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Northern Montana Health Care staff are facing a grimly familiar sight as COVID-19 cases rise and beds fill in a scene disturbingly similar to last year. Northern Montana Health Care Chief of Staff Kevin Harada said workers are facing longer hours and greater stress as more and more positive cases crop up in the community, threatening to overwhelm the health care system in the not-too-distant future if things continue to get worse. "Things are heating up," Harada said. Havre Da...
Hill County will start hosting WorkSafe Champions’ classes for its employees starting next Wednesday in an attempt to lower the county’s unusually high workers’ compensation rates. Hill County Safety Coordinator Sheri Williams, who’s spent the last few months setting up these classes and getting the county’s departments on board with it, said her goal in bringing these classes to the county is to improve its safety culture, prevent accidents and save taxpayers money. The program is a safety education program under the Monta...
The Montana state COVID tracking map after this morning’s update listed 1,209 new cases, 9,545 active cases, 361 hospitalizations and 1,877deaths. The cumulative total for the state as 139,712 cases. Blaine County was reported on the state update this morning as having no new cases, 44 active, 952 total cases, 24 deaths. The county health department had not released an update by printing deadline this morning. Hill County Health Department reported Thursday evening that 35 new cases were reported, 175 active, 8 active h...
The Hill County Commission in their weekly business meeting Thursday morning awarded the Beaver Creek Dam Spillway and Spill Basin Repair Project to Walker River Construction. Jonathan Weaver of Great West Engineering, who attended the meeting remotely, said the original bid was for $175,000, but after discussions with the company, the Montana Natural Resources Conservation Service and the commission itself, it was determined that a value engineering option that would reduce the the project cost by almost $33,000 was viable....
From U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana The Department of Justice has selected an additional 12 federally recognized tribes including Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana to participate in the expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information — TAP — a program that provides tribal governments with means to access, enter, and exchange data with national crime information systems, including those maintained by the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division and the states. The Chippewa Cre...
From Montana State University-Northern Last Saturday morning, Sept. 11, Montana State University-Northern conducted its annual campus clean-up event. It was part of the community-wide Havre clean-up days. This year enjoyed an excellent turnout from students, faculty, staff, and administration. It was especially exciting to see the high number of faculty who participated, especially Jack Bieger and Kevin Holzworth, who encouraged their students to attend. Northern helped to clean the perimeter of campus, Fifth Avenue, and the...
From Montana State University-Northern For the past 16 years, The Montana State University-Northern Skylights basketball team has held a fall leadership retreat to help facilitate team building, unity, and to help the community. This year they painted the inside of the pavilion at the second lake in the Bear Paw Mountains. Over the years, they have painted the pavilion, picnic tables in Beaver Creek Park, and many of the buildings at Camp Kiwanis. They also helped begin the restoration process on cabins at Camp Kiwanis by...
From Montana State University-Northern With Montana State University-Northern celebrating Homecoming Week next week, it has reminded students to vote for their favorite homecoming couple. The polls will be open from midnight Sunday, Sept. 19, to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24. Students need to use their NetID and password to log into the voting system. Students have three ways to access the voting site: 1) a link on the Current Student page 2) Chrome will automatically launch and open to the ballot login page for people who log...
Press release The Community Orchestra will have its first rehearsal Tuesday, Sept. 21, from 6-8 p.m. in Pershing Hall on the Montana State University-Northern campus. People can contact Rhonda Minnick at [email protected] for more information....
From Glacier National Park WEST GLACIER — Glacier National Park reports another busy year with 2,354,475 visitors through August. A pilot ticketed entry system was implemented on Going-to-the-Sun Road for the 2021 season to help manage high traffic volumes during a predicted high visitor season; avoid traffic back-ups onto U.S. Highway 2 during construction; and operate with reduced staff and services due to COVID-19 mitigations. The goals of ticketed entry included shaving off the high peaks in traffic to reduce c...
Margaret R. Piapot, 73, passed away due to natural causes on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at Benefis Eastview Senior Care. Wake services will begin at 3:00 p.m. today, September 17, 2021, and will continue until her funeral service, which will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 18, 2021, all at the Living Water Church in Rocky Boy. Burial will follow in the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Margaret’s o... Full story
Betty Jo Spotted Horse, 54, passed away due to natural causes at a residence Thursday, September 16, 2021. Wake services began at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, September 16, 2021, and continued until her funeral service at 10:00 a.m. today, Friday, September 17, 2021, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church with Russell Standing Rock officiating. Burial followed in the Rocky Boy Cemetery.... Full story
Monday 8 a.m. — Center for Mental Health in Great Falls Tuesday 8:30 a.m. — Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Fire Update call in commissioners’ office 10:30 a.m. — Road Department meeting in commissioners’ office 1:30 p.m. — Havre Trails meeting in the commissioners’ office 2:30 p.m. — Great West meeting in the commissioners’ office 5:30 p.m. — Great Northern Fair Board meeting at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center 6 p.m. — Milk River Levee update — Public meeting at the Great Northern F...
Havre Police Department Stephanie Rita Small of Havre, 38, was arrested on a criminal contempt charge related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program no show reported at the police station Thursday at 8 a.m. -- A 15-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of underage tobacco possession or consumption reported at 11:01 a.m. Thursday at Havre High School. -- Another summons was issued on a charge of underage tobacco possession or consumption reported Thursday at 1:01 p.m. at Havre High...
I realized two things this week about the often adverse relationship between animals and man — one thing because of the lack of headlines and the other because of the wealth of headlines. First, both Yellowstone and Glacier national parks had record numbers of people visiting this summer, but we hardly had any headlines about people getting injured or killed by wildlife. A couple tourists got injured in Yellowstone, but I just don’t recall and cannot find anything about inj...
After a 2020 season to forget, the Havre High football team is off to a 2-1 start to 2021. However, they will face maybe their toughest opponent so far this season when they head on the road to play Billings Central tonight. The Rams are coming off a 2020 season where they made it all the way to the Class A state championship game. While the Blue Ponies will have their hands full tonight, HHS head coach Ryan Gatch expects a competitive game. "(We're going to) fly around and...
The Havre High volleyball team played their first four matches of the season over a span of nine days. After their most recent match against Miles City, the Blue Ponies got a break of nearly a week before their next match on the road against Sidney tonight. While the Ponies lost their most recent match in five sets against Miles City, HHS head coach Stephanie Huse hopes that experience as well as the week of rest will help her team tonight. "Playing Miles City to five, that...
The Montana State University-Northern football team has dropped both of their games to start the fall 2021 season and things will not get much easier this Saturday. The Lights will head on the road to Dillon to face University of Montana Western as they try to pick up their first win this season. While the Bulldogs should be a formidable opponent, MSU-N head coach Andrew Rolin believes his team can compete if they execute their game plan. "Western's well-coached and they're...
With the Havre Invite now in the rearview mirror, the Havre High cross country teams get back on the road for the Mountain West Classic in Missoula Saturday. The meet will be their biggest of the year with over 80 schools competing there. However, HHS head coach Erin Lynch is looking forward to running against teams they will eventually face in the postseason. "This weekend, we're going to be focusing on and honing in on our Class A competition," Lynch said. While there are...
The word surreal gets tossed around quite a bit, probably more often than it should. But Saturday night inside Washington-Grizzly Stadium, there was certainly call to use that word. For me anyway, and maybe I was in the minority, but the situation was surreal. For starters, it was the first regular season, fall football game in Missoula since December of 2019. And honestly, from the outset, it felt like 2020 never happened. In other words, it felt like old times. There it...
Out our way, there are lessons to be learned daily if one is awake. Take for example the lesson of love. Dogs taught me that love is not limited to human beings, but cows taught me it is not limited to individuals. Indeed,cows taught me it is possible for love to embrace a large group of individuals. Now some ranchers have remarked how various cows sort of "buddy up" and do everything together as close friends. Yes, cows have favorites! Who knew? But what really touched me was...
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, at 7:30 a.m., Havre middle school and high school students will be gathering at their schools' flagpoles to pray for their schools. Why? If there was ever a time our schools needed prayer, that time is now. And who better to pray than students who attend these schools?! How did this student prayer movement get started? Well, it's quite a story. I got it from the "See You at the Pole" website: "A small group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas, came...
You know, Lord, when people mention the word "treasure" one right away thinks about jewels, diamonds, rubies, precious stones, riches, money, wealth, a pot of gold, a cache of silver, but there are other things one could or should treasure. What about relationships? Things You Can Count On Now! There is a grace that is sufficient; a mercy that endures; an atoning blood that cleanses; a hope that doesn't disappoint; a love that never fails; a purpose that works all things...
North Central Senior Center Sept. 20-24 Senior Center is open Menu Monday — Sloppy joes, tator tots, salad, cookies Tuesday — Roast feef, mashed potatoes with gravy, cauliflower, rolls, ginger bread Wednesday — Barbecue chicken, baked beans, salad, Tollhouse Crumb Cake Thursday — Creamy Swiss steak, mashed potatoes, Riviera veggies, truit Friday — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert, Keeping up with the pandemic: As of Sept 15, there were 11 new COVID-19 cases reported for Hill County, six cases met the criteria for being consi...
