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The American Legion and American Legion Riders will be holding a 9/11 Remembrance Service Monday a 9 a.m. at Town Square to honor the bravery and sacrifice of those that responded to the crisis 22 years ago and the people in Havre who do the same jobs. American Legion and Legion Rider member Shawn Heldt, one of the organizers for the event, said he thinks it will be good event for the community, ending out the summer with something to honor people in the area who do good work. “I think it’s going to be a great thing,” Heldt...
Local public school superintendents met in Havre Thursday to talk about major problems and issues their districts are facing. Montana Sen. Shannon O'Brien, D-Missoula, a candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Montana Rep. Paul Tuss, D-Havre, attended the meeting. Havre Public School Assistant Superintendent Brad Moore, who led the meeting, asked if superintendents could talk about their staffing issues as a jumping off point for a larger conversation. Indeed a sho...
The Seventh Annual Honor Our Legacy Fashion Show is on for Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. at Northern Winz Casino, a free event for the community featuring a lineup of Indigenous fashion, modeling competitions, music and art vendors. The event, organized by local fashion designer Rebekah Jarvey, has been expanding in scope year after year as Jarvey has risen in prominence in the fashion industry over the past few years. Jarvey said, as she's participated in more and more fashion shows...
Harlem-based nonprofit Day Eagle Hope Project, which provides services for cancer patients and survivors in Fort Belknap and provides food to people in need in the area, is in desperate need of help itself after losing a storage facility and vehicle. Tescha Hawley, who created the organization, said the warehouse they use to store the food they distribute, a building owned by the tribe and used by its Commodities Program, was recently found to have black mold and electrical problems, forcing them to vacate and leaving them...
In the past day, the Coal Ridge Fire in Blaine County, 5 miles North of Stafford Ferry, has remained at 1,200 acres despite a day of erratic winds as firefighters establish a perimeter around most of the blaze. A release from the Montana Bureau of Land Management Thursday said the fire has now been mapped at 1,200 acres, up from the previous estimate of 450 acres Tuesday. Wednesday, BLM said the fire had burned 790 acres of private land, 166 acres of BLM managed lands, including areas within the Upper Missouri River Breaks...
Beaver Creek Park staff and Montana Department of Transportation are again urging drivers to use caution when driving on Montana Secondary Highway 234 - Beaver Creek Highway - and other roads in Beaver Creek Park starting next week as cattle will again be on the park starting Tuesday. Every year, the Hill County Park Board leases grazing land to area ranchers from the day after Labor Day to the first of the next year, with the season sometimes shortened due to weather or...
While the Coal Ridge Fire in Blaine County has grown significantly, Tuesday night rain and calmer winds seem to have kept the fire from spreading more uncontrollably. A release from the Montana Bureau of Land Management Wednesday said the fire has now been mapped at 1,200 acres, up from the previous estimate of 450 acres the day before, having burned 790 acres of private land. The release said 166 acres of Bureau of Land Management managed lands, including areas within the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and...
Montana Actors’ Theatre appears to have had a successful company audition Saturday, with more than 50 people showing up to audition for this year’s season of shows, and is setting up follow-up auditions soon. MAT Creative Director Grant Olson said the company usually holds auditions for each show individually, but this year they are trying a different model, by holding an audition for the whole season at the beginning, followed by subsequent auditions to fill the remaining gaps. Olson said this model will allow directors mor...
Bureau of Land Management reported Tuesday that a fire had broken out in Blaine County near the Stafford Ferry on the Missouri River. At the start of a regional weekly fire update call Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., it had been another light week for fires in this area of Montana, although local governments and agencies were being asked to be cautious for the next few days due to winds potentially worsening fire conditions. At 1 p.m. Tuesday, well after the fire call, the fire was...
A collaborative series of spay and neuter clinics, vaccinations and wellness exams at the Fort Belknap Indian Community between the U.S. Army Reserve, RezQ Dogs and the tribe wrapped up earlier this month and appears to have been a resounding success. RezQ Dogs Executive Director Anita Wilke said the U.S. Army Reserve Veterinary Corps performed 270 surgeries over their six clinics along with 252 wellness exams, with equipment and drugs provided by RezQ Dogs. "I was blown...
Hill County, and the North Havre County Water District, are discussing scaling back some of the American Rescue Plan Act-funded projects due to rising costs, with the district and Hill County Commission discussing details of how to do that in a Sunday meeting with representatives from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. North Havre County Water District President Karl Verploegen and District Operator and Manager Mike Ladenburg said they originally wanted to install a clear well but the cost was so...
At a special meeting Friday, the Hill County Board of Health discussed an ongoing conflict over alleged violations on a property managed by Lodestar Land and Home owner Mike Winchell, how to proceed with addressing them and the legal implications. Clay Vincent, who continues to do sanitarian work for the county despite his retirement, said Winchell since 2020 has repeatedly and knowingly violated regulations with one of his properties which he initially refused to connect to...
Montana Auditor Troy Downing was at North Central Senior Citizens Center Thursday to give a presentation on common forms of financial fraud, part of a 14-stop tour aiming to promote awareness, improve prevention and reduce the stigma around people who are victimized by fraudsters, especially senior citizens. Downing said his role in Montana is to regulate the insurance and securities industries, and a big part of that is going after financial fraud, but that isn't quite the...
Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen, along with Office of Public Instruction staff, held a public forum via Zoom Wednesday on a bill that will allow public funds to be used to send special-needs students to private schools. The bill, House Bill 393, the Students with Special Needs Equal Opportunity Act, was passed this year by a Republican supermajority and signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte despite almost universal condemnation by Democrats and...
Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Montana Actors' Theatre will be looking for new actors and volunteers for all of their regular shows for the coming year at Montana State University-Northern. MAT Creative Director Grant Olson said they are trying a new model for auditions this year, trying to cast as much as possible in one event before the season starts instead of doing individual auditions for each individual show. Olson said they almost certainly won't cast every role in this...
After a few days of light precipitation in the region, which mostly missed the local area, Hill County was hit harder than many of its neighbors by fires, losing 300 acres in the last week. During a regional fire call Tuesday morning Hill County reported three fires totaling more than 300 lost acres, having fared the worst of all the counties on the call. Roosevelt, Sheridan, Phillips, Blaine, Fergus, Golden Valley and Petroleum counties all reported no fire activities, though most of them saw some precipitation over the...
The Havre City Council passed a number of resolutions approving yearly tax levies and assessments on first reading, as well as road closures for upcoming events at their meeting last night, after which the council's ordinance committee recommended some amendments to the city's sign code regarding temporary political signs. The council unanimously passed resolutions levying and assessing yearly taxes on property within city limits to defray the costs of maintaining street, stre...
Tuesday, Aug. 29, the Havre Police Department will be hosting this year's National Night Out, at the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building, a community event with food, raffles and entertainment meant to build relations and education between the community, local law enforcement and the region's service organizations. Havre Police Capt. Ryan Pearson, one of the event's primary organizers, said the event's attendance has fully recovered from a brief dip...
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., was in Havre Thursday touring Big Equipment and meeting with owner Ron Harmon before sitting down with Havre Daily News for a brief interview, where he talked about congressional priorities and the legal woes of former President Donald Trump and Hunter Biden. Rosendale said his top priority, as well as that of his colleagues, upon their return to Congress will be the passage of 11 funding bills that will make sure the government keeps functioning...
Editors’ note: This version corrects the location of the harmful algal bloom mentioned in the story. Hill County elected officials and department heads met Wednesday morning and discussed some possible minor changes to county policy regarding sick time and meal reimbursement as well as updates on their department’s activities. Hill County Attorney Lacey Lincoln said she thinks county policy should be shifted to providing advanced payment for meals during travel instead of asking employees to ask for reimbursement. Hill Cou...
The Great Northern Fair members said they look forward to the next year after a successful Great Northern Fair last month, discussing ongoing projects at their regularly scheduled board meeting Tuesday evening. Fairgrounds Manager Frank English said the numbers aren't finalized yet, but based on what he's seen this year's fair went very well and the board members said it seems like it has been a very successful year. Board Vice-Chair Bob Kaul said, based on the reports...
After months of clean-up, cataloging damage and efforts to maintain local infrastructure in the wake of massive flooding in April, the damage in northern Montana has finally been declared a national disaster by the federal government. Counties included in this declaration are Hill and Blaine counties along with Daniels, Park, Roosevelt, Sheridan and Valley counties and the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. This declaration allows the area to make use of federal money to address the damage sustained in the floods that occurred...
The 2023 Blaine County Fair wrapped up Sunday after a week of rodeos, 4-H events, food and music, and attendees seemed to have good things to say this year. While this year's fair was mostly the traditional lineup of events, one of its centerpiece attractions, the demolition derby, was replaced with a concert by country music writer and singer Darryl Worley. Outside of that the fair featured its usual 4-H events and with animal shows, as well as a carnival and fair food...
Last week was a fairly quiet week for fire activity in this region of Montana as counties and agencies in the area decided to stick with their current fire restrictions. In a regional fire call Tuesday morning, National Weather Service in Glasgow reported that while some areas might see temperatures cool a bit today, the region as a whole looks poised to stay in the 90s for most of the week. Thursday appears to be the most dangerous day for fire conditions since it will be hot, dry and possibly windy, Weather Service in...
The Hill County Commission is considering how to proceed with appointing a temporary replacement for Hill County Superintendent of Schools Vicki Proctor, who is temporarily unable to fulfill her duties due to illness. Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said Proctor has been incapacitated and the county needs someone to handle the essential work of her position while she recovers. Hill County Attorney Lacey Lincoln said Proctor is ill, but beyond that she can’t say anything more. Havre Daily News was not able to c...
