HELENA (AP) — Montana will further ease coronavirus restrictions in two weeks by lifting a 14-day quarantine for out-of-state visitors, allowing groups of up to 50 people to gather and allowing more people inside restaurants, bars and gyms, Gov. Steve Bullock said Tuesday.
Tourists entered Yellowstone National Park on Monday for the first time in nearly two months, but they weren’t allowed to camp and some parts of the park remained off-limits as part of continuing coronavirus-related restrictions.
The Three Forks Chamber of Commerce voted this week to take down one of its welcome signs because a political candidate has refused to remove his campaign poster from the billboard.
The Gallatin City-County Board of Health voted Wednesday to allow gyms, museums and movie theaters to reopen on Friday.
Montanans will face a “broad-based recession of greater magnitude than what was experienced in 2008-09” in 2020, according to an analysis of the state economy released today by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana.
More than half of Gallatin Valley business owners who responded to a new survey this week said they will need financial resources to reopen or recover their operations after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
In an effort to lift spirits and “get the community out and about again,” the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a fun “Cruise Belgrade” on Friday night.
