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Editor’s note: This version includes online and mail access to provide comments, which was inadvertently left out of the original version. The Montana Bureau of Land Management is soliciting public comment on their plan to possibly open the Bullwhacker area of the Upper Missouri River Breaks to mechanized and motorized vehicle access. A description of the proposal and maps of the project area are available on the e-Planning website at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2030427/510 . Comments may be submitted using...
The 3rd Annual Bullhook Community Health Center Guppy Derby, set for Saturday, Feb. 3 at the Havre Elks Lodge, is a fundraiser for the center's patient enhancement programs where contestants can race a fish for a winner's purse. The event, which hadn't been run for nearly a decade until it was revived in 2022 by the health center's board, will see contestants purchase a guppy to compete in a series of races set in parallel trenches. Proceeds will go toward a program to help...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce held their annual meeting Wednesday where board members and staff talked about the past and coming year, and Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel gave a presentation on Northern's role in the community. Chamber Executive Director Shelli Sayers said the mission of the Chamber is to stimulate local economic growth, improve the business environment in Havre and the surrounding area, and to generally represent the interests of...
Schools across Montana, including in Big Sandy, Chester, Chinook, Harlem and Havre received bomb threats overnight, causing many, including those in Havre, to delay classes while law enforcement investigates. "HPS will be working with the Havre Police Department to ensure adequate safety measures are in place," Havre Public Schools Superintendent Brian Gum said in a press release. "... If our situation changes we will immediately send a followup message." Just before 10 a.m. t...
At their monthly meeting members of the Hill County Fair Board said activity at the Great Northern Fairgrounds has slowed substantially as the weather has gotten colder, but there is still work going on there. Board Vice Chair Bob Kaul said most of the work is maintenance, but they are getting bids on door replacements for the Bigger Better Barn as well as for some work on their rental house. Fairgrounds Secretary Joni Keith said five new cameras have been installed on the outside of the Bigger Better Barn and they are...
Last year’s Bear Paw Roundup Rodeo won the 2023 Small Rodeo of the Year Award from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Montana Circuit, winning the award for the first time for its 25th annual rodeo. Bear Paw Roundup Rodeo Committee Director Clinton Hansen said the award typically goes to one of a handful of rodeos in the state, chosen by a vote from rodeo contestants, and he’s happy that they were able to break into the running on the show’s 25th anniversary. “We’re really excited about it,” Hansen said. “... We must...
As dire cold grips the Hi-Line, along with much of the U.S., Havre Salvation Army reports that they are in immediate danger of running out of funds to help people this month, potentially putting the area’s homeless population at even greater risk. Havre Salvation Army Director Trina Crawford said the recent cold has been so bad that they have already drained this month’s budget for providing lodging to homeless people and have had to start drawing from other parts of their budget just to keep people alive. “With circu...
While the frigid cold seems poised to lessen on the Hi-Line in the next few days the area will likely see an inundation of snow as the National Weather Service upgrades its Winter Storm advisory, set to start tonight, to a more severe winter storm warning. The warning begins tonight at 11 p.m. and will be active until 11 a.m. Thursday for Havre, Rocky Boy, Lewistown and Hilger, as well as Hill County and the Bear Paw Mountains broadly and the south of Blaine and Fergus...
Havre hit a record low of -44 last night, surpassing the previous record of -43 set more than a century ago in 1907, and while temperatures are poised to rise somewhat as the week progresses, it looks like a winter storm is on the way Tuesday night. The cold this weekend was so extreme that it caused Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to declare a state of emergency just after 2 p.m. Saturday and tribal officials set up an incident command center to coordinate service in emergency situations. Ten hours later Rocky Boy Health C...
Despite the cold, almost 70 agriculture producers from across the area attended this year's Golden Triangle Cropping Seminar at the 4-H Chuckwagon Friday where they got up to date on a number of subjects from vertebrate pest control to crop rotation. Producers heard from a number of experts including Tim Seipel, a Montana State University Extension Cropland Weed Specialist who talked about the emergence of pesticide-resistant cropland weeds and the work being done to combat...
Despite the extreme cold, Havre Public Works operations have remained largely unaffected, even as wind chill values are predicted to reach as low as -45 today. Havre Public Works Director Trevor Mork said the department's sanders are out and if the snow reaches four inches they will bring out the plows. "Not much change from the whole history of Havre that we've always dealt with," Mork said. Earlier this week the department put out some suggestions for people that may help...
Montana Actors' Theatre will be putting on the Hill Country Revue Variety Show starting next week at the Little Theatre at Montana State University-Northern, a new production featuring music and comedy with an eye toward local humor. MAT Artistic Director Grant Olson said the show will be in the same vein as "Hee Haw" or "Saturday Night Live," with a music act as a centerpiece, interspursed with skits and musical comedy set in an alternate version of Havre that kept the name...
As foul weather crisscrosses the country with more on the way, the National Weather Service has put out a wind chill advisory for Hill and northern Blaine counties which will last until 5 p.m. tonight, and a much more serious wind chill warning for the area between then and 5 p.m. Sunday, as temperatures are predicted to plummet further as the week continues. An advisory indicates that conditions will likely cause significant inconvenience or danger without precaution, and a...
At their monthly meeting Tuesday, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees was updated on voting items at an upcoming meeting of the Montana High School Association, as well as presentations and updates on a number of other issues. HPS Superintendent Brian Gum said he and Havre High School Activities Director Mark Irvin will be going to the MHSA meeting later this week and they wanted to bring the board up to speed on the voting items they will be looking at. Irvin said...
In their monthly meeting Monday, members of the Hill County Park Board voted not to participate in an upcoming watershed assessment by the state, potentially forgoing significant grant funding for Beaver Creek Park, in fears that it would give up local control. Board member Lou Hagener said the state is looking at doing a wide-ranging watershed assessment, including Beaver Creek Park, and if they participate in and support the assessment they could gain access to a...
The National Weather Service has issued a High Winds Warning for Tuesday as Havre starts a week of plummeting temperatures and high chances of snow, the area's unseasonable warmth appearing to come to an end. National Weather Service in Great Falls put out a warning this morning to central, north-central and southwest Montana saying there will likely be winds of between 35 and 45 miles per hour with gusts of up to 65 miles per hour between noon and midnight Tuesday. The...
Havre Salvation Army brought in significantly less in donations in 2023 than previous years, even as needs continue to become more significant, and will need to cut back on services as a result. Havre Salvation Army Director Trina Crawford said she and her organization are always appreciative of every donation they get, but they are almost $10,000 behind their $38,000 goal for last year’s Red Kettle Campaign, their largest fundraiser of the year, and that means they can’t do as much this year. “We’re not going to be able to...
The name of a 77-year old Havre woman who died after a fatal crash that occurred around 9 a.m. New Year’s Eve in the Havre area has been released. Joy Hokanson died after being taken to the hospital after her vehicle crashed after leaving the road on U.S. Highway 2 West. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Conor Doyle said Tuesday that Hokanson was traveling eastbound when she suffered a medical event and drove off the road in her 2018 Chevy Silverado. He said she left the road near mile marker 379 and crashed into private p...
At the year's first meeting of the Havre City Council Tuesday, Havre Police Department Animal Control Officer Pete Federspiel and Havreite Matt Boucher were presented the Lifesaving Award for saving a woman from a burning vehicle last year, and the council heard complaints about insufficient training on mental health issues for city police officers. Havre Chief of Police Gabe Matosich presented Federspiel and Boucher the award for "their heroism and extraordinary courage,...
A 77-year old woman died after a fatal crash that occurred around 9 a.m. New Year’s Eve in the Havre area. The Hill County Sheriff’s Office has not yet released the name of the woman who died pending notification of relatives. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Conor Doyle said the woman was traveling eastbound on U.S. Highway 2 when she suffered a medical event and drove off the road in her 2018 Chevy Silverado. He said she left the road near mile marker 379 and crashed into private property before being transported to the hos...
Unseasonably warm but increasingly chilly temperatures seem to be on the horizon this coming week, along with fog and a chance of snow as the weekend approaches. Today, Havre is predicted to see a high of 40 and a low of 18, with a mostly sunny day, but fog rolling in overnight and sticking around through Wednesday morning. Wednesday temperatures will drop, with a predicted high of 34 degrees and a low of 15 with fog returning that evening, and tapering off around 9 a.m. Thursday. Thursday’s temperatures will be similar to W...
7 was a year full of stories, good and bad, and a new year of news is on the horizon. Here is a roundup of some of the biggest stories the Havre Daily News covered this in 2023, as the year draws to a close. Suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down Early this year an apparent Chinese spy balloon was spotted over Montana, and later shot down off the coast of South Carolina, prompting outcry from local, state and national officials, directed at China and the federal government which some say didn’t act fast enough. The Pentag...
The Havre Daily News has covered a number of impactful political events in 2023, from controversies and internal division on the local level, to a chaotic legislative session on the state level, along with the tension between local and state government that has risen in this year as well. Here are some of the stories the Havre Daily News has been able to cover in 2023: Commission and state spar over property taxes One political issue at the forefront of practically everyone's...
Editor’s note: This version corrects that Republican Mike Lang of Malta is a senator, not representative. 2023 has been an eventful year for education on the Hi-Line, from a major paradigm shift at Havre Public Schools to a massive investment in Montana State University-Northern for a new recreation center, all as the state and nation faces an ongoing teacher shortage. The Havre Daily News has covered a number of significant events in education this year. Here are the biggest. Havre adopts four-day week Likely the most i...
Another Christmas has come and gone in Havre, and this year's Community Christmas Dinner, held at the Havre Eagles Club that day, appears to have been a massive success. Havre Community Christmas Dinner Committee Chair Doug Denny said they saw a bit of a drop in delivery requests this year, but in-person attendance has increased noticeably, which has been great to see. "It's just fabulous," Denny said. Indeed the Eagles Club was all but packed with people by 11:30 a.m., only...
