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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 Beebe said the firefighting effort went well despite the losses of crops. "We managed to c...
The Milk River Indian Days powwow at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation wrapped up Sunday and saw hundreds in attendance from around the area all sharing in the celebration. In light of a number of recent tragedies on the reservation, the community banded together in prayer, mourning and healing and held a ceremony that the tribe has not held in nearly a century. "It's not a matter of being good to one another, it's a matter of loving one another through good and bad. Share the...
Editor's Note: Profiles on Attorney General candidates Kimberly Dudik and Raph Graybill; Secretary of State candidate Bryce Bennett; and State Auditor candidate Shane Morigeau can be found in tomorrow's edition of the Havre Daily News. Nine Democratic candidates from across the state gathered in Pepin Park Saturday to pitch their talking points as the Hill County Democratic Party and Big Sky Democrats held a campaign event to prepare for the 2020 election season. "It is early...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation announced on their Facebook page Thursday that the reservation is currently experiencing water source problems and is encouraging people who use water conservatively. “Box Elder should be getting water now and (Tribal Water Resource Department) will be distributing water to the people that are out, and it is safe to drink,” the tribe said in a post. The Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee and the water resource department did not respond to multiple reque...
U.S. officials from the Census Bureau, the City of Havre and Hill County will be in Havre to plan and discuss the 2020 Census Tuesday. “This is a kickoff event for the city and county to plan out how they intend to make sure the Havre area gets the most accurate count possible,” Census Bureau Dallas Regional Office Media Specialist Josh Manning said in a notice about the meeting. The event begins at 2 p.m. in the Bear Paw Development Corp. large conference room on the second floor of the Ryan Building. “We have learned over...
A pursuit which started on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Wednesday and ended in Beaver Creek Park turned into a standoff that ran long into the night after suspect Thompson Densmore St. Pierre of Rocky Boy, 29, attempted to flee from law enforcement. This morning St. Pierre was being held without bond in Hill County Detention Center on a federal warrant and two felony counts of assault on a peace officer. Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said the Rocky Boy Police Department started the pursuit with a green Honda Elantra w...
Due to a global shift in the recycling market, Havre Pacific Steel and Recycling and other recycling companies have put a hold on accepting mixed paper and some other items until new opportunities arise. "Right now, we don't want to continue accepting paper with no outlet because we have no way to store it, to hold on to it and wait for that market to come back," Havre Pacific Steel and Recycling Manager Anthony Bowden said. "If folks want to do that, if they want to hold on...
Although the final numbers and counts aren't in, the Great Northern Fair Board members agreed Tuesday during the board's monthly meeting at the fairgrounds that this year went well and they are beginning to think about what can be done next year. "Overall, it was a job well-done for everybody," Recently hired fairgrounds manager Frank English said. "Counting more smiles than frowns. We have more smiles than frowns, so I call it a success." At the meeting the board and members...
More than a month after three cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, were diagnosed in Blaine County, the number has nearly tripled — with the last case diagnosed early this month — giving Blaine County the second highest incident rate for pertussis in the state. “While there are definitely more cases than are normal right now, it’s not something that is a reason for panic,” Blaine County Health Supervisor Jana McPherson-Hauer said Monday. The Department of Public Health and Human Services website says that as of July 5 Blain...
With the sound of carnival rides and the smell of fried foods, the annual Great Northern Fair saw thousands of people strolling about the fairgrounds this weekend with several family friendly activities for visitors. "Everything is so technology based these days, you know, getting out and getting fresh air and when we were growing up in the '80s and '90s this was all we had to do, this is what we had to look forward to," Jhaney Randles said. The Great Northern Fair has made...
At the Hill County Fair Commercial Building, the Montana Hemp Cooperative is looking for interested people to sign up this weekend. They are looking for farmers who want to get involved with the cooperative, or everyday citizens who are interested in investing. “If they are interested and wanting to know how to grow hemp, come see us because we want to do this together,” Chuck Holman, owner of Earth In Hand: Soil Health Services and organizer of the co-op said. The co-op has recently gotten it’s final approval of its artic...
In Montana, agriculture is not only an industry but a way of life, and some farmers are seeing the reintroduction of hemp as an opportunity to give new life to the family farm. "You stop at the Town Pump and you talk to the local farmers, and all of them say the same things, something's gotta change or their going to go out of business, because they are just scraping by," Harlem-area producer Rob Klingaman said. Hemp is also known as cannabis, which is also a term for...
In the past months, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reassigned a large number of agents and officers from across the nation to the southern border to deal with illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, a move some say leaves the northern border vulnerable. CBP says it is working to deal with the situation. "While the current southwest border security and humanitarian crisis is impacting CBP operations, we are working to mitigate the effects as much as possible...
Editor's note: This corrects teh spelling of Greg Dolven's name in the photo caption. A petition submitted by Northern Heights Drive resident Kerma Boyum to rezone the area her house is in from Residential Class A-1 to Residential General to allow an Airbnb was voted down by Havre City Council Monday after council members heard from several people that the petition was misrepresented to them. "I was puzzled at first as to why she needed signatures to do what she wanted to do...
Friday, Stone Child College held a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly dedicated building, the Dr. Nathaniel St. Pierre Elementary Education Building, The Creator Looks Upon Him, in the memory of the college president who died in 2017. “A lot of the things that we continue to do were his vision,” college President Cory Sangrey-Billy said in an interview. “We just feel that we owe that to him, to name this after him because he was a big part to a lot of the success we’ve...
Cancer never sleeps, and participants in this year's Relay For Life walked late into the night Friday in Chinook despite the rain to raise awareness and funds for cancer patients. "All of us who had cancer, we are survivors, we did not let it beat us down and we are the lucky ones and the strong ones," keynote speaker John Hebbelman said. "Relay For Life, like we are doing tonight, is one of the groups that help find cures and help patients with wigs, transportation and...
Havre City Council’s agenda for Monday’s meeting includes a petition to rezone an area to allow Airbnbs and approval of restarting work on the Bullhook Storm Drain Project. Airbnb zoning petition Kerma Boyum submitted a petition Monday of this week requesting rezoning the area her property is in, on Northern Heights Drive east of Northern Montana Hospital, from Residential Class A-1 to Residential General. The issue has come up in City Council meetings over the last couple of months. It first arose last year, with some peo...
Thursday at 12:28 p.m. Mountain Time, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.’s, gavel fell with the final vote for the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which includes the recognition for the Little Shell Tribe of the Chippewa Indians. The bill passed 86 to 8, getting the Little Shell Tribe one step closer to being federally recognized after 130 years. “Here’s a very good example where you have the entire Montana delegation, Congressman (Greg Gianforte, R-Mont.), Sen. (Jon Tester, D-Mont.), and mysel...
The roots and branches of Havre's Tilleman Motor Co. spread from a Chinook NFL player to his son, who worked as a chemical engineer, with the company serving the Hi-Line for more than 40 years. "I think my dad and I are both the kind of people that if you need to put a flag at the top of the mountain we'll charge up the hill and get it done," Craig Tilleman said. Mike Tilleman, original owner and Craig Tilleman's father, started Tilleman Motor Co. in 1977, shortly after...
This week is National Mosquito Awareness Week, and Terry Turner, supervisor of the Hill County Mosquito Control District, said that although the Mosquito Control District has made great strides since 2004, people should still try to do their part to minimize the number of mosquitoes in the area. "If you are having mosquitoes in your yard all the time, there is a source nearby," he said. Mosquitoes carry and transmit a number of diseases, incuding West Nile and Zika viruses,...
During a telephonic press conference Tuesday from Washington, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said people at the town hall meeting he held in Missoula last week discussed many issues - but the biggest topics were plans to reorganize Job Corps training centers, including closing the one in Anaconda and privatizing the management of Montana's Trapper Creek training center. "Too often and in far too many cases, the administration acts without regard for real-world consequences...
Planning for the annual Independence Day Festival is underway, with people invited to come to Pepin Park to help with and to enjoy the event. “You can enjoy the company of your neighbor and it’s fun being outside,” event co-organizer Sherri Simonson said. “I just think that it’s an event for Havre, and it’s supported by Havre.” Every summer for the past 19 years the festival has been held in Pepin Park for the Fourth of July. The festival is open to the community at large and provides a free lunch, activities and live musi...
Several generations after The Battle of the Bear Paws, the cultural practices of the Nez Perce Tribe are still being used and passed down, and they have virtue in modern society, a tribal elder speaking in Chinook said last weekend. "We know different things and how to work with things and we'd observe, we were taught all those skills, be patient," Silas Whitman said. Whitman spoke Saturday and Sunday at the Blaine County Museum, relaying his own life experiences from growing...
A local comic is hosting a comedy show at Old Station Brewing Co. Friday to raise money for Havre Beneath the Streets to help repair damage to the popular historic tourist attraction. “I saw they were doing fundraisers and I, like, ‘Well, geez, I could help with that, at least in some way,’” comic and event organizer Paul Verity said. Two of Havre Beneath the Streets’ rooms have been closed due to water leakage. The leak is coming through the sidewalk on Second Street in front of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles Club. Ben...
Some local residents and government officials are up in arms about Fort Belknap Indian Community requesting some additional land so it can manage its water. More than 100 years after the Grinnell Agreement of 1895, Fort Belknap is working to have 14,496 acres of land in the agreement returned to the reservation as part of federal approval of the Fort Belknap Water Compact. But people who own land within the boundaries of the proposed transfer are deadset against it happening....
