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Articles from the March 25, 2021 edition


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  • People invited to Havre superintendent receptions, interviews

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Staff and wire report People are invited to meet the finalists for Havre Public Schools superintendent in remote receptions Monday and to hear the Havre School Board of Trustees interview the candidates Tuesday. The board Tuesday selected, listed here alphabetically by name, are Havre Public Schools Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller and Helena Capital High School Principal Brett Zanto as finalists for the position. "We have selected excellent candidates to interview and...

  • Rocky Boy superintendent reelected at-large director of NAFIS Board

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    From National Association of Federally Impacted Schools WASHINGTON - The National Association of Federally Impacted Schools - NAFIS - has announced that Voyd St. Pierre, superintendent of Rocky Boy School District 87 in Rocky Boy, Montana, has been reelected to the NAFIS Board of Directors as an at-large Director. The election took place at the 2021 NAFIS spring on-inline conference. As a member of the NAFIS Board of Directors, St. Pierre serves as a national leader...

  • State and local COVID-19 update, March 25, 2021

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 103,830 with 174 new cases, 957 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 48. The number of deaths was 1,435. Blaine County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified of no new cases, with 752 total, 3 active, 24 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified of no new cases, with 1,930 total, 2 active, 42 deaths. Rocky Boy Health Center reported March 11, also reported on e...

  • Certified Boater for Tiber Reservoir offered

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Staff and wire report With the first mussel-fouled boat already detected in Montana as watercraft inspections begin, officials are notifying boaters that certified boater training for Tiber Reservoir is available online from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Watercraft inspections have become a key component for trying to prevent invasive species from coming to Montana’s waterways since invasive mussel larvae were found in Tiber Reservoir and a suspected detection, never confirmed, was made in Canyon Ferry Reservoir in 2016....

  • 'Backroads' in the Bear Paws

    Pam Burke|Updated Mar 25, 2021

    A production crew from the Montana PBS series "Backroads of Montana" will be spending the weekend in the Bear Paw Mountains filming and interviewing a Chouteau County ranching family, who are helping to save an endangered breed of horses. Tom and Rene Brown, who ranch on the south side of the Bear Paws, started their journey breeding Cleveland Bay horses with the purchase of their first stallion, Tregoyd William, in the fall of 2011. Tom Brown wanted to use the stallion to cro...

  • Obituary - Zebulon R. Nicholson

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Zebulon R. Nicholson, 41, passed away peacefully after a long battle with MS March 8, 2021. Zeb was born to Richard Nicholson and Wanda Woodwick March 11, 1979, in Havre. Zeb married Shannon Johnson May 30, 1997, and they had two children, Zach Nicholson (24) and Kaci Nicholson (21). He worked for BNSF railroad as a carman until he became ill. Zeb loved jokes, adventure, pranks, and the Minnesota Vikings, but, most of all, he loved his entire family. Zeb is preceded in death...

  • For the Record, March 25, 2021

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Havre Police Department A remote alcohol monitoring device violation was reported at the police station Wednesday at 10:04 a.m. -- Caleb Logan Denny of Box Elder, 23, was arrested on a charge of trespass to vehicles after a caller at a First Street business reported Wednesday at 10:18 a.m. that someone tried to get into a customer's vehicle and drive away. -- A 12-year-old was arrested on an assault charge after a caller at Havre Middle School reported a fight Wednesday at 3:3...

  • Notice - Rural Fire 1 board sets Monday meeting

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    The board of Rural Fire District 1 will hold a meeting Monday at 10 a.m. in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse....

  • Correction - Park Board committee hears public testimony on beaver trapping

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    A story in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about a Hill County Park Board committee hearing comments on control of beaver in Beaver Creek Park characterized Lou Hagener as a long-time advocate of non-lethal control of beaver. Hagener said that early in his natural resources management carreer he was a tacit supporter of lethal trapping but, after 40 years in the business, came to realize he was being closed-minded and that natural processes are something to work with and not against....

  • Letter to the Editor - Why do legislators want to privatize schools?

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Editor, How can 57 Republican legislators support a bill to privatize schools in Montana, House Bill 329? They agree with this bill, requested by the Governor, who has a big stake in an exclusive private school, and would benefit from school privatization. Montana will become a regulatory nightmare if this bill passes, especially with regard to the education of our children. This bill is likely unconstitutional. Which agency will regulate the giveaway to rich people who want to start their own school? With no regulation of...

  • Looking out my backdoor: The future is dark, which is the best …

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Mar 25, 2021

    True Montanans fully understand Virginia Woolf’s expression that “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.” We are trained from early times to know that sunny days won’t last, that rains likely fall when the hay is down in windrows, that ants infest every picnic. Not necessarily gloomy, but realistic. We are taught thusly. Here’s a different slant, OK. What I have come to believe, and Woolf’s quote fits perfectly, is that if we could see through...

  • Vaccination is the ticket to getting the U.S. back on track

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    The end of the pandemic in the U.S. is in sight. The COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the United States have proven to be outstandingly effective at protecting recipients from coronavirus and they are also safe. These vaccines — and the potential of others on the way — have the power to lift us out of the depths of this pandemic and put us on the path forward to rebuilding from COVID-19’s devastating economic, social, and psychological impacts. Put simply, getting America vaccinated is our ticket to halting the death...

  • The free money game: When will Republicans wise up?

    Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Every election cycle, you can count on Republican candidates promising to reduce the size and cost of government, and in general, getting government out of our businesses and out of our daily lives. Yet as every session of the legislature demonstrates, that pledge — for the majority of Republican lawmakers — has a distinctly hollow ring. Not unlike their Democratic counterparts, the GOP’s commitment to controlling government and reducing welfare dependency is highly selective. For their friends, the free money game conti...

  • Blue Pony tennis excited to be back on the court

    Havre Daily News Staff|Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Havre Daily News Staff Coaching tennis isn't something Havre High head man George Ferguson does for a couple months a year. For the last 19 years, it's been a way of life. So imagine how he felt when the 2020 season was called off due to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, though, it wasn't his feelings he was concerned with. No, Ferguson felt for his tennis teams, and for spring sports athletes all over Montana. "It was something I still haven't gotten...

  • Skylights look to build momentum in final road matches

    Kason Clark|Updated Mar 25, 2021

    Victory finally came for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team this past weekend when they defeated Carroll College to snap a 14-match losing streak. Now, the Skylights will be tasked with going up against the first-place University of Providence this Friday and Saturday at the McLaughlin Center in Great Falls. Even though they will be facing their toughest opponent this season, MSU-N head coach Jerry Wagner is confident that his team can compete. "I feel good...

  • Local Bowling Report: Bowling leagues rolling on at Harvest Moon Lanes

    Julie Rodgers|Updated Mar 25, 2021

    League bowling is heading into April. High Scores for the week were Women’s, Lindsey O’Brecht, 233, 626, and Men’s, Nick Turner, 246,693. Split Picker’s were Brian Anderson, 7-9, Linda Warneke, 3-10, Rhonda Gregoire, 4-5, Katie Daniel, 5-7, Tammy Pozega, 5-10,3-7, Haley Graham, 5-7, and Colleen Patera, 3-6-7-10. Sunday Keglers: Tasha Daniels, 154,163,154-471, Donna Tilleman, 166,179-478, Brandy Kurtz, 161,152, Janet Robinson, 161,164, Julie Allee, 161,157, Stephanie Mariani...