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When a person benefits in some way from the tragic misfortune of another, I think it behooves that person to honor the sacrifice with a moment or two of reflection on life lesson take-aways. Or maybe I just feel guilty about getting official credit for identifying a bird that is a rare find in Montana, when really I only “found” it because my killer-assassin cat offed the bird and dumped its still-warm carcass on my doorstep (as if I would use the bird as his contribution to...
More than 100 area residents attended a meeting in Blaine County Fairgrounds in Chinook Thursday conducted by representatives from the Montana Department of Livestock and U.S. Department of Agriculture about the recent detection of bovine tuberculosis in a cattle herd in the Harlem area. Officials briefed the public on what they know about the disease and the situation, what they are doing about it and how this will affect area producers, finishing with a question and answer...
For a very brief period in my youth, I wanted to be famous, which was a very stereotypical urge but strongly at odds with my natural inclination to stay home and not be noticed. If I were going to pull up a couch and have a session about this, I would say that my neurotic teen-self thought being the exact opposite of who I was would be a loftier goal. Fortunately, my practical little heart won that tug of war and I’m all the better for it. Though, if I harbor some desire for a...
Havre Elks Lodge #1201 is holding a Membership Open House for everyone in Hill and Blaine counties and Chouteau County south to Big Sandy Friday 5:30-8 p.m. with snacks, coffee and lemonade at the lodge at 321 Second St. “The open house is to promote membership, for people to come talk to members and see what the Elks Lodge is all about,” member Linda Hoover said. Primarily, the lodge holds activities for youth, veterans and the community, she added. With a membership of mor...
Remember last week when I said that magnetic north and south could just up and swap ends and that birds’ ability to migrate properly could be disrupted by that or by the mad scientists in France who are planning on firing up a magnet that’s 280,000 times more powerful than Earth’s magnetic field? Fun times. I’ll bet that more people than just the two who said it to my face were thinking, “Oh, Pam. You and your brain hopped up on google-y things are willing to write all manne...
Editor's note: This is National 4-H Week. See more on pages B2-B3 in Tuesday's edition of Havre Daily News and in today's shopper. Following a successful 2021 4-H year that included a record-breaking livestock auction during the Great Northern Fair, Hill County 4-H is honoring National 4-H Week by opening enrollment in the 4-H program to youth countywide for the 2022 year. "The summer went really well, it seemed. The fair came and went and we had a record sale for the...
Chinook's 2021 Sugarbeet Festival is getting a new event this year with the Sweet Park Brewfest, which starts 4 p.m. Saturday in Sweet Memorial Park, 700 New York St. Organized by The Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation to raise money for repairs and a major upgrade of the Chinook City Pool and Sweet Memorial Park, the family-friendly brewfest will have craft beers and ciders on tap, a barbecue hosted by the Blaine County Wildlife Museum and live music by the Stone Broke...
When Tracy Poole bought a house along 11th Street with her sister Robin Poole and brother-in-law Mikal Werre, they all knew something had to be done with the wall of stark white privacy fence surrounding the yard, especially one tall portion that faces 11th Street at an angle, and over the past week their idea, a giant mural, has taken shape. The artist is Mandy Moonbird, Robin Poole and Mikal Werre's daughter, who has been drawing and painting her whole life. Her aunt Tracy P...
The truth isn’t always stranger than fiction, but the truth could strangely inspire fiction. A big article we ran in the paper this week illuminated the trouble our local school system is having finding bus drivers to help transport students to events. I know, it seems mildly interesting at best, but apparently, it is a big deal because this bus driver shortage is occurring all over the country. However, for as far as my Google searches can see Brooke Charter School in B...
I realized two things this week about the often adverse relationship between animals and man — one thing because of the lack of headlines and the other because of the wealth of headlines. First, both Yellowstone and Glacier national parks had record numbers of people visiting this summer, but we hardly had any headlines about people getting injured or killed by wildlife. A couple tourists got injured in Yellowstone, but I just don’t recall and cannot find anything about inj...
If you aren’t cynical before you get into the news business, you will be soon after. And just when I think I’m too cynical to ever be surprised by the news again, along comes a news article that just lights up my brain like a bottle rocket. I know you were expecting to see the headline and a little news summary here after that opening paragraph. Normally you would, like the ol’ one-two punch, but I have to pull that second punch and tell you that the headline and the whole...
The Great Northern Fairgrounds is trying something new this fall, hosting the Viking Harvest Farmers Market at the fairgrounds Saturday, which is growing into an all afternoon and evening event. Scheduled for 1 to 9 p.m., or later if the crowds, music and vendors want to continue longer into the night, fairgrounds Secretary Anita Stevenson said. The farmers market will include the Montana State University-Northern viking and scone food stands, Bear Paw Volunteer Fire...
Our old friend the law of unintended consequences says that actions of people always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended, but basically, it’s just a fancy way of saying “oops.” Like the law of gravity is an explanation used in the science of physics, the law of unintended consequences comes from the social sciences, such as economics and politics (which are frequent bedfellows, though that does not matter for our purposes here today — I’m just sayin’). Historian...
The Milk River Gobblers Second Annual Youth Fun Day at Havre Trap Club was a success, organizers said, with more than 55 people braving the cool, windy weather to participate in the fun and educational activities. The Youth Fun Day is organized to help the Milk River Gobblers get youth interested in hunting, the outdoors and wildlife, group spokesman Jeff Dibblee said, and to help give area youth the knowledge and resources to be successful hunters. The Gobblers members came...
Editor’s note: Harlem schools were not able to provide an interview in time to be included in a back-to-school special section inserted in today’s edition. Look to the special section for more on other areas schools return to the classroom. As schools all across north-central Montana return to session with the start of the 2021-22 school year, Harlem Public Schools Superintendent Arlene Bigby said last year had plenty of challenges to learn from, and many of the lessons lea...
“It is water, in every form and at every scale, that saturates the mind. All the water that will ever be is, right now.” — National Geographic, October 1993 Here in north-central Montana this year, we are celebrating every rare tenth of an inch of rain wrung from the sky, not enough to fill our waterways or make dry grasslands green, maybe only enough really to grow mosquitoes to any degree. But in County Kerry, Ireland, which has thus far in 2021 received almost 34 inche...
Sometime a brain makes more out of something than is really there. Or maybe it’s just me. We had a little dog yard-slash-pen thing we built out of 5-foot tall welded wire fencing across the 14-foot gap between our little shop and our house. Our yard proper, the people yard if you will, is bigger than this pen, though. We have a simple one-strand electric fence that runs around both of the buildings and the beautiful, large, old cottonwood tree that provides a canopy over t...
While the classic image of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is of them in craggy ranges of the Rockies, populations thrive east of the Divide into Midwestern states, and in Montana some of the largest populations are found in the Missouri River Breaks. Scott Hemmer, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 wildlife biologist, said that hunting district 680 that stretches north of the Missouri River across Chouteau, Blaine and Phillips counties has regular sheep counts of around 450....
Two suspects were arrested and taken to Northern Montana Hospital by ambulance after a Monday morning pursuit involving Rocky Boy Police officers and Hill County Sheriff’s deputies. Rocky Boy Police asked the sheriff’s office at 10:49 a.m. for assistance in a pursuit that left Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and entered Beaver Creek Park, Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said. The two people in the vehicle pulled into a cabin site and fled on foot before being caught by law enforcement officers. Jerome Bigknife of Rocky Boy, bor...
The trouble with COVID is that it is a public relations nightmare. Where’s the angle? The hook? For starters, the name. COVID-19 hardly strikes fear in the heart of mankind let alone respect for its power. Even when some people were calling it a flu, it was, as the misnomer was intended to do, hard to take it seriously. Black Death, though, now there’s a name a PR person could do something with. Shoot, even the kids’ plague-tribute song “Ring around the Rosie” has lasted ne...
Despite the drought, mosquitoes are still finding a way to persist, including the species that carry diseases like West Nile Virus, and the Hill County Mosquito Control District reported Sunday that mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile were found in northeastern Montana. Hill County Mosquito District Supervisor Terry Turner said mosquito samples are collected once a week and sent to Carroll College where students analyze the sample pool for total number of mosquitoes and...
Kremlin Rural Fire Department spearheaded an all-out response late Sunday evening that quickly shut down a fire that burned 120 acres of cropland with both stubble and standing crop on it. The fire call came in about 9 p.m., Kremlin Fire Chief Kody Peterson said, and they had trucks, tankers and volunteers coming in immediately from neighboring fire districts, businesses and farms. “It was a pretty huge team event, and we got it whipped pretty quickly,” Peterson said, adding that the fire was completely out in about 2 1/2...
Normally I like baked goods, but when the good being baked day after day after day is me, not cookies or caramel rolls or those little personal-sized quiches, I do not approve. The laughter remaining in me after the grasshoppers got done with it got cooked to an unrecognizable lump then set out on the counter to wither away to a crusty husk of itself. My struggle is so dire that earlier this week I was reduced to cussing out little birds for their crime of being obnoxious. We...
After wrapping up their spring league, seven Havre Trap Club members found success at the state trap competition in Ulm before the club's fall league and annual fall activities start up again. The 127th Montana State Trap Shoot was held at the Great Falls Trap and Skeet Club facility in Ulm July 7-11. Great Falls Club Secretary Jim Burman said the trap clubs in Great Falls, Missoula, Helena and Billings alternate hosting the state meet annually. "(The state shoot) keeps...
Barrington, New Jersey resident Louis Angelino III has earned the title of Cleaning Fairy after a Cherry Hill, New Jersey, couple arrived home to find that Angelino had mistakenly entered their home June 28 and not only cleaned the entire townhouse, which was messy from a remodeling project, but also played with and fed the couple’s cats. Angelino has been cleaning homes on the side to make some extra money and that morning had set out to find and clean the home of a new c...
