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With most of the displays already in its new location in the former Griggs Printing Building on the 10 Block of Fifth Avenue, the board of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum talked at their monthly meeting Monday evening about a major move of large displays set for April 23. Museum Manager Emily Mayer said almost everything from the museum in Holiday Village Mall already is in the new location with a major operation last Saturday. “It was quite the operation,” she said. She said the displays are so large they will have to be...
Five local residents have been invited to Missoula to receive a top award for their work improving the welfare of animals. Bobbi Jo Favel, Chris Wolf Chief and Tim "Junior" Rosette Jr. of The Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and Havre Animal Control Officer Pete Federspiel and his wife, Kim, of Friends of the Havre Animal Shelter, are receiving the 2022 Ken Shugart Humanitarian Award from Humane Society of Western Montana, the society said in a press...
Havre Daily News received multiple reports Friday of trash being piled and left on the Amtrak station platform Thursday and Friday, and that the station wasn't even open part of the time, a report an Amtrak spokesperson said was due to illness leaving the station unstaffed. Marc Magliari of Amtrak said one of the part-time station attendants was ill and unable to get to work, but the personnel on the Empire Builder Thursday did not know that and unloaded the trash as usual....
As preparations are under way to hold a second Spring Celebration in Havre's Art Alley, groups behind the project to jazz up the alley are looking for ideas for murals to put on its walls. Downtown Havre Matters! and Hi-Line Arts Council are making the call for suggested murals for the alley. Havre'a Art Alley, which connects Third and Fourth avenues in downtown Havre, has been adorned with lights that zig-zag the length of the alley and will be a focal point for future...
Another major water project is receiving a large chunk of funding courtesy of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester announced in a press release that Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System will receive $57.5 million, part of $101.5 million of the first round in investments from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which he helped craft. “These rural water systems are essential to growing communities and creating jobs in central and eastern Montana,” Tester said. “I wrote t...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the 2022 Art Alley Spring Celebration. Havre City Council approved several items on unanimous votes Monday including closing streets for the second Art Alley Spring Celebration and hearing a proposal to change U.S. Bank Park on 11th Street West to a veterans memorial park. Council member Josh Miller said the Parks and Recreation Committee heard a proposal to rename the park and build a memorial there. He said the committee was told U.S. Bank was willing to give up the name f...
Jesse Shane Valdez was sentenced in District Court in Havre to 80 years in prison followed by 20 years of probation in the Nov. 17, 2019, murder of Gordon Cochran of Chinook, 54, in the Hill County Detention Center. District Judge Ashley Harada sentenced Valdez Friday on the charge of deliberate homicide to 100 years in the Montana State Prison with 20 suspended. Harada credited Valdez with 867 days served and ordered an alternate charge of deliberate homicide be dismissed. Valdez was charged with intentionally causing the...
A project more than two decades in the making finally has some significant funding, with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announcing Wednesday that $85 million is going to repairs and rehabilitation on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works. "This is a critical, targeted investment in the Milk River Project that will update essential water infrastructure for our state and provide certainty and economic growth for communities, producers, and future generations in north-central...
Blaine County Health Department reported another COVID-19-related death Thursday, bringing the total in that county to 33. The report comes as the number of new cases continues to remain low, but highlights the fact that deaths related to the illness can come weeks or even months after it is confirmed in the person who died. In the notice Thursday, Blaine County reported one new case and three active cases, with three hospitalizations in county residents. The notice asked people to remain vigilant. “COVID is not over. We a...
Although a system is expected to bring some snow in the west and southwest part of the state the next couple of days, this area is expected to remain fairly warm and dry through the region, as drought continues in much of the state. The heaviest accumulations from the storm moving into the southwest are expected east of Interstate 15 and south of Interstate 90, especially in the Big Sky and West Yellowstone areas, National Weather Service reports. About one inch of snowfall al...
Montana's senior U.S. senator said during a press conference last week he will continue to work to support Ukraine as it fights invading Russian forces and that Russia's president must be held accountable. "Vladimir Putin has single-handedly started an unprovoked war with the sovereign democratic nation of the Ukraine," Tester said Thursday. "His actions are making the world far less safe today than it was a month ago. There should be no reluctance to condemn Putin as an...
The sole theatrical production put on this year at Havre High School opens tonight at the high school auditorium, with Montana Actors' Theatre premiering its production of the musical "Anastasia" starting at 8 p.m. The Broadway musical, inspired by the 1996 20th Century Fox animated musical, tells of the fall of the Russian Empire and the start of the Soviet Union, and a young woman trying to discover the story of her past. Northern Montana Hospital is sponsoring the...
Watch for an update on infrastructure and funding from Havre Public Works in upcoming editions of Havre Daily News. Havre officials said during a town hall meeting Monday that the problem with deer dying in Havre seems to come from eating food from humans. After Pam Harada asked about several reports of deer being found dead in town, Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said the officers investigating found that the dead deer were generally in good health, but eating the wrong...
A panel of experts talked about local economic issues during a discussion last week at the end of the Economic Outlook Seminar 2022 put on by University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, with two issues becoming intertwined - housing and remote work. Bureau Executive Director Patrick Barkey moderated the panel discussion, which included Bear Paw Development Corp. Exectuive Director Paul Tuss, bureau Associate Director Paul Sonora, Jeremy Sage, Montana...
Watch for more on the economic seminar in upcoming editions of Havre Daily News. An economist said Wednesday he expects Hill County to continue to see a little higher growth for a couple more years than the trend has been as recovery from the pandemic continues. Bureau of Business and Economic Research Executive Director Patrick Barkey said Wednesday that this region has seen a little less robust recovery in some economic sectors from the pandemic than some other parts of the...
See related stories on A5. With candidate filing closed, county races have filled up with several contested races. In Blaine County, the race for the seat in County Commission District No., 2 has both a contested primary and general elections. The June 7 primary has incumbent Frank DePriest facing Kevin Melville and Shane Fox on the Republican ticket. The winner of that election will face Democrat Todd Jorgenson, who is unopposed in the primary, in the general election Nov. 8. The other Blaine County candidates are...
The District 4 Human Resources Development Council board of directors and its executive director, during the board’s monthly meeting, Thursday answered some questions and cleared up what they called some misconceptions about a proposal to build a new food bank in Havre. “There’s been a lot of conversations that HRDC has not been involved in, and I wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight,” HRDC Executive Director Carilla French said. The issue has been a hot topic since Jim Treperinas asked Havre City Co...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce office may have some short hours or may be closed a few days in the next two weeks awaiting a new staff member coming in. Matt Wertheimer, chair of the Chamber Board of Directors, said Thursday afternoon that the board had an applicant verbally commit to taking over the position of executive director at the Chamber. He declined to name the candidate until details were finalized, but said the person planned to put in their notice at their job to start at the Chamber in two weeks. He said the...
Havre Middle School Assistant Principal Jeremiah Nitz and Highland Park Early Primary School Principal are moving to positions at Havre High School, Havre Superintendent Craig Mueller announced Monday. Nitz will be taking the position of Havre High School assistant principal and Irvin will take over as activities director, both positions covered by first-year Havre staff member Kevin Nettleton this year. “Mr. Nitz has continued to serve the district in a variety of roles over the past several years and will return to Havre H...
People in the Havre area have the chance to find out the latest news on the state economy and should try to make it if they can. University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research will be in Havre March 16 presenting its Economic Outlook Seminar for the year. The seminar, the 47th held by the bureau, travels the state making presentations on various issues including this year an overview of three of the biggest issues on people’s minds right now. The seminar typically looks at potential impacts of recent eve...
One of the top agricultural events in the state is returning to Harlem next week, after missing only two of the last 74 years. The 72nd Montana Seed Show will be held in Harlem High School Thursday through Saturday, March 10-12. Paul Rasmussen, chair of the organizing committee, said many of the events of the show - which started 74 years ago and only has missed two years, to his knowledge - are the same as in the past. The show has a long history, starting as a seed potato...
The North Star and Havre school districts delayed the start of the school day today, and Havre also canceled out-of-town buses, as freezing rain created slippery conditions in towns and on highways this morning. Both districts announced classes would not start until 10 a.m. and said bus times would be pushed back two hours as a winter weather advisory still is in effect for this region. Havre announced at 7:30 a.m. no out-of-town busing would run today due to hazardous road...
After another stretch of weather that the region normally might see in the late spring, including a near-record high Tuesday, the region is expected to return to — relatively — cold temperatures and see freezing rain and snow, with a winter weather advisory going into effect this afternoon. Havre saw a high of 63 Tuesday at the city-county airport, just short of the record 66 degrees, set on March 2, 1905. But the region will see cooling temperatures today, with highs expected to be in the 40s and dropping into the 20s lat...
Although the number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to drop locally and in the state, the number of COVID-19-related deaths continues to move upward. Deaths often occur weeks or even months after the cases are confirmed. Health agencies list the date the death was reported rather than when it occurred. In the last week, COVID-19-related deaths have been reported in Blaine, Hill and Liberty counties. County totals of COVID-19-related deaths are 72 in Hill, 32 in...
A familiar face will be taking the helm at Havre High School starting in July. Havre Superintendent Craig Mueller announced this morning that Havre Middle School Principal Dustin Kraske will start as the Havre High principal effective in the next school year. "Mr. Kraske is a leader who has dedicated his professional career to the students, parents, and community of Havre," Mueller said in the release. "Mr. Kraske has shown, as the Principal of Havre Middle School, the...
