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Hill County is looking at buying new voting equipment under a law requiring election officials to provide voting machines allowing access for people with disabilities with the state reimbursing part of the cost. Thursday a representative of Nebraska-based Election Systems and Software, who declined to give her name, gave a presentation for the Hill and Blaine County officials of the new equipment available for counting ballots during election season. Hill County Clerk and...
Hill County Commissioners voted unanimously at their weekly business meeting Thursday to table the application for the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development Grant with plans to take it up again for next year. “It seems like we are not quite ready to really know where we are at with it,” Commissioner Diane McLean said. The BUILD grant, formerly known as Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, grant is a $1.5 billion federal Department of Transportation program for national inf...
Graduation at Montana State University-Northern last weekend marked the start for many students entering the professional field, but also marked the completion of the first year of Northern's College of Health Sciences. The college was created in response to the demand for nurses on the Hi-Line. The state received a federal grant six years ago specifically to observe the current needs in the state's health care system. Northern was of the state's 15 colleges seen as playing a...
Today through Saturday starting at 7 p.m. Havre High School will be performing "The Uninvited," an adaptation of a 1944 horror film. "It is supposed to be scary, but it's 1944 scary, which is not very scary," director Angela Pratt said. The story is set in 1937, when London music critic and composer Roderick "Rick" Fitzgerald, played by Tevor Bulkley, and his sister Pamela, played by Audrina Williams, fall in love with the Windward House, which is an abandoned seaside home on...
A bill by a local legislator intended to improve health care on Indian reservations that split local legislators' votes is being signed into law today by Gov. Steve Bullock. Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy's Community Health Aide Program bill is scheduled for signing today in Helena. The bill sets standards for people to be certified, without being licensed, to provide some dental, behavioral health and community health services in a location operated by U.S. Indian Health Services...
HELENA - During the 2019 legislative session two Havre women made their voices heard in Helena, and Gov. Steve Bullock signed into law Tuesday two bills they requested. Havreite Keeley Wilson, owner of Ladybug Bites, and Andrea Melle, divorced mother of two adults with autistism spectrum disorders spoke to their local representative about the bills that they wanted to see in the Legislature. Rep. Jacob Bachmeier introduced House Bill 607, which eliminates the cost of the...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the home town of Rep. Mary Caferro, D-Helena. HELENA - Montana's governor was signing two bills today with ties to Havre. Seven months after first receiving a letter from the Montana Department of Agriculture, Keeley Wilson, owner of the homemade pet treat business Ladybug Bites, watched first-hand as Gov. Steve Bullock signed House Bill 607 into law. HB 607 was the first bill signed today by the governor. "Are these made out of l...
Monday, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation office in Havre and the Hill County Conservation District received a shipment of trees from the state to help agricultural producers with their conservation efforts. "It's a big service the conservation district does," NRCS Soil Conservationist Laurie Massar said. The conservation district received more than 7,000 trees ordered in Hill County by more than 20 producers, she said. The trees also come in a wide...
Havre City Council met Monday and approved supporting a new affordable housing development sponsored by the District 4 Human Resources Development Council as well as approving blocking the 100 Block of Second Avenue May 25 for the 7th Annual Wounded Warrior Ride. Mayor Tim Solomon said this morning that the council approved signing a letter of support for the tax credits to fund the HRDC housing project. The proposal is to erect the housing development, called Havre Hills, in the same general area as HRDC’s Buffalo Court a...
More than 300 second-graders from around the area attended Havre's week-late Arbor Day event Monday at Simon Pepin Memorial Park, to learn about planting trees and take home their own tree to plant at home. "The whole idea is helping our community," former Havre Parks and Recreations Director and Task Force for Urban Reforestation member Dave Wilson said. "... The whole thing is that trees make our environment more pleasant and much more enjoyable to live in. They provide so...
The Legislature adjourned April 25, after 87 days of being in session this year, and state Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, and Rep. Joshua Kassmier, R-Fort Benton, spoke Friday to the North Central Pachyderm Club about their opinion of how the session went and what they accomplished. "It was a good session," Kassmier said. "We accomplished quite a bit. "At the end, it got a little tense," he added. President of the North Central Pachyderm Club Andrew Brekke said that even though...
Thursday at the Celebrating Women in Math and Science Fields event at the Havre High School auditorium, keynote speaker Leslie Ruyle and Master of Ceremonies Jayne Morrow, as well as several other woman from across the area, talked about their experiences in science, technology, engineering and math fields. "We are here to highlight and recognize outstanding women currently filling leadership roles in the area of math and science, as well as to inspire and encourage our young...
Montana State Auditor Matt Rosendale and other members of the Auditor’s Office spoke to community members and insurance agents from the region about hail fraud prevention and answered several other questions regarding insurance in a stop in Havre Thursday. “What we are trying to do is get the insurance industry, the contracting industry, the adjusting industry, all these folks together to hear what is going on and make sure that you are sharing information with the consumers,” Rosendale said. “Because, at the end of the day,...
As graduation draws closer, many Montana State University-Northern students are preparing to enter the workforce, for some, in a worldwide arena, for others, locally or in their hometowns. One student, Associated Students of Montana State University-Northern President Christopher Brekke-George of Bozeman, is preparing to move back to his hometown to start his career. Brekke-George, a diesel technology student, started at Northern in the fall of 2013, after graduating from...
The world may have changed since 1917, but the Nystrom family still works hard on the family ranch, which they have operated since then, and plans to continue the tradition for the years to come. "We are proud of it," Shawn Nystrom said, "... because it's a way of life that we love." It is just good, honest, hard work, he said. People have to work sunup to sundown, but at the end of the day they will be able to hold their heads up high and feel good, because it's something...
Two nationally recognized scientists, Leslie Ruyle and Jayne Morrow, with Montana roots are coming to speak in Havre tonight at Havre Public Schools and Montana State University-Northern’s Honoring Women in Math and Science Fields, at 6:30 p.m. in the Havre High Auditorium. Ruyle, who earned her undergraduate degree from Northern, and Morrow, who grew up in Harlowton, are two of the speakers at the event and will speak to local students, male and female, about their experiences in life and what opportunities are around t...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Tuesday during his monthly rural conference call that for the second time in four years Customs and Border Protection has proposed reducing hours for the Port of Raymond. "We need this administration to show greater transparency and greater accountability on decisions of this magnitude," Tester said. "In Washington, D.C., some folks don't understand that reducing hours at these ports is going to force farmers, ranchers and truckers, folks...
Some new tools to help parents help their children are being promoted in the area. Havre Encourages Long Range Prevention - HELP - Committee and Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Prevention Specialist Susan Brurud is working with several Hill County organizations to give parents the tools they need to have open communication with their children about issues such as drugs, alcohol and relationships. "We give them the tools to cope with some of the society pressure that they are...
Thursday, Havre Public School Educational Foundation and Montana State University Northern Alumni Foundation is partnering to hold the first Honoring Women in Math and Science Fields event. "The evening is just going to be a celebration of women in math and science and we are just hopeful that we can get our students to attend," Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson said."Maybe identify with some of the things that these women are doing and excelling at and maybe in...
Suzanne Beal attended Saturday the last showing of her play "I Am (Not) My Mother" performed by the Montana Actors' Theatre, followed by a question-and-answer session for the audience to get an in-depth look at what went behind in the writing process. "MAT did a beautiful job," she said in an interview. "I was very proud of the work they did." Beal added segments to the piece specific to this part of Montana after interviewing people here. "I think it worked very well and...
Meat processors from around the state were in Havre last week while the Montana Meat Processors Association held it's 32nd annual convention in Havre. Big Sandy Meat Shop LLC owner and convention sponsor Jim Dumas said that the last time the convention was held in Havre was in 1999, with Rocky Mountain Packing Company being the host shortly before the company closed its Havre store 2003. "So, being able to be the one to bring it back here was pretty cool," Dumas said. More...
Rep. Jacob Bachmeier, D-Havre, said Friday that a big win for Montana this year was that the Legislature ultimately succeeded in getting the Medicaid expansion bill across the finish line to protect more than 96,000 Montanans. “That being said, Medicaid expansion came with a great deal compromise between the Democrats and the moderate Republicans, and although I am proud of the work we did to come up with a bipartisan solution, it definitely was a tough compromise on some components of Medicaid,” he said, “But, ultim...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the spelling of High Horizon Gardens. It also corrects that the greenhouse did not use one treatment to repel ladybugs, which, as Aricka Turner says, “are good bugs,” but problem bugs. Cody Miles said that after moving back to Havre two years ago he wanted to contribute something to the community. “I’ve been watching Havre my whole life” he said, “… I come back home and I can do something new for the community.” After spending hundreds...
After eight months of being closed, the Salvation Army Thrift Store will be reopening its doors May 17. "It's going to be very clean, very fresh and it's going to be very well organized and well stocked," said Capt. Jonathan Harvey, general secretary of Salvation Army's Northwestern Division in Seattle. "Those are really the key elements that we are looking for in our stores, is having them clean and fresh, well-organized and fully stocked." He said that the Salvation Army...
The Montana Meat Processors Association and Miles Community College in Miles City are working together to create the state’s first meat processing degree to address the demand in the meat processing industry’s diminishing workforce, the association announced during its annual meeting in Havre. “We want the people that put on boots and a hard hat and can swing a knife all day,” MMPA President Jeremy Plummer said. “We’re wanting that skillset and there is really nothing like that now in the area, not in the northwestern part of...
