Sgt. Jerry Forsyth served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and, like so many others, didn’t talk about it much when he returned home. But he did talk about it with his father, an Air Force veteran. “They found a place with each other where they could share,” Katy Kennedy told the Great Falls Public Schools board earlier this fall.
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Cascade County Commissioners approved a three-year agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service for housing federal inmates in the Cascade County Adult Detention Center. The new contract increases the daily rate that federal agencies pay the county per inmate per day from $115 to $130. That’s less than the $160 daily rate that Sheriff Jesse Slaughter was seeking. The new contract
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County Commissioners voted unanimously during their Nov. 10 meeting to reallocate alcohol tax funds they’d previously allocated to an entity whose owner was subsequently charged with Medicaid fraud by the Montana Attorney General’s Office. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services distributes alcohol tax funds four times annually, earmarked for chemical dependency services in each county. The county
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The Great Falls Public Schools board is holding a town hall, followed by a board budget committee meeting, on Nov. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in the Aspen Room at the district office, 1100 4th St. S. The budget committee met Oct. 21 to discuss the district’s finances and budget outlook. With the potential need to send a levy to the
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Joshua Lively, 33, a Cascade County Sheriff’s Office detention officer, has been arrested and charged with a felony count of intimidation and misdemeanor counts of partner/family member assault, endangering the welfare of a child and surreptitious visual observation or recording. The arrest is the third Cascade County detention officer to be arrested for domestic violence incidents in the last year.
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The Great Falls-Cascade County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission voted during a special meeting on Oct. 26 to spend up to $5,000 on an engineering evaluation of the Boston and Montana Barn. The aging barn is in Black Eagle, owned by the City of Great Falls and is the last remaining building owned by the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and
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Updated at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 4 Polls closed at 8 p.m. across Montana. In Cascade County, operations went smoothly, according to county officials and poll watchers. As of 10:30 a.m., 29,763 ballots had been counted, which includes a mix of absentee and poll voters. Results are not final until the county canvass, which is scheduled for Nov. 17. Around midnight,
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Two of the six men arrested in a September prostitution sting appeared in court last week. Both were arraigned before Judge John Parker on Oct. 28 in district court. Kenneth Jacobs, 50, was charged with a felony count of sexual abuse of children after responding to a Craigslist ad on Sept. 11, believing he was chatting with a 15-year-old boy.
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Benefis Health System notified employees this morning that it was restructuring some services in Great Falls. The changes will begin implementation on Dec. 19 and continue into the new year, Benefis officials told The Electric. An employee update was emailed at 9:42 a.m. Nov. 3 and said that “the financial environment is very difficult for hospitals and health systems,” particularly
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Polls are open in Cascade County until 8 p.m. today. As of 7 p.m. Nov. 2, the Cascade County elections office had accepted 21,190 ballots and staff were scanning through the evening until they had processed all ballots received in the mail and drop boxes on Monday, Terry Thompson, county elections administrator, told The Electric. Ballots in the mail for
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