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  • Van Orsdel Live Nativity set for Saturday

    Derek Hann|Updated Dec 6, 2019

    Van Orsdel United Methodist Church will be putting on its annual Live Nativity event for the community Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The Live Nativity is a re-enactment of the Biblical event of the birth of Jesus Christ. The event has been a long-standing tradition in Havre, each year the church puts on the event free to the community, sometimes braving cold and inclement weather conditions. The event includes actors and actresses who will be portraying the parts of Mary, Joseph,...

  • Quick Pics: Community comes together at Nativity festival

    Updated Dec 6, 2019

  • Montana Senior Medicare Patrol is warning people to be on the lookout for a possible new Medicare scam

    Updated Dec 6, 2019

    Havre Daily News staff The patrol said in its newsletter that this week its staff received a yet unsubstantiated claim that someone on Medicare received a call from “Medicare Insurance Company.” The caller stated that every Medicare beneficiary is getting a new plastic chip-embedded card mailed to them and they just needed to verify their Medicare number. “Please remember that Medicare will never call and ask for personal information over the phone,” the article in the newsletter said. “If you instigate a call where you know...

  • Daines to introduce bill to resolve issues in CSKT water compact

    Derek Hann|Updated Dec 6, 2019

    U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said Thursday he is going to introduce a bill after reaching an agreement with the Consolidated Salish and Kootenai Tribes for a permanent water settlement. “After years of negotiations and hard work, I’m pleased to announce we have reached a new agreement that permanently settles a century old water dispute in Montana and protects the water rights of all Montanans,” Daines said in a release. “The ‘Montana Water Rights Protection Act’ will permanently eliminate almost all of CSKT’s water claim...

  • Letter to the Editor - Congress needs to pass park, LWCF funding

    Updated Dec 6, 2019

    Editor, Montana’s national parks are some of the best in the country, but they desperately need repairs. Parks across our county, like those in Montana, are facing unreliable funding, record visitation and aging infrastructure. That’s why I am encouraged by a bipartisan proposal in Congress to address the $12 billion in national parks deferred maintenance. The Restore Our Parks Act would set aside $6.5 billion over the next five years to fix dilapidated trails, buildings, roads, bridges, monuments and historic markers in our...

  • The white van is full of hysteria, not boogeymen

    Pam Burke|Updated Dec 6, 2019

    I shamefully have to admit that my husband, John, and I have been participating in a long-standing act of profiling. It started innocently enough, as these acts often do. It is a game, a kind of new-age slug-bug game when we’re driving together. Instead of trying to spot the Volkswagon Bug first, we compete to be the first person to point out white vans, and some of the sketchy looking other-colored ones, and say “Un-sub!” because 1) It’s hard to find a VW Bug anymore...

  • Medicare issues new numbers, cards to prevent fraud

    Updated Dec 6, 2019

    From Montana Senior Medicare Patrol As the result of recent fraud takedowns, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services identified a group of beneficiaries whose Medicare numbers were being fraudulently used to bill Medicare for unnecessary medical equipment and services. This was not due to a breach of personal information. To protect them from continued Medicare fraud, CMS gave them new Medicare numbers. New cards with new numbers for affected beneficiaries will arrive with an accompanying letter that explains the...

  • Obituary - Lloyd Maurice Bone

    Updated Dec 6, 2019

    Lloyd Maurice Bone of Havre, 65, passed away Tuesday, December 3, 2019, of natural causes. A celebration of life will be held Monday, December 9, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Judes Catholic Church in Havre. Burial at Highland Cemetery will follow the service. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Lloyd's online memorial page and leave a message of condolence at http://www.hollandbonine.com . Lloyd was a well-liked gentle soul who was...