The Cascade County Weed and Mosquito Division is scheduled to conduct an aerial mosquito-larva-control treatment on May 4 in the Gibson Flats area south of Great Falls using a small fixed-wing aircraft. The treatment will help prevent the growth of mosquito larvae currently in the marshy areas and flooded fields. The area will be treated with an EPA-approved pesticide that contains
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The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment voted 3-2 during their April 16 meeting to deny a special use permit for a substance abuse treatment facility to expand from eight to 16 beds. The facility, Healing the Circle Lodge, opened last summer at 2601 Jasper Road. Several area residents spoke in opposition to the permit with concern over property values,
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The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment is scheduled to consider a special use permit application from Healing the Circle Lodge, a drug rehab facility, to increase from eight to 16 beds. The facility opened last summer at 2601 Jasper Road. Initially planned as an 18-bed facility, the company withdrew its permit application in June 2025 after a lengthy public hearing in
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During their April 1 meeting, the city-county health board discussed the city’s response to their request for additional funding toward health department operations. Cascade County’s City-County Health Department is a joint city-county operation providing public health services, including, but not limited to, vaccinations, restaurant inspections, rabies investigations, septic reviews, communicable disease prevention and family services. County Commission selects Gardner as
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Cascade County Commissioners voted unanimously during a special March 20 meeting to offer conditional employment as county health officer to Trisha Gardner, with a starting annual salary of $103,000. The city-county health board met March 18 in a special meeting and unanimously recommended Gardner. Commissioners interviewed Gardner and Joseph Monehin on March 11. A third candidate withdrew from interviews. The
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The city-county health board is recommending that the Cascade County Commission hire Trisha Gardner as public health officer. During a March 18 special meeting, the health board unanimously voted to recommend Gardner for the health officer position, one she held from late 2019 to late 2021, during the COVID pandemic. Commissioners are scheduled to hold a special meeting on March
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Construction is underway on the new location for Toby’s House Crisis Nursery. The new facility, located at 205 7th Ave. S., is expected to open this summer and Toby’s House is soliciting donors toward completing the project in the Building Permanent Hope campaign. Leesha Ford, Toby’s House director, said this week that Guy Tabacco is part of the campaign in
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The Great Falls Public Schools board voted unanimously not to participate at this time in Bridged Health Alliance, established by the 2023 Montana Legislature as a health and wellness benefits trust for public school systems. Bridged Health Alliance is the formal name of the trust that was established by the Montana Schools Insurance Alliance. The GFPS board took the recommendation of
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Cascade County is planning to interview three candidates for health officer next week. During the March 4 health board meeting, County Commissioner Joe Briggs thanked the board for reviewing and scoring the applicants. The human resources department was setting up interviews with the top three candidates for March 11, he said, and hopefully all of the candidates could interview that
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Cascade County has confirmed its first case of pertussis in 2026. Although only one case has been confirmed, it involved a large number of exposures. There are multiple other suspected pertussis infections that have not been confirmed through laboratory testing, according to Cascade City-County Health Department. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that spreads
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