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The legislator representing Havre is bringing back a regular entry to the Legislature, a proposal to change how charter schools operate in the state. Rep. Ed Hill sponsored House Bill 633, which would create an independent commission that would review proposals to create charter schools. Under Hill's bill, the schools would qualify for state public funding if they met goals, but would not be regulated under the section of Montana law governing public education, Title 20. In...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the total number of deaths in Liberty and Phillips counties. The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 103,098 with 73 new cases, 974 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 51. The number of deaths was 1,414. Blaine County, reported on the state update this morning, had no new cases, 712 total, 10 active, 24 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Sunday evening being notified of 1 new case Saturday and Sunday with 1,9...
The current debate surrounding SB 99, Planned Parenthood, and sex education in schools awakened old memories. While researching teenage pregnancy as a nursing student in 1977, I interviewed a pair of junior high school principals. Both 40-something men were visibly uncomfortable talking to me and acknowledging there was no sex education curricula in their schools. One shared an impactful anecdote. After a student had unprotected intercourse, she took one of her mom’s birth control pills. The student did not become p...
Hill County Commissioner and Board of Health Chair Mark Peterson sent an email to the Havre Daily News this morning announcing that the county has reached the threshold required to lift the area's mask mandate. "I am working on a draft to announce it," the email read. The Havre Daily News had not received this draft by print deadline this morning. In the meeting Feb. 18 where the mandate was voted for 3-1 it was determined that once the metric of 10 or fewer new COVID-19...
Press release The Foundation has scholarship opportunities available for 2021 Havre High School graduates and some applications are also offered to Hill County High Schools, North Star High School and continuing education students. One online scholarship application form is used to apply for any and all of the scholarships. The application form can be found on the Foundation website at http://www.hpseducationfoundation.com . Some applications require specific criteria along with the general information form, be sure to read...
John Rodrick "Rick" Sunchild Jr., Kah-kihiw-kwah-nehw (He Has Eagle Feathers), passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Thursday, March 18, 2021. Wake services began at 5:00 p.m. Friday, March 19, 2021, and continued until his funeral service at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 20, 2021, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. Burial followed in the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Rick's online...
Matthew L. Doran, 54, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Thursday, March 18, 2021. At his request, cremation has taken place and no services will be scheduled. Matt was born November 12, 1966, in Corvallis, Oregon, to John and Anna (Buelow) Doran. He was raised in Philomath, graduating from Philomath High in 1985. Matt lived and worked in the Portland area before leaving Oregon to attend Northern Montana College in Havre in 1992. Matt worked for Hill County Printing for more than 23 years,...
Barbara Lynn (Benson) Weber, 69, passed away at Northern Montana Hospital March 17, 2021. A viewing will be held from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, 2021, at Wilderness Funeral Homes in Chinook, MT. A memorial service and reception will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at the Commercial Building at the Blaine County Fairgrounds....
The incorrect time was listed for the 10 a.m. Hill County Commission’s business meeting in the document provided to the Havre Daily News for publication in Friday’s edition. The correct agenda follows. Monday 1:30 p.m. — Ambulance stipend meeting in commissioner’s office 6 p.m. — Hill County Park board Rules and Regulations Committee meeting at Hill County Annex Tuesday 9:30 a.m. — Council on Aging – Final contract for state budget 10:30 a.m. — Road Department meeting in commissioner’s office Wednesday Regular Business...
Havre Police Department Someone stopped at the police station Friday at 9:19 a.m. to report that their dad was using their Walmart debit card. -- A caller with Adult Protective Services filed a cross report with the police department Friday at 11:10 a.m. -- Kenneth Wayne Parisian of Dodson, 48, was arrested on charges of child endangerment, driving under the influence and failure to yield right of way at signal after a two-vehicle crash was reported at First Street and Third...
Some folks may not be familiar with the extreme state budget cutting measures that took place in “The Kansas Experiment,” look it up. That experiment was a disaster. Montana’s legislature is now trying to take us down that path. Trickle-down economics are proven to rig an economy against the average Joe. When public services are cut, rural health clinics, emergency services and schools suffer, and roads go unrepaired. The tax cuts go to the rich, and the tax incentives to create good paying jobs with good benefits have been g...
Week 11 already; just short of three months spent in Helena. Although we have a very nice place to live for the time we are here, it will be good to get back home. That being said, it is an honor to be here and serve you and watch out for what we Montanans believe in. We passed two voter initiatives dealing with marijuana in the last election. Now how to implement those into law is the task of the legislature. At present, a 280+ page bill is being drafted and being “fixed,” as they say, daily. One of the heavy lifts for Mon...
If citizens elect an anti-tax, anti-government legislature— like Montana’s 67th - it is not surprising that they get legislation that undermines government finances and weakens government services. Oklahoma and Kansas are two states that tried an ideological approach to fiscal policy a few years back. The results were disastrous cuts to public services, a fiscal crisis in each state, and near bankruptcy in the case of Oklahoma. They discovered that you cannot continually drain a state’s general fund and expect gover...
The season was shorter. There was a global pandemic going on. We saw masks on benches, on coaches and on referees, and we saw gyms with fewer fans, sometimes no fans and even more strange things this past girls basketball season. However, when it came to hoops on the Hi-Line, we still saw plenty of normal - as in, girls basketball is really good around these parts. With a pair of local state championships and all kinds of star-studded play, girls basketball in 2021 didn't disa...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team had not won a match since their season opener back on Jan. 29. They had lost 13 straight heading into their doubleheader against Carroll College at the Armory Gymnasium Friday and Saturday. That skid continued with a 3-0 loss Friday, but the Skylights bounced back Saturday to defeat the Saints, 3-1, to snap their losing streak. "I couldn't feel prouder of them and better for them for breaking through," MSU-N head coach...
The Montana State University-Northern football team finally got back on the field after 15 months away from competition.Then came a bye week, though. After opening the spring season against the College of Idaho on March 13, the Lights had a week off before this week's game against Carroll College. "You could look at it on both sides of there being pros and cons of having a bye in your second weekend so all we can focus on is what's the task at hand and getting better this...
