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Efforts to build a water treatment plant on Belt Creek are continuing. Earlier this week, staff from the Montana Department Environmental Quality updated Cascade County Commissioners on the project, which is slated to reach the 30 percent design mark in January. Project bidding is anticipated next summer with construction and initial plant operation occurring in fall and winter of 2019,
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A touch of magic is coming to the Mansfield Theater stage this week, and star Ruby Gibbs is hoping audiences leave with the reminder that “you never have to lose that sense of play or that sense of wonder.” Gibbs plays Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland, her first national Broadway touring role. The story tells a romanticized version of
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Dave Belcher served in the Army and returned from a combat tour with a traumatic brain injury. “We put our boots on and we leave the ones we love behind to go fight…for your safety. That’s what we do,” Belcher said. Two veterans take their life back in Cascade County Veterans Court graduation When he came home, he was angry
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Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 4 enforcement officers are seeking information on snow geese that were killed earlier this week. At least 86 snow geese were shot and left and the Elk Creek Colony Block Management Area near Augusta. According to Augusta Game Warden Brady Murphy, the geese appeared to be shot with a .22 long rifle and a shotgun
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The election is over and the unofficial results are in. Results aren’t yet final though. County election officials will resolved provisional ballots by Nov. 13 no one was able to vote twice if they moved or lost a ballot. Counties check those ballots across state rolls statewide to verify, according to Rina Fontana-Moore, Cascade County clerk and recorder. On Nov.
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The film WILDLIFE, set in Great Falls and filmed partially in Livingston will be screened at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center theater on Nov. 14. The film, based on the novel by Richard Ford, is set in Great Falls, in the 1960s. Fourteen-year-old Joe, played by Ed Oxenbould, is the only child of Jeanette (Carrie Mulligan) and Jerry (Jake
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The Great Falls Ski Patrol is hosting their annual fundraiser on Nov. 9 with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2018 stop in Great Falls. The ski patrol was formed in 1938 and is a volunteer organization that promotes safe skiing and provides transportation and first aid to skiers and snowboarders at Showdown. The group has about 50
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The 170 airmen from the 819th RED HORSE that spent the last six month deployed have all returned home. On Monday, family and friends met about 100 airmen as they filed off buses at the 819th hangar at Malmstrom Air Force Base. The rest of the group had returned last week. Airmen at 819th RED HORSE preparing to deploy The
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Montana State Parks is seeking public comment on several proposals, including extension of the Smith River Biennial Fee Rule, East Gallatin Management Agreement, and Lands Transfer Policy Revisions. Public comments will be accepted through 5 p.m. Nov. 30. Each proposal received tentative approval from the Montana Parks & Recreation Board at their October 2018 meeting, according to a release from Montana
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Montana State Parks is accepting applications for $200 field trip travel grants. The applications will be accepting through Oct. 22 and grants can be used for field trips to federal and state public lands taking place between Jan. 2 and Aug. 30, 2019. The grant money is aimed at covering transportation-related costs with an emphasis on assisting Montana elementary students
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