Dr. Tiffany Hensley-McBain of the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant award of about $3.1 million over five years for her work to understand Alzheimer’s disease and translate findings to clinical applications that may help those with Alzheimer’s disease across Montana and beyond, according to McLaughlin. Her project is titled “Investigating

Here’s this week’s reading list. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there and enjoy the weekend! Missoulian: New urban camping restrictions OK’d by Missoula council Missoulian: Missoula to consider temporary ban on new dispensaries Associated Press: Thieves are targeting EV charging stations The New York Times: Family discovers rare T. Rex fossil in North Dakota Associated Press: Summer

The graduation rate for the class of 2023 improved slightly over the previous class, the Great Falls Public Schools board learned during their April 9 meeting. Heather Hoyer, incoming superintendent, gave the board their annual report on graduation rates and dropouts. The dropout rates are calculated by the number of students in that class for the October count. The cohort

Four neighborhood councils meet next week April 8-11. Neighborhood Council 7 meets at 7 p.m. April 8 in the Civic Center Gibson Room. Agenda items Whittier Elementary School playground, Set Free, bylaw review, committee reports and neighborhood concerns. More information on NC7, including boundaries and contact information, is here. Neighborhood Council 1 meets at 7 p.m. April 9 in the

City Commissioners will consider during an Oct. 17 public hearing a request to rezone property for a 12-unti apartment building. The city planning board voted 4-0 in August to recommend approval of the rezone. The 0.34-acre property at 2505 8th Ave. N. is currently vacant and zoned R-3 single family high density. The property owner, Robert Tacke, is requesting to

Happy weekend Great Falls. In additional to the regular weekly reading list, I recently finished The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis and have started on The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky. If you have any interest in nuclear issues, Russia and misinformation, as I do,

County and city officials are preparing to set their mill levies, but are awaiting details of an informal review of a major taxpayer. Calumet Montana Refining requested an informal review of their new appraisals, an option available to all taxpayers. The Montana Department of Review is currently conducing that review and are hoping to wrap that up by early next

Cascade County Commissioners voted unanimously during an Aug. 22 meeting to adopt a resolution related to the acquisition, transfer and management of county property. The 2017 Legislature passed a bill that revised several code provisions on the disposal of county property and also added a requirement for counties to hold a public hearing prior to adopting a resolution on the

The Great Falls Public Library received its invoice for the levy election on July 28. The library levy election was June 6. Clerk and Recorder Sandra Merchant sent the invoice by email at 4:34 p.m. July 28. The library’s fiscal year closed June 30. The invoice total was $41,314.54. Library considering options to address problems in Library Park The library