_______________________________________________________________________ E-City Beat can confirm that Great Falls city commissioner Tracy Houck is no longer Executive Director at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art. According to the PGSMA web site Houck is no longer employed there in any capacity. It is unclear whether she was fired or she resigned. We first started receiving messages from…
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded…
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded…
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded…
_______________________________________________________________________ A piece in E-City Beat last week got me thinking about our local teachers. Most of our Great Falls teachers are really good, honest, hard-working folks who just want to make a difference in the lives of kids and our community. Unfortunately sometimes our teachers don’t get enough thanks for what they do for…
_______________________________________________________________________ Here is the press release from Vets 4 Vets Stand Down for their upcoming event. E-City Beat supports our vets and Gold Star Families. For Immediate Release: Our VETS4VETS Group in Great Falls, Montana will be holding our Stand Down on September 5th and 6th. Location for this event will be at the Great…
_______________________________________________________________________ Yesterday a concerned reader sent E-City Beat some screenshots of an exchange on Facebook involving a teacher in the Great Falls Public Schools District who uses the FB handle of Tricia Henneberg which clearly says she is an employee of GFPS. Henneberg is Tricia Loucks, listed in the District directory as a Special Ed…
_______________________________________________________________________ E-City Beat received the following hand written letter yesterday which has been edited for clarity. Kids high and dry “The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson. Our Great Falls neighborhood swimming pools, Jaycee and Water Tower, were closed for…
Thursday morning, August 15th was when I first learned about a gun control rally scheduled for Saturday, August 17th in Great Falls at the band shell in Gibson Park, starting at 3:00 PM. The rally was sponsored by ‘Moms Demand Action’ and was in conjunction with other rallies nationwide. The first thing that concerned me…
According to a press release from Kim Lander at Montana Expo Park concerning the state fair, “…was a strong year with revenues in excess of $1,670,000.” Here’s a recap from the press release: “The Food Concessionaires grossed $725,788 a slight dip of 1.09% from 2018. The Food Concessionaires busiest day was the first Saturday of…