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Lee Enterprises acquires Great Falls Tribune from USA Today Co.
Lee Enterprises, a national newspaper chain with a significant footprint in Montana, has announced the acquisition of the Great Falls Tribune. The move expands Lee’s ownership of newspapers in nearly all of the state’s major cities, including Helena, Missoula, Billings and Butte. The company shared an announcement Monday through its Montana papers and in a separate announcement to investors.
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Great Falls International Airport economic impacts
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$16M Fire Station Bay Construction Awarded to Sealaska Constructors, USACE Seattle District
Upgrading installation emergency response capabilities, expanding crash-fire-rescue facility capacity, and modernizing critical support infrastructure for strategic intercontinental ballistic missile operations, Sealaska Constructors LLC has been awarded a $16,028,652 firm-fixed-price contract. The military construction award finances the construction of new fire station bays at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana.
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Kohlberg-Backed Loenbro Acquires Prism Electric
Loenbro, a construction and maintenance contractor backed by Kohlberg & Company, has acquired Prism Electric, a Texas-based electrical contractor with about 2,500 employees. Prism is the biggest acquisition in Loenbro’s history. It comes nine months after Kohlberg agreed to acquire a majority stake in Loenbro from Braemont Capital, which retained a minority interest alongside Kohlberg.
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Montana businesses becoming recovery friendly
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Business Bites: GFDA data center meeting; UW campaign; High School House groundbreaking; Bar NN Smokehouse closing; Double Barrel for sale; bead shop opens; girls robotics class; and more
The Great Falls Development Alliance is hosting another Data Center Task Force meeting on Sept. 28, inviting community members to gather and review what’s been learned during the previous five meetings to develop a clear, thoughtful, and informed community framework for any future data center project considering North Central Montana.