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After many events in Havre Festival Days were canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Havre's decades-old celebration is coming back in full swing. Havre Area Chamber of Commerce announced that the theme for this year's celebration, set for Sept. 17-19, is "Havre Has Grit," and the Chamber is calling for parade participants and vendors to register. "Life on the Hi-Line is great, but it doesn't come without its struggles," a release from the Chamber said. "It takes a...
The surge in COVID-19 cases - and hospitalizations - has hit the United States including Montana and is starting to show in this region of the state. Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties all have seen an increase in cases after a comparative lull for a couple of months. In a release Tuesday, Hill County Health Department reported the county has 21 active cases, and Blaine County Health Department reports six active cases there. Hill County had dropped to no active...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has an open house set for Aug. 16 on its proposed first-ever long-range comprehensive plan for the fisheries at Fresno Reservoir. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates the dam at Fresno, used for flood control, irrigation and other conservation uses, part of the irrigation Milk River Project. FWP manages the fishery in the reservoir, a wildlife management area at the west end, and a public access area on the Milk River immediately downstream of the dam. FWP put out a call earlier this y...
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate Wednesday advanced a bill to increase investment in U.S. infrastructure on a 67-32 vote with one senator not voting. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., voted for advancing the bill to the floor along with all other Senate Democrats, two independents and 17 Republicans, while Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., was one of the 32 Republicans voting against it. A fact sheet released by the White House says the deal includes $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure. The fact sheet says the bill...
Letter requests his resignation or board will vote on his removal In a letter to Great Northern Fair Board member Bob Sivertsen, the Hill County Commission requested he submit his resignation or the commission will vote Thursday on his removal from the board. “Since your appointment in April, our office has had numerous concerning calls, visits, emails and meetings with persons in our community asking what we are doing about reported incidents involving you in your Fair Commission capacity,” the letter dated Monday rea...
Montana’s U.S. senators announced today that funding to rehabilitate the source of most of the water in the Milk River passed out of committee. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a release that up to $100 million in dedicated funding to rehabilitate the Milk River Project is part of a bipartisan infrastructure framework he recently negotiated with the White House and nine of his Republican and Democratic colleagues. The water infrastructure portion of the framework was voted out of committee today with a bipartisan m...
An owner of the carnival working at the 2021 Great Northern Fair is facing human trafficking-related charges in Utah. Midway West Amusements owner Jordan Jensen of Gilbert, Arizona, was charged in Utah with three counts of human trafficking and nine counts of possession of another’s identity documents. The trafficking charges are second degree felonies and the documents charges are third degree felonies. Utah Attorney General’s Office spokesperson Richard Piatt said this morning that Jensen made an initial court appearance Mo...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack added more counties including Blaine County to the rapidly growing list of Montana counties declared as drought disaster areas. Some of the counties are being added as primary disaster areas when producers there already were eligible for USDA disaster benefits as counties contiguous to primary disaster areas — including Blaine County — or now are included as contiguous counties when they already were primary disaster areas, such as Hill County. Ag producers have eight months from the...
Editor’s note: This has been updated to include counties declared disaster areas Wednesday. Multiple counties including Hill and Blaine counties have been added to the growing list of Montana counties declared drought disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The declarations by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack opens the opportunity for agricultural producers in those counties and in contiguous counties to federal disaster benefits. Secretary of Agriculture T...
A heat advisory and red flag fire warning remain in effect today as temperatures are expected to continue to break the 100-degree mark. The official high temperature for Havre Thursday, recorded at the National Weather Service recording station at the Havre City-County Airport was 101 degrees, just missing the record of 102 degrees set in 1990. But unofficial temperatures listed at digital thermometers at businesses around town reported temperatures of at least 102 degrees....
A heat wave continues to swelter in the area, raising warnings throughout this part of Montana. A Red Flag warning is in effect for Blaine and Hill counties, along with portions of Chouteau and Fergus counties. The Weather Service warning says temperatures will be up to 100 degrees or more with relative humidity as low as 12 percent and winds at 10 mph to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Any spark, man-made or nature-caused, could start a fire and fires may spread rapidly, the...
The Gildford Colony School Board of Trustees held a special meeting June 18 to propose a resolution to amend its budget, and is meeting Monday to approve the resolution. The resolution says that the school’s enrollment has increased and the budget set for the year is inadequate for the entire year. The resolution anticipates using Direct State Aid, defined by Montana Office of Public Instruction as state aid paid to each district in support of the district’s general fund budget, as the source to increase the budget by mor...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees during a special meeting in Havre Middle School Tuesday unanimously approved a series of motions including plans on how to handle the upcoming school year. The board followed the recommendations of Superintendent Craig Mueller, including on extending the district's declaration of emergency, making masks optional during the next school year and amending requirements on physical distancing to three feet and amending requirements on...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the spelling of Elise Lowrance. Former Havre City Judge Virginia Seigel and her granddaughter, Elise Lowrance, 6, died Thursday when the plane Seigel was flying en route to a Father's Day event in California crashed in the Deseret Peak Wilderness in Utah. Alexandra Seigel, daughter of Virginia Seigel and mother of Elise, said she found out for certain Sunday. "It's been really hard," she said. "I'm trying to keep going for the rest of my k...
A group gathered Sunday to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new Catholic church at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation following a Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael Warfel of the Great Falls-Billings diocese. "It's a great joy to be here," Warfel said, adding, "We just have to make sure it stays up for a while." St. Mary Catholic Church was built in 1979 by hand of logs cut on the reservation. Dec. 14, 2019, the church was completely consumed by fire. Father Joseph Tran, who...
A large number of children and their families braved cool, windy and even rainy weather during the early part of the Havre Rotary Club's Father's Day Fishing Derby, though the sun was out by the end of the derby. The Rotarians said 36 boys and 30 girls signed up for the derby, which is coming back after being canceled due to COVID-19 last year. Rotarian Dawn Ward said, with the derby being canceled last year, the club thought numbers might be down, but attendance in the...
Havre Daily News saw success over the weekend at the Montana Newspaper Association annual convention in Big Sky, winning four first-place awards and numerous other awards in the annual Better Newspapers Contest. “Very proud of the content our staff put out in what was a very trying and difficult 2020,” Havre Daily News Publisher George Ferguson said. “We have a great staff in all departments, and they worked very hard this past year. Everybody has done a great job, and it’s always nice to be recognized for that.” Following...
Hill County Health Department Thursday reported the 46th COVID-19-related death for the county in a resident younger than 40. Numbers have dropped substantially from last fall and early winter in this part of Montana, but new cases still are being reported — Hill, Blaine and Chouteau counties reported no new cases today, but Liberty County reported a new case — and the death shows that the virus is still impacting the area. With Hill County at 46 COVID-19-related deaths, Blaine is at 24, Chouteau at seven and Liberty at one...
After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sounds on the Square started up again this week with Hogeland-Turner-Harlem area band Shovels and Shotguns blasting out some rock and blues Wednesday in Havre's Town Square. Joe Ross of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the event, said it felt good to bring back the event and provide live music for Havre, and that it is good for the bands, too. Many have not able to perform live in the past year, he said....
North-central Montana saw a second day of scorching weather Tuesday with, again, new records set for high temperatures, although forecasts predict it to cool down in this area the rest of the week. National Weather Service’s recording station at Little Bullwhacker Creek in Blaine County recorded 105 degrees Tuesday, beating the previous record for June 15 set in 1987 at 98 degrees. Several high temperatures in the region were close to that, with several new records, but Weather Service Meteorologist Paul Nutter in Great F...
Heat socked into the region Monday and today, with Havre beating a century-old record high temperature. The National Weather Service recording station at the Havre City-County Airport reported a high of 102 degrees at 3:33 p.m. Monday, beating a previous record of 100 degrees set in 1918. The normal value for the high on June 14 is 75 degrees. And Weather Service reports a heat burst in the Fort Bellknap Indian Reservation area that pushed the temperature from 70 degrees to 96 degres at 3:18 a.m. And a post on the Weather...
Rocky Boy Health Center will hold a mobile drive-up vaccination clinic open to everyone at the Havre Holiday Village Mall parking lot from 2-6 p.m. Wednesday. Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines will be available. Pfizer is available to anyone 12 or older; youths must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Pfizer vaccine is the only one authorized to date for people younger than 18. Both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines require a series of two shots. Heath departments in Blaine, Hill, Chouteau and Liberty counties...
A settlement in a lawsuit some 150 years in the making was settled Thursday, providing $59 million to individual Native American litigants and tribes including The Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia finalized Thursday settlement of litigation between the Department of the Interior and plaintiffs in Peltier v. Haaland, the U.S. Department of Interior announced T...
Hill County Health Department has announced that it will have a supply of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in stock next week and is inviting people to call to sign up for its vaccination clinic at the health department on the third Tuesday of the month, next Tuesday. Hill County Health Officer Kim Berg said the department still has Moderna vaccine as well. People can call 406-400-2415 to schedule an appointment. To date, the Pfizer vaccine is the only vaccine approved in the U.S. for use on people younger than 18.1 U.S. Food and...
Montana Actors’ Theatre is bringing back its pandemic-delayed production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Auditions for the loved children’s story were held last year but the production was delayed to this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. MAT is bringing it back as its annual summer youth production A release on the auditions, scheduled for Friday from 1-3 p.m. in the former Creative Leisure Building at 417 First St., said people who were cast for last year’s production are welcome to audition again, and those who...
