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Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., answered questions about tax reform, renewal of the Children's Health Insurance Program and sexual harassment Tuesday night during a telephone town hall. Much of the hour-long event revolved around the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, different versions of which recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The call began with Pat of Hamilton asking how close Congress is to passing the tax bill. President Donald Trump, the...
As many already know, there is a special kind of camaraderie that goes along with the coaching profession, particularly when it comes to coaching in Montana. When it comes to high school basketball, especially along the Hi-Line, being a coach is kind of like being in a fraternity. Sure, the men and women who battle from the bench every night want to beat each other, but that doesn't mean they aren't still friends and colleagues when the clock hits triple zero. And if ever...
More than 2,000 NorthWestern Energy Havre customers lost power this morning around 9 a.m., a spokesperson for the energy company said. NorthWestern Energy spokesman Butch Larcombe said this morning there is no word yet on what has caused the outage, but crews are at the substation east of Havre looking into the problem. “Looks like we have lost power in out eastside substation. Still reporting 1,724 customers without power on city’s east side and stretching into rural area towards Lohman,” Larcombe wrote in an email to the H...
County and city officials met Tuesday to rank the likelihood of specific disasters hitting the region for the first of a series of multi-mitigation meetings. Severe weather, like the Oct. 2-3 record-setting snowstorm, topped the list as the most likely and first priority disaster to be prepared for. Counties are required every five years to update their pre-disaster mitigation plans, the purpose being to make communities more resilient and resistant to the damages caused by...
Havre school board members approved to move on and consider district policy changes during Tuesday's Board of Trustees meeting, among them one that will allow students to wear cultural-appropriate clothing. Trustees will have until the next meeting Jan. 9 to review the proposed policy changes before ultimately voting whether to make the changes official. The cultural-dress policy, mainly aimed to accommodate Native American students, allows for those students to wear for...
Press release Humanities Montana recently awarded its first Tribal Partnership agreement and is looking for new projects to partner on in 2018. The goal of the Tribal Partnerships Initiative is to support humanities projects on the Blackfeet, Flathead, Rocky Boy, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, Northern Cheyenne and Crow Indian reservations, as well as among the Little Shell nation, with up to $5,000 in funding per year. These will be informal relationships rather than conventional grant-driven processes. In fall 2017 Humanities...
As Christmas comes around the corner, we are reminded that Montana really is just a small town with very long streets. Our Montana way of life, neighbors helping neighbors, was on full display this year as we dealt with one of the worst wildfire seasons in recent memory. On a personal note, I’d like to say thank you again to all the firefighters and volunteers, including those who contained the fire on my family’s ranch near Glendive while I was away serving as your State Auditor in Helena. Whether it’s fighting fires in th...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated after a Third Street West caller reported Tuesday at 11:36 a.m. that someone had stolen $430. —— Officers investigated after a U.S. Highway 2 West caller reported Tuesday at 12:02 p.m. a motor vehicle crash. —— Officers investigated after a First Street caller reported Tuesday at 8:28 p.m. that the back door to her business building had been kicked in. —— Officers investigated after a Holiday Village Mall caller reported Tuesday at 8:37 p.m. that some of his items were stolen...
An agenda for the Hill County Weed District Board’s Friday meeting the Havre Daily News printed on Page A5 of Tuesday’s edition listed the wrong start time for the meeting. The meeting begins at 11 a.m....
Hill County Weed Board will meet Dec. 15 at 11 a.m. at the Hill County Shop. • Call to order: Minutes • Public comment • Correspondence • Unfinished business • New business: Budget; purchase orders; grants; set meeting dates for 2018; election of officers; and annual meeting in Great Falls, Jan. 9-11, 2018....
MSU News Service BOZEMAN - Montana State University Extension will host a free, annual cropping seminar series Jan. 8-11 in Fort Benton, Chester, Havre, Shelby, Cut Bank, Choteau, Conrad, Stanford and Great Falls. Topics will include integrating beef cattle into cover crops, soil fertility, why pesticides may not work as designed and partial budgeting analysis. Clain Jones, MSU Extension soil fertility specialist, will speak about soil fertility and inoculation of pulse crops...
Sign up for Harvest Moon Lane’s New Year’s Eve Jackpot Bowling while lanes are still open. Call the lanes to sign up, and for more information. Women’s highs for the week were Dawn Crowder, 200 game, and Lacy Farner, 551 series. Men’s highs were Paul Jensen and Kyle Surber tied for high game with a 253 and Jensen with a 720 series. Sunday Keglers: Amanda Moomey 162-442, Brandy Kurtz 160, 159, Donna Tilleman 156, 192-459, Megan Lodge 161, Michele Denny 160, 158-446, Dana Sp...
Montana State University-Northern head cross country coach Chad Spangler has had plenty of success with Havre Blue Ponies on his roster. And Spangler recently announced that that tradition will continue. Spangler announced three new recruits to his women's cross country team, including Havre High senior Kaylee Nystrom. Nystrom recently finished in the Top 20 at the Class A state cross country meet, and was a three-year runner for the Blue Ponies. Nystrom's older sister also...
Thursday High School Basketball Rocky Boy girls vs Conrad Rocky Boy boys vs Conrad College Wrestling Lights at E. Oregon Friday High School Basketball Havre girls vs Park, 6 p.m. Havre boys vs Park, 7:30 p.m. HLP girls vs Chinook HLP boys vs Chinook Rocky Boy girls at Shelby Rocky Boy boys at Shelby Harlem girls vs Malta Harlem boys vs Malta North Star girls vs Turner North Star boys vs Turner Box Elder girls vs CJI Box Elder boys vs CJI Ft. Benton girls vs Big Sandy Ft....
