time winner of The Electric’s Great Falls Greats contest. She closed on the
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For this year’s Great Falls Greats contest, our wild card question asked about silver linings from COVID-19. Some of you shared meaningful answers and we’ve rounded up many of them here. “Appreciating the little things.” “Great Falls Take Down group bringing Great Falls together.” “Sparse population and access to the outdoors so we could stay more free than other states.”
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We asked and you answered. We just about doubled votes for the second annual Great Falls Greats contest and here are your top three in most categories. Congrats to the 2021 winners. Head out and about June 24-26 to celebrate them with the first Downtown Block Party and Downtown Night Market on June 24 and the farmers market on June
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The last year has gone by slowly, and quickly, all at the same time in some strange time warp. But here we are again in June for our second annual Great Falls Greats contest. Last year was our first go at such a contest and we had a blast celebrating the things we love about our town and seeing the
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What makes a community? What makes it tick, what excites its residents, what brings them out for fun or civic engagement? What makes them upset, what inspires them to work toward improvement? Every town has things to celebrate and things to improve. All towns have their own character, a unique vibe or community fabric that defines them in some way.
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Sandra Thares runs Big Sky Development Enterprises Inc. doing business as the O’Haire Inn, Sip n’ Dip Lounge, and Clark and Lewie’s Pub and Grill. The Great Falls native moved to Spokane in the 5th grade and completed junior high, high school and college in Billings. Thares moved back to Great Falls in 1992. “I swore I’d never run the family
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Lyndsay Gutierrez of Nourish grew up in Great Falls, joined the military and left for 15 years, then came back to have a daughter and be with family to raise her. Gutierrez taught cooking classes and worked with farms and programs for years, so cooking classes and programs here was a natural, she said. “The food truck is a thing we’ve
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Tamara Podry, 34, owner of Anchor Fitness is from southern California and came to Great Falls for the affordability and “more wholesome lifestyle.” She stayed for that reason and the “opportunity to grow our business, less competition, more room for growth. Also the open space and freedom that Montana has to offer.” Podry said she opened the business here when a
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