Great Falls Park and Recreation is encouraging residents to gift trees for Giving Tuesday on Dec. 2. The Roots Revival committee is collecting donations to plant the last seven trees in Gibson Park that had to be removed last year due to age, disease and storm damage. The committee has worked with the city forester and parks manager to select
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The joint city-county Historic Preservation Advisory Commission is asking the City Commission to allow it to install fencing around the Boston and Montana Barn and to solicit bids over the winter for its stabilization. Rich Ecke, an HPAC member leading the group’s barn committee, told commissioners during their Nov. 18 work session that they’d raised about $30,000 since the spring
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City staff are recommending that City Commissioners accept the lone bid for the purchase of the former Community Recreation Center at 801 2nd Ave. N. Bids were due by 10 a.m. Nov. 19 when they were opened in the Civic Center and the one received was from the childcare facility currently leasing the building for the minimum bid of $800,000. Laurie
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The Great Falls Park and Recreation director position remains vacant. City Manager Greg Doyon said that initially selected four candidates for interviews, but two dropped out. Earlier this month, he interviewed the remaining two and made an offer to one, who then withdrew from consideration for personal reasons, Doyon said during the Nov. 18 City Commission meeting. City names new
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The city received one bid for the purchase of the former Community Recreation Center at 801 2nd Ave. N. Bids were due by 10 a.m. Nov. 19 when they were opened in the Civic Center and the one received was from the childcare facility currently leasing the building for the minimum bid of $800,000. Laurie O’Leary, the current lessee, attended
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In a 4-1 vote, Great Falls City Commissioners approved up to $425,000 of park maintenance district funds toward repairs at Voyagers Stadium during their Nov. 4 meeting. Commissioner Shannon Wilson voted against the request. The city owns the stadium and has leased it to the Great Falls Baseball Club since 1999. The Enbar ownership group bought the Voyagers last year. The funding
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The Great Falls Park and Recreation department’s leaf pickup moved quicker than expected thanks to decent weather and equipment cooperating, so forestry crews will go back through all six areas of the boulevard district one last time beginning Nov. 7. Crews will go through the pickup areas in the same order as the first round. City leaf pickup, tree removal
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During their Nov. 4 meeting, City Commissioners will be asked to approve $425,000 to the Great Falls Baseball Club/Enbar for two infrastructure projects at Voyagers Stadium. The funding is nearly the entirety of available park district funds available for the Park and Recreation Department annually for projects and will require commissioners to approve a budget amendment since it wasn’t included
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Great Falls Park and Recreation’s annual leaf pickup starts Oct. 27, with less manning than the city forester can remember in his 35 year career. This year’s program is scheduled to run through Dec. 5. In years past, Park and Rec’s forestry division set a specific schedule for leaf pickup, but with fewer staff, City Forester Todd Seymanski, said that
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Updated Oct. 27 with additional information about when the city acquired the building The city has opened the bidding process for the sale of the former Community Recreation Center at 801 2nd Ave. N. The city opened the bidding this week, with a minimum bid of $800,000, and proposals are due by 10 a.m. Nov. 19. The building was originally built
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