East Helena’s popular summer events like Food Truck Thursdays and Tuesday and Saturday farmers’ markets have been drawing thousands as our community moves forward into fall.
Mayor Kelly Harris, Councilmember Wes Feiss, and others are jumping through hoops to retain that $10 million federal grant that former U.S. Senator Jon Tester secured to improve Valley Drive. The road is unsafe for kids and families going to Prickly Pear Elementary and East Helena High School.
Previously promised by the feds, the current administration is reevaluating the grant money. Fingers crossed, construction might start by summer 2027. This is just one of the many tenuous federal grants the legislative Local Government Interim Committee that I serve on will examine over the next year and a half.
