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St. Jude Thaddeus School's junior high students were out Wednesday planting blue pinwheels by the school. "We are putting pinwheels up to support child abuse awareness," seventh grade student Kaylee Vaughn said. Seventh and eighth grade students were out in the morning to put pinwheels in the front of the school. The school has 30 junior high students. Teacher Carly Brunk supervised half of the sixth and seventh grade students Wednesday afternoon while they put out the...
Havre Public Schools Superintendent Craig Mueller has transitioned through three job titles in a year, all during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic first began, he was assistant superintendent and then, when previous Superintendent Andy Carlson left in July 2020, Mueller stepped into an interim superintendent role. Eventually, he would transition to the superintendent role after initially declining the position. Looking at the year for not only himself, but Havre...
Montana Actors' Theatre is continuing to find ways to perform after the COVID-19 pandemic derailed its planned season last year. The pandemic hit Montana, and the college campuses in the state including Montana State University-Northern's were closed, the week MAT was planning to open its production of "Mama Mia." That production and the MAT dinner theater and its planned production of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all were postponed and have yet to hit the stage, but...
The Havre Education Association hosted a Havre Public School Board candidate forum Thursday in Hensler Auditorium on the Montana State University-Northern campus. The forum was moderated by Chairman of the Havre Public Schools Education Foundation Kyle Leeds. There were nine questions from the HEA and public questions as well as follow-up questions were allowed. Family members and members of the press made up the in-person audience and members of the community attended...
Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees Tuesday amended some of its COVID-19 policies, including sending younger students to school for five days and amending its mask mandate in the schools. The board voted 6-2 to return kindergarten through fifth grade students to five in-person learning days. Trustees Garrit Ophus and Tim Scheele opposed returning the students to five learning days beginning April 26. "I have concerns about the K-5 transitioning, and I don't devalue five ins...
The Havre Education Association is hosting a Havre Public School Board candidate forum Thursday in Hensler Auditorium at 7 p.m. The forum is limited to 25 family members and members of the press. The public is invited to watch via Zoom at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88060431149 . The forum questions will help the public and local teachers learn who the candidates are. The questions will be general questions that allow the candidates to voice their vision for...
Local teachers have had to overcome challenges this school year due to the pandemic. Schooling has been conducted fully online, two days per week in person learning and three days online learning and now four days of in-person learning. Curriculum and schedules have had to change to adapt to protect the safety of the local surges. The high school band and choir programs have not escaped these adaptations and challenges. In October, the high school choir did hold a choir...
Havre Public Schools has announced a mail-in election for three seats on the Havre School Board will be held Tuesday, May 4, with another seat filled by acclamation. The high school election has been cancelled due to there being only one candidate for the position. Britnee’ Loch was the only candidate for the high school seat and was elected by by acclamation to fill the three-year trustee position. Candidates to fill positions for two trustees serving a three-year term and o...
Dane McGuire has joined Havre Daily News as a new reporter. McGuire came to Havre from Jerseyville, Illinois, where he grew up, because this job had everything he was looking for, he said. His immediate family is in Jerseyville and were supportive of his journey to Montana despite the big adjustment, McGuire said. "They knew I was getting very anxious because I graduated in 2020 and didn't have work until I came to Havre," he said. "I am right where I need to be, and I got a t...
Beaver Creek Park usage is steadily increasing, Superintendent Chad Edgar said at the Hill County Park Board meeting Monday. Edgar also let the board know that the south end cattle guard replacement has been delayed because the road department no longer wants to install it due to liability issues, further delaying the completion of the south cross fence. The board will be working with a contractor to replace the cattle guard in the future. Edgar provided a park update that...
The Hill County Commission held a Rural Fire District 1 meeting Wednesday morning in which it discussed replacing members of the elected board that oversees the district, a ring around Havre for which the Havre Fire Department provides fire protection. The three remaining board members, Kelly Jones, Allen LaBuda and Bob Jacobson, did not attend the meeting. The meeting was held to figure out what the commission can do with a board it said is is not operating and upholding the...
Montana Actors' Theatre began its new youth workshops Monday in The Ryan Building, led by Youth and Children's Theater Director Angela Pratt. The workshops will teach the basics of theater over the next year. The workshops will include auditioning, character development and basic movement; costume design and construction; intro to classical theatre, Shakespeare, and stage fighting; one acts: writing, development, and performances; light and sound; intro to puppetry; and prosth...
Hill County Board of Health at its COVID-19 update Friday decided to change its meeting times for the pandemic update to every other Friday. The next meeting will be Feb. 12. “Hill County has had 1,802 cases of COVID-19, there are currently 17 active cases, which is exciting for us locally to see that still dropping. We are following 18 people who are currently quarantined at this time,” Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said Friday. In its upd...
Members of the Northern Lights Basketball team volunteered to help a local group put up ribbons in remembrance of the 40 COVID-19-related fatalities in Hill County. "Renelle (Braaten) reached out to us because she thought that we would help, knowing that we do a lot of community service each year," Northern Lights Basketball Head Coach Shawn Huse said Thursday. "We were able to find some time and get some of my players out there today and tie the ribbons up above the notes tha...
Junior and senior students at Turner High school have been attending dual enrollment courses this school year, earning both high school and college credits. Dual enrollment is offered every year in Montana and many students earn general education credits at a free or discounted rate while in high school. The classes are general education classes and in Montana the first two are free, after that the classes are reduced price from regular tuition. Turner Public Schools...
At the Rural Fire District meeting Wednesday night Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean said that the Rural Fire District 1 Board has not responded to the Commissions requests for minutes, treasurer’s information and meeting logs and the commission plans to take action to disband the board. The board said that they do not want to get rid of Rural Fire District 1. “It provides a very integral part of the system. We truly believe in that and that’s why we feel it’s importa...
In the midst of COVID-19 vaccine being distributed for Phase 1B of the state rollout and local reservations also moving forward with vaccinations, a local school has had to shut down due to an outbreak of the disease. Dodson Public Schools Superintendent Gary Weitz said that Tuesday, the same day that 35 school staff members received their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, about a dozen cases of COVID-19 related to the school district were reported. That number...
Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees has started the search for its next permanent superintendent. The school board selected Montana School Boards Association to conduct a search to find applicants for the superintendent role for Havre Public Schools. Long-time Superintendent Andy Carlson resigned in June, and his assistant superintendent, Craig Mueller, accepted the position of interim superintendent effective July 1. Mueller gave the board his letter of notification...
Havre police report that two juveniles started a fire in the basement of St. Jude Thaddeus Church Wednesday. The juveniles found paper towels in the storage room the church uses for paper products. The juveniles started the fire away from anything combustible. No real damage was caused, said Capt. Aaron Witmer of Havre Police Department. Pastoral Minister Tim Maroney said he believes that it was an attempt at disrupting, not destroying. He also said that the church has had...
During Tuesday night's Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting, the Phase 3A re-opening plan for Havre Public Schools recommended by Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller was passed by the board unanimously. The decision will move kindergarten through grade five students to four days of in-person learning Jan. 19 and grades six through 12 students to four-day, in-person learning Jan. 25. Face coverings will be required for all staff and students and meals will continue...
Editor's note: This version corrects an error in reporting when Havre kindergarten through fifth grade students might move to four-day-a-week in-classroom learning. It appears Havre public schools could soon be moving to more in-class instruction. Havre Public Schools Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller said today he will recommend at tonight’s school board meeting that Havre students in kindergarten through fifth grade transition Tuesday, Jan. 19 to schedule 3A with i...
COVID-19 has brought changes to everyone's lives and jobs in the past year. Day care providers have seen significant changes in every aspect of their work. Natalie Bautista owns Wee Care Daycare in Havre. She said running the business during the pandemic has required many changes. "It's created more work and it's created a lot more chaos with the school schedule with different kids, different days, different times. It's just been a lot to keep track of," said Bautista....
The 2020-2021 academic school year has been challenging for students, parents, administrators and teachers. Lincoln McKinley third grade teacher Seth Flaten has experience many changes in his daily interactions with his students. Since the COVID-19 pandemic Flaten has assumed the role of distance learning teacher for third grade students. "The change has been very interesting to say the least. I love the challenge presented by being the distance learning teacher. Before COVID...
Harlem High School has partnered with NASA and The Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens in the Growing Beyond Earth Project to conduct experiments that expand food options and increase plant diversity for spaceflight. The project was designed to support NASA research on growing plants in space. The project emailed all FFA advisors asking for their help in doing this research via email including teacher Lisa Hamilton of the Harlem High School Agricultural Education Department...
Local schools are back in session as of Monday after the winter holiday break. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused all schools to make changes this year and the rise of cases during the September surge caused many to teach students remotely. Most of the schools in the area that went remote were back to some form of in-person learning before the holidays. But the return to school came with a major change in plans regarding COVID-19. The state was in the process of moving to Phase...
