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Havre High School Activities Secretary Ginger Chagnon is retiring after 18 years at the high school and 28 years years in the district. When she first started out in the district in 1992, she said, she was the secretary to the curriculum director in the Robins Administration Building for three years. After that, she transferred to Havre Middle School, where she was the secretary to the principal for seven years, she said. She said when her son, Gray, was a freshman in high sch...
All of the results from the COVID-19 tests from samples collected at a drive-through testing clinic Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation held a week ago, came back negative. The drive-through testing occurred May 28-29, with a total of 1,428 people tested both days. “It is very comforting knowing our community currently has no cases,” Rocky Boy Health Board Chief Information Officer Misty Denny said. “Together, our community has worked diligently to prevent the coronavirus from entering our community.” She said they still hav...
Havre's Helping Haven is relocating and is set for a tentative soft re-opening next week. "We're hoping to service a lot more different kinds of people," Manager Jill Miller said. "Just being where people will see us from the main road, we just feel like we are going to reach a lot more people than where we were located at before." It is being relocated to where fivehead's used to be located at 615 First Street West #B. The hours are set for Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m....
Havre Middle School art teacher Stephanie McLain is retiring from Havre Public Schools District after 25 years. "Best part of teaching is the students remind me to play. Play is essential and keeps us all healthy," McLain said. She said one of her most memorable moments of teaching was when a young man came to her classroom last year to say hi, and she didn't recognize him at first and then realized after a few moments who he was. She was his second grade teacher, she said, ad...
A benefit for Angie Maxwell Nyberg is planned for Wednesday, June 17 at the Havre Eagles Club at 5:30 p.m. to help Nyberg with the second round of her battle with cancer. Nyberg said she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in July 2018 at Stage 2. She said she went through chemotherapy treatment, underwent a double mastectomy and had reconstruction and radiation surgery. She finished her reconstruction surgery this past November, she said, but was re-diagnosed,...
The Hill County Health Board met Friday and provided an update about other counties decisions to hold their county fairs. Havre Daily News attempted to attend the meeting via GotoMeeting but was unable to connect, but was provided minutes of the meeting. Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester., said Toole, Liberty, Glacier and Pondera County have decided to continue with the Marias Fair in Shelby, but haven’t figured how to do 4-H safely. He said the counties plan to clean bathrooms every two hours and more details are yet to be f...
Havre-Hill County Library re-opened its doors last Wednesday with some restrictions. The library will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Havre-Hill County Library Director Rachel Rawn said the library is only allowing 10 patrons in at a time with a 30-minute time limit. The first hour they are open every day will be reserved for people who are especially vulnerable, she said, such as the elderly and people with any underlying conditions. She said they are continuing to offer curbside pickup for anyone who...
Phase Two of Gov. Steve Bullock’s re-opening plan has put Montana Actors’ Theatre back to holding its shows for the upcoming season. The auditions for MAT’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” are set for Tuesday and Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Creative Leisure Building, 417 First Street. Much of MAT’s season was canceled after social distancing and stay-at-home rules were put in place in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the phased re-opening of the state is relaxing some of the restrictions. Watch for m...
Hill County Commission held a meeting with the Milk River Joint Board of Control Thursday to hear an update about the concrete drop structure on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that washed out and collapsed May 17. The Drop 5 structure, near the end of the more-than-100-year-old St. Mary Diversion, collapsed after decades of Milk River water users warning that a catostrophic failure would likely occure. A state working group was formed in 2003 to try to make plans and find funding to rehabilitate the structure,...
Gov. Steve Bullock held a press call Thursday to announce additional funding through the Coronavirus Relief Fund including the Montana Meat Processing Infrastructure grant which is available starting immediately to aid small and medium-sized meat processors responding to COVID-19 supply disruptions. These grants will support local meat processing infrastructure capacity within the state, he said. He added that due to interruptions in national supply chains meat processing capacity throughout the country has been...
Montana State University-Northern started re-opening its campus in phases for summer school Monday. “I have approved a plan that will provide our community with more access to the MSU-Northern campus than was available in Phase One, while maintaining social distancing measures and capping events at no more than 50 participants,” Chancellor Greg Kegel said in his May 29 update. The following buildings’ conference rooms are currently open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but are restricted to a certain capacity to follow social distancin...
Havre Trails began an outdoor scavenger hunt challenge Saturday that will be open through Monday, Aug. 31. Havre Trails president Lindsey Bennett said the scavenger hunt is a list of nine outdoors challenges in north-central Montana that community members can take part in this summer. Bennett said for the past four summers, Havre Trails has offered guided group hiking events around the region that were free and open to the public and due to the current COVID-19 situation, the group will not be offering these events this...
Lincoln-McKinley Primary School building secretary Vickie Lowen is retiring from Havre Public Schools District after 28 years in that position and 32 years with the district. At Lincoln-McKinley, she said, she enjoyed the people she met, the students and the staff. "We've had an amazing staff at Lincoln-McKinley the whole time I've been there," she said. "Havre Public Schools in general, but our comaraderie at Lincoln McKinley is I can't say anything, but great about it. We...
The Havre City Council Ordinance Committee met Monday after the council meeting and discussed Havre changing to a charter form of government. Ordinance Committee member Lindsey Ratliff said she and former member Caleb Hutchins met a couple of months ago and looked through examples of different cities that used charters. She said the last time the ordinance committee proposed a charter was in 2016. “What I took out from that discussion was all we need to do is figure out the language you want that gives yourself s...
A local Eagles Manor resident received his high school diploma Monday, 78 years after his senior year at a Kansas high school. "I'm real proud of it," 94-year-old James Catt Sr. said. "They're good people back there and they sent it to me." He said he was just tickled to receive at his age. Catt was drafted into the U.S. Navy in 1943 for service during World War II before he could graduate from high school. He said his daughter Myrna Catt Vernon arranged to have all his papers...
Some people at the Havre City Council meeting Monday complained that the first they heard about a conflict about funding Havre Fire Department providing ambulance service outside city limits was just before the deadline the city imposed for the county to respond. Close to a dozen people spoke during the public comment section, generally complaining that they were just hearing about an issue simmering for several years. Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said at the start of the discussion of the issue that he sent a letter Feb. 21 to...
More than 100 people showed up for a protest Sunday evening for what they called a "Walk for Justice, George Floyd and Equality." Event organizer and Chippewa Cree Tribe member Melody Bernard said they were protesting the death of George Floyd and the racial bias that she said was part of it. "Racism does exist," she said. "Profiling does exist, it is in our community and we need to bring awareness to that and we need to stop it." The oppressed need to start speaking out, she...
ROCKY BOY'S INDIAN RESERVATION - Gov. Steve Bullock and other state officials visited Rocky Boy Health Center during its drive-through COVID-19 testing Friday. The drive-through testing occurred Thursday and Friday, with a total of 1,428 people tested both days. "I believe it's very important because for the well-being or the sense that they don't have it," Rocky Boy Health Center CEO Edward Parisian said. "... Of course, we're praying they're all negative." He said he thinks...
Bureau of Reclamation Montana Area Manager Steve Davies said Friday a team went on site Wednesday to where a concrete drop structure on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Work washed out and collapsed May 17 and looked holistically in terms of what options are available, for either a temporary or long-term fix. “There’s still a lot of groundwork being laid to make decisions on whether there’s a temporary repair or a permanent repair of Drop structure number 5,” he said. He said BOR had been on site last week working...
The city of Havre and Hill County are negotiating an agreement for the Havre Fire Department to continue providing ambulance service outside the city limits. The Hill County Commission began communicating with the city of Havre Wednesday regarding a city request that the county increase its contribution to the area’s Ambulance Services. This request was laid out in a letter sent to the commission Feb. 21 by Mayor Tim Solomon. The letter said, under the current model, the city would not be able to financially operate an a...
City Council members elected Andrew Brekke Tuesday as the new sitting City Council member for Ward 3. Caleb Hutchins resigned from Ward 3 earlier this month. Hutchins announced last month he had accepted a job with Spokane Community College in Spokane, Washington. Brekke resigned from the council in 2018, after being on it for 11 years, but in seat Ward 4. He said he ran for the first time in 2007, and was elected again two other times after that. "I didn't really have a...
After interviewing three people who applied to fill a vacancy on Havre City Council, in a split vote the council Tuesday appointed an applicant with experience in the position. Council voted 4-1-1 to appoint former council President Andrew Brekke to fill the seat vacated by Caleb Hutchins, who resigned to move to Spokane to take a position at Spokane Community College. Council members Terry Lilletvedt, Denise Brewer, Karen Swenson and Ed Matter voted for Brekke, while Lindsay...
Industrial Arts Teacher Chris Comp is retiring after more than 20 years of teaching, with the last 17 years at Havre High School. "I became a teacher because I wanted to get something back that I never got as a student and younger, and that was a smile and a pat on the back," he said. "I like seeing kids smile - getting them to smile." He said Havre has a lot of opportunities for students such as exposing them to different things like automotive, woods, chemistry, English,...
Havre Public Schools is warning people that, starting last week, businesses in the area started receiving calls from out-of-state vendors and robocalls trying to sell advertisements or sponsorships for posters and football sponsors. Those callers do not represent Havre Public Schools, Superintendent Andy Carlson said. “We do not use robocallers, nor do any groups associated with Havre Public Schools such as the Havre Public School Foundation, Parent Teacher Organization or Havre High School booster club,” he said. He sai...
Plant a Seed … Read! is holding its third annual cash raffle. “Our cash raffle is our major fundraiser for our program that we have every year,” local Plant a Seed … Read! treasurer Shaylan Verploegen said. 500 tickets are available, she said. Tickets are $20 each. People who would like to purchase a raffle ticket can contact Verploegen at 945-3668 or at Triple Dog Brewing Co. or ask for Sandy Wilson at NAPA Auto Parts — North Central Auto Parts in Havre. The 500th ticket drawn will be the grand prize winner, Verploege...
