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This week is National Mosquito Awareness Week, and Terry Turner, supervisor of the Hill County Mosquito Control District, said that although the Mosquito Control District has made great strides since 2004, people should still try to do their part to minimize the number of mosquitoes in the area. "If you are having mosquitoes in your yard all the time, there is a source nearby," he said. Mosquitoes carry and transmit a number of diseases, incuding West Nile and Zika viruses,...
During a telephonic press conference Tuesday from Washington, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said people at the town hall meeting he held in Missoula last week discussed many issues - but the biggest topics were plans to reorganize Job Corps training centers, including closing the one in Anaconda and privatizing the management of Montana's Trapper Creek training center. "Too often and in far too many cases, the administration acts without regard for real-world consequences...
Havre’s Philanthropic Education Organization chapters celebrated their 91st birthday this past May, along with the 150th national anniversary, and this year, the organization was able to provide $7,500 in scholarships to six women. “Education continues to be the primary philanthropy of the P.E.O. Sisterhood,,” Havre Chapter V President Wendy Tilleman said. “We proudly sponsor six international philanthropies, designed to assist women during various stages of their educational journey. To date, these projects have awarded...
The Salvation Army of Havre is requesting donations to help meet their utility needs after the harsh winter that made the needs requests higher than normal. “The needs are higher than what we normally have because of the harder winter,” Social Services Director Trina Crawford said. North-central Montana saw its second-coldest February on record this year. Crawford added whatever money they receive through donations will go into the social services bucket and will be used for the rest of this month and some of next month to...
Planning for the annual Independence Day Festival is underway, with people invited to come to Pepin Park to help with and to enjoy the event. “You can enjoy the company of your neighbor and it’s fun being outside,” event co-organizer Sherri Simonson said. “I just think that it’s an event for Havre, and it’s supported by Havre.” Every summer for the past 19 years the festival has been held in Pepin Park for the Fourth of July. The festival is open to the community at large and provides a free lunch, activities and live musi...
Lenore Ellen Lueth Tyler was born on March 29, 1940, to dairy farmers Ed and Ellen Lueth in Abbotsford, Wisconsin. Born premature and at home, Lenore had to develop and display strength from the very beginning. After high school, Lenore attended Taylor County Teacher's College and earned her teaching certification. After teaching in Wisconsin for one year, she applied elsewhere. She received two job offers - one in Chicago, and one at a country school south and west of Big...
Both of Montana’s U.S. senators pushed Tuesday for permanent funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Sen. Steve Daines, a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources said during a committee hearing Tuesday that the fund has been critical to Montana. “It’s absolutely remarkable, 70 percent of our fishing accesses have been funded by LWCF,” Daines said, adding that boarding flights to Bozeman on a weekend from any major airport, “There are as many fly rods getting on that plane as passenger...
A caller on the 600 Block of 14th Avenue reported at 1:30 this morning that a man had been stabbed on his left side. Officers and an ambulance responded to the residence, and Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said the injured man was taken to Northern Montana Hospital. The extent of his injuries is not known, Matosich added. The lead investigator had not completed the paperwork, but Matosich said that the injured man said he did not know who stabbed him, and the investigation...
Hill County Cemetery District will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the cemetery office. • Call to order • Public comment • Approval of minutes from previous meeting • Old business • New business • Claims...
Havre Police Department William Tracey Ahenakew Jr. of Box Elder, 28, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge, after a First Street caller reported Tuesday at 8:48 a.m. that a man was throwing rocks at a vehicle. -- Officers investigated a crash in which a vehicle ran into a garage on Second Avenue, reported Tuesday at 9:41 a.m. -- A dog bite was reported by hospital personnel at 9:46 a.m. Tuesday. -- Jaclyn Marie Haley of Havre, 37, was issued a summons on charges of...
The Havre Daily News will publish on Independence Day, July 4, but will not publish July 5 to allow its employees to have a three-day weekend. Businesses that are not open on July 4 will receive their July 4 paper on Monday, July 8....
From Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and firefighters across Montana encourage you to celebrate the Fourth of July with wildfire safety in mind. For many Montanans, Fourth of July festivities include celebrating with family and friends by enjoying campfires, barbeques, and firework displays. While these summertime activities are sure to ignite good times, one stray spark has the potential to cause substantial damage. During these...
The film industry produces something different every day. Movies and TV shows represent all varieties of genres and styles. Some may be three-hour epics, while others may be only a few minutes. They’re distributed through different methods, from major theater releases to YouTube uploads. Regardless of the differences, one thing you’ll always see is a sequence to credit the people, and indeed the places, responsible for the production. Credit sequences are determined by contracts, unions and tradition. As a result of fin...
Editor, The North Central Montana Shrine Club would like to thank the public for buying the Vidalia onions to support our hospitals. We unloaded 6,000 pounds of onions and had them sold in nine days. We buy the onions from Georgia, pay for the shipping and then sell them for $13 for a 10-pound bag. The North Central Shrine Club takes in Turner, Harlem, Chinook, Havre, Big Sandy, Loma and the Hi-Line. This year, we had outstanding support. Besides buying the onions, we had many people that gave us extra money. To be exact,...
I started The Postscript exactly one year ago. I am more than a little superstitious when it comes to numbers. When I wrote the first draft of my memoir, “Blue Yarn,” I had an even number of chapters in all three sections. This was probably tidier than necessary, but maybe not terribly unusual. But then I made sure that every chapter had exactly 5,000 words. This pleased me to no end — even as I realized my mania for symmetry was tipping over the edge. When my agent sent...
Due to weather and a change in the schedule, the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team paid a visit to the Tri-County Cardinals Tuesday instead of earlier in the season. When the Northstars hosted their Northern A rival at Legion Field last month, they swept them and Tuesday, on the road, the result was the same, as Havre won the first game 7-6 and followed it up with a 12-6 victory to win their third in a row. The Northstars are now 18-11 overall and 10-6 in the...
It has been a busy week for softball at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field, thanks to a pair of Havre Youth Softball Association tournaments being held there this week. Tuesday night, the A League championship was held as Wolfers and Montana Country Boutique met for the city championship. Hi-Line Rental was also in the mix but lost to Wolfers in the semifinals to take third. Wolfers and MCB met in the championship and were eventually forced into a winner-take-all affair for the l...
From Montana FFA Foundation BOZEMAN — This spring, the Montana FFA Foundation was able to award over $70,000 in scholarships and grants to FFA members and local FFA chapters throughout the state including several awards in Chinook. The foundation said the awards would not be possible without generous donors and supporters. Thirty-nine students will be receiving a combined total of $42,000 in scholarships for college, leadership development, and top individuals in competitions held at the State FFA Convention in Bozeman. These...
From Montana Department of Agriculture HELENA — The Montana Department of Agriculture announced Christy Clark has accepted the division administrator position for the department’s agricultural sciences division. Clark, a native of Choteau, has served as bureau chief of the department’s agricultural development and marketing bureau since 2015. “We were very fortunate to have a talented pool of candidates to choose from, but Christy clearly stood out and rose to the top of the field,” Department Director Ben Thomas said. “He...
From Northern International Livestock Exhibition BILLINGS — The Northern International Livestock Exposition is looking for college students who are willing and able to work all day and into the night, eat and sleep minimally, handle high pressure situations, work in the extreme weather conditions of October in Montana, and enjoy every minute of it. NILE staff is looking for those college kids who are a little obsessed, a little quirky and have a lot of heart. They want those people who eat, breathe and sleep stock shows a...
