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Saturday will see the return of Havre's annual Norwegian Lutefisk and Swedish Meatball Dinner from noon to 5 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church, after a year without due to COVID-19. The event, now in its 88th year, is held by Havre's First Lutheran Church with assistance from Messiah Lutheran Church and has been a mainstay event in the community for decades, bringing people in the community together for a meal of Lutefisk, Swedish meatballs, boiled potatoes, lefsa, cranberry...
District 4 Human Resources Development Council has a new director of Victims Services in Rose DeBerry, who is looking to build the program back up amid ongoing staffing shortages. The Victims Services program's goal is to empower victims of domestic abuse to live violence-free lives by providing services like crisis intervention, safety planning, emergency services, legal accompaniment and general advocacy, but, like many organizations locally and countrywide, HRDC is faced...
Amtrak is once again scaling back services across the U.S. as the omicron-driven surge of COVID-19 in the U.S. continues, and this reduction in services has drawn some criticism. Amtrak announced that, starting last week, Empire Builder trains will no longer be departing Chicago, Seattle and Portland on Thursdays and Fridays, meaning there will be no service in Montana Fridays or Saturdays, including to popular destinations like the Big Mountain ski hill. Calls to Whitefish...
The Havre Eagles Club will be holding a bingo and Indian taco sale fundraiser Friday to raise money for the Jensen family, who lost their home to a fire in December. Eagles Auxiliary President Candace Dess said the event will start a 6 p.m. at the Eagles Club, and they’re hoping to raise as much money as they can for the family, who is still looking for a home. “They’ve been totally displaced,” Dess said. “... They pretty much lost everything.” She said Eagles Club Member Dixie Geer came to her recently wanting to do somet...
KillEagle Promotions will be holding Brawl at the Mall, a boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts event at the Holiday Village Mall Saturday at 7 p.m., as an awareness-raising event for childhood cancer. The event will feature 10 fights including four amateur MMA bouts, one amateur boxing match and a heavy-weight kickboxing match, as well as a 145-pound fight, the later two of which will be for the promotion’s first titles. Wesley KillEagle, the primary organizer, said the event will have professional bare-knuckle boxing a...
The Hill County Commission has reversed its decision to change their workers’ compensation insurance provider over to PayneWest Insurance, which was voted on two weeks ago, and stay with Koefod Agency, prompting a heated discussion about the reversal. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said upon reviewing their decision to switch to PayneWest, the commission felt that they did not give Koefod a chance to speak with the insurance committee and make a case for their agency. They made a motion to switch back to them for w...
The Hill County Board of Health had a heated quarterly meeting Wednesday, with Public Health Director Kim Berg once again asking the county for the American Rescue Plan Act funds they need to keep their department afloat, with no clear indication that they would get that money despite the commission having voted to allocate it months ago. In September the commission voted to allocate up to $100,000 in ARPA money to the department so they could pay for the extreme amount of...
After a year without it due to the pandemic, the Milk River Gobblers Annual Banquet will be held Feb. 5 at the Havre Eagles Club featuring games, raffles, a live auction, a silent auction and a dinner which will help fund the group's operation in the coming year. The gobblers unofficial public relations officer Jeff Dibblee said his group is glad to be back after a year of the pandemic and they're hoping for a good turnout. "It feels really good; we're all excited about it,"...
The Havre Police Department reported a mountain lion sighting on Beaver Creek Boulevard last Friday, and while Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Area Biologist Scott Hemmer said such a report is not confirmation of a mountain lion in town there are things people should and shouldn't do in the event of an encounter with one. Hemmer said without a photograph or other evidence it's impossible to confirm whether a mountain lion really was in town, as sightings are often...
Editor's note: This version corrects that Dartanion Kaftan and Riley Klein are seniors. Despite a rocky start, the state eastern Class A speech, drama and debate divisional tournament appears to have gone well Saturday, with all of host Havre's speech and debate competitors qualifying for state and a wealth of new judges showing up to the event. Head Havre High School speech and debate coach Tim Leeds said he wanted to thank all of the community members, the Havre school...
A new FedEx facility may be coming to Havre as soon as June, with Big Equipment Owner Ron Harmon finalizing a subdivision near the Havre City-County Airport with the county Thursday that will free up the land necessary for the building to go up. In the Hill County Commission’s weekly business meeting Thursday, Harmon said FedEx approached him some time ago about building a facility in Havre so they can more easily service the Hi-Line from here instead of from Great Falls. The six-acre lot where the facility will be built h...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 112th anniversary with its annual meeting Wednesday afternoon at the Duck Inn where members honored each other and the volunteers who make events and programs around town happen. Chamber President Matt Wertheimer lamented that the event couldn't be held last year, and thanked NorthWestern Energy for sponsoring this year's event, Triangle Communication for providing equipment, and the local-, state-, and national-level...
During the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting Wednesday Randy Hafer of High Plains Architects provided an overview of a downtown master plan that is being put together to revitalize Havre's downtown area. The driving forces behind the plan have been the Chamber, Bear Paw Development Corp., the city of Havre, and Downtown Havre Matters!, which have been working together to make the area more attractive to people, and after looking at a number of firms chose High...
Hill County Public Health Director Kim Berg said during a county officials meeting Wednesday that her department is having trouble keeping up with the sheer amount of COVID-19 cases in the area. Berg, who is also the county’s health officer, said cases in the community are rising as expected and even after bringing back two case investigators from early in the pandemic the department couldn’t contact 40 cases in the county. After the meeting she said that because they couldn’t contact these cases they were not recorded in th...
The Blaine County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of a woman who died in a house fire in Harlem early Tuesday morning. Blaine County Undersheriff Chris Adair said Shenia Sterns, 25, died in the fire which was called in around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday morning. The fire was responded to by the Chinook and Harlem fire departments along with the Fort Belknap Volunteer Fired Department which provided mutual aid. Adair said the fire is still being investigated by the Montana State Fire Marshal so there are no details available r...
The Great Northern Fair Board is considering a request by Scott Doney and Spencer Smith to let them organize a truck pull for the 2022 Great Northern Fair, a matter brought to the board at its monthly meeting Tuesday evening. Doney said they don't have much nailed down and were mostly just looking to gauge the board's interest in holding the event the Saturday night of the fair. He and Smith said they'd be willing to do the majority of the work organizing and setting up the...
As with much of rural America, the Hi-Line is facing an ongoing shortage of pastors, but local churches and their leadership have been discussing a number of ideas that may address the issue, like sharing pastors and increasing lay participation. Among the denominations discussing the issue are the Presbyterian churches in the area, which Cory Pierson of Havre First Presbyterian Church said are looking at the possibility of creating a combined inter-denominational parish in th...
As Havre High School continues its search for a principal in the wake of Ed Norman’s resignation last month the school has hired Tom Vail to serve as interim-principal. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Craig Mueller said Vail will be in Havre soon and will begin his job Monday of next week. Havre High School has been looking to fill the administrative void left by Norman after his resignation in December of 2021 in the wake of a controversy involving a Halloween costume a student wore in October that has been called r...
As COVID-19 cases surge throughout the U.S., driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant, local public health is preparing for a significant local surge of the virus, one that could heavily strain public health. Hill County Public Health Director Kim Berg, also the county's health officer, said her department is predicting a surge of COVID-19 resembling those seen in the eastern part of the U.S., and they're already seeing an uptick. "We started seeing a pretty rapid...
Filing for numerous local elections in 2022 is now open with some candidates already filed. Seats are open for a number of significant county-level positions including a seat on the Hill County Commission as well as legislative seats. Positions in Hill County include District 2 Hill County commissioner, a six-year position held by Diane McLean, county clerk and recorder, a four-year position held by Susan Armstrong, and Hill County sheriff/coroner, a four-year position held by Jamieson T. Ross. Armstrong said Thursday that,...
The Hill County Commission is working toward putting on the 2022 election ballot a 3 percent tax on recreational marijuana sales in the county. At the commission’s weekly business meeting Thursday, Hill County Commissioner Jake Strissel said they were originally under the impression that they could implement the tax with a resolution, but has since learned that the tax would need to be approved by the voters. Strissel said they are drafting a resolution to have the tax put on the 2022 general election ballot, but they still n...
Havre Public Schools may have a four-day week in the next school year as the district's Calendar Committee continues its work on a comprehensive report for the schools' board of trustees that will provide information and recommendations for the possible shift. The committee has been working for the past few months to put together this document, which will detail all of the group's research into the ramifications of a four-day school week for Havre Public Schools and what they...
Acting State Medical Officer Dr. Maggie Cook-Shimanek said Tuesday that COVID-19 cases in the state are rising rapidly with more than 6,300 reported cases during the week ending Jan. 7, an increase of 136 percent from the previous week. Cook-Shimanek made the comment during a press conference sponsored by the Montana Medical Association with medical professionals from around the state discussing the impending omicron variant-driven surge in Montana, providing updates on the...
The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board discussed at its monthly meeting Monday ongoing maintenance issues at the museum as well as the museum’s coming move to its new location at the former Griggs Printing Building on the 10 Block of Fifth Avenue. Museum Manager Emily Mayer said the front door of the current museum is badly stuck, a problem that has been around for some time but has now become impossible to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Mayer said the door has been an issue for a while, but there were always ways to g...
The Hill County Behavioral Health Local Advisory Council has two more weeks to find people to do interviews for its mental health and behavioral health awareness PSAs, a topic discussed at their monthly meeting Monday. For about a year now, the council has been working on putting together recorded interviews with local residents who have experience with mental health struggles or addictions with the intention of using that footage to put together PSAs seeking to normalize these struggles by reducing the social stigma around...
