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The City Commission has scheduled a special meeting for 5:30 p.m. April 30 to consider rescinding their action to postpone the cattery contract. On April 2, the commission voted 3-2 to postpone action to Sept. 3 on awarding a $462,000 contract to Detailed Construction for the cattery addition at the Great Falls Animal Shelter. Commission reverses course on cattery decision
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The street sweeping schedule for April 29-May 3 is below. Residents are asked to remove vehicles from the area from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on their scheduled day. The schedule is subject to change or cancellation due to weather conditions. The schedule is: April 29: All streets and avenues from 38th Street North through 52nd Street North between 2nd Avenue North and
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To celebrate Arbor Day, the Park and Recreation Forestry Division and the Rainbow Garden Club will be planting two Ohio Buckeye trees in Grande Vista Park on April 26 at 4 p.m. Grande Vista Park was chosen by the Rainbow Garden Club. The city and garden club planted two Buckeye tress in the same park last year for Arbor Day.
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Prosecutors in the Montana Attorney General’s Office requested that a new judge be substituted for Judge Elizabeth Best in the criminal case against former undersheriff John Stevens. Stevens has been charged with a count of felony theft in district court for taking firearms that had been purchased with county funds with him when he retired from the Cascade County Sheriff’s
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled this week that chalking vehicles for parking enforcement is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. So far, the decision does not affect Great Falls or other Montana cities since the 6th Circuit includes Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Great Falls does chalk vehicles as part of its parking enforcement program
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The County Commission approved additional funds for Montana Expo Park during Tuesday’s meeting. The commission approved moving $302,000 from the general fund into the Expo Park account for the grandstand replacement project and Paddock Club renovation, and moved $78,716 from the original project account into the Expo Park account. Expo Park improvement project might be on November ballot That additional
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Neighborhood Council 4 meets at 6:30 p.m. April 25 at Heritage Baptist Church, 900 52nd Street North. Agenda items include committee updates, neighborhood concerns and guest speakers – Sandra Rice and Shane Etzwiler. Rice will share information on the NC7’s visioning process, the Great Falls Police Department’s seasonal volunteer program and the Downtown Safety Alliance. Etzwiler, president of the Great
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Great Falls Public Schools has demolished Longfellow Elementary and the site is being prepared for construction of a new school as part of the $98.8 million facility levy. GFPS is holding a groundbreaking at 4 p.m. May 10 at 1101 6th Ave. S. and the public is invited. Three candidates file for three GFPS board seats; no election in May
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Great Falls Rising is hosting a session with Tammy Lacey, Great Falls Public Schools superintendent, and Jeff Gray, a school board member, on April 23 at 6 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 600 3rd Ave. N. Enter through the alley door. The public is invited. Lacey will give highlights of several education bills in the 2019 legislative
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The county planning board recently realized that it was coming up on the 5-year deadline to review its growth policy as required by state law. The policy was last updated in May 2014. Planning board members said this week that it had been pointed out to them recently that they needed to look at the policy and directed staff to
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