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The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board discussed the recent success that the museum has had this past month during its monthly meeting held at Havre Inn and Suites Monday night. Museum Director Emily Mayer said the museum has been doing pretty well because attendance at the mall has increased. Festival Days also helped bring people in to the museum. “We had 60 people in the museum on Saturday alone,” Mayer said. She said having the craft show at the mall contributed to an increase in foot traffic for the museum. The pla...
Students seemed shocked Friday when they were told they could potentially make more than a starting lawyer working in construction during a talk at Rocky Boy High School by Tyler Smith, owner of Lakeside Excavation, and Lorren Schlotfeldt, a professor in Montana State University-Northern's plumbing program. Smith and Schlotfeldt discussed vocations in the trades industry with Havre and Rocky Boy High School students Friday during National Construction Week. The two started...
Kids were splashed head to toe in a plethora of colors Friday as St. Jude Thaddeus School held its annual jogathon fundraiser on the campus. "It's just really fun, it's a schoolwide thing," eighth-grader Mackenzie Kuhn said. "We can just all run and get splashed with color and make fun of each other for how stupid we look." The tradition, which dates back to the 1980s, is a fundraising event that helps provide teaching supplies and necessities to keep the school running,...
One week after the retail store closed, and one day after the Kmart Pharmacy closes, Health Mart Pharmacy at Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods will pick up the pharmacy accounts from Kmart. In a press release, Gary & Leo’s said all Kmart Pharmacy customers will have their records transferred to Gary & Leo’s Health Mart Tuesday. When Kmart first opened in Havre in the 1970s on the 2100 Block of U.S. Highway 2 East, it did not have a pharmacy. It moved to its location at 3180 U.S. Highway 2 West in 1992 as a Big Kmart with a full pharm...
Hiram Cammon finished up his replacement of a 30-year-old sign outside Davey School as part of his Eagle Scout project earlier this week, a project with personal connections for him. Cammon said his initial plan was to place a gazebo on the top of Mount Otis in the Bear Paw Moutains, but "that plan was instantly thrown out the window when I realized all the work loads and money that I would have to put into it." He thought about redoing the gazebo at Pepin Park. However, he sa...
Support and education - those are the goals of Saturday's Domestic Abuse Awareness 5K run and walk. This year's Havre walk, sponsored by District 4 Human Resources Development Council, Hill County Public Health Department and United Way of Hill County, is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. with sign-ups starting at 9:30 a.m. The event, expected to go until noon, will start in the Western Drug parking lot. The purpose of the event is to show support for domestic violence victims...
A blend of humor and seriousness was used at a discussion held at Montana State University-Northern's Cowan Hall Wednesday night to clarify what sexual violence is and how people can help intervene. Norhtern's student-based Rape Prevention Education Task Force organized the presentation. The presentation, which was called The Hookup, was given in a unique fashion by Connor Konz, an educator for Catharsis Productions. Konz said the discussion was not going to focus on men...
Havre community members met in the auditorium at Havre High school to hear about new safety procedures and to have a chance to share their own concerns with the school board Tuesday evening. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson first introduced members of the Havre Police Department, Chief of Police Gabe Matosich and Assistant Chief of Police Jason Barkus and thanked them for their assistance. Havre schools are now moving to the Standard Response Protocol throughout the district, Carlson said because it provides...
Editor’s note: This version corrects that Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean made the motion to approve a grazing variance. A request by a Beaver Creek Park grazer led to an extended discussion by the Hill County Park Board at its monthly meeting Monday about the haying and grazing policies at the park, with an agreement to let the board’s Haying and Grazing Committee revisit those policies during its meeting in December. Park Superintendent Chad Edgar told the board that due to the quality of forage in one section of the...
Editor’s note: This version is updated to show that U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., has called for a hearing on missing and murdered indigenous women. A local college group held a remembrance of people affected by an issue that is gaining national headlines - missing and murdered indigenous women. "People just really want to find their loved ones," said Sweetgrass Society member Kiara Love minutes before attendees started arriving at Thursday's walk at Montana State U...
The inside of Harvest Moon Lanes was standing room only Saturday as cheers came from various lanes. This was not a local league night, but the Special Olympics Montana Bowling Tournament. Special Olympics Montana held their annual bowling tournament Saturday in Havre. This is the third year that the tournament has been held in Havre, said Jamie Wood, vice president of sports for Special Olympics Montana. "Harvest Moon has been phenomenal to work with," Wood said, "we...
While some may think the idea of banning books seems like something that could have happened in the early 1900s, maybe mid-1900s, but not in 2018, a visit to the Banned Books exhibit at Montana State University-Northern will show the idea of banning books is still an ongoing issue. Northern is displaying an exhibit celebrating challenged and banned books. The exhibit opened Sunday and will run through this weekend at the Vande Bogart Library. Northern Librarian Vicki Gist...
Havre Public Schools is holding a forum next week where community members can talk about school safety. “This is just to kind of get the conversation rolling,” said Superintendent Andy Carlson. The forum was a topic at a Havre Public Schools planning workshop that followed a Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees special meeting to approve personnel action Tuesday at Robins School Administration Building. The district is holding the forum Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Havre High School auditorium to discuss current safety pro...
