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Also on today's calendar: Harlequin Organic Produce Summer Warehouse Sale.
Today's riddle: What has a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. City to explore code incentives to drive affordable housing (missoulacurrent.com) — Missoula city leaders are launching a focused review of development rules to make it easier to build deed-restricted affordable housing. The City Council's Land Use and Planning Committee has directed staff to propose targeted tweaks to the new Unified Development Code by winter, aiming to streamline specific projects without broad, across-the-board incentives.
2. City of Missoula receives roughly $800,000 a year in HUD funding, which goes to services and construction (kpax.com) — Missoula is set to receive about $800,000 in annual HUD funding that supports affordable housing, key social services, and home rehabilitation across the city. Local nonprofits like the Missoula Housing Authority collaborate with the city to stretch these dollars into new units, safety upgrades, and help for low-income homeowners, even as some other federal funds have recently been pulled.
3. Robot roaming Missoula County is taking measurements for its ADA evaluation, County says (fairfieldsuntimes.com) — A small robot named Dax is rolling around Missoula's sidewalks, parks, and trails to collect detailed measurements for Missoula County's ADA self-evaluation and future accessibility upgrades. County officials say the robot's cameras only capture sidewalk data, not personal information, and the results will guide which pedestrian routes get prioritized for improvements over time.
4. Missoula school bus stops: What drivers need to know (fairfieldsuntimes.com) — Drivers in Missoula are still illegally passing stopped school buses, especially along Mullan Road, and troopers warn the behavior could have deadly consequences. Montana Highway Patrol and local bus drivers explain state bus-stop laws, highlight past crashes, and note that a failure-to-stop citation in Missoula County now costs $785, with witness videos helping enforcement.
5. Trench tenacity: Missoula Sentinel football smothers Belgrade in shutout victory (billingsgazette.com) — Missoula Sentinel's football team dominated Belgrade in a shutout at Missoula County Stadium, with a powerful defensive front leading the way. Photo highlights capture key plays from Sentinel standouts as they controlled the game on both sides of the ball in Friday night's matchup.
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