The Shrine Circus is a long-standing Great Falls Tradition put on for over 50 years by the local Shrine Circus Bagpipe Band. This annual event helps raise money for the travel fund for helping families get to and from the Shrine Hospital. The annual East West Shrine Game supports the hospital. That game will be…
Because I’ve been asked about it several times, I felt it necessary at last night’s Great Falls city commission meeting to publicly correct a piece of incorrect reporting by the Great Falls Tribune last week. The front page of the Tribune’s Thursday, March 31 print addition carried the following headline, “‘Not in my neighborhood’ Anti-Semitic,…
An article in the Great Falls Tribune about the Great Falls Public School District cancelling something called ‘Rainbow Day’ during ‘Inclusion Week’ has made national news. The article, posted on the Tribune’s Facebook page today, Monday 3/28/22, was written by the Tribune education reporter, Alisha Jordan and has subsequently appeared as a feature on the…
Editor’s note: A public service announcement from Great Falls/Cascade County Crimestoppers. What: Crime and the Law – Staying SAFE in Great Falls When: Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 6:30 PM Where: University of Providence, Great Falls Join Crimestoppers on Thursday, March 31, 2022 for a Community Crime program featuring local and regional experts talking about…
At last week’s Great Falls city commission meeting we voted to approve a $150,000 funding request, using federal ARPA funds, for the Great Falls International Airport. The money will be used as part of a matching fund package for a Small Community Air Service Development Grant (SCASD) to help lower air fares at Great Falls’…
Editors note – The following is the text of comments made during public comment at the 2/15/22 Great Falls City Commission meeting by a local citizen who lives in the same neighborhood as the First United Methodist Church. “I’m a lifelong resident of Great Falls, MT. I grew up attending its schools, I graduated from…
During the public comment portion of last night’s Great Falls City Commission meeting quite a few local residents got up and expressed their opinions on the “homeless encampment” at the First United Methodist Church. You can view the video of the meeting here. Public comment begins at about 7 minutes 30 seconds into the meeting….
Local Business Owners and Philanthropists Tom and Mary Jane Heisler Give $250,000 to Launch New Scholarship Endowment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 24, 2022 Great Falls Central Catholic High School announces that alumnus Tom Heisler (’61) and his wife, Mary Jane, have donated $250,000 to the Catholic Foundation of Eastern Montana to launch the new Tom…
This week I received and reviewed some of the latest economic data put out by Patrick Barkey and the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. Once again I found it interesting, and a little discouraging to be honest, to see how Great Falls/Cascade County is faring compared to other Montana…