Wednesday, July 29 was local Law Enforcement Appreciation Day in Great Falls and in addition to local residents purchasing and displaying “406 Back the Blue” signs, there were several other displays of appreciation for the work the Great Falls Police Department and Cascade County Sheriff’s Office do for our community. George Nikolakakos organized a GoFundMe…
Former Great Falls Mayor Michael Winters, Bud Nichols, Jan Cahill and Johnny Walker are hosting a local “Sing Along” night event this Thursday evening July 30, starting at 7:00 PM. Here’s the announcement Winters sent to E-City Beat: “Our event is a participation event to be held at Gibson Park at the Gibson Band shell,…
Editors note: below is the post from Friday on rally organizer Rick Tryon’s Facebook page. “After a lot of thought and consultation we have decided to go forward with the Local Law Enforcement Appreciation Day next Wednesday, July 29 but we are postponing the rally that evening until a later date. Here’s why: I have…
Editors note: E-City Beat has requested and received permission to copy and paste Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon’s reports from his public city commissioner Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. Information on the July 21 Tuesday night Great Falls City Commission work session and regular meeting: Work Session – Once again…
Stray Moose Productions is a local one-stop audio-visual production, duplicating and transfer specialist. “Why send your memories out of town when we can do it all right here in the Great Falls area?” – Stray Moose Stray Moose Productions can transfer your VHS and SVHS video tapes of movies, home movies and other content to…
In the coming weeks E-City Beat will be posting campaign contribution information for all candidates in Cascade County/Great Falls contested races for the Montana State Legislature. The information is all available online on the Commissioner of Political Practices web site via a searchable form. You can find the portal here: https://appecm.mt.gov/PerceptiveCPPCampaignReports/#! It looks like this:…
After we published our two opinion pieces from this week (Should Lewis & Clark’s Names & Statues Be Removed? and Pastor Collins Responds To Lewis & Clark Statue Question) concerning statues and monuments memorializing Lewis and Clark, a reader posted in our comments section this link to an article in the online Oregonian dated June…
Following the June 2 primary the field is now narrowed to the candidates who will appear on your November 2020 ballot less than 5 months from now. E-City Beat will be sending all of the local candidates questions and requests for profiles and will be publishing the information for our readers. In addition we will…
Editors note: E-City Beat has requested and received permission to copy and paste Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon’s reports from his public commissioner’s Facebook page, ‘Rick Tryon for a Greater Great Falls’. Here’s some helpful info for Tuesday nights Great Falls City Commission work session and regular meeting. There are a few items of…
Editors note: by permission from Mr. Copeland we are publishing his letter and Facebook post. City Commissioners, I am writing in regards to the national and now local calls to “Defund the Police”. I have been a resident of Great Falls for over ten years, minus a few attempts to move away that lasted less…