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Hill County Health Department Public Health Director Kim Larson said the department has received some photographs which show what could be a toxic harmful algal blooms on both Beaver Creek Reservoir and Bear Paw Lake south of Havre. "They look pretty similar to the harmful algal blooms we've had in the past," she said. Harmful algal blooms, commonly called blue-green algae, can potentially be harmful to both people and animals, she added. The blooms are created by accumulation...
Big Equipment is back, moving into its new building almost two years after the previous building burned down on Christmas Eve, and owner Ron Harmon has set his sights on addressing a growing issue in the agricultural industry. "We want to be different," Ron Harmon said. "So when we burned to the ground, one of the things that I wanted to do with this facility is to change that perception and change that whole thing." The new building is primarily office space with the work on...
Fifteen years after it first opened its doors, Artitudes Cooperative Gallery is continuing its mission to provide a location for emerging and established artists to display their original fine art. "They asked us in the beginning, 'What does success look like to you?'" Kris Shaw, one of the founding Artitudes members, said. "And I said, 'If we're here in five years we've been successful.' So we've been successful three times already." Shaw said that she first got the idea in 2...
Since it was established in 1962, Northern Home Essentials - originally Northern Electronics - has been a family-owned and operated business and the DeRosa family plans to continue the tradition for years to come. "At this point in time, the reason that the store works the way that it does is because the three of us are involved," Brian DeRosa said. "There's no ifs, ands or buts about it." Northern Home Essentials is owned by Larry DeRosa, and his children Brian DeRosa and...
Specialists and health professionals agree the only way for Montana to deal with the statewide suicide crisis is to work together in a joint community effort. In Montana suicide is still running rampant. The latest data available, from 2017, showed Montana had the highest rate of suicide per capita in the nation, 28.9 per 100,000 residents, just ahead of Alaska, which had 27 per 100,000 residents. A recent study done by Seniorliving.org — online at https://www.seniorliving.org — said that in 2018 Montana had a rate of 29....
People gathered Saturday in Pepin Park with their dogs to have some fun and raise money to help fund the Havre Animal Shelter at the same time. Friends of the Havre Animal Shelter held the second annual Woofstock, a community event for people and dogs as a fundraiser for the non-profit. "It's great to see dogs that are well socialized that can come to events like this," Friends of the Havre Animal Shelter President Kim Federspiel, who is also married to Havre Animal Control...
Gov. Steve Bullock will be joining in the festivities and will hold a ceremonial bill signing at Fort Belknap Indian Community’s Community Health Aid Program CHAP Celebration Monday. The event will start at 9 a.m. at the Red Whip parking lot and at 9:45 a.m. will walk around the Agency “Loop” and meet back at the Red Whip Center. The event will include guest speakers, a buffalo feast and door prizes. The CHAP bill was passed by the Montana Legislature last session, after some controversy and multiple revisions to the origi...
With summer winding down to an end, the Havre-Hill County Library's Summer Reading Program is wrapping up this week with its Landing Party Friday. The summer reading program encourages children to read and learn during the summer, Havre-Hill County Children's Librarian Ashley Martin said. During the summer, children often lose some reading skills from not attending school and once school is back in session, teachers have to spend time getting their students back up to speed....
With the Mission Act going into effect earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte has been traveling across the state touring Veteran Affairs Clinics, speaking with veterans and VA staff about how the VA clinics can improve and what success they have been seeing. Gianforte, who is running for Montana Governor, met Tuesday with Veterans Affairs Northeast Regional manager Peter Lucas and veteran Bill Tucker at the Havre Great Northern Inn and Suites to discuss the local VA clin...
Some people who attended a presentation at Havre High School Tuesday by Tri-Agency Task Force Supervisor C.J. Reichelt on recent trends in illegal drugs and the impact they have on the Havre community said he gave valuable information. "I came in today thinking about the kids in our school that have drug problems, and I walked out thinking about the kids that are affected by someone's drug problems," Havre High School Vice Principal Pax Haslem said. The presentation by...
Havre City Council member Caleb Hutchins said during the council's meeting Monday that he wants to look into an ordinance which would allow exemptions to operate an Airbnb in residential zones where they are not now allowed. "Zone change is probably not the way to do that, it sounds like, so the other option that the city could consider, is the council could consider, changing the zoning ordinance to allow Airbnbs in those neighborhoods," Hutchins said. "Some cities across...
Officials have released the name of a 68-year-old Butte man who died Monday as a result of injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 2 east of Havre. Hill County Sheriff and Coroner Jamie Ross said the driver of the vehicle was Rolin L. Nitschke. Montana Highway Patrol said that the crash was reported on U.S. Highway 2 at mile marker 388, which is about five miles east of Havre on the east side of Pork Chop Hill, Monday at 11:17 a.m. The 2005 Freightliner...
Hundreds of people attended local historian and retired Havre High School teacher Jim Magera's lecture Monday about the history of early Havre and the surrounding area, hosted by Havre Public Schools. "I don't think enough of us know where our roots are and what some of the history is of Havre," former Havre High School Guidance Secretary and Registrar Ann Remus, who was at the presentation as a community member with her husband, Barry, said. "I think that it's good that we...
A man died this morning when his semitrailer crashed on U.S. Highway 2 about five miles east of Havre, Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said. A call at 11:18 a.m. reported a truck had crashed on U.S. Highway 2. The truck had run up the embankment on the north side of the highway and rolled onto its side. Montana Highway Patrol, Hill Country Sheriff's Office and Havre Fire Department responded to the scene. Ross said the investigation is being conducted by the Highway Patrol. He...
A volunteer nonprofit organization has started on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and is working toward building a community center for youth on the reservation. "That's what we need to give our kids because, nowadays, it's too hard with losing our children, our adults, everybody to drugs and alcohol," Rocky Boy's Eagle Core Community Organization Secretary Rebekah Jarvey said. "It's too hard right now to keep our family together, so having this community center, we need to...
The 2019 Chippewa Cree Celebration saw thousands of people from across the country and Canada joining in the festivities throughout the weekend on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. "It's important to families just to get them immersed in their culture," Chippewa Cree Powwow President Caryn Sangrey said, adding that she enjoyed seeing children, the Tiny Tots dancers, get to dance and spend time with adults who have been doing powwows their entire life. The powwow this year saw mo...
The Chippewa Cree 20th Annual Youth Powwow was underway in the summer heat Thursday and held two presentations for children to take in lessons about trauma, depression, suicide prevention, bullying, respect, vaping and cultural identity. "Sometimes when we are stuck in that spiral downward lifestyle that drugs and alcohol can bring to you, we can show them a way out," Chippewa Cree Executive Director and Court Administrator Elinor Nault said. "There is help out there, there is...
Davalena Buckman Kelley, a Fort Belknap woman who was reported missing Monday on Facebook, by her sister Starr Sapphire, was found by Chicago Police Department with assistance from Fort Belknap Indian Community Law Enforcement, and arrangements have been made to return her back home to Montana. "I just wanna give a huge thanks to everyone that shared the post, and helped get the word out," Sapphire wrote on a Facebook post Thursday. According to a Monday Facebook post by Sapph...
Montana State University-Northern has partnered with several different agencies and the Hill County Park Board to start a long-term monitoring program for Beaver Creek Park to collect data on the changing ecosystem in the park. "Her database is something that we can use 100 years from now," community member Lou Hagener said of Northern Associate Professor Terri Hildebrand's research, "to say here, OK, this is what we had." Hagener has been helping Hildebrand with her study of...
This afternoon, Davalena Buckman Kelley, a Fort Belknap woman who was reported missing Monday on Facebook by her sister Starr Sapphire, was found by Chicago Police Department with assistance from Fort Belknap Indian Community Law Enforcement, and arrangements have been made to return her back home to Montana. "I just wanna give a huge thanks to everyone that shared the post, & helped get the word out," Sapphire wrote on a Facebook post Thursday. According to a Monday Facebook...
With the 2020 Decennial Census fast approaching, Montana is provided an opportunity of receiving more than $2 billion of federal funding and regaining a U.S. Congressional seat after 30 years. "It's pretty important for Havre and Hill County, northern Montana and all of Montana that we get the census right in 2020," Bear Paw Development Corp. Executive Director Paul Tuss said. U.S. Census Bureau Partnership Specialist Jeri Bucy and Media Specialist Joshua Manning held a...
The annual Rock Lotto is returning for its fourth year and is looking for Hi-Line area musicians of all skill levels to sign up for the event. “My favorite part is getting people to reconnect with live music and enjoy making music,” Dave Martens, event organizer and manager of KNMC 90.1 FM, Montana State University Northern college radio station, said. A press release said that KNMC 90.1 FM has held the Rock Lotto for the past four years and will be holding the performance once again Saturday, Sept. 21, during Havre Fes...
Several fire agencies responded to a large field fire south of Fresno Road between Havre and Kremlin on the Fresno High Grade earlier today. After almost three hours of battling flames, a patchwork group of local departments and neighboring farmers were able to extinguish the fire - but not after losing around 500 acres of wheat and pasture. Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department Chief Josh Bebee said the firefighting effort went well despite the losses of crops. "We managed to...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Tuesday during his monthly rural conference call that before the U.S. Senate takes a recess for the month of August, there are a number of bills he is working to get pushed through. Recently Tester’s bipartisan bill to push rural broadband coverage received approval by the Senate Commerce Committee and is moving on to the Senate floor, he said. He added that his bill requires broadband providers to fix their inaccurate coverage and wire maps to better represent what areas are covered. ...
At the beginning of the month, Gov. Steve Bullock issued an executive order establishing the Montana Climate Solutions Council, to which he appointed two local residents among a lengthy list of other people from across the state. Paul Tuss of Havre, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., and Jayne Morrow of Chinook, assistant vice president of research and economic development at Montana State University, were both appointed to the council by Bullock. The council...
