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Local historian and H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Director Emily Mayer led a historic cemetery tour Tuesday at Highland Cemetery where she spoke about the notable citizens of Hill County who are buried at the site. "Sometimes we forget about them, so they need to have their stories revived and told to the next generation so that they don't forget their history," Mayer said. She said that she started leading cemetery tours in 2010 after seeing the other tours and exhibits...
A recent graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma has made the journey to Havre to start working as a reporter for The Havre Daily News. "I'm kind of doing what was always a hobby, I mean I've always loved to write," Rachel Jamieson said. Jamieson arrived in Havre Friday from Edmond, Okla., where she lived for 14 years. In Edmond, she graduated from Edmond North High School in 2015 and attended the University of Central Oklahoma. This year, she graduated with a...
Havre High School art teacher Stacey Freier is concluding her career in teaching after 37 years June 5. "It's a good decision, but there is a lot that I'm going to miss," she said. Freier graduated from Hellgate High School in Missoula in 1978, but she said she wanted to be a teacher since she was a little girl. She said that after high school she had a great opportunity when she was offered a full-ride basketball scholarship to Northern Montana College, now Montana State...
A new marathon is coming to north-central Montana. At the Hill County Park Board meeting Monday, Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jody Olson told the board about a planned marathon set for 2020. Olson said Montana State University-Northern Chief of Staff Rachel Dean proposed hosting a full marathon of 25.2 miles in 2020 to the Chamber. She added that Dean wrote a grant application to the state Department of Commerce’s Tourism Department, which awarded the Chamber $12,700 for the event. She said the event a...
The topic of zoning and starting an Airbnb in Havre came up during Havre City Council’s meeting Monday. Council member Lindsey Ratliff brought up during the public comment portion of the meeting a citizen’s questions about zoning areas to establish an Airbnb. “They need to specify what their request is so it can go to the zoning board, or if they are trying to change ordinances, if that is what their request is,” Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said. “To me, personally, you’re not going to be able, probably, to change the ordinan...
After 34 years teaching industrial arts at Havre Middle School, Tim Hagen is retiring. "It's a little bit scary because this is kind of all I've known," he said. Hagen said that he has been an educator at Havre Middle School for the past 34 years, starting shortly after he graduated from Northern Montana College - now Montana State University-Northern - with an endorsement in industrial arts. He added that he has done some odd jobs during the summertime, although teaching at...
Havre celebrated its annual Living History event Saturday, with a variety of historical locations and community organizations offering tours and activities for community members and tourists of all ages. "It's just kind of fun," said Jim Griggs, Bullhook Bottoms Black Powder Club member and one of the founding members of the club. The Black Powder Club was at Fort Assinniboine, displaying historical firearms to visitors of the fort as well as allowed children to fire the club'...
Clausen and Sons General Contractors company, a third-generation family business, is continuing its 59-year tradition of building in northern Montana and supporting Montana families. "It's been fun watching our organization grow over the years," co-owner Dave Clausen said. Clausen and Sons started in Malta in 1960 as Clausen Wholesale, when Clausen's father, Pete Clausen, started the company. At the time, Pete Clausen owned a Ford dealership and a gas distribution company but...
After 33 years as a teacher in Montana schools, Havre High School industrial arts teacher Bruce Finneman is retiring June 5. "I'm a little anxious, but I think I'm ready for it," he sid. Finneman graduated from Northern Montana College - now Montana State University-Northern - with a bachelor's degree in industrial arts education and a minor in physical education in 1977. He did his student teaching in Rudyard, then started teaching in Poplar from 1977 to 1978, then went to...
As the morning sun hung three-quarters up in the sky Saturday, downtown Havre was filled with the sound of motorcycles as the Seventh Annual Spring Opener Poker Run for Montana Wounded Warriors got underway. "We all like to ride," Kindred Spirits President Randy Iverson of Shelby said. "It's fun to ride in a group, amazing how many people you get to know every year." Montana Wounded Warriors uses funds raised, such as by the Eagle Riders Poker Run, to send Montana veterans...
Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., told the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group Wednesday in Havre that he will work to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year. "I've got my marching orders," he said. "... You have my commitment." It's been 17 years since the St. Mary's Rehabilitation Working Group was established to find a workable solution to repairing the St. Mary Diversion. "There's no infrastructure project more important than the...
A local man said a program started in Hill County in 2012 has changed his life. "I've always wanted to do something for the community. I've always wanted to do something not just for myself ... and all that was blocked by something, and that was my addiction," Darcy Azure said. He said that, in December of 2013, he was enrolled into the Hill County DUI Treatment Court after he was charged with his third count of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Azure said that...
U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., told a group in Havre Wednesday that telecommuting can be a way to attract people to move to rural Montana as well as bring money into local economies. "The reality is that the internet changes the rules of where you're located and how you work," he said. "The reality is now, with the internet, you don't have to be physically located where the business is." Gianforte met with local business owners, representatives from Triangle...
The Chippewa Cree Criminal Investigation Department at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has new supervision, with Project War Shield Program Director Gary LaMere Jr. taking over as head of the department. “My main mission for criminal investigations is going to be the main mission I’ve carried out throughout my career,” he said. Project War Shield started about three years ago with a discussion between Chippewa Cree Business Committee members about the growing drug problem on the reservation. That discussion led to the Busines...
Memorial Day many community members and organizations came out to honor veterans who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans Honor Guard, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Elks Lodge and Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club hosted a Memorial Day service on the west side of the Hill County Courthouse, and the Boy Scouts of America troops held a flag retirement ceremony outside of The Bridge. A quiet, late-morning ceremony Monday recognized local members of t...
Motorcycle riders and organizations rode through north-central Montana Saturday in the Seventh Annual Spring Opener Poker Run to raise money and support for the Montana Wounded Warrior Project. "We all worked as a team and it was well organized. We are hearing from other people that it was the best-organized ride they have been to, so this was really exciting this year," Havre Eagle Riders President Heather Sinclair said. She added that it was a great day and was glad to see...
Tensions about funding and operations of long-distance rail only underscores the legacy that service has on Montana's Hi-Line. At the National Rail Passengers Association Northwest Division annual meeting in Cut Bank last weekend, part of the discussion was of the importance of passenger rail service and its continuation in the United States, but a large portion was also celebrating the 90th anniversary of The Empire Builder, the premiere passenger rail service that has run...
Conservation Reserve Program land has greatly reduced in Hill County since it's peak in 2007, Farm Service Agency Chief Farm Program Specialist Leslie Rispens said, but the decline is due to a variety of factors as well as the federal government taking a new approach to the conservation program. "The reason for decline is complex and cannot be attributed to just one factor," he said. The website of the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, which tracks CRP and other...
Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Wednesday had a preview of Red Nose Day with club members posing with Havre Fire Department firefighters to submit to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America today. "It's a good opportunity for the kids to be part of a growing movement," Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Prevention Specialist Susan Brurud said at the event. Red Nose Day is part of a campaign to end worldwild child poverty, the program website says. Today is National Red Nose Day. The...
Great Northern Fair Board Chair Tyler Smith said Tuesday at the board’s monthly meeting that the board will be unable to hire a fairground manager as an independent contractor as previously planned. “It was this board’s intent to hire fair manager as a independent contractor position,” Smith said. “… We originally had received word from the numerous powers that be that it would be OK, then it gets to time to draw up the contract and it’s not OK. So that position will go back to being a regular county position like it has b...
Although he said some improvements have happened for trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said he is still concerned with with growing trade war between the United States and China and the country's other trade partners. "It's taking a financial toll on Montana," Tester said. During a press conference call Tuesday from Washington, Tester said the trade war the country is facing is hurting many agricultural producers in rural...
Educators from across Montana spoke on the importance of career and technical education and the issues facing the program as well as education systems across the state Monday in Havre. Montana State University sponsored the second public hearing for Perkins V where educators from across the state communicated in a conference. Montana State University-Northern Montana Career Pathways, Dual Enrollment and Perkins Coordinator Holly Haas said the meeting was to ask questions and...
Montana lawmakers attended a Rail Passengers Association meeting, in person or with representatives or videos shown, and supported long-distance rail passenger service. "The railroad is truly one of the great equalizers and it must be protected and advocated for all and by all," state Rep. Jacob Bachmeier, D-Havre, said. "If we want to continue to protect our passenger train services, we have to fight for it. We need more wealthy CEOs and politicians to ask the important...
Goldie Maze has lived most of her life on the Hi-Line and recently moved back to Havre. Sunday, she and relatives and other Eagles Manor residents gathered for a celebration of her 101st birthday. Family came from across the country - her son, Larry, came from Kentucky, where she lived with him before coming back to Havre last fall. "She wanted to move back to where her roots are," Larry Maze, Goldie Maze's son said. And she is popular at the manor. "Goldie's one of our...
A woman who lived on the Hi-Line starting more than a century ago celebrated her 101st birthday Sunday with dozens of people at the Eagles Manor. "This is more attention than I have seen in my longer years," Goldie Maze said. It also gave her a chance to see some people she has't seen for a long time, she added. "Some of these kids I haven't seen since they were like this," she said, holding her hand two feet above the floor. "It's really nice to see everyone." She was born...
