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Numbers of new COVID-19 cases continue to come in around the area and in schools, with Havre Public Schools reporting Tuesday six new cases confirmed in people associated with the district and Hill County Health Department reporting 36 cases confirmed in the county from Saturday through Tuesday. Blaine County Health Department reported 23 new cases were confirmed in the county from Saturday through Tuesday. The state COVID-19 tracking map update this morning listed five new...
Havre Police Department said Alexander St. Germaine, 31, who had been missing since Aug. 31, was found dead in Havre Tuesday. The statement from the police said the incident is under investigation and no details will be released at this time. Montana Department of Justice released a missing and endangered person advisory on St. Germaine, who was originally from Boulder, Sunday. It canceled the MEPA Monday, saying it was expired, but he was still missing. The MEPA said St....
The COVID surge continues to hit the state and Hill County, with Hill County Health Department Friday reporting 25 new cases and Havre Public Schools reporting 12 confirmed cases that day. Montana this morning listed more than 6,000 active cases with more than 1,200 new confirmed cases, with 274 hospitalizations and more than 1,800 deaths since the pandemic hit the state. The Havre schools release reported three people who had contact with others in the district at Highland Pa...
William Joe Skidmore was acquitted after a four-day trial in state Disrict Court in Havre of a homicide charge stemming from a 2017 car crash. Skidmore was charged following an investigation into the crash. Jason Skidmore died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash, which occurred about midnight Aug. 14, 2017. The jury returned its verdict after more than 9 hours of deliberation, finding William Skidmore not guilty of the lesser included offense of negligent homicide. The jury was instructed to enter a verdict on...
The delta variant-driven COVID-19 surge continues in the state with numbers also creeping up locally. With 738 new cases statewide reported on this morning's update on the state online tracking map, two Montana counties are listed with more than 1,000 active cases and another almost there. The tracking map showed Yellowstone County with 1,016 active cases, 1,004 in Flathead County and 992 in Cascade County. The map listed 124 new cases in Yellowstone, 112 in Flathead and 100...
As of midnight Tuesday, Havre Fire Department is no longer providing fire suppression to the rural fire district around the edge of Havre. Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said this morning that the city’s attorney dealing with the issue, Tyson Parman of Hi-Line Law, received an email from the attorney representing the Rural Fire District 1 saying its board is continuing to stick with the previous agreement and will not make changes requested by the city. “We’ve already told them that’s not acceptable to us,” Solomon said. Hill Coun...
The surge of COVID-19 cases continues to hit the area, straining health resources and raising risks to local residents, including children. The nation again is seeing high rates from the pandemic, with the seven-day average for new cases listed Saturday at 142,006 a day, for hospitalizations at 12,297 a day and for deaths at 846 a day. That is an increase from the week before of 2.8 percent for new cases, of 5.7 percent for hospitalizations and 11 percent for deaths. The numbe...
New cases of COVID-19 continue to be confirmed in the area, including in school districts. After Chester-Joplin-Inverness Schools this week delayed its planned Wednesday opening until Aug. 31 due to COVID-19, Havre Public Schools reported confirmed cases in the district in the first two days of school. CJI Superintendent Tim Bronk had not responded to requests for more information on those schools' closures by printing deadline this morning. Havre Superintendent Craig Mueller...
COVID-19 has caused another death in the area and already is impacting schools. Hill County Health Department reported another COVID-19-related death Tuesday, bringing the county total to 47. And while most local schools are open today, a major exception is in Chester. Chester-Joplin-Inverness schools, which were scheduled to open today, posted on their Facebook page Tuesday that the first day of school has been postponed until Tuesday, Aug. 31, due to COVID-19. Havre Daily News was not able to obtain more information, such...
A meeting is set in Havre Thursday to talk about federal legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. Havre native Jacob Bachmeier, program director for Big Sky 55+, will lead a discussion of the bill Lower Drug Costs Now Act that is part of the Build Back Better Plan social program bill being debated in Congress. The $3.5 trillion dollar proposal would invest in a multitude of social areas including sweeping changes in education, tax laws, immigration and health care. The changes in health...
The Pine Grove Fire in the Little Rocky Mountains is 98 percent contained and demobilization of resources deployed to fight the fire is under way, an update on the InciWeb Pine Grove Fire page said this morning. The fire, which was detected Aug. 16, has burned 16,004 acres, burned at least one structure — where the fire started — and led to the evacuation of the communities of Zortman and Pine Grove. The evacuations were lifted after rain and cooler weather helped fireghters’ efforts to contain the blaze, the the post this...
Firefighters continue today to fight the Pine Grove Fire in the Little Rocky Mountains, gaining some headway with cooler weather and rain in the last week, with an update this morning saying the fire is 58 percent contained, with the increase mainly on the fire’s southeast edge. The update said crews today will confirm on the fire’s perimeter information provided Sunday in an infrared flight which showed heat only in the interior of the fires area. Agency authorities this morning also will discuss the need for evacuation war...
While COVID-19 numbers rise locally, state and nationwide in a delta variant-driven surge, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today fully approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty, for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in people 16 and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization, including for people 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain...
Firefighters have gained at least a temporary respite in efforts to contain the Pine Grove Fire in the Little Rocky Mountains, although the incident command warns that could change very quickly. Rain, cooler temperatures, lower wind and higher humidity has allowed firefighters to slow the spread of the fire, and people evacuated from Zortman and the Pine Grove community have been allowed to return home, though they and other communities still are on alert. The update on the...
The Pine Grove Fire in the Little Rocky Mountains, which has led to the evacuation of Zortman and the Pine Grove area on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, is being run as a Type 3 incident with a state fire management team in command and updates being posted on the InciWeb website. Firefighters are dealing with the fire in cooler, more humid weather than when the fire was first discovered, and National Weather Service reports about a half-inch of rain fell in the region Wednesday afernoon, significantly more than was predicted...
The Pine Grove Fire in the Little Rocky Mountains has grown to 17,500 acres, causing the evacuation of two communities in the area. A post on the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council Facebook page about 9:30 a.m. said evacuation status still has not changed — Zortman and the Pine Grove area of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation have been evacuated — and all other surrounding communities including Hays and Lodge Pole are on evacuation warnings. The post said helicopter mapping missions will be held today to see where the fir...
Numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the area and across the state, leading officials to urge people to get vaccinated. Hill County Health Department, which reported 14 new cases confirmed from Saturday through Monday, reported another 12 cases Tuesday. That brings the county total of active cases to 47, with two active hospitalizations. Blaine County Health Department reported 10 new confirmed cases from Saturday through Tuesday, bringing the number of active cases in that county to 16. The state...
A wildfire discovered Monday in the Little Rocky Mountains has led to the mandatory evacuation of Zortman and recommended evacuation of the Pine Grove and Star Hill areas of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and a warning of evacuation for Hays. Another fire discovered Monday near the Fort Belknap Agency has been contained, a post on the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council Facebook page reported Monday evening. Facebook posts have been issued regularly by the Fort Belknap...
Havre is going to court to answer a petition by the Montana Federation of Public Employees that represents Havre police officers saying the city needs to make up for a shortage of payments in an arbitrated agreement over the officers’ health insurance. MFPE filed a petition for enforcement Friday. The petition says when the city made a payment in March to officers to make up shortfalls in what it was supposed to pay for health insurance premiums under a July 1, 2018, to June 30, 20202 collective bargaining agreement, it d...
A Havre man was sentenced in state district court for the second charge after being convicted for the second time of negligent homicide in the shooting death of his brother. Shane Clark Johnson, born in 1968, was convicted of negligent homicide in 2014 in the Nov. 9, 2013, death of his brother, Travis Johnson, and was convicted of the offense again June 15 after a six-day trial in District Court in Havre. Judge Matthew Cuffe sentenced Shane Johnson Friday to 50 years in Montana State Prison as a persistent felony offender...
Havre High School’s Blue Pony marching band is finishing up its band camp this week and is inviting people to its Parent’s Night performance Friday night at Blue Pony Stadium. Havre High band teacher Cullen Hinkle said the performance is free of charge and starts at 6 p.m. Friday with the gates opening about 5:30 p.m. Hinkle invited people in the community to come and see what the band has been working on....
As the delta-driven COVID surge increases in Montana and cases rise in this part of the state, officials are calling on people to take action to slow the spread. "We need to all come together to slow down this pandemic,” Hill County Health Officer Kim Berg said in the Hill County Health Department update on new cases. "Get vaccinated if you can, cover your cough, wear a mask if you cannot socially distance, avoid large gatherings, wash your hands frequently, and stay home when you are sick.” And in the Blaine County Hea...
With the delta-variant driven surge hitting the area as the district moves closer to opening the next school year, Havre Public Schools is conducting a survey to see what the community desires as far as wearing masks in schools. The online survey can be accessed at https://forms.gle/6zWuhqM5DNCkTSgZ8 and closes at noon Friday. The survey introduction says the results of the survey will be shared with the Havre Board of Trustees, the public and the media. It adds that the...
Cases of COVID-19 continue to increase in the region with the Delta variant now confirmed in Hill County. "Seeing an increase in cases and now having the Delta variant confirmed in our community, we want to remind everyone that the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and our department strongly recommend that all eligible persons be fully vaccinated to prevent COVID-19," a release from the Hill County Health Department said Friday. "Vaccination is important to not...
With drought continuing to dry up Montana, listings of resources for agricultural producers are going out around the state and calls for more assistance are again being made. Drought and problems like grasshoppers and blister beetles have decimated hay crops and are pushing cattle producers to sell off herds, and also are hitting the grain production of many Montana farmers. Sen, Steve Daines, R-Mont., renewed a call Wednesday for U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide drou...
