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In addition to welcoming four new board members, the Great Northern Fair Board at its monthly meeting Tuesday discussed proceeding with plans for the 2021 Great Northern Fair. New members are Bob Kaul, Bob Sivertsen, Lex Kellen, and Daryl Wright, who replace the four members who recently resigned, three of whom resigned at the board’s meeting last month. Fairgrounds Manager Frank English said the carnival the Great Northern Fair usually employs, Dreamland Carnival, will not be coming to Havre this year, but he’s been in con...
Havre Public Schools Superintendent Craig Mueller has transitioned through three job titles in a year, all during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic first began, he was assistant superintendent and then, when previous Superintendent Andy Carlson left in July 2020, Mueller stepped into an interim superintendent role. Eventually, he would transition to the superintendent role after initially declining the position. Looking at the year for not only himself, but Havre...
Montana Actors' Theatre is continuing to find ways to perform after the COVID-19 pandemic derailed its planned season last year. The pandemic hit Montana, and the college campuses in the state including Montana State University-Northern's were closed, the week MAT was planning to open its production of "Mama Mia." That production and the MAT dinner theater and its planned production of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all were postponed and have yet to hit the stage, but...
People can find online where vaccines are available in their area through https://vaccinefinder.org, operated by Boston’s Children’s Hospital and supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Digital Service. The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 107,537 with 167 new cases, 957 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 63. The number of deaths was 1,557. Blaine County Health Department reported Monday evening being notified of 1 new...
Havre Police Department Sancha Marie Valenzuela of Great Falls, 38, was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license, careless driving, negligent endangerment, habitual traffic offender and failing to carry proof of insurance after a two vehicle, non-injury crash was reported at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday on Ninth Street. -- A caller at a Fifth Street business reported Tuesday at 9:39 p.m. that the front of the building had been shot with paintballs. -- A...
Rural Fire District 1 Board will meet Thursday at 11 a.m. in Timmons Room in Hill County Courthouse. The meeting agenda is: • Call meeting to order • Reorganization of board • Approve minutes • Sign the title transfer • Request approval from Clyde R. Thomas • Situation with City of Havre...
The 2021 home opener finally came for the Havre High softball team Tuesday night when they hosted Browning at Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. After their two games against Miles City Saturday were canceled, the Blue Ponies were eager to play in front of their home fans for the first time in almost two years. And they did not disappoint as they defeated Browning, 27-1. "It's nice to be at home," HHS head coach Tony Vigliotti said. "We had a good crowd here tonight, and so it was n...
After capping off his senior season with a state championship, Havre High wrestler Mick Chagnon plans to continue his wrestling career at St. Ambrose University. Despite receiving offers from numerous schools, Chagnon picked St. Ambrose because the campus felt right for him and he knew their head coach. "After visiting there, I just felt like it was a good place for me," Chagnon said. "The coach there was the old assistant at Northern so it was like having a part of home there...
The Frontier Conference spring golf season has just begun, but on Tuesday it also came to an end. The Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s golf teams took part in the Frontier Conference Championships Monday and Tuesday in Eagle, Idaho. While at the championships, the league also handed out its annual awards and several Northern golfers were honored. Northern senior Megan Vandenacre was named Second-Team All-Conference for the Skylights, while senior Tiara Gil...
Josh Warp/Trenton Maloughney, Havre High Tennis The Havre High boys doubles team of Josh Warp and Trenton Maloughney are red-hot right now. After going a perfect 4-0 at the Havre Invitational two weeks ago, the squad went undefeated again last weekend, beating top teams from Polson and Libby in Cut Bank, then Whitefish and Columbia Falls Saturday. Warp, a senior, is a 2019 All-Conference player for the Ponies, while Maloughney is in his third season as a varsity standout....
“Oh my gosh. I don’t want to open that box.” Moving furniture and books and clothing is easy. It’s moving memories that is hard. I am going through the last of my boxes. I used to say I was not a packrat. I thought I was more like my mother than my dad. My dad might tuck a piece of wood away, thinking it would find a use someday. My mother would be of the opinion that it’s easier to buy a board when (and if) it was needed. Generally, it wasn’t. This approach keeps my parents’ house very tidy — with the possible except...
Montana’s response to the COVID pandemic has put our state’s public health system in the spotlight, as well as into the crosshairs. Through numerous bills this session, members of the Montana Legislature have sought to attack our state’s public health system and insert politics and bureaucracy into the process of making decisions that keep our communities safe and healthy. However, a new poll indicates that these efforts by legislators are driven more by special interests and ideology than by what Montana voters actually want...
While much ado has rightfully been made of the repeated attempts to undermine and privatize Montana’s wildlife hunting access and privileges, less attention has been paid to numerous dirty water bills working their way to Gov. Gianforte’s desk, each of which threatens fisheries, clean water, countless jobs and businesses, and our way of life. Recent rhetoric about cutting the proverbial government red tape is a nice soundbite, but in practice will have the opposite effect of the so-called jobs and recovery focus of this ses...
Staff and wire report A press release from The White House April 16 announced that President Joe Biden intends to nominate Robert Bonnie for U.S. Department of Agriculture under secretary for farm production and conservation. “I am grateful to President Biden for announcing his intent to nominate Robert Bonnie (for the position),” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said April 16 in a statement released by USDA. “ Robert currently serves as the deputy chief of staff and senior climate advisor at USDA. He led the USDA Trans...
From U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA is implementing updates to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program for producers of agricultural commodities marketed in 2020 who faced market disruptions due to COVID-19. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced an expansion of CFAP on March 24, 2021. This is part of a larger effort to reach a greater share of farming operations and improve USDA pandemic assistance. Producers who, In 2020, owned or produced: • livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep/wool, broilers/pullets, eggs a...
From Montana Farm Service Agency website Following are upcoming deadlines for FSA programs • Underway: Conservation Reserve Program general signup, deadline to be determined. • March 1 to May 14: 2021 CRP Spring Non-Emergency Grazing Period, prior approval required. • April 5: Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 reopened. Sign-up period will remain open for at least 60 days. • May 31: Final availability date for loans and LDPs for prior year harvested corn, dry peas, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, rice, safflow...
