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Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the event in the headline. The Hi-Line Cruz’n Association is once again expecting to bring people and their classic vehicles from around the state, around the country and across the border to Havre with its 35th Annual Bear Paw Rod Run and Show ’n’ Shine set for Friday and Saturday next week, June 9-10. All events are at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The theme this year is “The Roaring Twenties.” Cruz’n Association media representative Craig Otterstrom said the event brings p...
Blaine County Health Department Wednesday reported two more COVID-19-related deaths. The county had a surge in COVID-19-reported cases in the past few months, and also reported another COVID-19-related death May 11. The deaths bring Blaine County’s total COVID-19-related deaths since the emergency was declared in March 2020 to 37. Hill County Health Department reports it was made aware of the latest COVID-19-related death in the county May 17. Wednesday’s release said no new cases were confirmed from May 13 to May 24, and...
Gov. Greg Gianforte declared a disaster Wednesday due to flooding, opening up assistance from the state and the possibility of a federal disaster declaration. “Runoff from recent rainfall and snowmelt has compromised critical infrastructure and roads in Montana,” Gianforte said in a press release. “This order will help impacted communities rebuild and get back on their feet.” Following heavy snow this winter through March — including a likely new record for December snowfall in Havre — and temperatures staying relatively...
National Weather Service is warning that smoke from Canadian wildfires is likely to be in this region today and Thursday, although it is expected to clear up some by Friday. Hill County Health Department has announced that, with the assistance and collaboration of Montana Department of Environmental Quality and Montana State University-Northern, it now has a permanent air quality monitor people can use to check the conditions in this area. The monitor is available online at...
The Montana Senior Medicare Patrol is warning people that calls are circulating targeting older Montanans with the callers claiming to represent Medicare. “Medicare will never call people on Medicare to ask for or check their Medicare number,” Renee Labrie-Shanks, statewide Senior Medicare Patrol program director at Missoula Aging Services, said in a press release. “As with any unsolicited call, do not give personal information over the phone, whether it’s your Medicare number, Social Security number, bank account informa...
The addition of a new building to house administrative services at Rocky Boy Health Center will allow expanded services including improved medical and mental health services, a press release said. The center on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is receiving $11.3 million in funding through the federal New Markets Tax Credit Program, freeing up space in the existing facility to allow improved access to high-quality and efficient medical, mental health and substance abuse services. “With the addition of the new Health Adm...
Blaine County Health Department reported Thursday it was notified of a COVID-19-related death, taking the county’s total deaths related to the disease to 35. The death is reported just weeks after the department reported a surge in newly reported cases in the county, with 58 new cases reported from April 19 through April 25. The latest report listing the death said the health department was notified of one new case of COVID-19 from April 9 through April 12, with no recoveries. It listed two active cases. The last Hill C...
This week has brought cooler temperatures, after temperatures hit the 80s in this area last week, along with some much-needed rain, but the expectations are for above-normal highs to return next week. Highs have hit mostly the 60s and low 70s - Havre saw a high of 56 Saturday and 70 Wednesday - from Saturday on through this week, with the normal highs for this time of year about 65. At least a trace of rain has fallen in the area Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with...
Law enforcement officers came into Havre Wednesday carrying the torch on their leg of the Montana Special Olympics Torch Run. The run was set to start again this morning, taking the torch, the journey of which started in Wolf Point, south on U.S. Highway 87 toward its final destination at the opening ceremonies of the 2023 State Summer Games in Bozeman May 17. A release from Special Olympics Montana said the relay has 10 starting points around the state with hundreds of...
Montana State University-Northern’s graduation is this Saturday in Northern’s Armory Gymnasium, with local teacher and thespian Jay Pyette set as the commencement speaker. A release from Northern said the doors will open at 9 a.m. and the processional will begin at 10 a.m., with a reception to follow in the library entryway. No seats will be reserved for individuals. A section of lower bleacher seats will be reserved for the handicapped. Handicapped parking spaces are limited. It is suggested people arrive early and use the n...
A COVID-19 outbreak in Blaine County is under investigation, Blaine County Health Department said in a release. The release said public health mitigation steps are in place and public health is responding to the outbreak. The department reported being notified of eight new cases April 19, 14 new cases April 20, 20 new cases April 21-24 and 16 new cases from April 25 to Monday. Kim Berg, chief health officer at Hill County Health Department, said this morning that her department had right around 25 positives reported in...
The International St. Mary and Milk Rivers Study Board will be holding a public town hall meeting May 2, a press release from the International Joint Commission said, adding that all are welcome to attend. The board, launched in November 2021, is looking at water shared between the United States and Canada in a 1921 agreement regulating the sharing of water from the St. Mary and Milk rivers. The study board was created to explore "options to improve access to apportioned...
As flood impacts continue to increase, Hill County has set a forum for Wednesday to discuss the flooding and what can be done to deal with it. Rapidly warming temperatures this week following a high level of snowfall this winter in this region led to flooding of roads and state and federal highways, with ongoing work to reduce the impacts, reduced speed limits and road closures. As more precipitation, rain and snow both, fell in the are a Wednesday through this morning, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has announced closures...
Editor’s note: This version adds information about the works being read at the presentation. Three Havre authors, and a Missoula photographer, will be doing readings and book signings at a Literary Night Friday. Award-winning writers Charles Finn, Gwen Hart and Roger Hart, along with photographer Barbara Michelman, will be at The Little Theatre in Montana State University-Northern's Cowan Hall Friday. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for the night of fiction, poetry and p...
After several weeks of frigid weather for March on the Hi-Line, weather prognosticators are saying closer to normal temperatures may be en route. Snow was in the forecast this morning with light snow falling in Havre, although farther south including Cascade County, and along the Rocky Mountain Front to the west by Conrad and Choteau Weather Service had issued a winter weather advisory with up to 6 inches of new snow predicted along the Front and up to 4 inches predicted in...
For the first time in months, Montana has no area listed on the U.S. Drought Monitor as in extreme drought, a possible sign that this part of the state might move out of extreme dry conditions for the fist time in nearly three years. A patch across the northern part of the state, starting in Hill and Chouteau counties and running through Blaine County, to the North Dakota Border, still is listed as in severe drought, but a patch of the bright red Category D3 Extreme Drought...
A Havre-based meat processing cooperative received some national attention last month when the chair of its board sat on a panel during a USDA annual forum. A release from Montana Farmers Union said Montana Premium Processing Cooperative Board Chair Paul Neubauer was part of "Strategies for more and better markets" panel discussion at the USDA 99th Annual Agriculture Outlook Forum held Feb. 23-24 in Arlington, Virginia. Projects like Montana Premium Processing Cooperative...
The storm that came through the region Wednesday did not dump as much snow as predicted - Data for Havre was missing on the National Weather Service website when this article was written Thursday but it was nowhere near the 5 inches to 8 inches predicted, with up to 10 inches forecast for the mountains - but it has added to a wet, cold winter the area has seen so far. Weather Service data, which does not include Wednesday's precipitation, shows Havre at 60.1 inches of snow...
Xavier Alexander Clark of Havre was sentenced this weeks to 30 years in prison for the shooting death of Dyllan Murray at a party in Havre Oct. 17, 2021, with the judge imposing a longer sentence than recommended in a plea agreement signed by Clark. District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Clark, 23 at the time of the incident, to 50 years in prison with 20 suspended on the charge of deliberate homicide. The recommended sentence was 40 years with 20 suspended. Snipes Ruiz...
A storm that rampaged across the state dumped a significant amount of snow in this part of Montana, snow likely to stay on the ground, with cool temperatures predicted this week and a bit more snow in the forecast. In Havre, National Weather Service reports the storm left nearly 7.2 inches of new snow, with a near-record 5.2 inches Friday. The record for Havre March 10 was set in 1921 at 5.6 inches. Temperatures were cold, with Thursday's high for Havre 17 and the low was 1...
Some changes have happened at Down Under Fitness Center, though Kristi Parrotte, who founded the business with her husband, Daimon, said people won't see any changes in their other business, Physical Therapy Down Under. She said they have sold the fitness center to Justin and Kari Maki from Chester, who have done an "amazing" job with Fitness Express there, and she and her husband are excited to see the changes they will bring to Fitness Down Under. "Please welcome Justin and...
The weather forecast again calls for snow today, although not likely to be like the record-setting snowfall two weeks ago. National Weather Service has a winter weather advisory on for a large area of Montana from the Rocky Mountain Front to the North Dakota border, and stretching into western South Dakota, including Blaine and Hill counties and the Bear Paw Mountains. Easterm Teton and Liberty counties were not under the advisory as of 9:45 this morning, although snow was in the forecast in those counties as well, with up...
On nearly straight party-line votes, House and Senate committees in the Legislature — three days before transmittal from one house to the other, when bills not been passed generally are dead — tabled two bills that would have given Montana agricultural producers — and independent repair shops — the right to repair their equipment. Right to repair has become a major issue in the nation in a number of areas, with farm and ranch groups especially pushing for the ability to do their own work on equipment. A release from Montana F...
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has released an update regarding assessment of an oil spill in 2018 in the BNSF rail yard. That site, an active locomotive fueling and maintenance rail yard, has operated since the 1890s and spills and leaks in the yard have led to the designation of the location as a state superfund facility, where DEQ works to facilitate the investigation and cleanup of hazardous substances. The update said the 2018 spill, of more than 2,000 gallons from the rail yard’s wastewater treatment pl...
After severe cold and heavy snow last week and a warm day Sunday, forecasters predict this week to have more normal weather with highs in the 30s and some more snow possible. The area saw temperatures plunge last week with highs below zero late in the week and heavy snow Monday and Tuesday — Havre saw a record 4.4 inches Tuesday — again blanketing the region with snow. Temperatures warmed Saturday and were above normal Sunday — Havre saw 42 degrees with the normal value 36 — but are expected to cool this week with highs b...
