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COVID-19 has affected numerous businesses and organizations across the country and one in particular here Havre in its services, volunteers and more. "With COVID coming on, we are considered and have been considered an essential business, we are emergency services, so we have been a presence here since COVID started," Havre Salvation Army Emergency Services Director Trina Crawford said. "Definitely some of the changes and the things we see in COVID that are difficult for Salva...
New cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Liberty County, its first since March, and Hill County, and Rocky Boy Health Center, the COVID-19 incident command center at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation announced it is changing how it is reporting cases confirmed at the center. The state COVID-19 tracking map this morning reported five cases in Liberty County, which had been at one case reported in March until now. Hill County Health Department reported Tuesday afternoon that six new cases had been confirmed in the county, t...
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., stopped in Havre Tuesday to continue his tour to visit all 56 counties of Montana to discuss with local leaders about what is going on in the area. Several local officials and leaders met with Daines at the Bear Paw Development Corp. meeting room, with much, but not all, of the discussion related tot he COVID-19 pandemic. Daines is running for re-election this year and faces Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, who cannot run for re-election due to term...
In a Tuesday seminar held via Zoom, by Aaniiih Nakoda College, Research Biologist at the Smithsonian Biology Conservation Institute Hila Shamon presented details about the Institute's impending reintroduction of swift foxes to the Fort Belknap area, a program she is leading. The project, originally being run by the American Prairie Reserve in conjunction with the Fort Belknap Indian community, aims to create a populations of swift foxes, an animal that has been absent from...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 402 with 125 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 238,260 with 1,753 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 98. The number of recoveries was 4,983 and the number of active cases was 1,704. The new cases by county were in: Hill: 6 new cases, 75 total, 28 active, 45 recovered, 2 deaths Liberty: 4 new cases, 5 total, 4 active, 1 recovered, 0 deaths Blaine: No new cases, 15 total, 1 active, 14 recovered...
Victoria “Vicky” Kostelecky, age 63, passed away peacefully at her home in Pembina, North Dakota August 12, 2020, following a year-long battle with brain cancer. Vicky was born in Havre May 4, 1957, to James and Virginia Pasma. Cremation has taken place and due to Vicky’s wishes, no services are planned....
Note: This was provided by the Office of U.S. Sen Jon Tester U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is continuing his push to make sure Montana families are able to get enough to eat during the coronavirus crisis. In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Tester wrote that Montana needs more flexibility to ensure schools, food banks and other organizations can continue providing critical assistance to families struggling to make ends meet. “Montana families have to be able to continue putting food on the t...
Note: This was provided by the Veterans’ Affairs Committee Office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester U.S. Sens Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Jerry Moran, R-Kans., — ranking member and chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, respectively — are seeking additional support from the Department of Veterans Affairs to protect the health and lives of veterans and staff in long-term care facilities during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. “Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing homes and long-term care facilities have emerged as one of the mo...
BILLINGS — Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney announced that $542,000 in grant funding has been awarded to 19 rural and safety net health care providers to assist Montanans in finding and enrolling in affordable and comprehensive insurance coverage. That includes $30,000 to Bullhook Community Health Center in Havre. “I’m thrilled that this grant program will help Montana overcome funding reductions at the federal level and provide access to comprehensive health care coverage at a more affordable cost,” Lt. Gov. Cooney said. “Public...
Havre Police Department Tuesday at 7:43 a.m., a Fifth Avenue caller reported vandalism. -- Someone stopped at the police station at 2:48 p.m. Tuesday to speak with an officer. -- Someone stopped at the police station Tuesday at 4:11 p.m. to report a case of identity theft. -- Officers were called to a First Street West business Friday at 11:18 p.m. to provide assistance. -- Ryan Colie Lamere of Box Elder, 37, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant served at 1:46 a.m....
Press release HELENA — The Montana Oilseed Advisory Committee will hold a virtual listening session Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 10 a.m. The listening session gives growers and stakeholders the opportunity to provide input regarding a proposed referendum, including the amount of the proposed assessment and method of collection. The committee is proposing a 1 percent assessment on the following oilseed crops: Mustard, soybeans, safflower, sunflower, flax and canola. Assessment funds will be used for research, market development, a...
Press release The Havre Veterans Affairs office is conducting outreach, but the office notes in a press release that due to COVID-19 and travel restrictions it is unable to see veterans at this time at Rocky Boy, Fort Belknap and Browning. Veterans who you wish to schedule an appointment at the Havre office, are asked to call 265-4225 and the office will schedule it. Masks are required. Browning veterans can meet in Cut Bank due to COVID-19. Outreach meetings are scheduled for: Wednesday, Sept. 9 Shelby Courthouse,...
I’ve been reading to Lori. Lori is my husband, Peter’s, older sister. She has cancer and has been battling it for a while now. She uses oxygen to help out and catching this virus would be terrible for her, so Peter and I are extra careful, in large part because I’d like to keep reading to Lori. I’ve been writing a novel. It’s the first time I’ve written fiction, so I honestly don’t have any idea what I’m doing. It’s the sort of thing a person learns how to do by doing — and so...
The Frontier Conference football season won't happen for at least another five months. And that's a long time to wait, considering the season was set to being in a mere two weeks before the league postponed the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. And yet, when football does resume next spring, the league will have a lot of familiar names donning headseats, as every coach but one from last season returns for another season at the helm. And even that new head coach, is a...
Building a team is a big part of fall camp. It's a normal process, and one that takes time. But in this new normal that has gripped college football this fall, for now at least, one thing the Lights have is time. With the NAIA and Frontier Conference seasons postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Lights are in the middle of a two-week fall camp, but after that things will be different for Northern for the remainder of the first semester. The Lights will hit...
By Reagan Colyer MSU News Service BOZEMAN - Herbicide-resistant weeds are a critical but often overlooked issue facing modern agriculture, according to Montana State University researcher William Dyer. Thanks to a new grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dyer and research scientist Barbara Keith will continue decades of research into exactly how weeds develop that resistance. Herbicides are used to combat weeds without killing crops, as opposed to pesticides, which...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today the availability of assistance for agricultural producers affected by the recent wildfires to help eligible farmers and ranchers reestablish their operations. “USDA is ready to offer all the assistance we can to the affected farmers, ranchers and communities to help them recover,” said Bill Northey, USDA under secretary for farm production and conservation. “As a farmer myself, I’m proud to be able to deliver on our most important mission to support them in their...