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The Hill County Commission approved new grants and contracts, revised office rules for the courthouse and revised a written policy for board appointments during its business meeting Thursday. Commissioners have been discussing the matter of board appointment and interview procedures for some time, with Hill County Commissioner Sheri Williams in particular raising concerns regarding insufficient advertising of open positions and a need for a clear written policy regarding the interview process. Earlier this week the...
Tensions rose Monday at a working group meeting of the Hill County Commission between Commissioner Sheri Williams and Hill County Clerk and Recorder Lexis Dockter, arguing over who is responsible for the Hill County Council on Aging losing out on a substantial amount of state money. The matter was prompted when the commission was discussing how the county supplements funding of the Hill County Council on Aging, when Williams said the council's funding seems to have gone down...
Easter is on the horizon and numerous organizations in the region are gearing up for their Easter egg hunts. That includes Friday, when the Havre-Hill County Library will hold their Egg Hunt after their 10:30 a.m. Family Story Time. Both events are free and open to the public. “Kids of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to attend,” a release from the library said. Later that day, from 2 to 5 p.m. Aaniiih Nakoda Family Healing Center on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation will have their annual Egg Hunt with prizes for eac...
From today through Easter Sunday local churches will be holding special services for local worshipers to honor the coming holidays. Tonight at 6 p.m. at First Lutheran Church in Havre there will be a Maundy Thursday service, as well as one at 6:30 p.m. at St. Jude Thanddeus Catholic to honor the day. For Good Friday First Lutheran Church will also have a Good Friday Service at 6 p.m., as will 5th Avenue Christian Church, which will have communion at the same time. At 6:30 p.m. that day St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church will...
A local family is reaching out for help after a crash that left three horses with injuries they are struggling to pay for care for. Local resident Lisa Holt set up a GoFundMe page for her brother and sister-in-law Kenny and Meghan Holt, who sent a trio of horses to stay with friends Chris and Liz Olson in Nebraska while the Holts are expecting their first child. Havre Daily was unable to directly contact the Holts for direct comment. On the GoFundMe page Lisa Holt said it...
Democratic candidate for Montana's eastern U.S. House seat was Steve Held was in Havre over the weekend in a campaign swing through the district. Held is among the Democrats running for Montana's Second Congressional District, a campaign with a crowded primary field that does not include the seat's current occupant, Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. In the Democratic primary, Held faces Kevin Hamm, a Helena community organizer and activist, as well as retired pharmaceutical rep...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., held a press call Thursday to discuss a number of legislative issues, including the looming deadline for a government shutdown, which will occur at midnight tonight if lawmakers cannot pass a series of long-debated spending bills. Tester is running for re-election and faces Michael Hummers of Helena in the Democratic primary. Tester said Thursday he thinks the final appropriations bills will be passed before the deadline, but he remains frustrated that partisan politics have held up the process for...
The Great Northern Fair Board discussed ongoing maintenance and preparations for this year's fair during their meeting Tuesday. Board Vice Chair Bob Kaul said nearly all large projects on the fairgrounds are done or in the works at this point so focus can be put back on maintenance and preparations for this year's fair. Kaul said the fairgrounds shop needs to be set up, but the vast majority of the project can be done in-house. He said they need to look at getting the...
The Hill County Commission held a “staff meeting” Tuesday, where members discussed a number of issues relevant to the public, including their practices for appointing board members. During the meeting Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said he wants the commission to decide whether or not to continue interviewing or advertising for commission-appointed board positions, or to keep reappointing existing members and only advertise should an existing member leave the board. Peterson said that when he first started the...
The Hill County Courthouse's west doors, which have been blocked off for the past few months, may be fixed in the next few weeks, a project that has taken a substantial amount of time primarily for logistical reasons. Hill County Commissioner Jake Strissel said the doors were heavily damaged earlier in the winter when someone delivering packages pulled on the locked doors too hard, thinking they were stuck, which bent the hinges and caused enough damage that they needed to be...
It seems that the risk of minor flooding from Lodge Creek moving into Hill and Blaine counties is low, as the National Weather Service was poised this morning to update their advisory in the area. The Weather Service Monday extended an advisory they had put out about flooding, the result of snow melt in Canada north this part of Montana, but this morning the service said they have no more concerns about increased flooding. National Weather Service Great Falls Meteorologist...
Watch for profiles of other candidates in this and other races in upcoming editions of Havre Daily News. Former Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., is returning to politics, running again for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives against a crowded primary field that doesn't include the seat's current occupant Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. Rehberg said his campaign is an effort to curb the effects of the Joe Biden Administration's leadership of the country, which he said have bee...
Lifetime Havreite and former state Rep. Ed Hill has filed as a Republican to represent Havre and North Havre in the Montana House of Representative in the coming Legislative session, putting him on track for an electoral rematch with Rep. Paul Tuss, D-Havre, who beat him in the last election. Hill said he's not planning to go to Helena with any particular agenda and, while there are some state agencies and programs he would like to see improved, he has no particular bills he...
Montana Rep. Paul Tuss, D-Havre, is running for reelection this year, a rematch between former Montana House representative Ed Hill, a Republican he beat in the last cycle. Tuss, the Executive Director of Bear Paw Development, said he's been serving the area for more than two decades, with his organization providing assistance to businesses in five counties and two reservations, experience he said has served him well in the Legislature. He said his history in economic...
Havre native Suzanne Tilleman, dean of the University of Montana College of Business, moderated a roundtable discussion at UM's Bureau of Business and Economic Research 2024 Economic Outlook Seminar Wednesday, where participants talked about the place of the mining industry in the ongoing transition to green energy in Montana. Sibanye-Stillwater Mining Company VP of Legal and Government Affairs Heather McDowell said her company is a large energy customer in the state that...
NorthWestern Energy CEO Brian Bird spoke via Zoom at the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research 2024 Montana Economic Outlook Seminar Wednesday to give his perspective on the practical reality of green energy in Montana, advocating for its development alongside more natural gas plants. Contrary to depictions in the media, Bird said, NorthWestern Energy has a diverse energy portfolio including about a third of it from natural gas and coal, another third from wind and solar energy and a third from h...
Primary season has arrived in Montana, with filing for the upcoming ballot now closed and all non-write-in candidates now declared, though most candidates on the county level in this region are running unopposed. In Blaine County, Republican Miles Hutton is running unopposed to maintain his seat on the Blaine County Commission, with Democrats Julie Campbell and Kendall Harwood both running unopposed for clerk of district court and county superintendent of schools respectively, the latter as an appointed incumbent. Blaine...
Members of the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees discussed whether or not to put a new levy on the ballot for their elementary district as well as new health policies at their monthly meeting Tuesday evening. During the meeting the board heard a presentation by Havre Public School Assistant Superintendent Brad Moore about levies and school budgets where he said the High School cannot put a levy on the ballot this year, but due to a recent legislative change the...
Watch for more on county races in Blaine, Chouteau and Liberty counties in an upcoming edition of Havre Daily News. 2024 will be a big year in electoral politics, not just on the federal level, but on the state and local level as well, with candidates having filed all of their declarations now that the deadline for filing in the June primary is over. In Hill County, not many positions are up and only one race is contented. One seat on the Hill County Commission, held by Mark Peterson, is up for grabs this year and its...
Members of the H. Earl Clack Museum board discussed a number of upcoming events at their regular meeting Monday, with their Hands-On History event set for April 20. The long-running event, put on for local youth by the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation, returned in 2023 after three years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic featuring activities ranging from beading, to leathercraft. The event centers around teaching young people about how things were...
Another Montana Seed Show has come and gone this past weekend, and while many enjoyed the long running event in 2024, it saw another year of depressed turnout that has caused its leadership to consider changes, should the trend continue. The long-unning event originally brought local potato farmers together to compare their crops, but has evolved into a mainstay event in northern Montana, with a number of agricultural events, auctions, contests and more, including a pie...
Local legislators and officials seem to be welcoming the recent decision by a Lewis and Clark County district court judge to deny a request from Gov. Greg Gianforte to stay enforcement of a prior order directing him to allow lawmakers the chance to override his veto of a 2023 marijuana tax revenue bill. In a meeting of the Hill County Commission Thursday, Hill County Commissioner Jake Strissel, who’s been one of the bill’s biggest local advocates, said he’s been trying to make sure as many local legislators as possible are r...
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., held a tele-town hall Wednesday evening where he talked about the recent passage of federal appropriations, the national debt and ongoing issues he has with the U.S. Veterans Administration, as well as taking questions from callers. The $460 billion appropriations bill funds half of the government through the fall, averting a looming partial government shutdown that would have taken place at the end of this week. The bill passed the house 339 to 85, with Rosendale saying he was “proudly” amo...
Havre got a somewhat unexpected dusting of snow Wednesday, just under an inch of snow to add on to the 4 inches the area saw over the weekend. National Weather Service is still predicting little to no precipitation in the near future, though temperatures are expected to rise substantially starting Friday. Today the high is still expected to stay below freezing, at 27 degrees with a low of 7 and a wind chill value as low as -5. Friday the temperature is set to rise to a high of 39 and a low of 22, and jump again Saturday to a...
Agriculture and livestock workers in this region may have a chance to have some COVID-19 expenses reimbursed by the federal government through the USDA Farm and Food Workers Relief Program which will be offering $600 to them later this month if they qualify. Teri Peters, community programs manager for Centro de la Familia, a Utah-based non-profit, said her organization is helping people get signed up and will be in Havre by the end of the month. Peters visited Havre Tuesday to start gauging local interest and need for the...
