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U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., talked about national debt, immigration and bank failures in a rural press call Thursday where he also weighed in on some state issues, including the recently passed state ban on TikTok. Tester said the biggest issue in Congress at the moment is obviously the ongoing negotiation and debate over raising the national debt ceiling, with congressional Republicans threatening to let the country default if their demands of the Joe Biden administration...
While much of the community mourns the unexpected death Sunday of 32-year-old Josh Miller, a member of Havre's City Council, the Hill County Mosquito Control District is warning that the loss of Miller, who had been an integral part of the district since 2016, will set its operations in the community back significantly. Mosquito Control District Supervisor Terry Turner said Miller's loss is devastating for the district on a number of levels, but on a personal one, it's been...
Editor's note: Havre Daily News is trying to arrange interviews with all local legislators to get their views on the last legislative session. Watch for more stories in upcoming editions. Montana Rep. Paul Tuss, D-Havre, said that while his first legislative session was afflicted by more partisanship than he'd like, he feels there were productive things that happened in Helena this year for northern Montana. Tuss, who was elected last year as one of only two democratic flips...
Joshua Miller, a member of Havre City Council and the Hill County Weed and Mosquito District, died at the age of 32 Sunday. "This has been an incredibly hard loss, not just for the family, but for all that knew him," said Jennifer Tilleman, Miller's sister. "Whether or not people agreed with him, there was always an underlying respect and admiration for his strength and character. I'm afraid Josh is irreplaceable, he's left enormous shoes to fill. Our hearts are heavy." See a...
Editor's note: Watch for stories on other local legislator's thoughts on the 2023 legislative session in upcoming editions of Havre Daily News. Montana Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, said the 2023 Legislative Session brought a lot of benefits to his district and the state but was not without its disappointments. Tempel said one of the primary goals of his and his fellow Republicans going into the Legislature was to give part of the state's surplus back to the people of Montana...
As the school year winds down, graduation ceremonies approach for high school seniors and schools are gearing up for the events that will take place over this month. Havre Public Schools will hold its graduation at Blue Pony Stadium, much like last year, May 28 at 2 p.m., though plans may change if the weather doesn’t allow for an outdoor event. However, most graduation ceremonies are scheduled for this weekend. Saturday, both Hays-Lodge Pole High School and Box Elder High School will have their graduation ceremonies in t...
Editor's note: This version corrects the spelling of the name of Mollee Hunt. Box Elder Schools is finishing up today a new and improved Staff Appreciation Week, which their administration is hoping will give school employees a morale boost going into the end of the year. "It's been fun, and there've been lots of smiles," said Box Elder High and Junior High School Principal Mollee Hunt, the week's primary organizer. Hunt said that, this year, they put together a new game for f...
The Hill County Commission continues to prepare for making high-cost repairs to local infrastructure damaged by flooding, and adjusted its budgets in its business meeting Thursday for incoming funds. The adjustment, voted for unanimously, creates a place in the county’s budget for the money received through the emergency 2-mil levy passed by the commission when they declared the flooding an emergency situation in their meeting April 20. Commissioner Jake Strissel said it will also allow them to receive funds from the f...
In a series of four back-to-back meetings the Havre Public School Board of Trustees bid farewell to two longtime members after recognizing students for athletic achievements, In the first meeting, the board canvassed the results of the election, with Interim Superintendent Brad Moore saying provisional ballots have been counted and they will not affect the results of the election. The unofficial election results, released last week, saw Kevin Johnson and Tyler Gibson win two o...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees, having sworn in two new members, approved a modified four-day week calendar for the coming year in the district during a series of four back-to-back meetings Tuesday evening. Kevin Johnson and Tyler Gibson were elected to the school board earlier this month, defeating 15-year board chair Curtis Smeby, who ran for reelection, and Tim Brurud. Incumbent Tim Scheele was reelected. Incumbent Cindy Erickson did not seek reelection....
Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed Senate Bill 442, a proposal on how to use marijuana tax revenues, last week despite broad bipartisan support, drawing criticism from local legislators and government officials along with a range of constituency groups. SB442 would have divided tax revenues levied on recreational marijuana sales between the state’s general fund; county road construction and maintenance; conservation and recreation programs; addiction treatment, and veterans services and received support from the majority of legislati...
The 31st annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive will be running in Havre and across the U.S. Saturday, with local mail carriers collecting non-perishable food items left near mailboxes during their routes. The event, organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers, has taken almost 2 billion pounds of food to food banks across the U.S. over its history, and Havre is no exception. One of the event's primary local organizers, letter carrier Travis Abdallah, said they...
The WorldVision 6K for Water returned to Havre Sunday with local resident April Taber leading a bigger team than ever, running as part of a global event to collect donations to help provide clean water to under-developed countries and raise awareness about the issue. The 6K for Water event, run by WorldVision, a Christian humanitarian aid organization, sees more than 500 teams around the world traveling six kilometers, the average length women and children must walk to get...
15 Montana State University-Northern students received 420 degrees this weekend at the college's graduation ceremony Saturday. Students received their degrees after a ceremony and speech by Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel and commencement address by Montana Actors' Theatre Executive Director and award-winning playwright Jay Pyette, who graduated from Northern himself decades ago. Pyette said there are a lot of important things that happened on May 6 throughout history, good an...
Box Elder Middle Schoolers took home some national awards last week from the the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California, with four projects winning places at the top of their categories. The event sees more than 6,000 middle school, high school and college students from around the U.S. compete in project categories ranging from web design and broadcast news to multimedia promotions and business planning in a series of events. “It’s like speech and debate for white collar act...
The Great Northern Fair Board will be holding a special meeting Tuesday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds’ Community Center to disscuss ways to address the fairgrounds’ western bathrooms. For the past year the board has been attempting to find a way to replace these bathrooms, but at a meeting last month members of the board said the price tag on the project was so high that even if they canceled all other projects and spent every cent they had, they would still be well short of paying for the more-than-$200,000 pro...
The Hill County Commission put out a call for help providing food for the Hill County Detention Center during its weekly business meeting Thursday, and heard complaints about communication with the public. During the public comments section of the meeting, Hill County Park Board member Lou Hagener said he believes the commission’s posting of agendas and vacancies on local boards and committees is insufficient. Hagener said the agendas the commission puts out are often vaguely worded or confusing, and he specifically took i...
The Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting an open house at their new and long-awaited fire hall south of Havre from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Department Chief Josh Bebee said the event is a thankyou to the community that supported the construction of the hall, which the department has been trying to get for years. "We are so happy," he said. " ... Just having a place that we can call home, it's an amazing feeling." Efforts to get a fire hall for the department hav...
The unofficial election results for local school boards are in, with local districts announcing new returning board members as well as the results of local levy requests. While Turner Public Schools and Chinook Public Schools canceled their elections, holding the elections by acclamation for unopposed candidates, many others had votes for school board members as well as levies. These results are unofficial until the elections are officially canvassed by their respective districts. In Havre Tyler Gibson, Kevin Johnson and...
In addition to the regular activities held every week at North Central Senior Center in Havre, a series of events is set for this month starting Thursday with a walk to local greenhouse Downtown Gardens at 12:45 p.m. North Central Senior Center Activity Director Heather Williams said they will begin the short walk at the center and arrive at Downtown Gardens around 1 p.m., though people who have trouble walking are welcome to meet them there. Winter said Downtown Gardens will be giving the seniors a class on successful...
The Hill County Park Board voted to impose time limits on public comments at their monthly meeting this week where they also considered consolidating their committees and looked at the coming year's budget. During the meeting, Board Member Lou Hagener presented an updated version of the board's public comments and agenda-setting policy in the hopes that it would be approved. Board Chair Jeff Jensen said the board doesn't need that, and all he wants to change is the time...
Montana Sen. Jon Tester in a press conference Thursday said the biggest news relevant to his committees is bad, unfortunately, with the recent rejection of a bill that would have, among other things, expanded home health care for aging and disabled veterans, expanded work for veterans' service officers, improved the VA's Caregivers Program and bolstered mental health treatment. He said it would also help Native Americans and Alaskans, who serve in the military at a higher...
The decision of what the Havre Public Schools' calendar for the 2023-2024 school year will be has been delayed again after a contentious meeting Thursday evening. At the beginning of the meeting HPS Interim-Superintendent Brad Moore, said he will continue to support the Havre Education Association's request to delay voting on this issue until after the election. The issue of whether to move to a four-day school week with extended class periods has been discussed by the school...
Hands on History, a long-running event put on for local youth by the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation, will be returning, after three years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Event co-chairs Claudia Howard and Cindy Lamb said the event features 20 activities ranging from beading, to leathercraft, to instruments and an Atlatl cost. Howard said one of the big themes of the event is to let children make something with their own hands that...
The Hill County Health Board at its quarterly meeting Wednesday discussed recent developments at the local and state level and how they are affecting local public health. Hill County Public Health Director Kim Berg, who is also the county’s health officer, said the wage for the Hill County Sanitarian position has been raised and looks like it will be put back under the health department. Berg said she’s hoping the increase in the wage will draw in applicants. She said Clay Vincent, the county’s current sanitarian, who has b...
