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Editor’s note: This version corrects that the Senate passed the bill Thursday. The Senate acted quickly Thursday to unanimously pass a bill that includes funding for the system that provides much of the water running through the Milk River, money that could repair a catastrophic failure that shut the system down. The Senate passed Thursday by unanimous consent the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act, sponsored by by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and c...
Havre City Council’s Streets and Sidewalks Committee met Monday to talk about several issues, including the creation of Special Improvement Districts to improve neighborhoods. Public Works Director Trevor Mork said people are asking on a regular basis what can be done to improve infrastructure in neighborhoods, and he said people need to realize the difference between maintenance an improvements or rehabilitation. City taxes paid by residents are used for maintenance of infrastructure, like repairing water main breaks or f...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Tuesday that he made another request for assistance in dealing with Monday’s catastrophic failure of the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year. Taster said in a press release that he called on President Joe Biden Tuesday to include the Milk River Project in his administration’s domestic supplemental package, which would make federal funding available to assist in the reconstruction of the St. Mary’s canal. “While it is too early t...
Posted 2:45 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2024 Editor’s note: This version corrects that Babb did experience flooding. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said a siphon on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that provides much of the water to the Milk River each year breached about 8:45 this morning, causing flooding at a motel and shutting down the diversion. "Emergency response teams have been deployed to contain and evaluate the damage," Ryan Newman, Reclamation's Montana Area Offic...
Editor’s note: This version adds the name of the crash victim, Robert Micheal Grimm, Robert Micheal Grimm of Havre, 39, died in a single-vehicle crash in Philips County early Friday morning June 24. Phillips County Coroner had not returned by printing deadline calls asking if the name of the crash victim has been released by the time this story orginally was filed, but released the name after the deadline. Montana Highway Patrol reports the crash occurred on U.S. Highway 2 at Mile Marker 462 near Malta. The Ford F-150 d...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the field day. The local ham radio club again is inviting people to come watch — and use — amateur radios June 22-23 in Havre. Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the American Radio Relay League — ARRL — Field Day from noon Saturday, June 22, to noon Sunday, June 23, at Veterans Memorial Park on 11th Street west across from Montana State University-Northern’s Tilleman Field, club member Heather Hinckley said. Hinckley said the field day is an opportunity...
Work is set to start on repairing a major part of the system that has been called “The Lifeline of the Hi-Line.” U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced last Thursday that a more-than $88 million contract that is funded through his bipartisan infrastructure law has been awarded to Montana-based NW Construction to complete the St. Mary Diversion Dam Replacement project. The contract is part of the up to $100 million Tester secured for the Milk River Project through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tes...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection did an about-face this week and announced that it has decided to extend the summer hours of the Port of Wild Horse at the U.S.-Canadian Border north of Havre to its usual summer hours for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. After U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., sent a letter to a letter to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy A. Miller the last week of May asking for the summer hours to resume, CBP said the agency planned to continue with the 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours, with...
The Hill County Conservation District’s June board meeting has been moved to Wednesday, June 19, at 1 p.m. Unless otherwise specified, all HCCD board meetings are held in the USDA Service Center at 206 25th Ave W. Havre. The HCCD Board will be making a determination on a 310 stream permit application for Beaver Creek at the June meeting. A 310 permit is required to make any modification to the banks or bed of a perennial stream in the state of Montana, District Administrator Emma Korntheuer said. “Our recent application was...
The 2024 Gathering of the Mavericks tour is coming to this area, with a concert described in a flyer as “a description of faith in God like you’ve never heard before.” The concerts, featuring 2022 Gospel Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year Mark Umfleet, will be Big Sandy Friday, June 21, at the Paul Williams Memorial Park starting at 7 p.m., in Box Elder Saturday, June 22, at Joe Rosette Memorial Park starting at 2 p.m. and in Havre Sunday, June 23, starting at noon at Pepin Park. The concert is free but donat...
Watch for more on this in upcoming editions of Havre Weekly Chronicle. Havre City Council heard at its meeting Monday a recap of the incidents and actions before and during the six-week boil advisory the city was under until it was downgraded last week, and answered some questions from the audience of more than 30 people at the meeting. Havre Public Works Director Trevor Mork gave an update Monday, and said that information about the advisory, actions taken and actions planned is available for review at Havre City Hall. The...
Filed 10:10 a.m. June 10, 2024 A 39-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash in Philips County early Friday morning. Phillips County Coroner was not available this morning when Havre Weekly Chronicle called to see if the name of the crash victim has been released. Montana Highway Patrol reports the crash occurred on U.S. Highway 2 at Mile Marker 462 near Malta. The Ford F-150 driven by the man was traveling westbound on U.S. Highway 2 at 5:25 a.m. Friday when it drifted off the right side of the road and hit a delineator,...
The Hi-Line Cruz’n Association is again bringing a plethora of classic cars to the area with its 36th Annual Bear Paw Rod Run, with this year’s theme Saturday Night Fever. The event brings car enthusiasts from around the state as well as across the state line and across the border. It starts with registration Friday from 5-9 p.m. at the Great Northern Fairgrounds, with registration again opening Saturday and running until 1 p.m. One of the highlights for the public is the annual Show & Shine, running Saturday from 11 a.m...
Governor Greg Gianforte issued an executive order Saturday declaring a statewide disaster in response to flooding in northern and central Montana. The flooding occurred after heavy rainfall including a record-setting amount of 2.59 inches in Havre May 7. Hill County Commission declared an emergency, although it did not declare a disaster at that time. “Runoff from recent heavy rain and snow has compromised critical electrical infrastructure and roads and bridges in Montana,” Gianforte said Saturday in a release. “This order...
Two women alleged to be connected to the March 28 double-homicide in Box Elder were charged last week with drug offenses. Melody Rose Bernard, who operates the restaurant Ziah’s Place and the businesss High Society in Box Elder, and Ashley Jocelyn “Green Eyes” Cortez of California were charged in U.S. District Court Wednesday with possessing with intent and conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. The charging document alleges that Cortez was a connection Bernard had with a drug ring headed by a gang leade...
Editor's note: Part of this story was previous published on the Havre Weekly Chronicle webpage. In a shorter and smaller- but still often contentious - than the May 6 Havre City Council meeting, during a town hall Monday about the Havre boil water advisory, the council heard an update on the timeline and background of the boil advisory, comments from the public and an announcement that the city is in the process of distributing some free bottled water. The presence of active...
Sen. Jon Tester has started a push to extend summer hours of operation at the border ports in Montana into Canada, specifically citing the Port of Wild Horse north of Canada in a letter to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy A. Miller sent this week. "The Port of Wild Horse and travel across the northern border is essential for farmers, ranchers, businesses, and families in north-central Montana," Tester said in the letter. "... For years, the Port of Wild Horse...
Two women alleged to be connected to the March 28 double-homicide in Box Elder have been arrested on drug charges. Melody Rose Bernard, who operates the restaurant Ziah's Place and the businesss High Society in Box Elder, and Ashley Jocelyn "Green Eyes" Cortez of California were shared in U.S. District Court Wednesday with possessing with intent and conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. Court documents say both are connected with the March 18 shootings of Darr...
A shop has opened in the Atrium offering custom tattoos and head shop items. Owner Memory Spencer and licensed tattoo artist Dylan decided to name the new shop Havre DMs. "I thought it was super funny if we could go, 'Hey, if you are itching for some ink, slide on down to your local DMs," Spencer said. "And then, who's not going to remember that, you know?" Spencer said she had gone through treatment at White Sky Hope Treatment Center on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, then...
Plant a Seed…READ! will be celebrating its 10th year as a nonprofit and 14 years as an affiliate with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Saturday, June 1st from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the former Famous Footwear store location in the Holiday Village Mall. “Come and enjoy a free lunch, games and activities as the children Buzz in with Bees and Books,” Executive Program Director Lorraine Verploegen said in a release. “There will be a Chinese Auction and Raffles items donated by community members and individuals. Proceeds will enroll ch...
In a slightly shorter - but still often contentious - meeting about Havre's boil advisory, Havre City Council heard an update on the timeline and background of the boil advisory, comments from the public and an announcement that the city is in the process of distributing some free bottled water. The presence of active Giardia, a microscopic parasite that can cause illness, has not been confirmed in Havre's water supply but because three cases of Giardiasis were confirmed in...
At a Hill County Commission business meeting last Thursday, a Havre City Council member said issues arising from the water boil advisory, and restrictions on businesses due to that advisory, have shown a need for greater communication between the local public entities and with the public. That will likely be one of the topics at a special City Council meeting Monday, May 20, at 7 p.m. in Havre City Hall when the council reviews the issue and issues raised at the May 6 meeting. After some issues arose with the water treatment...
Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said in a release issued Tuesday that a deputy shot a man in Hill County early Tuesday morning after a chase. There is no risk to public safety at this time and all suspects have been apprehended, Ross said in the release. Hill County sheriff’s deputies responded to notification from Rocky Boy police at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday that tribal officers were in pursuit of a pickup truck leaving Rocky Boy”s Indian Reservation and the occupants of the vehicle were shooting at the officers while fleeing. The...
A cross walk followed by a rally to investigate better protection for Box Elder schools is set for Saturday. The cross walk is set to start in Big Sandy at 9 a.m. Saturday at the rest area there and will proceed to Box Elder. “Because of the darkness of alcoholism, drug addiction, missing and murdered indigenous persons and violence in north-central Montana and the Hi-Line, we will carry a cross, walk and pray,” a flyer about the event says, saying people can call Pastor Rich Jesperson at 406-680-7080 fro more inf...
Commissioner Mark Peterson said during a commission working meeting Monday that levels in Beaver Creek are going down, but slowly and it may be high for some time. Peterson said the only major damage so far has been at Evergeen Campground off of U.S. Highway 87 and Beaver Creek Golf Course west of town on U.S. Highway 2, other than on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, which also declared an emergency. The Hill County Commission issued a declaration of emergency last week due to the rising levels of the creek. Peterson said M...
