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Julie Engler covers Whitefish City Hall and writes community features for the Whitefish Pilot. She earned master's degrees in fine arts and education from the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-882-3505.

ARTICLES BY JULIE ENGLER

City Council denies, approves, supports

The Whitefish City Council denied a request by Averill Hospitality for a zoning map amendment at 1350 and 1352 Wisconsin Avenue from WR-3, low-density, multi-family residential, to WRB-2, general resort business district.
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Planning Commission forges slight changes to zoning, subdivision regulations

The Whitefish Planning Commission recommended amendments to both zoning regulations and subdivision regulations, several of which were a matter of housekeeping.
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Planning Commission reviews changes to zoning, subdivision regs

Whitefish City Planner Dave Taylor presented the city’s request to amend the zoning regulations and the subdivision regulations to comply with the Montana Land Use Planning Act and several land use bills adopted by the 2023 and 2025 state legislatures.
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People in your neighborhood: Kristen Deltenre banking on a positive attitude

There are some constants when it comes to any bank transactions: account numbers, receipts, signatures, and when Kristen Deltenre is the teller, there is the confidence and competence that comes with eight years of banking experience.
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Film fest highlights outdoor recreation’s ability to provide mental reset

How often does a bike ride or jog after work provide some solace?
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Sportsman & Ski Haus racks up Best of Whitefish accolades

The Sportsman & Ski Haus is an employee-owned outdoor and sporting goods store founded in 1968. The store has a family feel and employees who know the gear and know the nearby terrain.
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Whitefish City Planner maps out epic retirement after 20 years with city

Leave it to a professional planner to create a brilliant blueprint for the first few months of her retirement.
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Best of Whitefish: DREAM Adaptive Recreation

The sporty, competitive bunch at DREAM Adaptive Recreation were voted best nonprofit in the Best of Whitefish competition.
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Student artists brighten entry to library with mural

The Whitefish Community Library and Stumptown Art Studio partnered to form the Mural Making Club, which is currently working on its first mural.
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Whitefish adopts growth policy update, public engagement plan

As the orchestrater of Vision Whitefish 2045, Long Range City Planner Alan Tifenbach has been eating and sleeping the growth policy for three years.
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Council hears health department update, Armory Road project concerns

Grant Huges, the Whitefish appointee on the Flathead County Board of Health, gave an update to the council including the County Commissioner’s recent decision to allow gravity fed septic systems for the first time since they were banned in 2004.
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Whitefish business rescues, resurrects and reimagines clothing, gear

Five sewing machines and a serger stand at the ready. Racks of jackets wait their turn, and sacks of bags fill two corners of the small workspace. One hundred zippers hang from one board and on another, different widths of webbing.
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Foster Flower Wholesale Nursery one of handful using biological controls

The greenhouses at Foster Flowers Wholesale Nursery in Whitefish look like most other greenhouses. The floors are covered with trays of young plants and rows of hanging baskets are overhead.
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Planning Commission gives a nod to zone change

The Whitefish Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval for a zone change and a conditional use permit last week.
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Canada goose finds birds of a feather in Whitefish

A Canada goose made friends with a few homeowners in a lakeside neighborhood in Whitefish last week who were concerned for the seemingly lost, sweet bird.
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