The Great Falls College Community Choir will be receiving a new home. To revitalize its music program, the University of Providence will once again see music return to the course book as the community choir transfers to the University. A legacy in the community for over 10 years, the choir has been under the direction and care of Cynthia Stevens who is now ready to retire. When I came to Great Falls college, Montana State University, the administration was very interested in starting a college community choir, Stevens explained. And so, it was very exciting. From the very first moment that we ..read more

The 120th Airlift Wing unit of the Montana Air National Guard hosted "Operation: Open Hangar" event on Tuesday where high school students could discuss different career fields within the Guard. Students were able to talk to current unit members while getting hands on, learning about bomb disposal robotics, trying on tactical gear, and taking a tour of a C-130 aircraft. The Guard currently has 16 career fields with part-time openings that the students explored. Other career paths showcased were loadmasters, security forces, aircraft electrical and environmental systems, and heavy equipment oper ..read more

Cannabis policy expert and author Ben Cort has been sober since 1996. Now, on a professional level, he is CEO of NRT Behavioral Health and educates communities on the harmfulness of weed and other addictive drugs. The most important thing to me in my world is how addiction manifests and the different things that we can do to both have less addiction in the world and to help people who suffer from it to recover as quickly as we can, Cort said. My entire world is really focused around trying to help people like me who are drug addicts and alcoholics. Cort held a community conversation on Wednesd ..read more

Jenniffer Robinson may be blind, but that hasnt stopped her from entering the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge for the fourth consecutive year. Through Kryodragon Productions, Jenniffer and fellow filmmaker Chandra Scheschy enlisted the help of others to submit a film called Clock Blocked. It's a story about two time traveling agents, who get stuck in the 2020s on a mission trying to find an important artifact and a criminal, said Robinson. They have to deal with all the challenges that the 2020s have to offer. This years theme is Buddy Comedy. Jenniffer says the disabled community is am ..read more

In the video above, Paul Sanchez reports from the Montana School for the Deaf & the Blind, which unveiled its new performing arts stage that is accessible to all students. Motorcyclist injured in GF crash WATCH: elephant runs loose in Butte Obituary: Marc A. Lizzard Shane New restaurant in Great Falls ..read more

Public Safety Telecommunicators are the first point of contact in any emergency call, coordinating services and obtaining essential information to send the appropriate responders. We take about 45,000 calls a year and 80,000 non-emergency calls, says 911 Center Director Karen Young, the dispatchers can tell by the ringtone if it's an emergency or non-emergency. National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week honors and recognizes the life saving service they provide all over the country. In Great Falls, Communications Officer Supervisor Leather Hersey coordinated with organizations the center wo ..read more

Every month MTN News features a child in Montana who is waiting to find their forever family as part of the A Waiting Child program. This month, we introduce you to Brock & Nolan in Great Falls. Hailey Powell is a child protection specialist who has been the case worker for the brothers for more than a year. Powell said, "Brock loves soccer. He played soccer for the first time last fall and scored a goal which hes super proud about. He loves to play board games and play with Hot Wheels. He has lots of different tracks and probably over hundreds of cars that he plays with." She continued ..read more

The Great Falls Museum Consortium collaborated on Sunday for the annual Sunday Sampler, in which 11 museums and historical sites had free admission to the public for exploration, as well as trivia questions and prizes at each location. The community of Great Falls, as well as the surrounding areas, are big supporters of all the history and art Great Falls has to offer. The Sunday Sampler is a way to give everyone in the community a chance to get out and experience it all. The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center was one of the 11 participating museums and historical sites in this years Sunday ..read more

At first glance you wouldnt know Dawn Sexton has multiple sclerosis. I still snowboard, I still paddleboard, golf, all the things, and I am still working full-time, said Sexton who serves as the National Multiple Sclerosis Societys District Activist Leader for Montana. Her full-time job is Touro College of Montana Clinical Education Director. She first noticed her symptoms of the disease in 2015. I actually lost mobility in my whole upper half. So, my arms, my hands, I couldn't feel my torso, said Sexton. She said she couldnt think clearly, and it took about nine months to finally get diagnose ..read more

In conjunction with No More Violence Week, the Threads of Connection showcase at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art features a 167-foot long quilt consisting of 669 squares, crafted by people within the community of all ages, spanning from ages one to ninety six. The project took three years, with the first two years consisting of gathering finished squares from over 20 workshops within the community. At these workshops, participants were given prompts such as What is safety? Connection? Healing? and How do we prevent violence?. Organizations that contributed include the Great Falls Rescue ..read more