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Hill County's Area X Council on Aging reports it is receiving multiple calls in the last few days reporting Social Security fraud calls, including from people in their 30s. Montana Senior Medicare Patrol reports calls are being received in Montana from people impersonating Social Security Administration employees. The intent is to frighten the person called into giving information that can be used for identity theft or accessing bank accounts, the patrol said. People should...
Hill County Health Departments says on its Facebook page it has received reports of potential harmful algal blooms on Beaver Creek Reservoir and Bear Paw Lake south of Havre. People are warned to use caution at those lakes to avoid exposure to potential harmful algal blooms and to keep pets out of the areas where they see algae. Direct skin contact or inhalation of the toxic blue-green algae may cause irritation of the skin, eyes, nose or throat, and people may experience...
Since it was established in 1962, Northern Home Essentials - originally Northern Electronics - has been a family-owned and operated business and the DeRosa family plans to continue the tradition for years to come. "At this point in time, the reason that the store works the way that it does is because the three of us are involved," Brian DeRosa said. "There's no ifs, ands or buts about it." Northern Home Essentials is owned by Larry DeRosa, and his children Brian DeRosa and...
Montana State University’s Hill County Extension Agency is spearheading two series starting next week to help people dealing with illnesses — their own or someone they care for. “Powerful Tools for Caregivers” will be a six-week series starting Monday running Mondays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church. “It is for caregivers, caregivers of any sorts, so it could mean someone taking care of someone with a mental illness or someone with autism or someone with a chronic disease,” Hill County Extension A...
From Montana Wheat and Barley Committee GREAT FALLS — Gov. Steve Bullock appointed Max Cederberg of Turner and Llew Jones of Conrad to the Board of the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee. The MWBC administers the check-off dollars paid by Montana wheat and barley producers. Cederberg will serve as the District 2 producer-director, replacing Randy Hinebauch of Chinook, who served nine years on the wheat and barley board. Cederberg raises a variety of small grains and pulse crops on his farm and manages both conventional and or...
“When I was a teenage boy, I was just enamored by rock ’n’ roll and the rock ’n’ roll artists of that age, and even going back to the 1950s, which was a generation before me, it was just supremely attractive,” one-man-band John “Schizoid Johnny” Steinhardt said. Steinhardt, originally from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is performing at Old Station Brewery Saturday 5 to 8 p.m., with no cover charge. He had always been musical since he was a little boy, and it has been a passion and a love with everything he does in his life, Steinhard...
Havre Police Department A caller at a First Street West establishment reported an abandoned bike Wednesday at 4:43 p.m. -- A caller at a First Street West business reported Wednesday at 7:19 p.m. that a bike was stolen. -- Melinda Rose Cochran of Havre, 38, was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license, during a vehicle stop on Fifth Avenue Wednesday at 8:04 p.m. -- Bailey Houston Fiddler of Box Elder, 22, was issued a summons on two counts...
The Hill County Mosquito Control District Board will meet Monday at 5:15 p.m. in the Hill County Weed and Mosquito Control District Office at the Road and Weed Shop Complex, 1405 W Second St. The meeting agenda is: 1. Review Minutes from Previous Meetings 2. Correspondence 3. New Business a) Purchase order approval b) Mosquito sample testing results — West Nile Virus c) Update to GPS system 4. Unfinished Business a) Budget update b) Larvicide and adulticide applications 5. Announcements — Non-action items a) Next meeting Oct...
From Montana Department of Commerce HELENA — Nineteen Montana communities including Big Sandy will share more than $275,000 in planning grants through the Montana Department of Commerce’s Treasure State Endowment Program to support the development of infrastructure projects. “Every community needs clean drinking water, safe bridges and good water treatment systems,” Montana Department of Commerce Director Tara Rice said. “These TSEP grants support the planning of infrastructure projects that are vital to the future of Montan...
Dear Editor, The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all those who participated in the new Biz and Brews event last weekend. The goal was to encourage shopping locally and it was a success! Thanks to the businesses that had drink stops: Havre Elks Lodge #1201, Cavaliers, Montana Country Boutique, Norman’s Ranchwear and Vizsla Brewery. Thanks to the sponsors of the raffle prizes: Triangle Communications, Cape Air, Duchscher Kapperud Insurance, Independence Bank, Boyce and Berry Flowers and American Solution f...
Times Were Simpler We like to imagine Times were simpler then. We brag to grandchildren, Honey, when I was your age I walked a mile To school every day, Barefoot, through the snow, Uphill both ways. They laugh. We romanticize the past, Ignore ugly parts, piece a mosaic Of what we wish to keep. If only we could turn back The clock a hundred years … Times were no different. Wars, inequity, cruelty, Hatred, disease … The same. We were simpler then. Poetry? Ewww. Not that awful incomprehensible stuff we were forced to read in hig...
Jerry Wagner has had a lot of season-openers in what has been a storied volleyball coaching career. But the one he's about to go into might be a season-opener unlike any other. That's because, tonight inside the Armory, things will come full circle for Wagner, who got his college coaching career started in that very same gym over 30 years ago. In other words, tonight, the Jerry Wagner era of Montana State University-Northern volleyball part two begins when the Skylights host...
