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Montana Actors' Theater is set to perform its production of the 1966 musical "Cabaret" tonight at 8 in the Little Theatre of Cowan Hall at Montana State University-Northern. The play is directed by Rachel Dean. David Chambers plays the role of American Cliff Bradshaw. Kate Hagen plays Sally Bowles. Angela Murray plays Fraulein Schneider. Ben Hall plays Herr Schultz. Dean said that Chambers is a veteran and was recently in "Peter Pan" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Flee...
Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees approved a proposed bid for renovations to Havre High School bathrooms Tuesday night at the board’s monthly meeting at Havre Middle School’s Auditorium. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson said the bid, $536,000, was submitted by Wadsworth Builders Company Inc., a construction company from Great Falls. He added that, if approved, renovations would start in May. The renovations would be to the bathrooms on the west side of the gym, Carlson said. Board member Tim Scheele and C...
The 53rd annual Hill County Spelling Bee went 12 rounds to finally determine a winner Monday morning inside the Havre Middle School Auditorium. Fifth-grader Sophia Purkett from Sunnyside Intermediate School was pronounced the winner after she and Allie Messinger, an eighth-grader from Havre Middle School, and Colton Spicher, an eighth-grader from North Star School, had to play additional rounds because they all either misspelled their words or all spelled them correctly. Purke...
Despite temperatures hovering around zero, Montana State University-Northern’s Spring Career Fair will host a record number of employers Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon inside the Armory Gymnasium. Northern Career Center Director Mary Heller said 57 employers have registered to attend the career fair and are coming from as far as places like Alaska and Florida. She added that a majority of the employers are from the diesel industry, but there is an increase in the number of nursing employers that are coming. In the fall c...
In the past year, Havre schools have seen at least four reported threats and while nothing has come of them, their impact is still felt deep within the community. Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said that each threat takes up resources from the department. Officers who are working other cases or patrolling in different areas get pulled from their areas and have to come assist, he added. Matosich said there are also financial implications to the department. In some...
The Hill County Commissioners met with members of the Road Advisory Board Thursday afternoon in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse to go over plans for applying for the BUILD grant. After regular meeting items were discussed, Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson passed out maps and an outline of his proposal for the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development, or BUILD Transportation Directionary Grants program. Peterson said his goal is to receive at least $25 million from program. He added that there...
The Hill County Commissioners had their weekly meeting at Hill County Courthouse Thursday morning and voted to approve a new member to the Great Northern Fair Board. Sean Bickford will be replacing Scott Doney who announced in December that he would be stepping down from the board. Doney had spent the previous five years on the Great Norther Fair Board but said he wanted to spend more time with his family. “I’m pleased to see two people come forward and apply for this position,” Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean said....
Despite some schools canceling the trip to Montana State University-Northern's Women in Technical Fields workshop Wednesday morning, Fort Benton and Havre High school girls braved the sub-zero temperatures and spent the day getting hands-on experience in the trades. Fort Benton and Havre High school brought sophomores, juniors and seniors for the workshop. The girls arrived at 8:30 a.m. and were welcomed at Hensler Auditorium, where a light breakfast was provided. A 9 a.m., th...
Editor’s note: This corrects the spelling of the name of Havre Girl Scout Sophia Dawson. Members of the Girl Scouts Havre Service Unit Cadette Troop 3225 gave a presentation of their proposal to put grates on outhouse vents in Beaver Creek Park at the Hill County Park Board meeting Monday night in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse. Sophie Darson, Megan Boyle and Kylie Greenwood stood before the board to deliver their outline for their Silver Award Project. Boyle distributed a summary of the project to the b...
Montana State University-Northern is hosting a Start Smart workshop Tuesday to help women and anyone else who is interested in learning about how to negotiate their level of pay in the workplace. The workshop is sponsored by the American Association of University Women and is being put on by Northern’s Multicultural Center. Multicultural Center Director Cristina Estrada-Underwood said the workshop is geared toward women who will be graduating college, but added, “I think anybody and everybody would benefit from attending thi...
Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees held its planning meeting Thursday night at the Robbins School Administration Building and appear to be close to finalizing plans for Havre High School's bathroom renovations. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson said that he opened the bidding for the renovation project Wednesday. Four companies put in bids for the project and provided an additional estimate for updated the light fixtures in the bathrooms to LEDs, Carlson...
Montana State University-Northern held its once-a-semester Involvement Fair Wednesday evening in the Ballroom of the Student Union Building, but while various student organizations showed up, very few Northern students stopped by to check out the clubs. Associated Students of MSU-Nothern Vice President Riley Mortensen said the club turnout that night was more than last time, but that the "student involvement still isn't quite there." She said she and the rest of the ASMSUN...
Editor’s note: This version corrects that the Hill County government is working on the planning portion of a federal grant, not the building grant itself. The Hill County commissioners met Thursday morning and discussed what to do if they received funding from the planning portion of a federal grant, for which the commission is working on applying. The commission is applying for the planning portion of a building grant, a federal rural transportation grant of $1.5 billion, from which each entity can request is $25 million. A...
Montana State University-Northern is providing a free seminar to women to provide an overview of possible career paths in the technical fields Wednesday, Feb. 6, from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The seminar is being put on by Northern’s Multicultural Center. Center director Cristina Estrada-Underwood said women who are about to start school at Northern, want to change careers or will be attending college in a year or two are all welcome to attend. Estrada-Underwood said the seminar will also go over the possible circumstances that w...
Havre Public Schools is offering assistance to students whose families have been affected by the federal government shutdown. The discounts will be offered on school lunches and food, Superintendent Andy Carlson in an email statement this morning. Havre Public Schools Business Manager and Clerk Shanna Flores said that the discounts are not just for people affected by the shutdown, but are also for anyone whose income is affected by unemployment. Flores added that the application lists the requirements for household income to...
Editor's note: This is a series of features about groups and activities for local youth. People who know of an activity they would like to see featured can call Tim Leeds at 265-6795 or email him at [email protected]. Montana speech, drama and debate state competitions begin today and former participants for Havre High School recall their fondest moments and how speech and debate has impacted their lives. Current teams are competing today and Saturday in Belgrade for...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the spelling of “Henson” A local family is asking the community to help with raising funds to help take their 8-year-old son to Seattle with a Pizza Hut fundraiser Thursday. Neiko Henson has cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Neiko was diagnosed with cerebral palsy in 2010 and then with epilepsy in 2015. His mother, Courtney Henson, said she noticed in the first few months after Neiko was born that he would crawl, but would be dragging his legs....
Tuesday night, Old Station Brewing Co. is holding a fundraiser to help pay for medical expenses for Lincoln-McKinley Primary School teacher Erin Olson. Olson said she was shocked to learn she was diagnosed with breast cancer back in November and began treatment in December with the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center. She said once the lump was discovered she had to have a lumpectomy to remove it. Then, the doctor’s discovered the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and she had to go back in to have them removed. “So that took me...
Editor’s note: This corrects Ken Robison’s background and his comments on the Montana Historical Society’s information on Montana African-Americans. The lecture room in Cowan Hall had every seat filled Tuesday with students, faculty and community members who all came to hear about Montana's forgotten role during the Civil Rights movement. Historian Ken Robison, who gave the presentation, said he was pleased. "I was really impressed with the turnout. The room was full," he ad...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce held its 110th annual Chamber luncheon in the Olympic Room of the Duck Inn Wednesday, including introducing Curtis Lineweaver as the new Chamber president. Lineweaver, who is replacing outgoing president Havre Daily News Publisher Stacy Mantle, is a financial advisor at D.A. Davidson & Co. He said he felt good about being the next president of the Chamber and was excited to get started. Lineweaver went over the various committees within the...
A lengthy discussion between a member of the community and the Great Northern Fair Board was held during the board’s monthly meeting Tuesday night in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse. Community member Clint Solomon, during the events portion of the meeting, raised the issue of how much the rodeo pays the fair board. He added that the rodeo was struggling to draw people and it was becoming too expensive to put on. “We’ve been taking all expense and putting money back into it. It doesn’t seem like we get any appre...
Some new signs will be going up in Beaver Creek Park. Havre Trails was awarded a $5,020 grant from Montana Department of Commerce Tourism Grants program and will be using the funds to help highlight their newest trail. The Rotary Canyon Loop is the newest trail to be constructed in Beaver Creek Park and Havre Trails Secretary Sammie Chagnon said the funds from the grant will be used to help create signs for the trail and new brochures for trails in the area. Chagnon added...
Members of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum board met Monday night at Havre Inn and Suites and discussed temporarily closing the museum for four weeks starting Monday. Board member Val Hickman said the museum would be closing temporarily for cleaning and for budgetary reasons, as well. She added the museum would reopen Wednesday, Feb. 20, following Presidents' Day weekend. "We don't have enough money to not close," said Hickman. Hickman added that the museum closed last year...
The Hill County Commissioners met Thursday morning to go over a couple of resolutions to provide more funding for the Hill County sheriff/coroner and for Hill County Health Department. The board voted unanimously to pass Resolution 19-2574 regarding further funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Operation Stonegarden Grant program. The program started on Oct. 20, 2016, and was set to expire Aug. 31. The grant gives $68,130 to the sheriff’s office and the funds will help with workers’ salaries, ret...
Montana State University-Northern will host guest speaker Ken Robinson at Cowan Hall Tuesday to talk about the civil rights movement in Montana. Northern Multicultural Center Director Cristina Estrada-Underwood said while the talk will be inspired by the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, it will not just be strictly about his life. She added that the talk will focus primarily on what was happening in Montana during the Civil Rights movement. “It’s always MLK which is OK, but I feel like this can be learned from dif...
