Cascade News

Byline: Tim Lanham can't get Qwest DSL at his eastside Great Falls home. It's available to his neighbors across the street and at his office a block away.

Regrettably, the recent drowning near Cascade mirrors a scenario repeated all too often.

A permit to operate a temporary asphalt hot-mix plant at a proposed gravel pit south of Cascade was a hot button topic at Friday's meeting of the Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment, with residents and construction company representatives filling the chambers.

Jamie Harris and Jake Sweeney were married Aug. 29 in Holy Spirit Catholic Church.

The Bureau of Land Management has launched an environmental assessment of 99 grazing allotments in Meagher, Cascade, Teton, Lewis and Clark and Pondera counties.

A proposal by a construction company to temporarily reopen a 29-acre gravel pit to support a $17 million reconstruction job on Interstate 15 south of Cascade is drawing protest from at least one family in the area.

STOCKETT - Leo Edwin Mayernik, 87, of Stockett, a farmer/rancher and World War II Army veteran, died of natural causes Friday at a local hospital.

The Bureau of Land Management launched an enviromental assessment of 99 grazing allotments in five Montana counties.

The recent spring-like weather in northcentral Montana is causing another spring-like phenomenon - flooding.

A 58-year-old Great Falls man drowned Sunday in the Missouri River after rescuing his beloved lab from the frigid water while bird hunting between Cascade and Ulm.

A man is dead after falling through the ice on the Missouri River. Multimedia Watch The Video According to reports from the Cascade County Sheriff, 58 year old Cascade County Resident Garry E. Wallace was goose hunting with a friend along the river between Cascade and Ulm near Old US Highway 91.

At least two sets of performers at Saturday's Cascade of Talent auditions at the Great Falls Civic Center crossed traditional rivalry lines.

The Cascade City-County Health Department will provide H1N1 flu vaccine to people of all ages every day next week from noon to 3 p.m. in the lobby of the Health Department, 115 4th St.

The Wedsworth Memorial Library in Cascade will hold a used book fair on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The fair benefits efforts to raise enough money to build a new library.

Traffic deaths continued to decline in 2009, but the chief administrator for the Montana Highway Patrol is not satisfied.

Sherlock Holmes may be back on the silver screen, but Great Falls' Sandra Guynn does a bit of detective work herself.

A historical skit, a look back at 2009 and a look ahead to the new decade will be part of an annual get-together Jan.

Dear David: My family does not believe me when I tell them about a movie with Sean Connery as an author who mentors a young man he watches playing basketball on a court across from his apartment.

I'm searching for information on my paternal grandfather and his family. His name is Charles Elmer Robinson; b: 25 Jan.

Ben and Doris Miller of 27 Dearborn River Road, Cascade, were guests of honor at a family dinner, given at the Jade Garden in Helena, to mark their 60th wedding anniversary.