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The retrial of a Havre man convicted of negligent homicide in 2014 in the shooting death of his brother started today in state District Court in the Hill County Courthouse. The retrial of Shane Clark Johnson started with jury selection this morning, with District Judge Matthew Cuffe presiding. In initial discussions, Cuffe said they expected opening arguments may be made this afternoon. Johnson had appealed his 2014 conviction, arguing the court made errors in allowing the jury unrestricted access to all of the state’s t...
With Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation reporting its first confirmed case of COVID-19 since February and Box Elder Schools reporting its first case in months, even with schools out for the summer the pandemic is impacting local activities. A release from Box Elder Superintendent Jeremy MacDonald said a 21st Century field trip scheduled for today and elementary kindergarten through sixth grade summer school have been canceled for Box Elder Schools. The full school year ended for...
Montana political leaders are again joining others around the country asking the U.S. Department of Justice to take action on allegations that the “stranglehold” large meatpackers have over the beef processing market violate U.S. antritrust laws, although some say that is not enough. Montana’s Sens. Jon Tester, a Democrat, and Steve Daines, a Republican, and Montana’s Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale are signing off on a bipartisan letter members of Congress sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for an...
Havre High School Principal Ed Norman said the weather appears to be cooperating, so the 2021 Havre High graduation will be held outdoors at Blue Pony Stadium. The high school had kept the option open to hold the ceremony in the high school gymnasium if the weather turned bad. The National Weather Service forecast for Havre for Sunday predicts sunny skies and 73 degrees. Norman said the north gates at the football stadium will be open at 12:30 p.m. Large vehicles like motor homes will not be allowed. Seating will be...
Havre Public Schools issued a statement Wednesday afternoon on an issue - apparently a senior prank gone overboard - that has created a firestorm of Facebook comments on the Havre Daily News Facebook page. Havre Police Department reported Wednesday that a group of 30 or more Havre High School seniors had entered the school and while they were there a significant amount of vandalism occurred, with the estimated damage Wednesday morning at $1,000 to $2,000. Havre Public Schools...
Havre Public Schools issued a statement this afternoon about a group of Havre seniors vandalizing the high school in a "senior prank." Havre police this morning said a group of 30 or so seniors gained entry to Havre High School late Monday evening and vandalized the school, with damage at that time estimated at $1,000 to $2,000, although the damage estimate was not yet complete. The district issued a statement to the community this afternoon, signed by the district...
After seven months of running only three days a week, the Hi-Line is again seeing the Empire Builder run twice a day across the railroad tracks. Amtrak — which had its 50th anniversary this month — had cut long-distance service last summer, including the Empire Builder that crosses the Hi-Line as it runs from Chicago to Seattle and Portland, citing reduced numbers of passengers due to the pandemic. The members of Montana’s congressional delegation had been working to restore the service almost as soon as it was annou...
The Hill County Park Board’s Rules and Regulation Committee is holding the third meeting Wednesday in a series of meetings on a controversial topic — beaver management in Beaver Creek Park. An agenda sent by Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson says three speakers will present at the meeting, which starts at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the 4-H Chuckwagon on the Great Northern Fairgrounds. Peterson said this morning that while the speakers have been confirmed, he is unable to release their names. Use of trapping to control the beave...
Snow hit earlier and heavier than expected in this part of north-central Montana. Liberty County had been on the edge of a winter weather advisory running through this morning with Northern Chouteau County, Hill County and Blaine County expected to received small amounts of snow mixed with rain over the weekend. Instead, it started snowing heavily late Thursday morning after rain falling for some time. In Havre, snow started falling and melting through most of the rest of the day. The National Weather Service report was...
A forecast of a return of wintry weather has come through in spades with heavy snow falling in the area this morning and more in the forecast. That followed temperatures creeping up into the 70s and 80s over the weekend. The National Weather Service forecast for heavy, wet snow through Friday predicts the heaviest accumulations along the Continental Divide and Rocky Mountain Front, but snow is predicted across Liberty, Chouteau, Hill and Blaine counties, with Liberty County included in a winter weather advisory. That...
Havre/Hill County Preservation Commission presented an award to the longest-operating family business in the region, also the longest-operating laundry company in the state as one of its activities during National Historic Preservation Month. Historic Preservation Officer Becki Miller presented Havre Laundry and Dry Cleaning owner Ron Brenna and his son, Grayson, with a centennial business award and a sold-out St. Jude Thaddeus Church historical Christmas ornament Tuesday....
After several days of warm, summer-like — but not record-breaking — days, the region is expected to have a flash of more winter-like weather later this week. Temperatures steadily warmed over the weekend, with National Weather Service reporting at its recording station at the Havre City-County Airport a high of 70 Friday, 75 Saturday and 80 Sunday. The station recorded a high of 87 Monday, although thermometers in town recorded temperatures of at least 89. That was close to a record — a high of 90 was set May 17, 2006, but n...
With COVID-19 cases still trickling into the area, vaccination clinics are ongoing including for the 12-and-older age group. Among the new cases last week was a case confirmed Friday in someone associated with Havre Public Schools. Superintendent Craig Mueller said in a release that people in the district had been exposed, and contact tracing had been completed. U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week gave emergency authorization for use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for...
The federal government has changed the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States,, with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated don’t need to wear masks most of the time. “Well, today is a great day for America in our long battle with the coronavirus,” President Joe Biden said from the Rose Garden Thursday after CDC issued its new guidance. Until more was known about the effectiveness of vaccines and the chance of vaccinated people transmitting the virus, CDC h...
Editor’s note: This has been updated to include a Pfizer vaccine clinic set for Havre May 20. With the federal government authorizing and issuing recommendations Wednesday for administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to people 12 and older, some local residents already are taking advantage of the opportunity. Rocky Boy Health Center CEO Joel Rosette said that after the recommendations came out from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday, health c...
The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic took another step forward Monday with U.S. Food and Drug Administration granting emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for people 12 and older. "The FDA's expansion of the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to include adolescents 12 through 15 years of age is a significant step in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic," Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D., said in a press...
A group trying to rebuild the system that supplies much of the water to the Milk River each year talked Wednesday about how money from the latest COVID-19 relief bill might help. A major topic at the meeting of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group was House Bill 632, the bill the Legislature passed to set up use of relief funds from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden in March. The St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works, part of the...
With the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the area again going up and the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations staying low, officials are urging people to take action. "I am concerned that we are not getting more people vaccinated," Hill County Health Officer Kim Berg said. "We need to get more people protected to slow the number of cases in our community and across the state. I am nervous that we will begin to see a larger surge if we, as a community, do not continue to take...
A mobile veterinary hospital was in Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation this week, conducting spaying and neutering and other care for animals in what its organizers say they hope will be a regular occurrence. Humane Society of Western Montana Executive Director Marta Pierpoint said the Rocky Boy stop was the third for a mobile clinic this year, having gone to Eureka and Browning in the past few weeks. She said the mobile hospital will be back in Browning in two weeks and they...
The unofficial results of elections in local schools have been released, with the winners of several contested elections announced. Several schools in the area did not have contested elections for trustees. In Havre, the winners of two three-year seats on the board are incumbent Lorraine Larson with 936 votes and Jacob Ingram with 778 votes. Jessica Stiffarm-Kennedy received 741 votes, Michele Holden received 593 and Erin Pulse received 529. In the race for a one-year term, incumbent Garrit Ophus won with 1,182 votes and...
Editor’s note: Pulse and Ingram did not provide photographs to Havre Daily News. Pulse called Havre Daily News Thursday afternoon to say she had not realized the paper had called her. Havre Daily News called the number provided by the school district as contact information and left messages. Ingram said he was not available for interview Wednesday but tried to call Havre Daily News Thursday evening. The article was printed Thursday morning. The original version of this story used the wrong day, Thursday, to say when he a...
A local legislator was honored by the Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction this morning for his work in closing achievement gaps in education. Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, was invited to receive a Montana Learn award this morning, presented by Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen during the final Education Caucus meeting of the season, with awards presented to legislators while hot apple fritters were served. "The superintendent is honored to...
Members of the Havre Lions Club were busy last weekend, once again helping with a project at Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen. Doug Larson, a member of Lions, said 17 members of the service organization were at the soup kitchen pouring 6 1/2 yards of concrete for a new pad in front of the building. He said club members Gus Korb of Korb Construction and Steve McLain of McLain Construction brought some equipment they used during the pour, which helped. "It's a lot easier with the...
Although numbers of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in this part of Montana are not mirroring the surge in other parts of the state, the nation and the world, confirmations - and deaths - continue to trickle in and local officials have joined officials around the country and the world urging people to continue to use caution and to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Blaine County Health Department said in a release Monday evening that the department was notified of a new conf...
While numbers of new COVID-19 cases have declined in the state and in this part of north-central Montana in recent months, the disease has not gone away, with Hill County reporting its 43rd COVID-19-related death and four new cases Monday and the state’s governor catching the disease as new cases creep up in some parts of the state. Hill County Health Department reported the death and new cases in a release Monday afternoon. Prior to that, Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties had listed no active cases in any of the c...
