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Editor’s note: This adds the record of the vote on the school reopening proposal. At the Havre School District Board meeting Tuesday Interim-Superintendent Craig Mueller presented his recommendation for re-opening to the board, with plans to go to Phase 3 re-opening in January. Mueller said that depends on if the community cases per day is fewer than 50 per 100,000, based on the matrix developed and updated by the Hill County Health Department, prior to January 8; the c...
Press release The Affordable Care Act is still in place and open enrollment is almost over for people who need to enroll, re-enroll or switch health insurance plans through the Health Insurance Marketplace. Open Enrollment ends Dec. 15. If someone misses the Open Enrollment period, in most cases, they will not be able to get coverage again until 2022. Montana residents who need help enrolling or who have questions about health insurance can take advantage of the free help that the Montana Navigator program provides by...
Havre High School Head Speech and Debate Coach Tim Leeds said his team, and the state entered a whole new world of competition last weekend. The state held three speech, drama and debate tournaments Friday and Saturday, one for Class A, one for Class AA and one for Class BC, with all competition and judging done online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The competition had some difficulties with glitches and cutting in and out while competitors were talking, and some competitors -...
An author of a report on the impacts of climate change in Montana said their work writing the report made one thing clear: People throughout the state, country and world need to come together and solve this problem despite whatever deep rooted cultural and political differences they have. “One thing about climate change is that it doesn’t recognize any borders. It’s an equal-opportunity disaster,” Robert Byron of the Montana nonprofit Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate said. “… This is one thing where we can’t...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 70,133 with 747 new cases, 17,294 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 490. The number of deaths was 771. Blaine County reported Tuesday evening no new cases, 553 total, 35 active, 1 active hospitalizations, 20 deaths Hill County reported Tuesday evening 12 new cases, 1,445 total, 154 active, 2 active hospitalizations, 32 deaths Rocky Boy — reported Tuesday evening, also reported on either Chouteau or Hill County num...
Press release GREAT FALLS — December may be the season of giving, but it’s typically a challenging time to collect enough blood donations. Add in a pandemic, and this year could be even tougher than usual. That’s why the American Red Cross is urging those who are feeling well to give the gift of life by donating blood this holiday season. The need for blood doesn’t stop for holidays. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, more than one million blood transfusions will be given in the United States. Donations of all blood types a...
From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Hunters, recreators and anglers who purchase licenses online will notice a new look to the sales system starting today. This change is targeted at improving customer experience with the current licensing website by making it more intuitive. The coming changes include a new look for online customers and several options for printing carcass tags: a one-time link to print at home, an option to have Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks licensing staff print and mail the carcass tag, and carcass...
Thanksgiving morning, November 26, 2020, Betty Gilbert, rejoined the love of her life, Kenny Gilbert, just in time for their 73rd wedding anniversary. Our sadness at her passing is tempered by our happiness that Betty and Kenny are together again, holding hands, and loving each other as they did on this earth. Betty Elizabeth Gloyne Fitzsimmons Gilbert was born April 3, 1929, in Harlem to Elizabeth "Lib" Gloyne (Fitzsimmons) and Marshall D. Snider. She joined brother Burton...
Dr. Michael Veseth, Malta dentist, died November 11 following a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Mike was a 1966 Havre High School grad and was the son of the late Dr. Myron and Martawn Veseth, Survivors are his wife, Rosemary of Malta, and three children, Paula, Kate, and Daivid, and four grandchildren....
Havre Police Department A caller on First Street West reported a disturbance at 1:46 p.m. Tuesday. -- A caller at a First Street business reported a a person drove off without paying for merchandise at 8:37 p.m. Tuesday. Hill County Sheriff's Office Deputies were called Tuesday at 9:23 a.m. to investigate a theft, forgery or fraud at a U.S. Highway 2 West business. Havre Fire Department Emergency medical personnel responded to three calls Tuesday and one early this morning....
Dear Editor, Both a former Hi-Liner having grown up in Saco and a professor of Spanish, I am moved to respond to a New York Times article, “Border Agency Settles with Americans Detained for Speaking Spanish,” Nov. 27, 2020 This language is no newcomer to Montana, a state named in Spanish. Our flag cherishes a logo “oro y plata,” gold and silver in Cervantes’ language. Without a doubt, Spanish is the preferred foreign language taught in our high schools. Bozeman and Missoula both offer majors in this language while Montana S...
It is a year of lower expectations. Every year, there is a chorus of folks urging us to lower our expectations for the holidays — buy less, consume less, worry less about having a picture-perfect holiday, and spend more time reflecting on what the holiday means to us. This year, it seems, we will finally get a chance to do that. I was recently asked what my childhood memories of the holidays were, and I had a couple of vivid ones. I saw myself sitting on the wooden stairway o...
McKenzie Gunter was only going to play for the Montana State University-Northern Skylights for two years. A junior college transfer, that's how it goes. So, she no doubt, intended to make the most out of her two seasons in a Northern uniform. And to start her junior year, that's exactly what she did. As Northern raced out to an undefeated start, Gunter showed why she was highly-recruited player out of the NWAC, and Walla Walla Community College. And for her efforts, she would...
Another major change to the ever-changing high school football landscape in Montana, and the Hi-Line will come in the fall of 2021. This time, it will be at Harlem High School. In a recent executive board meeting of the MHSA, the board approved for Harlem to drop from 11-man to 8-man football starting next season. Harlem is a Class B school and will still participate as one, but with the exception of football. The MHSA began allowing Class B schools to move to 8-man football...
From USDA Farm Service Agency WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in November the signup periods for the Conservation Reserve Program and the CRP Grasslands in 2021. Signup for general CRP will be open from Jan. 4 to Feb. 12, and signup for CRP Grasslands runs from March 15 to April 23. Both programs are competitive and provide annual rental payments for land devoted to conservation purposes. “The Conservation Reserve Program and the many focused programs that come under it, like CRP Grasslands, are som...
From Montana Department of Agriculture HELENA — Montana Department of Agriculture is reminding hemp growers and processors to submit their hemp checkoff payments before the end of the year. The Montana Hemp Advisory Committee will decide how to allocate the checkoff funds for research, market development and education to develop and enhance Montana’s hemp industry. Montana hemp growers voted to approve the nation’s first hemp checkoff earlier this year. The checkoff was established at 1 percent of the value of the crop being...
From USDA Farm Service Agency WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency is reminding farmers and ranchers to apply for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 by Dec. 11. This program provides direct relief to producers facing market disruptions and associated costs because of COVID-19. “With over 300 eligible commodities, from livestock and row crops to specialty crops and aquaculture, most farmers and ranchers are potentially eligible for CFAP 2,” Farm Service Agency Administrator Richard Fordy...
