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Editor’s note: This corrects the spelling of the name of Havre Girl Scout Sophia Dawson. Members of the Girl Scouts Havre Service Unit Cadette Troop 3225 gave a presentation of their proposal to put grates on outhouse vents in Beaver Creek Park at the Hill County Park Board meeting Monday night in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse. Sophie Darson, Megan Boyle and Kylie Greenwood stood before the board to deliver their outline for their Silver Award Project. Boyle distributed a summary of the project to the b...
Havre Daily News staff Box Elder Schools Superintendent Jeremy MacDonald said the schools are closed today due to a heating issue. MacDonald said propane is freezing at the schools and the buildings cannot be heated. MacDonald said the district expects the schools to be open Thursday. "We'll be working on them all day today," he said....
A former Hill County attorney who was found guilty of contempt after resigning her position in July now faces felony charges in Texas after she was accused of shooting her estranged husband. Records from the Taylor County Jail in Abilene, Texas, show Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson was released Monday on $50,000 bail after she was arrested Sunday on suspicion of first degree assault with a weapon, a felony. Abilene Police Department Public Information Coordinator Rick Tomlin said Mond...
Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian reservations services were closed Monday due to the severe cold. Rocky Boy's Information Specialist Rusty Gopher said this morning that services at Rocky Boy were closed Monday including the tribal office, clinic, college and schools. "Everything but law enforcement," he said. He added that the roads at Rocky Boy were cleared by the end of the day Monday and people should be able to drive safely today. They didn't receive a lot of snow,...
Havre City Council approved a funding agreement Monday between Havre and the Montana Department of Transportation for the Boulevard Avenue Urban Project. The project is in Havre and Hill County, beginning at 11th Street West and ending nearly a mile north at the intersection of Boulevard Avenue and Second Street West. Mayor Tim Solomon said the project will begin in 2020 and will be paid for by the city’s urban highway fund, federal money that comes through MDT to local governments for road improvements. The project was part...
Havre Police Department Officers served a search warrant on Ninth Street at 1:02 p.m. Monday. -- A vehicle crash was reported at Third Avenue and Seventh Street Monday at 1:17 p.m. -- A two-car vehicle crash at 10th Avenue and Second Street was reported at 2:08 p.m. -- Monday at 8:05 p.m. a Second Street caller asked to speak with an officer, and the issue was referred to another law enforcement agency. -- Officers were called to a First Street West business Monday at 10:28...
Press release The Fisheries Division of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is extending the public comment period for the Statewide Fisheries Management Program and Guide to Feb. 15. The draft Program and Guide was approved to release for public comment at the December Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting. Federal partner agencies have requested extension of the comment period because furloughed employees did not have the opportunity to review the document. The Program and Guide describes how programs within the Fisheries...
The agenda provided for the Hill County Commission business meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday lists: Public Comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Claims Employment Tax Adjustments Resolutions Contract(s) Fair board member Bear Paw Development contract District Court monitor request Cash and Journal Voucher report Fresno BOR Security Contract Blood Borne Pathogens Policy Letter of Support for the North Central Montana Transit Subdivision/survey approval: Nick Chagnon Subdivision Plat County Permit...
Press release MISSOULA — The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is accepting applications for more than 160 seasonal firefighting jobs across the state. With hourly wages ranging from $12.80 to $15.77 per hour, the positions include firefighter, engine boss, helicopter crew member, aerial observer, fuel truck driver, initial attack dispatcher, and forest improvement technician. “Applications will be accepted through June 1, 2019, however we strongly encourage people to apply early.” said Mike DeGro...
The high school basketball season is coming to a close across the state and after this last weekend of hoops, there is just one full week left before the postseason gets underway. And while most high school teams in Montana have experienced a loss, one team that hasn't is the Chinook Sugarbeeters, who kept their undefeated season going with a 77-29 home win over Harlem last Thursday. Chinook got 16 points from Isaac Bell and Cord Schneider, along with 13 from Ethan Bell. RJ...
After an exciting week of girls high school basketball on the Hi-Line, just a handful of games stand between area teams and the 2019 Class C and B postseason. Last week got started with one of the strongest teams on the Hi-Line, the Harlem Wildcats, who went to Chinook and thumped their old Class B rival, 71-23 Thursday night. The Wildcats started the game on an 18-4 run, then held the Sugarbeeters to just five points in the second half. L'Tia Lawrence and Skylee Dirden each...
If any of you out there are like me, and you’re lamenting the fact that winter has returned to Havre with a fury, I need to apologize to you. It’s my fault, and here’s why. I predicted back in early January, while wearing shorts and enjoying the 50-plus degree weather that, if we were to get a nasty blast of winter this year still, it would happen the week of the All-Class State Wrestling Tournament. My wife can verify that predication, as well, because she was the one I sai...
It was certainly an interesting two nights in the Armory Gymnasium as far as Frontier Conference men's basketball goes last weekend. Interesting in so many ways. First, on both Friday and Saturday nights many fans inside the Armory were actually there pulling double-duty, as fans of the Lights, but also as fans of a pair of former area basketball stars. Friday night, Northern played host to Rocky Mountain College, where Brandon The Boy, a four-time Class C All-Stater and...
Cameron Pleninger, Havre High Wrestling The Havre Blue Ponies had a lot of success at last Saturday's Eastern A Divisional tournament in Miles City. But few mowed through the competition like HHS junior Cameron Pleninger. On his way to the 120-pound divisional championship, Pleninger won every single match by pin, including a fall over Sidney's Josh Darby in the championship match. Pleninger, a two-time state placer already, will now set his sights on this weekend's Class A...
