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Editor’s note: Havre Daily News received an updated version of this calendar, with changes below, after going to the press Friday. Monday 10 a.m. — Council on Aging Interview with Bill Lanier in commissioners’ office 1 p.m. — Fair Commission interview with Alicia DeRosa in commissioners’ office Tuesday 8:30 a.m. — Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation fire update call in commissioners’ office 10 a.m. — Montana Department of Transportation Havre Semi-Annual meeting at Best Western Plus Havre Inn and Suites,...
Tonight, the Havre High football team is set to face off against Billings Central at Blue Pony Stadium. Billings Central enters the contest with an undefeated record, so HHS head coach Jake Eldridge expects a tough game for the Blue Ponies tonight. "It's going to be a good ball game with a really good football team coming to town," Eldridge said. "We expect to be another really good ball game versus a very physical football team." The Billings Central Rams come into the game...
Hill County Park Board this week approved a request through Havre Trails to put a memorial bench halfway up Mount Otis in Beaver Creek Park in memory of decades-long photographer and community volunteer Steve Helmbrecht. Helmbrecht died of cancer Oct. 21, 2021, at age 70. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar recommended the board approve the request. “It’s a great place for a bench there, and one of Steve Helmbrecht’s favorite places to take pictures,” he said. The board approved the request unanimously, althoug...
On this year’s 2020 General Election Ballot will be a question regarding whether Hill County should impose a three percent tax on medical and recreational marijuana products sold in the county, and a hearing on that question has been scheduled for next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Timmons Room at the Hill County Courthouse. The commission originally scheduled the hearing for Tuesday afternoon this week, but the meeting was not properly noticed in local media and only one member of the public, Les Odegard, who’s running as...
More than 50 people attended this year's Hill County Suicide Awareness Walk Thursday, where those affected by suicide did a one-mile route around Montana State University-Northern and talked about their experiences. The event, organized by the Hill County Suicide Awareness Coalition and supported by the Hill County Local Advisory Council on Behavioral Health, has been held every year for almost a decade to raise awareness about suicide and to destigmatize the mental health...
Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson Associated Press BILLINGS — Just hours after a Montana judge blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate, the Republican-run state Thursday said it would defy the order. District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state during a hearing in Billings for circumventing his April order that temporarily blocked a 2021 Montana law that made it harder to change birth certificates. M...
Havre Daily News staff Just off of holding one successful community event, the group working to fix the aging Chinook City Pool and Sweet Park is setting up for another. Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation, formed in 2021, held its Drool in the Pool event Sept. 8, and is preparing for its Brewfest to be held Oct. 1 in conjunction with Chinook's Sugarbeet Festival. The group held its first ever Drool in the Pool to give area dogs the chance to swim in the Chinook pool....
Greetings community of Havre, As we celebrate Havre Festival Days 2022, many fun events will take place in the downtown area bringing an increase of pedestrians and vendors to gather and celebrate at Town Square. For the safety of everyone and to provide ample space for the community to unite and celebrate together, street closures will be implemented from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17. Affected areas are Third Avenue between First and Second streets, as well as the parking lot at Town Square. The parade will take...
Editor, What do you picture when you think of Montana? Is it the huge swaths of hikeable nature? Our varied individual liberties? The nation’s best fishing and hunting? Or is it privacy from the chaos and prying of more populated states like California? Fifty years ago, Montanans decided that these things were important enough to our culture to be enshrined as rights within the state Constitution. The product was the creation of the greatest constitution in the nation; one chock-full of rights that average Montanans see the f...
Editor, The Montana Constitution is in peril and its consequential protections towards citizens are at risk. My name is Liam Edwards and I am an intern at the Montana Public Interest Research Group. The current Montana Constitution has offered protections for us for over 50 years. It guarantees our right to privacy, right to a clean and healthful environment, and the right to oversee government proceedings. These rights are important because they guarantee public land and water access. Public access to land and water means a...
My column headline is a paraphrase of a quote from the book and movie “Princess Bride” in which one character repeatedly comments “Inconceivable!” every time something outrageous occurs to thwart his plans, finally prompting another character to say, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” The reason for the paraphrase though, is because this time we’re talking about a candy rather than a word. Specifically, it’s a gummy bear-style cand...
I had a restless night, had made a hasty decision hard to unmake, nothing important, but irritating, and my mind wanted to run it on a Mobius Loop. I said, Enough of this. I’ll think about something else. On my bedroom wall I’d hung a beautiful depiction of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It’s not art, more like a framed poster. In the full moonlight, it was easy to focus on her calming face. I began wondering what the not-historic parts of Mary’s life might have been like and this is...
Richard "Ric" Richter left this world in April 2022 at his home in Oro Valley, AZ, where he lived with his loving wife of 40 years, Jane. He was born in Glasgow, MT, in 1944, and grew up in Big Sandy and Havre. One of his favorite memories, as the sixth man on the Big Sandy High School Basketball team, was swishing the winning basket in a state championship game in the '60s. Ric went to the University of Montana, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, and graduated...
Press release GREAT FALLS — A woman suspected of shooting a woman in the face over a drug deal on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation admitted to an assault charge Thursday, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Tricia Friede Gardipee, 50, pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Gardipee faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. The court will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sen...
Havre City Council President Andrew Brekke will convene a Town Hall Meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in Havre City Hall to talk about the proposal on the November ballot to have Havre switch to a city manager-council form of government. The existing form of the Havre government, a form provided by the city says, is broken into three branches: City Council, legislative branch • Governing body of the city • Deliberates and adopts all ordinances and resolutions • Adopts city budget • Advises and consents to mayoral appointees of depa...
Havre City-County Airport Board will meet Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at 3 p.m. in the airport terminal. The meeting agenda is: 1. Approval of Aug. 18 minutes. 2. Correspondence. 3. Reports (A) Manager (B) Inspection (C) Finance (D) Engineer 4. Public comments 5. Unfinished business (A) North End of Southway Lake (B) CIP Approval 6. New business (A) Painting big hangar 7. Approval of the September claims....
Havre Police Department Officers investigated an open door to a Third Street business where no one was around at 8:24 a.m. Thursday. -- A sexual or violent offender registry violation was reported at the police station Thursday at 10:16 a.m. -- Dustin John Grandchamp of Box Elder, 30, was issued a summons on a charge of shoplifting after an 11:12 a.m. Thursday report of a theft from a First Street West business. -- Officers assisted another agency with an investigation in...
Out our way, Charlie and I spent a good deal of time riding empty prairie. We generally knew where the herd was located - even in the huge expanses of the Tiger Ridge it didn't take much to find the several hundred head milling about grazing. But "Big Mike," the owner, didn't send us out just to stay around watching the herd - he sent us out to look for strays. Cattle are not overly bright to begin with, and although most new calves have the sense to stick by mama and the...
The four seasons have been a constant since the earth's inception. Depending upon climate, terrain and many other variables, the specifics may vary drastically. Our whole culture gears up in the fall for beginnings. Business, family, church, school, all are ready in the autumn to begin new programs and projects. So the fall of the year is perhaps the best place to break into the circle of the seasons and begin considering specific things we can do to care for creation. But...
You know, Lord, one really never understands some things in life until they experience it themselves. Like that old saying, "One has to walk a mile in another's shoes" to know the feeling - to get it! Take for instance the job of being a caretaker [caregiver]; folks usually are more concerned for the one being cared for, rather than the care-taker; that is, until they've walked that path themselves. The situation ain't easy, be it a parent, spouse or child. One can love them...
North Central Senior Citizens Center Sept. 19-23 Header Monday, Sept. 19 — Swedish meatballs, rice, beets, fruit Tuesday, Sept. 20 — Applesauce, roast pork, mashed potatoes with gravy, sunshine carrots, rolls Wednesday, Sept. 21 — Chicken broccoli casserole, garlic cheddar biscuits, salad, cookies Thursday, Sept. 22 — Polish sausage, sauerkraut, potato supreme, pudding Friday, Sept. 23 — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert Keeping up with the pandemic: Sept. 12, 16 new cases of COVID-19, total number is 5,628, active 4, no active h...
In its first few weeks under Jerome Souers, the Montana State University-Northern football team has faced its fair share of adversity. The Lights are off to an 0-2 start and things do not get much easier with a game this Saturday at Tilleman Field against Montana Western, the 19th-ranked team in the nation. While the treading has been tough, Souers has liked how his team has pushed through it. "The morale has been strong and the team chemistry is holding up," Souers said....
The Havre High volleyball is finally back on the Hi-Line with a match at Havre High Gymnasium this Saturday afternoon. After three weekends on the road, the Blue Ponies will play Glendive in their home opener. While the Ponies are excited to be at home, HHS head coach Stephanie Huse expects Glendive to play well. "They have some good athletes that play for them and they're well coached," Huse said. "They're aggressive and they serve well so they're going to present a good chal...
Another weekend, another road trip for the Havre High cross country teams. This Saturday, the Blue Ponies will head to Fort Peck for the Scottie Invitational. At this meet, the Ponies will compete against teams they have already faced as well as teams they will face later in the season, so HHS head coach Erin Lynch expects a competitive and illuminating meet for the Ponies. "We're going to have some of the same teams we saw this weekend so there will be some pretty decent...
For those of us who are lucky enough to reside somewhere in the Treasure State, and are fans of college football, it's no secret that Montana Grizzly and Montana State Bobcat football is our big time. To us, game days at Washington-Grizzly Stadium or Bobcat Stadium are no different than in Tuscaloosa or Austin or Los Angeles. To us, college football in Missoula and Bozeman is the big time. And it's been growing exponentially. My observations come in the form of my 30-plus...
