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The past week has not been good news for college football. And on Thursday, the bad news trickled down to the Frontier Conference, the state of Montana and Montana State University-Northern. There will be no Frontier Conference football in 2020, and that Ultimately means, there will be no college football of any kind in the Treasure State this fall. "At this time the Frontier Conference has elected to move the sport of football to the spring. The leagues administrators have...
At a press conference Wednesday Gov. Steve Bullock announced that he is amending the directive he issued July 15 that requires people in counties with four or more active cases of COVID-19 to wear face masks in certain indoor and outdoor environments to include public and private K-12 schools in preparation for the upcoming re-opening of many such institutions this fall. Bullock said this decision is based on the advice he’s received from health experts and organizations in Montana and beyond. “We have to follow the gui...
The Hill County Commission voted down this morning a resolution to allow for mail-in ballots for the 2020 general election at their weekly business meeting Thursday, with Hill County Commissioners Diane McLean and Mark Peterson voting no and Hill County Commissioner Mike Wendland voting yes. The resolution would have allowed the county to send ballots to all active registered voters on which they could vote and mail in. Absentee ballots will still be available. Peterson said h...
Northern Montana Health Care posted on the Northern Montana Hospital Facebook page that Northern Montana Family Medical Center will be closed for the rest of the day due to a positive confirmation of a COVID-19 case. The center will be closed for deep cleaning, the post said. People who have appointments will be contacted to reschedule, the post said. Watch for more on this here as information becomes available and in Friday's edition of The Havre Daily New... Full story
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 315 with 101 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 197,820 with 1,784 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 81. The number of recoveries was 3,937 and the number of active cases was 1,389. People can visit the state tracking map online through a link at https://montana.maps.arcgis.com or at https://covid19.mt.gov .... Full story
Amber Coleman, 16, soon to be a junior at Havre High School brightened the days of residents and their families at the Northern Montana Care Center this summer by painting the windows of her grandmother's room along with windows of many others living there. Coleman said she originally got the idea to paint her grandmother's windows from her mother and things snowballed from there. Her mother's co-worker asked if Coleman could paint her father's window, as he was a resident...
Chester-Joplin-Inverness Schools plans to return back to school at full capacity and with face-to-face instruction. “(Tuesday) morning at 6 a.m., the board approved the revised and approved the return to learn or school re-opening plan that I presented to them,” CJI Superintendent Tim Bronk said. “Basically, the plan states our goal that we believe face-to-face learning is best and that’s our goal to make that happen in the traditional sense.” “We want to do that in keeping the school safe and healthy, and we want to keep it...
The Havre School Board of Trustees voted Tuesday for a blended approach of having half of the students one day and the other half the next and the director of Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line said the club will be working to accommodate members when the students will not be in school. "We have been talking with the school since before their meeting in July trying to coordinate with them, because we want to make sure that we're taking care of kids and their families when they...
Big Sandy Schools is heading back to opening at full capacity, but with some precautions. “The board approved the plan of re-opening — we had approved everyone comes back with precautions in place,” Big Sandy Schools Superintendent Kelly Haaland said. Students are not required to wear a mask, but are highly suggested to when group gatherings cannot be avoided, he said. Gov. Steve Bullock announced Wednesday he amended his directive requiring people in public places in counties with four or more active cases of COVID-19 to we...
Press release Montana The Magazine of Western History's first digital issue - African Americans in Montana and the West - is now available online for free. It can be viewed at https://mhs.mt.gov/pubs/MMWHDigitalIssueSum2020 . This special digital issue focuses on African American history in Montana and the diversity of Black experiences in the West. We draw attention to this history with a selection of articles from the past 25 years of Montana The Magazine of Western...
Press release Registration for the upcoming 2020-21 school year at Havre Middle School will be online at http://blueponyk12.com . People are asked to view the website for more information and to complete registration by Aug. 21....
Robert E. Swagerty, 88, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Cremation has taken place and graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, August 17, 2020, with military honors.... Full story
From Montana Legal Services Association An ITI report is an Individual Trust Interest report, which you can get from your local BIA office or from the Regional BIA office in Billings, MT. An ITI report lists all the tribal trust land that an individual owns, regardless of location. When you are writing your will, it is a good idea to request an updated copy of your ITI report. Sometimes people inherit land without being aware of it. If you own tribal trust land, you may be able to use a free program to write your own will....
Havre Police Department A caller at Third Street West asked Wednesday at 4:25 p.m. if an officer would speak with two residents. -- Officers investigated a report of a man laying on the ground in between a trailer and a building near a First Street business Wednesday at 8:57 p.m. Hill County Sheriff's Office A dog bite was reported by the hospital Thursday at 2:38 p.m. -- Tracy Lynn Eagleman of Havre, 31, was arrested on a state District Court warrant at Hill County Detention...
Michelle and Ana, up the road in Oconahua, tagged the name “Gringolandia” onto our enclave and it stuck. Though there has never been a dozen of us in residence at any one time, we are the closest thing to a North American colony in the greater Etzatlan municipality. As of Friday, there are now three of us pale-faces in residence in Gringolandia. Lani has returned from four-and-a-half months up north. I won’t see her until she has hidden away for the requisite two weeks. Janet...
If you want to move the football, you gotta have the road graders up front to help your offense do it. And over the years, the Frontier Conference has had some outstanding offensive linemen. And, the 2020 season, which is inching closer to training camps opening, should be no different when it comes to the offensive lines. At Montana State University-Northern, the offensive line has had its ups and downs in recent years, but third-year head coach Andrew Rolin is excited about...
