We asked and you answered. It’s our fourth annual Great Falls Greats contest to celebrate local business and our community. Voting was open from June 1-17. Most of the categories were the same this year, with a few new ones and many categories had the top three winners from last year with the option to write in others. There was

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

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

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.”

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

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

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.