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Monday, President Donald Trump submitted to Congress a $4.75 trillion budget plan, "A Budget for a Better America," which is said to increase military spending while creating large, aggressive cuts to domestic programs for the 2020 fiscal year. "I'm concerned about the president's proposed cuts to Medicare, Social Security, our national parks, the USDA and programs that support our public lands," U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Wednesday. "Budgets reflect priorities and...
Hill County Public Health Director Kim Larson said Thursday that the county is one step away from medical practitioners and officials having instantaneous access to more information for taking care of medical patients. “Pretty exciting stuff,” Hill County Public Health Director Kim Larson said. She gave an update on Connect Electronic Referral System during the Havre’s Trauma Sensitive School Initiative meeting Thursday. Connect’s website says the Connect is a secure, web-based system for sending and receiving health and med...
With three breweries and distillery, Havre's locally produced alcohol market has grown in a big way in Havre in the past five years. Havre went from not having a single brewery since the mid-1900s to having three - Triple Dog Brewing Co., Old Station Brewing Co. and Vizsla Brewing - and a distillery, Cawford Distillery, in the past five years, which have all been a huge success. All of them are planning to grow their businesses in the next year. An evolving trend, evolving mar...
Friday, Montana Actors' Theatre will be performing its production of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" in the Little Theatre in Cowan Hall at Montana State University-Northern. "It's very family-friendly, very much geared toward our younger audience," director Kate Hagen said. "It's good fun for the whole family." This play is based on Roald Dahl's 1970 children's novel by the same name, she said. The story is about an anthropomorphic, tricky and clever fox named Mr. Fox, the hero, who is...
Box Elder Junior Laila Ketchum, 16, said her experience as a page in this year's Legislative session has opened her eyes to the procedures of government. "It's an honor to be able to do something like this," Ketchum said. " ... Just the experience of being able to sit in during those sessions was a really a big part of it for me." Ketchum was one of six students from across Montana to serve as a legislative page in Helena. She served as page for Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box...
The Snowdance Ski Association will be hosting its fourth annual Hi-Line Winter Brew Fest Saturday at the Havre Ice Dome, welcoming brewers and people from across the area. “It’s really a community-driven event by volunteers and sponsorships,” event organizer and Ski Association member Dave Martens said. “We’re always overwhelmed and thankful for all the support we get for the brew fest and for people who come out and support the ski hill.” The event seeks to celebrate and promote the best of Montana’s handcrafted a...
Bureau of Reclamation is looking into Options for plans to modify Fresno Dam on which the bureau intends to start construction within the next two to three years as part of its Dam Safety Program. "Reclamation is currently evaluating alternatives to modify Fresno Dam," Reclamation Montana Area Manager Steve Davies said. "It's not because of damage that is there. The dam is fine, it's safe, we are under normal operations. But as part of our dam safety program, we've determined...
Members of the Havre City Council Monday approved the appointment of Tyler Craig to the position of probationary police officer for the Havre Police Department. "Tyler is a hard worker and a solid person and I believe he will be a great asset to the Havre Police Department and would like to recommend him for the position," Police Chief Gabe Matosich said. Craig grew up in Great Falls, graduating from Charles M. Russell High School, before attending Montana State...
Monday in the Montana Legislature the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety Committee held a two-hour hearing on House Bill 599, introduced by Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy. "I think it went pretty good," Windy Boy said in an interview after the hearing. House Bill 599 which would allow certain health care services under the community health aide program to use federal certification standards for health aides and require the state to provide Medicaid funds to train providers on M...
Rep. Jacob Bachmeier, D-Havre, said Friday at the weekly legislative videoconference that the House of Representatives will hear this week the state general appropriations act, House Bill 2 introduced by Rep. Nancy Ballance. He said the bill also will include some infrastructure projects. He added that House Bill 652, introduced by Rep. Mike Hopkins, R-Missoula, passed through the House and will now be heard in the Senate. Bachmeier said the bill would secure $80 million in...
Editor's Note: This is second in a series of features about local groups, clubs and activities for youth Havre may not be close to many centers of Spanish language and culture, but that doesn't stop Havre High School students from learning the language and about the culture - even on-site. The Havre High School Spanish Club is gearing up for a trip in the summer of 2020, with the club working now on organizing fundraisers and picking a location for the trip. Havre High Spanish...
Wednesday, March 6, was a monumental day for Chippewa Cree Cultural Resources Preservation Department Director Alvin Windy Boy Sr., he said. That was the day the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation regained a piece of its history, purchasing 280 acres of land in the Sweet Grass Hills. "We, as indigenous people to this land, became strangers in our own land," he said. "Accessibility to sites was always a hindrance over the course of time. But fortunately ......
Hill County Conservation District Administrator Kat Whitaker said Wednesday at the conservation district’s monthly meeting that the district has started a project to teach participants about conservation and gardening. The district’s Outside of the Box Project is a community-based project to create an outdoor classroom for children and adults at the community garden at District 4 Human Resources Development Council at 2229 Fifth Avenue. “This is great for the community,” Whitaker told the board. “I absolutely believe t...
Highland Park Early Primary School Principal Mark Irvin said Tuesday that Highland Park is seeing great success in utilizing a new educational program for teaching kids the alphabet. Irvin said during the monthly meeting of the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees at Havre Middle School two Highland Park kindergarten teachers tested the ABC Boot Camp program last year and found the program helped many of the students learn and retain their alphabet. This year, all eight of the kindergarten teachers used the program and saw...
A major water leak detected yesterday at 3 p.m. in the water tank located on the east end of Havre and has shut down streets and rerouted Havre Public Schools buses. Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said the water is leaking from a new manway, a metal access port. Public Works recently finished Phase Two of the city water tank maintenance plan, recoating the east water tank last year and recoating the west in 2017. Peterson said his department does not yet know what c...
Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 wildlife biologist Scott Hemmer said Monday that during the upcoming hunting season, FWP will once again be testing Region 6 for chronic wasting disease and will have transportation restrictions from Liberty County to the North Dakota border. Hemmer spoke Monday during a public meeting in The Great Northern Inn to discuss CWD and steps the public and FWP are taking to manage the disease. Last hunting season, FWP discovered CWD in deer across t...
Montana Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, talked Friday during a Havre legislative videoconference from Helena about several bill that he has seen in committee and listened to community input on bills that are being debated in the Legislature. Tempel said that many legislators had come back for the first time Friday after the week-long transmittal, the day mostly being spent working on committee items. Montana Sen. Mike Lang, R-Malta, who came in at the end of the videoconference, said that all of the committees are working hard...
Middle school choir students from across the Hi-Line congregated at Havre High School Monday for the annual choir festival. Event organizer and Havre Middle School choir teacher Ronda Minnick said Monday before the concert that March is Music in Our Schools Month and the festival is just one way to celebrate students in musical programs. “It’s been going on for years,” she said. “It’s kind of a tradition.” This is Minnick’s seventh year teaching choir at Havre Middle School...
A fourth generation has taken over at a seven-decade business in Havre, with Jeff Healy taking ownership of Koefod Agency at the beginning of this year. "I'm looking forward to carrying out a legacy," Healy said. Koefod has been doing business in Havre for the past 73 years, originally incorporated by Healy's grandfather and great-grandfather, Don Koefod and Ralph Koefod, in 1946. The business was originally located in the Masonic Temple - now the 305 Building - before moving...
Montana Actors' Theatre has set for its opening night Friday at the Havre Eagles Club to perform "The 39 Steps," its traveling dinner theater. MAT will be performing "The 39 Steps" each Friday and Saturday for the next two weeks at the Eagles Club before taking the show on the road. MAT Artistic Director Jay Pyette said the dinner theater will also be performing at the Chinook Eagles Club and The Coyote Club in Shelby as well as a venue in Lewistown. In Havre, meals will be...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Wednesday signed a purchase agreement for 280 acres of the Sweet Grass Hills, with Chippewa Cree Business Committee Vice Chair Ted Whitford saying Wednesday that the tribe wants to preserve the land. “We don’t want it to be destroyed — because it has cultural significance to our tribe and other tribes in this region,” Whitford said. He said the purchase included eight different properties totalling approximately 280 acres of land. The signing took place at the Fi...
Montana Style Events, located west of Havre at 10975 River Road, has expanded its business, adding regular hours to serve food and drinks in its events center to its already established bed-and-breakfast and catering services. Montana Style owner Betsi Knight said that since her business opened in 2017 she has served private dinners and lunches in her events center and offered three bedrooms at her bed and breakfast. For the past year, she has had a full rural liquor license,...
The Great Northern Fair Board held a final public forum Tuesday to collect public input on what to do with money raised through a new tax for the fairgrounds approved in November’s election. The board is holding these meetings because the public voted to provide the fair board with a mill levy for the fairgrounds. These forums, Fair Board Chair Tyler Smith said, were the best way to get community input on what they would like to see the mill levy used for. “I want to show that we are good stewards of the money, we are mak...
Havre City Council heard Monday about what Havre Public Works has been dealing with as far as the recent cold temperature, with some new daily records set for lows. Council member Caleb Hutchins asked Public Works Director Dave Peterson how the city was dealing with the cold snap, which has caused a number of water main breaks over the past month. Peterson said his department has not experienced many breaks since last week, although a break Monday inside the Havre Eagles Manor did a lot of damage inside the building. He added...
Hill County Park Board Monday approved the next step in amending the the haying and grazing policies and procedures at Beaver Creek Park by sending its haying and grazing committees’ draft of changes to be reviewed by the county attorney. Hill County Commissioner and park board and committee member Diane McLean told the board that the committee met last week and reviewed the draft of the policy, making a few changes to the language. She added that she called the draft a policy instead of an ordinance because it fit that c...
