The Montana Secretary of State’s office responded to The Electric late Friday with more information about the upcoming local elections. Richie Melby, communications director for SOS, told The Electric that the Cascade County elections office had submitted written plans for mail ballot elections for Great Falls Public Schools and Sun River Valley School District that are set for May 2.
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An in-person hunter education course in Ulm will open soon for registration. The course will be held at the Great Falls Trap Club in Ulm over two consecutive Friday -Saturday periods, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Friday night classes will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on March 24 and 31. Saturday classes will be held from 8 a.m.
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After about five years of discussions between a local group and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, the county is planning to submit an application for a conservation easement for about 80 acres of school trust land on Fox Farm Road. During their March 14 meeting, County Commissioners will consider submitting the application to DNRC, an action that
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County officials are still looking at options to handle mail services and elections as Innovated Postal Services is closing at the end of February. Commissioners met with Denise Riggin of IPS and Sandra Merchant, the newly elected clerk and recorder, during a Feb. 3 meeting. Commissioner Joe Briggs told The Electric last week that no decisions have been made and Merchant
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The deadline for Smith River float application is Feb. 15. The permit drawing will be held Feb. 21. Permits are required to float the 59-mile section of river between Camp Baker and Eden Bridge and are issued each year through a lottery. Parties of up to 15 people can float with one permit. A person applying for a Smith River
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Favorable burning conditions create an opportunity for Bureau of Land Management North Central Montana District fuels program team to implement the Blacksmith/Tiger Butte prescribed pile-burning operations this week. Starting Jan. 31, the team plans to burn about 410 acres of woody hand piles on BLM-managed lands administered by the Lewistown Field Office in Montana’s Little Belt Mountain Range, about 30
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By Caven Wade | UM Legislative News Service, University of Montana School of Journalism In the last 11 years, the city of Havre has had 255 water main breaks. The city’s public works director, Dave Pederson, says 46 of those breaks happened in the last two years alone. “During main breaks, large sections of the city are without water for a long
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By Keely Larson | KHN-UM Legislative News Service Jenna Eisenhart spent nearly six years as a licensed therapist in Colorado before deciding to move to a place with a greater need for her services. She researched rural states facing a shortage of behavioral health providers and accepted a job as a lead clinical primary therapist at Shodair Children’s Hospital in Helena,
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The Great Falls Public Library is hosting a presentation on the “Montana Fibershed-Connecting Montana Folks with Montana Fiber” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 26. “Montana Fibershed seeks to educate Montanans on the benefits of a place-based, local fiber system. A parallel concept to the local food movement, this local cloth movement highlights the origins of our fiber and clothing. Just like
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The Great Falls Public School board unanimously approved new library standards during their Jan. 9 meeting. The Montana Office of Public Instruction adopted new state standards for library media and information literacy in July 2021. The state standards are based upon national library standards, according to GFPS staff. Over the summer of 2022, district library media specialists met to collaboratively
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