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Hill County has had four more COVID-19-related deaths reported over the weekend, Hill County Health Department said in an update Monday, bringing the death toll in the county to 69 since the start of the pandemic. Blaine County Health Department also reported another confirmed death, but that was found in the state Department of Public Health and Human Services' reconciliation of records and was not a recent death, the department reported. The actual time of the death was not...
Leo E. Driscoll, 64, passed away due to natural causes at his residence on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, surrounded by his family. Cremation has taken place, and a celebration of Leo's life will be held during the spring of 2022. Memorial contributions in Leo's honor may be made to the Benefis Foundation Gift of Life Housing P.O. Box 7008 Great Falls, Montana 59405. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Leo's online memorial page and...
A woman who killed another woman Jan. 18 when she drove into the oncoming traffic lane and caused a head-on collision was sentenced to prison for 25 years Monday in state District Court in Havre. Jolee Landgraf, 29 at the time she was charged, was sentenced to 25 years with none suspended by District Judge Olivia Regier Monday after Landgraf pleaded guilty in a plea agreement Sept. 28 to an amended charge of vehicular homicide while under the influence. She originally was...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in an interview with Havre Daily News that getting $100 million in funding that likely will go to the St. Mary Diversion is a really big deal. "It will be massive," he said. "... It's a big deal. The most important part, really, is the predictability it provides for agriculture and municipalities." Tester, one of the senators who crafted the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has passed Congress and been signed into law by President Joe Biden,...
Hill County Health Department said in its update Monday that four new COVID-19-related deaths were reported from Saturday through Monday. The department said 9 new cases were reported Friday and 7 met the criteria to be considered recovered, with three new cases reported from Saturday through Monday with 16 meeting the criteria to be considered recovered and 20 active cases in the county. The county had 3 cases discharged from the hospital and 4 active hospitalizations. Hill County has had 69 deaths and 3,387 confirmed cases....
From AARP Montana Peggy Aquino from Stone Child College on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has been named AARP Montana’s 2021 American Indian Partner Award recipient. Aquino has been our partner from Stone Child College on the Rocky Boy Reservation since about 2004. She was the first Grandparent Raising Grandchildren support group leader at Stone Child College. We worked with her in that capacity for several years and she was always a touchstone for our other efforts at Rocky Boy. We were working with the Social Security Adm...
Sara A. Gerber, 31, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Sunday, November 21, 2021. Cremation has taken place, and memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, November 29, 2021, at First Lutheran Church with Pastor Megan Hoewisch officiating. Sara’s family has suggested memorial donations be made in her memory to the Friends of the Animal Shelter or a charity of the donor’s choice....
Katie A. Waldner, 69, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Thursday, November 18, 2021. Funeral services took place at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, November 21, 2021, at the Hilldale Colony Church. Burial followed in the Hilldale Colony Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Katie’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for her family at http://www.hollandbonine.com . Katie was born November 23, 1951, at Rockport Colony to Andrew and Katie W...
Havre Police Department Monday at 9:21 a.m., officers investigated a Buttrey Drive vehicle crash in which one driver backed into a second vehicle. -- Ryan Michael Greenough of Havre, 37, was arrested on a pick and hold order after someone with Probation and Parole reported Monday at 9:28 a.m. that he might be at a First Street business. -- Jordan Nash Windyboy of Rocky Boy, 39, was arrested on a partner or family member assault charge after a domestic disturbance was reported...
Editor, For many years, my family has had farm land under the Glasgow Irrigation District. That is part of the larger Milk River Irrigation System that brings water all across the Hi-Line, over 700 miles from the Mountains to the irrigated acres in Blaine, Hill, Phillips and Valley Counties and to many cities and communities for their drinking water. A structure on that system at St. Mary failed some years back. The Bureau of Reclamation has been working to get it properly repaired. I, and I am sure many others, have signed...
MISSOULA - I gotta admit, I just didn't see this one coming. Call me a pessimist, which so many people do when it comes to the Montana Grizzlies, or maybe it was just the fact that I had a ton of respect for what the Montana State Bobcats have built. Or just maybe, I was feeling apprehensive because it had been six, yes six calendar years since the Grizzlies had last beaten the Bobcats. Probably all of the above. Whatever the reasons, though, I didn't think what happened...
Winter sports are finally here as hockey is back on the Hi-Line with the Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team hosting the Bozeman Icedogs to begin the season this past weekend. However, the Hawks' season did not get off to the best start at the Havre Ice Dome as they lost to Bozeman, 9-3, Saturday night and then lost, 5-3, Sunday. "We did alright. I was hoping to see a little bit more out of them," head coach Chase Hanson said. "Overall, we did good. Just some mental errors...
The Montana State University-Northern men’s cross country team was represented at the NAIA National Championships this past Friday as Field Soosloff ran for the Lights. It was the second straight season that Soosloff ran in the national finals after he placed 229th last season. In this year’s national finals in Vancouver, Washington, Soosloff placed 211th with a time of 27:40.9. “I definitely performed a little better than last year but still not quite up to my expec...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights are off to a great start this wrestling season. And it continued last Sunday in Spokane, Washington. Northern wound up second at the Spokane Open, a traditionally tough tournament the Lights, of head coach Tyson Thivierge, have been competing in for years. Among the individual successes for the Lights, they placed seven grapplers overall, landed four in the finals and crowned three champions. Isaac Bartel cruised to a title at 197...
