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Havre Daily News staff Editor’s note: This version corrects the location and the web link. Beginning Monday, April 5, Montana Actors’ Theatre will be offering a month-long workshop for middle school and high school aged youth on costume design and construction. The workshop will be held Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at the former Creative Leisure location. This is part of a series of workshops with each month focusing on a different theater aspect, a press release said, and will be led by various MAT staff and vol...
Spring sports are back in Havre for the first time in nearly two years. Emotions are high for every athlete returning, including Havre track and field star Brock Nystrom. Nystrom described the return as nerve-wracking but exciting. He will now get the chance to compete in pole vaulting, the high jump and 100 sprints in his senior season. Returning to pole vaulting should be the most exciting part for him since it is his favorite track and field event. "It's just fun," Nystrom...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees unanimously voted at a meeting Tuesday night to offer the position of HPS Superintendent to current Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller on a three-year contract. Mueller and Capital High School Principal Brett Zanto were both interviewed for the position at the meeting and the consensus among the trustees was that both candidates were not only qualified for the position but performed admirably in their interviews, but Mueller's...
COVID-19 vaccinations are becoming more available in this part of north-central Montana, and are coming at a time when the number of cases are again starting to surge in the United States. Hill County health officials announced that at the vaccination clinic scheduled at Holiday Village Mall Thursday of next week, April 8, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved for youths 16 to 18 will be available, and shots will be administered to that age group from noon to 5. Hill County Health Officer Kim Larson said the vaccine became...
Havre Daily News staff With one fire already started and extinguished in the area, National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for this region Thursday through Friday. Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation firefighters successfully contained and extinguished a fire on the reservation Sunday, keeping it to 6.6 acres in a wind that could have made it spread rapidly. Weather Service says in its watch that high winds and low humidity will make fires easily started and difficult to contain during the period of the watch, from Th...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 104,552 with 203 new cases, 912 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 47. The number of deaths was 1,437. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of no new cases, 752 total, none active, no active hospitalizations, 24 deaths. the department said it would not list case numbers unless they change. Hill County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of no new cases, 1,931 t...
From National Park Service WEST GLACIER, —The National Park Service announces a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) seeking responses from individuals, educational institutions, government agencies or entities, and non-profit or for-profit organizations, interested in the preservation and re-use of one or more historic buildings at Glacier National Park through a lease with the National Park Service. The NPS invites individuals and/or organizations to express their interest in leasing, rehabilitating, preserving and m...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Registration is now open for Montana State University’s Rural Journalism Camp, to be held July 11–16 on MSU’s campus. The camp, presented by the Yellowstone Writing Project and the MSU Continuing, Professional and Lifelong Learning program in Academic Technology and Outreach, is a weeklong residential experience immersing rural high school students in the theory and practice of daily journalism. Students will explore issues facing American journalists today and develop skills of the craft by cove...
Cheryll Lynn Wymore, 74, passed March 26, 2021. Funeral services will be held at Wilderness funeral home in Chinook 11 a.m. Friday, April 2, 2021. She was born to Elmer Grosser and Eva Prishmont March 14, 1947. She married James Delbert Wymore in 1966 and they lived together in Montana. Together they raised four children, David, Todd, Zane, Justin. Cheryll enjoyed the simple things of life, and they meant a lot to her. She enjoyed going out to restaurants to eat and meeting... Full story
The Hill County Park Board will hold its monthly meeting Monday in the Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center. The meeting agenda is: 1) Approval of minutes 2) Approval of Agenda 3) Guests and public comments on agenda items only and agenda requests for the next meeting 4) Cabin business #12 Mooney Coulee #24 Mooney Coulee 5) Old business Monitoring progress South cross fence Wind damage and insurance claim Memorial bench 6) New business Potluck meeting date and location Budget requests 7) Committee reports Rules and...
Editor’s note: Due to an editorial error, an addition to the agenda originally sent, an ordinance for a request for prosecutorial assistance, was left out of the agenda printed Tuesday. The agenda for the Hill County Commission weekly business meeting Thursday at 10 a.m. is: Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Claims Employment Budgets Ordinance: Social host ordinance Resolution Resolution No. 21-2657: Requested prosecutorial assistance Contracts Agreement for ambulance service Board a...
Havre Police Department Tuesday at 8:09 a.m., a First Avenue caller reported a hit and run crash that happened during the night. -- Someone stopped at the police station Tuesday at 8:32 a.m. to report a theft. -- Child and Family Services filed a cross report Tuesday at 10:05 a.m. at the police station. -- Two summonses were issued after a disturbance was reported at Havre High School Tuesday at 2:32 p.m. No details on the charges were provided. -- A 4:31 p.m. Tuesday caller a...
Editor, I’m starting with Tuesday legislation House Bill 325. So many bad bills this session, but this one is brought forward by a bitter crying woman who lost her election twice to the Montana Supreme Court and she’s exacting her hate and temper tantrum through the legislature to destroy our legal system in Montana. I’ve witnessed a couple of the past Judicial Nomination Commissions and listened to their questioning of the three to five candidates who wish to fill a judge seat. The last one, the commission gave Gov. Steve...
March is winding down and my sister-in-law, Lori, is going with it. There is too much food and too many flowers because that is what we do when someone is dying, when we don’t know what else to do as, gradually, the unthinkable becomes accepted and even ordinary. We make more food and bring more flowers. But there is too little time. There is always too little time. Lori is spending most of the time she has left sleeping, which means she is not in pain but also that no one c...
The HIT basketball tournament is back this weekend after missing the 2020 event because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be held at the Havre High Gymnasium, making it the 12th year in a row since Havre started hosting the high school all-star basketball tournament. Chris Mouat, the tournament's co-director and MSU-N women's basketball coach, believes that everyone will be happy to be back after missing last year. "I think everybody missed it," Mouat said. "It was tough for...
Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Teter WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester released the following statement after the United States Department of Agriculture announced that billions of dollars in coronavirus relief funding will be opened up to bring critical financial assistance to agricultural producers impacted by COVID-19 market disruptions: “This announcement is welcome news to Montana farmers and ranchers who have been impacted by the coronavirus crisis. I’m happy to see that this money will be put to go...
Press release WASHINGTON — Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jon Tester, D-Mont., along with their colleagues Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, John Hoeven, R-N.D., Tina Smith, D-Minn., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., have introduced legislation to foster efficient markets while increasing competition and transparency among meat packers who purchase livestock directly from independent producers. This bipartisan bill will require that a minimum of 50 percent of a meat p...
Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Tester U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is fighting to ensure Montana ag and livestock haulers have the flexibility they need to safely deliver their products to market with the reintroduction of his bipartisan Haulers of Agriculture and Livestock Safety — HAULS — Act of 2021. “Ranchers and livestock haulers face unique challenges when transporting perishable crops and live animals, and the rules should reflect that,” Tester said. “This commonsense bill cuts the burdensome red tape that...
