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The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will look at options to implement a four-day school week for the coming school year at their board meeting Tuesday, a subject of much discussion among teachers and the public. The proposals, created by HPS' Calendar Committee after months of research and discussion, would extend school-day length while eliminating most or all Fridays for students, though most teachers would use the days for things like lesson planning and...
Hill County Community, We need your help! United Way of Hill County is doing amazing things in our community! Through our Funded Partners, we have touched more than 45,300 lives in Hill County! Your dollars in 2021 contributed to: • Serving over 19,000 meals from Feed My Sheep. • Sheltering, feeding and clothing over 100 clients through Victim’s Services. • CASA provides special advocates to be the voice of over 50 Foster Care children in the courts. • Feeding 6,624 people a total of over 161,000 pounds of food from the...
A year ago, we launched the Snowbird Fund to help families and friends of missing and murdered indigenous persons by offering immediate cash assistance (no questions asked) to search for their loved ones. Since then, the fund has not only survived but it has doubled its cash amount and increased its funding capacity — all during a pandemic and tough economic times. Meanwhile, through the tenacious efforts of native communities and families around the state and country, the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons h...
In the early morning hours of February 23, 2022, Phyllis Carmen Curry Vining, passed away peacefully in her home at age 93. Born in Havre, Montana, to Lebanese American parents Shukry Charles Curry and Rachel Bahne, Phyllis joined two brothers, Philip and Charles. She graduated from Havre High School in 1946, and entered Northern Montana College, where she received an Associate of Arts degree. The benefits of employment with the Great Northern Railway as a stenographer...
A man was arrested on several charges and warrants Friday including for fleeing Havre police in a vehicle reported as stolen on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. Officers on the 100 Block of 12th Avenue attempted at 2:24 p.m. to pull over a vehicle that matched the description of a missing Ford Escape and was being driven by Jerome Lane Bigknife of Rocky Boy, 29, who was wanted on six Justice or City court warrants, Police Chief Gabe Matosich said. Bigknife, with one passenger i...
A front-page article in Friday’s edition of Havre Daily News about Sheri Williams running for Hill County commissioner misreported the position held by Virginia Seigel. Seigel was Havre city judge....
Havre Police Department Thomas Kipp Jones of Havre, 43, was arrested on a theft charge after someone at the police station reported Friday at 9:20 a.m. stolen remote alcohol monitoring device and GPS bracelets. -- A caller at a First Street business asked Friday at 4:27 p.m. to speak with an officer about a fraud issue. -- A Havre area caller asked Friday at 4:37 p.m. to speak with an officer about an incident from the previous weekend. -- Udale Reed Merasty of Havre, 34, was...
It all began with a shopping visit to "North 40" in late 2020. Kip Van Valkenburg spied the perfect Christmas present ... for himself! It was a picture of a combat soldier wrapped in eagle's wings. The wings were colored like an American flag. Wilma, Kip's wife, agreed that it was indeed something special and bought it to be Kip's Christmas present. The more Kip and Wilma looked at the beautiful picture the more they began to recall the members of their families who had...
The season finally came to an end for the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team as the Lights competed in the NAIA National Championship Tournament in Wichita, Kansas this past weekend. In the tournament, the Lights got off to a shaky start but were able to bounce back to finish sixth in the tournament. "They rebounded extremely well and we went on a run," MSU-N head coach Tyson Thivierge said Saturday night. "They exceeded my expectations, they battled hard and...
The regular season didn't go as well as the Harlem girls basketball team would have liked. But the postseason has been a different story. And now the Wildcats are heaped back to the Class B state tournament. Harlem fell in the Northern B championship game Saturday night in Cut Bank, but the Wildcats had already punched their ticket to state thanks to a pair of dramatic wins. On Thursday night, the Wildcats shocked District 1B champion Fairfield 50-44 in the opening round of...
The past several years have had more than their fair share of adversity for the Montana State University-Northern football program. Even with new head coach Jerome Souers taking over the program, the Lights still have an uphill battle ahead. But despite only having 37 players currently on the roster, Souers has already gotten things started with his team as they have been running winter conditioning drills the past five weeks. The drills have mostly just been conditioning,...
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team has had to do a lot of growing this season. After losing three seniors to injury through the year, the Ice Hawks only had two seniors and one junior on their team heading into the MAHA State Tournament in Billings this past weekend. Despite their youth, the Ice Hawks won two of their three games to finish fifth in the tournament. "We did alright given that we're a young team," Havre head coach Chase Hanson said. "I would say that the...
