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The City of Three Forks is moving closer to adopting a new Capital Improvements Plan (CIP). At last week’s special City Council Meeting, the governing body provided input and comments on the latest draft of the CIP, a prioritized list of infrastructure projects with a schedule for the projects and funding sources. Near the conclusion of the meeting, the Council moved forward with placing a Resolution of Intent to pass the CIP at its July 9 meeting and a Resolution to Adopt the CIP the following month. The draft states the CIP “is a blu... Full story
At a ceremony last week, former Three Forks Mayor Sean Gifford was presented with the 2023 Montana Governor's Veteran Commendation. “I’m humbled and honored by this award, but the true honor was the ability to serve and protect our country and my local community with some of the finest men and women I know," Gifford said. In November 2023, Gifford was one of 36 selected for the commendation, which recognizes outstanding Montana veterans who have selflessly served our country in uniform and mad... Full story
Broadwater County has officially launched TextMyGov, a service that will send text alerts and notifications to residents, providing information including road closures, public hearings, and voter registration. Broadwater County Commissioner Lindsey Richtmyer encouraged residents to sign up for the service by texting BCNOTIFY to 91896. Richtmyer said getting the word out about news and announcements can be difficult, and the county hopes this will help communicate with residents, especially in... Full story
The Montana Department of Commerce announced last week that the City of Three Forks will receive a $40,000 grant to complete a wastewater Preliminary Engineering Report (PER). Three Forks was one of 17 Montana towns, cities, or counties that will receive more than $750,000 in grant funding to help develop and plan infrastructure projects that will increase the health and safety of those communities and their residents. The funding is through Commerce’s Montana Coal Endowment Program. “At Commerce, we are proud of programs like MCEP, which hel...
A chip sealing project in the City of Three Forks is expected to start on Monday, July 8. In March, the Three Forks City Council approved a bid award for the project to Hollow Contracting Inc. for $286,785.35. According to City Officials, this will be the first chip-sealing project in the city in about a decade. Street sweeping is underway, and City officials are asking residents to please move vehicles off the affected streets. The Streets that are part of the project include: 1. 1st Avenue... Full story
Montana State University will provide free "Welcome Back Bobcats!" kits for Gallatin Valley businesses in August. The kits are designed to help local businesses welcome MSU students and their families to the area and celebrate the start of the 2024-25 school year. Included in each kit are "Go Cats" signs, a window decal, spirit poster and more. "Montana State invites our local businesses to decorate in blue and gold to help welcome our students and families to Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley,"...
Governor Greg Gianforte recently announced a $15.8 million investment in one-time grants to increase bed capacity for community-based residential providers offering behavioral health care or developmental disability services to Montanans. As recommended by the Behavioral Health System for Future Generations (BHSFG) Commission, the investment represents the next allocation of $300 million in funding secured by the governor last year to reform and improve Montana’s behavioral health and developmental disabilities services systems. “Timely acc...
Checkboard landownership has created challenges for private and public land management since the railroad grants in the 1880s. One hundred and forty years later, the problems remain. The current checkerboard of private and public land creates problems for wildlife, recreation, public and private stewardship and livestock management. Simply put, habitat fragmentation is bad for both wildlife and resource functionality. The Crazy Mountains pose a distinctive challenge due to the current mix of private and public lands. Checkerboard ownership disr...
This month's Lewis and Clark Journal has a special section previewing the upcoming Three Forks NRA Rodeo and Rodeo Dayz celebration. The section in our sister publication is an excellent opportunity to read more about upcoming events and highlight many outstanding businesses in the Three Forks area. With the popular event scheduled to take place later this month, it is also important to remember all the people who volunteer. Without all the hard-working volunteers, events like this could not hap... Full story
While researching a recent column, I decided to go online and search for the prices of a hotel that my family used to stay at years ago in Jackson, Wyoming. I knew the prices would be high enough to put me in a foul mood, and I was not wrong. Many people could afford a $ 500-a-night hotel, but I’m certainly not one of them. I’d rather sleep in the car than pay that much money. A few hours later, I logged onto Facebook, and my feed became inundated with ads for the hotel. I did not like this at all. All it took was one simple online search, and... Full story
Biologists conducting spring deer and elk surveys found some areas with improved herd growth and some areas with lower recruitment due to poor habitat conditions and disease. During the spring season, FWP wildlife staff get a pulse on deer and elk numbers by conducting aerial spring trend surveys or green-up flights across the state. These flights occur in the same areas year after year so biologist can understand population trends. During the flights, staff count the total number of deer and...
For more than a year, Montana's state health department has been embroiled in a sweeping effort to "unwind" the state Medicaid program, conducting a mass eligibility review of every person enrolled in the public health program, which provides health coverage for many lower-income residents. The unwinding, being conducted after federal officials lifted pandemic-era restrictions on striking people from the Medicaid rolls last year, has seen the state remove more than 135,000 Montanans from the...
Several interpretive events highlighting natural, cultural and historical elements of southwestern Montana are scheduled at the Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three Forks. These family-friendly events are free to Montana residents. An $8 entrance fee applies to nonresident vehicles. Missouri Headwaters State Park has events planned for each Saturday in July as part of the park's summer speaker series. These talks will each begin at 7 p.m. behind the park office, except for the July 13... Full story
Last week, the Department of Administration (DOA) announced its intent to award the medical Third-Party Administrator (TPA) contract for the state’s health plan to the incumbent provider, BlueCross BlueShield of Montana (BCBSMT). In March 2024, the DOA released a Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit competitive bids to provide the state with TPA services for the state’s medical plan for employees and retirees. The RFP required a modernized approach with cost-saving measures while maintaining full services for employee and retiree populations....
The July meeting for the Three Forks Area Historical Society will be Thursday, July 11th, at 7 p.m. in the Methodist Annex due to the 4th of July holiday (on the first Thursday of the month). Items on the agenda include discussion of the rodeo parade float, planning for Walking Tacos on August 1st at Farmers’ Market and updates on the caboose and pavilion construction. Other news about the Historical Society this summer is that we can now be followed on Instagram with our own QR code (Thanks to our terrific MSU student intern!) and we now a... Full story
About this time last year, Montana State University professor Hugo Sindelar was hiking to snowy mountain peaks with his camera gear, attempting to film rain driving into blankets of snow. That shot would be key to helping illustrate how, in June 2022, heavy rains rapidly melted mountain snowpacks, causing rivers to swell above their banks, resulting in historic flooding in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities. Sindelar, an assistant professor in the School of Film and... Full story
BIG SKY - As the noon sun beat down, construction equipment humming across the land of the Big Sky Water and Sewer District put the final touches on six years of work. The new Water Resource Recovery Facility sits just east of the Town Center and a few hundred feet from the Gallatin River. The view from its deck showed a changing Big Sky. In the shadow of Lone Peak, workers built rows of condos that will send wastewater to be treated at the plant. In the opposite direction were stacks of...
Time Call # Type of Call Location Result 06/27/24 00:23 CFS24-088027 DOMESTIC WOODBURY AVE and MOON BEAM LN LE - Case Generated 00:33 CFS24-088031 FOLLOW UP MACKENZIE PL and ROYAL RD (99.9 LE - Documented 02:44 CFS24-088049 WELFARE CHECK LE - Documented 07:12 CFS24-088074 77 BRIDGER CANYON RD and DRIVEWAY LE - Documented 07:38 CFS24-088078 PATROL CHECK S COTTONWOOD RD and ALPHA DR LE - Documented 07:38 CFS24-088079 TRAFFIC HAZARD INTERSTATE 90 HWY and ACCESS (0.3 LE - Documented 07:51 CFS24-088080 TRAFFIC STOP LE - Warning 07:56 CFS24-088083... Full story
Time Call # Type of Call Location Result 06/28/24 00:18 CFS24-088523 NOISE TOWN CENTER AVE and HUNTLEY DR LE - Documented 00:21 CFS24-088525 PATROL CHECK MILL ST and ADAMS ST (29.3 feet) LE - Documented 00:30 CFS24-088529 TRAFFIC STOP LE - Case Generated 01:00 CFS24-088536 PATROL CHECK BELGRADE BLVD and PLAZA PLACE DR LE - Documented 01:48 CFS24-088540 PATROL CHECK DRIVEWAY and S 19TH AVE (207.5 feet) LE - Documented 01:48 CFS24-088541 OUT W/ VEHICLE DRIVEWAY and S 19TH AVE (207.5 feet) LE - Documented 01:49 CFS24-088542 77 INTERSTATE 90 HWY... Full story
Time Call # Type of Call Location Result 06/29/24 00:06 CFS24-089022 TRAFFIC STOP LE - Warning 00:43 CFS24-089034 ENDANGERMENT NORTH STAR LN and GARDEN DR (32.9 LE - GOA / UTL 02:42 CFS24-089061 DUI BUSINESS HUB DR and DRIVEWAY LE - Referred 07:13 CFS24-089084 CANCEL GALLATIN RD and RAINBOW RANCH RD LE - Documented 07:19 CFS24-089085 TRAFFIC STOP LE - Warning 07:32 CFS24-089089 TRAFFIC STOP LE - Warning 07:39 CFS24-089092 WELFARE CHECK BUSINESS HUB DR and DRIVEWAY LE - Case Generated 07:49 CFS24-089096 TRESPASS DRIVEWAY and BLACK BEAR RD (0.1 L... Full story
Time Call # Type of Call Location Result 06/30/24 00:01 CFS24-089516 FOLLOW UP MACKENZIE PL and ROYAL RD (99.9 LE - Documented 00:15 CFS24-089522 FIREWORKS LE - Unable to 00:35 CFS24-089530 PARTY PAINTED PONY DR and 4 DOT LN (44.8 LE - Documented 00:59 CFS24-089536 PATROL CHECK W CAMERON BRIDGE RD and LE - Documented 01:07 CFS24-089539 PATROL CHECK AMSTERDAM RD and DRIVEWAY (67.5 LE - Documented 01:09 CFS24-089541 PATROL CHECK LE - Documented 01:17 CFS24-089544 TRAFFIC STOP LE - Warning 01:23 CFS24-089547 PATROL CHECK RIVER RD and W CAMERON... Full story
MEDIA REPORT Printed on July 1, 2024 CFS Date/Time Street Name Code : Description 06/23/24 00:54 TSTOP : Traffic Stop 06/23/24 01:41 BRONCO DR PURSUIT : Pursuit 06/23/24 07:52 24 : 24/7 06/23/24 08:02 24 : 24/7 06/23/24 08:06 24 : 24/7 06/23/24 09:08 HWY 12 EAST THAZ : Traffic Hazard 06/23/24 10:34 TSTOP : Traffic Stop 06/23/24 10:48 EXPATROL : Extra Patrol 06/23/24 10:49 FOLLOWUP : Follow up 06/23/24 12:31 CIVIL : Civil 06/23/24 12:57 WINSTON NB Traffic Complaint : Traffic Complaint 06/23/24 13:40 HWY 287 SB DISVEH : Disabled Vehicle 06/23/24... Full story
There's something we can all agree on, Montana's Got Talent! Everyone is invited to showcase their musical talents to qualify as a contestant in the first annual show in Kalispell, Mt on Saturday, October 26th, at the Flathead Valley Community College's Wachholz Center at 7pm. This is an exciting opportunity for Montanans who wish to showcase their amazing talent at one of the most prestigious venues in Montana. Touring the state will be Founder and CEO Halladay Quist who's searching for... Full story
Lalia Mae Covey (Jeter), 91, of Helena, MT, passed away on January 29, 2024, of respiratory failure due to congestive heart failure. Lalia was born July 12, 1932, in Bozeman, MT, to Margaret and Henry Jeter. Her father passed away when she was 2 years old. Her mother, Margaret, later married Merle Chandler. Lalia spent most of her youth up Bridger Canyon as Merle worked at the Bozeman Fish Hatchery. They later moved into Bozeman, where Lalia graduated high school. She married Edward P. Covey on... Full story
Patricia (Parker) Gibson, 85, passed away on Thursday, June 13, 2024, at the Parkhaven Retirement Community in Manhattan, Mt. Services are pending with the K&L Mortuary in Three Forks.... Full story
