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Articles from the November 9, 2020 edition


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  • Cottonwood School Board meeting canceled

    Press release|Updated Nov 10, 2020

    The Cottonwood School Board meeting scheduled for tonight has been cancelled due to the weather. The meeting will be rescheduled and the date announced when it is set....

  • Biden wins presidency

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    After an extra four days of counting - and ballots still to be counted and some states to be declared - Democrat Joe Biden was projected Saturday morning to win the next presidency of the United States. By 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time, news outlets began declaring Pennsylvania for Biden, with its 20 Electoral College votes putting him over the 270 electoral vote threshold to defeat Republican President Donald Trump in his bid for re-election. Trump has yet to concede the race, sayi...

  • Hill County Health Department still looking for more contact tracers

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    At the Hill County Health Board’s weekly COVID-19 update, Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said the county health department is trying to get it’s hands on as many contact tracers as possible as the rate of new cases in the county remains high. Larson said The Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity at George Washington University calculates the contact tracing workforce needed in different areas based on analysis of data like positivity rate and county infection rate and Hill County’s calcu...

  • Community Thanksgiving Dinner canceled for the first time

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    The Havre Community Thanksgiving Dinner has been canceled for the the first time in its nearly 40-year history due to the recent surge of COVID-19 in area. Dinner Chair Debi Rhines said the decision to cancel the dinner, held at the St. Jude Parish Center every year, was an extremely difficult one given the event’s mission to bring the community together, but for the sake of everyone’s safety she believes this is the right thing to do. “We’ve done it in snow, we’ve done it in freezing rain, we’ve had the dinner when it was...

  • Snow hits the area with a vengeance

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    Snowfall was a little later than predicted in this part of north-central Montana, but when it started to fall Saturday night it fell with a vengeance, leading to major road and street issues and closing most schools in the region. The snowfall had stopped by the time the sun came up, but the region - and the state - was buried in snow over the two-day snowfall. And schools in the region closed and limited services, with Havre going to its remote learning day today and...

  • Northern Montana Care Center sees drop in hospitalizations

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    Even as cases surge in Hill County, Northern Montana Health Cares’s long-term care facility’s COVID-19 wing was empty as of Friday. Northern Montana Health Care Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator Julianne LaSmith said it is possible that a COVID-19 patient may occupy the wing soon, but for now none are sick enough to be there. LaSmith said the wing can now provide some relief to the medial and surgical floors of NMH. LaSmith did not give specifics on how many COVID-19 cases not associated with Northern Montana Car...

  • Bear Paw seeks input on draft five-year economic strategy document

    Updated Nov 9, 2020

    Press release The local economic development nonprofit is looking for comments on five-year planning document. Bear Paw Development Corp. is seeking input from area residents on the draft 2020 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. Bear Paw is a regional nonprofit corporation organized to assist with the economic and community development priorities in Liberty, Hill, Blaine, Phillips and Chouteau Counties and on the Rocky Boy’s and Fort Belknap Indian Reservations. The five-year planning document outlines economic a...

  • The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today's 10 a.m. update was 40,053 with 427 new cases.

    Updated Nov 9, 2020

    The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 1,492 with 470 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 540,913 with 14,322 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 457. The number of recoveries was 28,825 and the number of active cases was 15,771. Local cases by county: Hill: 10 new cases, 1,018 total, 251 active, 22 active hospitalizations, 742 recovered, 25 deaths Liberty: No new cases,40 total, 2 active,37 recovered, 1 death Blaine: 4 new cases, 425...

  • For the Record, Nov. 9, 2020

    Updated Nov 9, 2020

    Havre Police Department A bike was reported found on Fifth Street at 10:43 a.m. Friday. -- Daniel Edward Smith of Havre, 35, was issued a summons on a charge of theft after someone stopped at the police station Friday at at 11:12 a.m. to report a theft. -- Ariel Micheala Sunchild of Box Elder, 29, was arrested on charges of trespass to property, obstructing a peace officer or other public servant and resisting arrest after a caller on 9th Avenue Northwest asked Friday at 4:07...

  • North Central Senior Center, Nov. 9-13

    Updated Nov 9, 2020

    North Central Senior Center, Nov. 9-13 Menu by Earlene DeWinter, Subject to change Monday — Chili mac casserole, green beans, corn bread, pudding Tuesday — Cranberries, turkey, dressing, mashed Potatoes and gravy, broccoli Normandy, Pumpkin Bars Wednesday — Veterans Day – Closed Thursday — Barbecue pork patty sandwich, potato salad, cookies Friday — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert Medicare open enrollment has begun. If you need help verifying your Part D (Prescription) coverage, it will be done by phone appointments...

  • Pioneers left hearbroken again

    Aarron Thompson|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    After falling in the Class C Six-Man State semifinals round the past two seasons, the Big Sandy High football team was ready to change the narrative come 2020. After blazing through Wibaux and Bridger, the Pioneers had to get past the Froid-Medicine Lake Red Hawks Saturday in Medicine Lake. Unfortunately, Froid-Lake had different plans, once again sending Big Sandy home in the semifinals, 42-26. After a strong campaign and an undefeated season going into the match, it is a rou...

  • Lights, Skylights race at home in Frontier Championships

    George Ferguson|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    They beat the blizzard. And they ran some really good times. On Friday afternoon at Prairie Farms Golf Course, the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's cross country teams played host to the 2020 Frontier Conference Championships. And it was a good day all the way around. The Lights, of head coach Chad Spangler, placed a strong third. Northern had a team score of 2:19:54.10. Altogether, there were 35 runners competing in the men's 8K race. Field Soosloff led the...

  • Stampede: Longhorns thunder into Class C semis

    George Ferguson|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    FORT BENTON - Usually, the deeper you go in the playoffs, the tougher things get. That wasn't the case Saturday in Fort Benton. In the Class C 8-Man quarterfinals, the top-ranked Longhorns blasted the Joilet Hawks 64-14 to advance to the semifinals for the second=straight year. The Longhorns amassed over 500 yards of total offense en route to their second straight playoff win with running clock the entire second half. But it wasn't just Fort Benton's offense that sparked the...