ARTICLES BY TOM LOTSHAW

Landfill board selection splits council voters

The Kalispell City Council couldn’t agree Monday when it came to picking a city representative for the Flathead County Solid Waste Board.
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Council approves increase in water impact fee

Kalispell’s water impact fees are going up for the first time in more than five years, following the City Council’s passage Monday of a resolution to increase them.
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City backtracks on sewer plan

The Kalispell City Council is slowing down its push to enact a “first in, first out” sewer capacity allocation policy.
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Kalispell voters reject airport expansion

A push to expand and realign the Kalispell City Airport is grounded.
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Projects squeezed by sewer-line bottleneck

Use it or lose it.
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Airport question: Issue comes to a vote on Tuesday

A long-running, increasingly bitter feud over Kalispell City Airport reaches a milestone in Tuesday’s general election, when Kalispell voters will repeal or uphold a City Council resolution to try to upgrade the general aviation facility through the federal Airport Improvement Program.
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Bypass completion possible in three years

After more than 20 years, there is light at the end of the tunnel for the Kalispell U.S. 93 bypass.
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Website maneuver adds to airport intrigue

Did Quiet Skies have a quiet change of heart and decide to support a project to realign and expand Kalispell City Airport through the federal Airport Improvement Program?
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Airport manager says he was libeled

Kalispell’s part-time airport manager Fred Leistiko alleges he was libeled, slandered and defamed by Phil Guiffrida III, a member of the Kalispell City Council.
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Kalispell bypass paving begins

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Kalispell Parks and Rec chief looks back after quarter-century

After working for 25 years as Kalispell’s parks and recreation director, Mike Baker is retiring at the end of this year.
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Kalispell braces for higher impact fees

What some people are already criticizing as large, development-stunting increases in Kalispell’s sanitary sewer impact fees might be growing even larger.
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Grant to extend Kalispell bike path along U.S. 93 from Meridian to Sunnyview

Additional federal grant money is letting Kalispell build another section of bike path that’s taking shape one piece at a time along U.S. 93.
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$15 million bridge replacement project launched

The Montana Department of Transportation is getting started on plans to replace the South Fork Flathead River Bridge on U.S. 2 west of Hungry Horse.
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County seeks city help applying for $30,000 grant

The Kalispell City Council tonight will consider sponsoring a $30,000 grant request for Flathead County to evaluate the condition of its senior centers and develop a plan to address their deficiencies.
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