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Havre’s annual Living History event will be held this Saturday, with tours, period dress and showcases of the areas historic artifacts on display, though it will look a bit different this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, Fort Assinniboine was not able to do much of anything for Living History due to the pandemic, but Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association Chair Ron VandenBoom said that, this year, their event is coming back and is looking to make up for lost time. “We’re pretty happy just to be able to have a...
The Havre Chamber of Commerce is reminding people of road closures Saturday during the inaugural Bear Paw Marathon. The Chamber is advising anyone who uses Montana Secondary Highway 234 - Beaver Creek Highway - that the southbound lane will be shut down from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. from Butte Road to Sucker Creek Road. A pilot car will lead traffic on the north bound lane. People should expect delays. This may affect commute times and The Chamber asks that everyone plan...
After being canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual North Central Montana Everything Antique show returns this weekend. This year’s show will take place from Friday, June 4, through Sunday, June 6. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The event includes tractor games, a Volkswagen reunion, which is a new part of the event, blacksmithing and threshing d...
The Hill County Behavioral Health Local Advisory Council is looking for 10 to 12 people in the community who are willing to share their mental health or addiction stories of struggle and recovery for their new series of PSAs they hope to play in the area. LAC Chair Andi Daniel said the organization’s aim is to normalize mental health struggles and say it’s OK to seek help through local people telling their own stories. Daniel said she believes seeing and hearing from people in the community will be more effective than just us...
Montana political leaders are again joining others around the country asking the U.S. Department of Justice to take action on allegations that the “stranglehold” large meatpackers have over the beef processing market violate U.S. antritrust laws, although some say that is not enough. Montana’s Sens. Jon Tester, a Democrat, and Steve Daines, a Republican, and Montana’s Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale are signing off on a bipartisan letter members of Congress sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for an...
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 112,129 with 131 new cases, 685 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 59. The number of deaths was 1,627. Blaine County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified of 1...
Press release Timber Creek Village held a picnic for its residents Monday, Memorial Day. "The day was filled with sunshine, fellowship with friends, great music and Memorial Day memories," representatives of Timber Creek said in a release, adding, "Residents and staff are looking forward to many sunny days outside."...
A couple thousand years ago, somebody famous, broadly paraphrased, said, we do things we know aren’t good for us (or for others) and don’t do the things we know to be good. Well, what can I say? The shoe fits. Oh, I can always say more. Not only do I do what’s not good for me, but I lie to myself and convince myself that it doesn’t really matter. I’ve worked hard at catching myself and changing my mind before rip-roaring into action. About 40 years of hard work. And it is hard...
Martha Frances (Pester) Kiemele, known to many as "Chetto," passed away peacefully at Northern Montana Care Center on Monday May 31, 2021, at the age of 95. Martha was born December 27, 1925, to Thomas and Christina (Spinler) Pester on the family farm north of Hingham. She attended school in Hingham and moved to Havre at age 17, to be a caretaker to a woman in her home. As fate would have it, her caretaking job was next door to Fred and Margret Kiemele, her future in-laws....
Vicki Lee (Vasecka) Kulbeck, 65, beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, died unexpectedly due to complications of cancer on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Vicki was born January 7, 1956, in Cooperstown, North Dakota, to Air Force Sgt. Edward and Janis (Munsterman) Vasecka. She lived in South Dakota, Spain, Oregon, and Montana. The family was stationed in Havre in 1964, and Vicki graduated from Havre High School in 1975. After high school, she attended Northern Montana...
Memorial/graveside service for William Thompson and Elaine Bleha Thompson will be held on Saturday, June 5th, at 11:00 am at the Alice Nash Memorial Cemetery on Lone Tree Bench south of Chinook. Ashes will be interred with a sharing of memories followed by a picnic....
Havre Police Department Caden Isiah Plante of Havre, 18, was arrested on a sexual intercourse without consent charge after a caller on Second Street reported Wednesday at 6:56 a.m. that a family member had been sexually assaulted. -- Irvine Cole Bigknife of Havre, 28, was arrested on two charges of endangering the welfare of children and on two Justice or City court warrants after a Wednesday 8:27 a.m. caller reported that toddlers were running around in diapers near Fifth...
With no baseball for the past two weeks, the Havre Northstars American Legion club will make it up to their fans when they return for the Havre Jamboree this weekend at Legion Field. With four games this weekend, Havre head coach Patch Wirtzberger hopes that their work during their hiatus will pay off. "We've been doing a lot of work on the defensive side of the ball: infield, outfield, catching, pitching, just trying to stay sharp," Wirtzberger said. The Northstars enter the...
Decisions are not easy sometimes, and late Monday night, I was facing a tough call. No, it wasn’t some monumental quandary I was in, but it was a decision on whether or not to put myself in a possible jam. And in the end, I guess you can say, I chickened out, or decided not to find out if I would end up in one or not. You see, at 11:59 p.m. Monday, registration for the first annual Bear Paw Marathon expired. No, I wasn’t considering running in the marathon, or the half mar...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has begun its annual stocking of fisheries around the area with trout and walleye, and more is expected to be completed in the coming month. "They just yesterday started stocking a lot of the small ponds in Blaine County with catchables and fingerlings," FWP fisheries biologist Cody Nagel said Wednesday. "And I'm assuming there's still some more fish coming over because we stock Faber Reservoir every year, as well." Chouteau Reservoir, North...
