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Julie Ann Strauser of Havre, Montana, 64, passed away October 1, 2020. Julie was born May 6, 1956, in Havre, Montana, to Agatha (Herron) and Hubert (Lars) Golie. She attended Havre High School and was very active in 4-H, Omoksee and the Soroptimist Club. She attended 4-H Congress in sewing and sheep. Julie attended college in Thermopolis, Wyoming, where she received a degree in veterinary technology. She married Scot Strauser in 1976. They had one son, Sandy Bob. Sandy Bob...
Hill County Park Board will meet Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center. The meeting agenda is: 1) Approval of minutes: 2) Approval of agenda: 3) Guests and public comments on agenda items only/Agenda Requests for next meeting 4) Cabin Business: #4 Eagle Lane #40 and 42 Mooney Coulee 5) Old Business: Monitoring progress Monitoring presentation in November. South cross fence Cabin inspections Campfire ban status Delinquent cabin 6) New Business: 7) Committee Reports: Rules and Regulation...
The Havre High cross country teams are heading into the busiest portion of the 2020 season. And head coach kari Filius says the goal remains the same. She says she just wants her runners to continue to improve their times as they head towards the psotseason. And the Blue Ponies will get another chance to improve when they travel to Malta for the Malta Invitational on Saturday. The meet begins the final month of the season for Havre, which is coming off a season-place finish...
The Havre High cross country teams continue to adapt with the ever-changing world of COVID-19. So, instead of attending the Class AA Great Falls Invitational last week, the Blue Ponies went to Livingston for the Park High Invite. The Great Falls meet featured just AA teams this season to lower the number of runners in the field, so Havre battled many Class A counterparts in Livingston. And both Pony teams ran very well, with the boys and girls placing second. On the HHS boys...
At its weekly business meeting Thursday, the Hill County Commission was presented with District 4 Human Resources Development Council’s work plan and assessment, which has been updated to account for COVID-19 and funds received from the CARES Act. HRDC Executive Director Carilla French presented the major observations made by the assessment and explained to the commissioners how COVID-19 has affected their operations. She said, after the shutdown back in March when the pandemic first arrived in Montana, HRDC began to work w...
Havre/Hill County Preservation Commission has already sold out their supply of St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church Christmas Ornament, making it among the fastest selling ornaments ever. "We knew they'd be popular, but we had no idea there would be such high demand," Preservation Officer Becki Miller said. The first of this year's ornaments was presented to the Rev. Daniel Wathen last week, the afternoon of Sept. 16, and they wnet on sale for $20 each after that. The ornaments...
Richard A. "Dick" Zinn, 89, passed away Tuesday, September 15, 2020, in Great Falls of heart failure. Cremation has taken place. A Graveside memorial service will be 1 p.m. Friday, September 25, 2020, at the Highland Cemetery in Havre, with Pastor Sean Janssen officiating. A luncheon will be held at the Eagles Club in Havre. Memorials in Richard's honor may be made to Havre's North Central Senior Center or a charity of one's choice. Please visit Richard's online memorial to...
The Hill County Park Board held its monthly meeting Monday to discuss park usage and other issues about Beaver Creek Park including the ongoing fire ban and what to do with extra funds. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said, due to a busy summer, he found the park had an extra $30,000 that they could use to add something to the budget. Edgar made a request to the board to use that extra money to purchase a new truck for the park so employees can respond to more than one situation at a time, or respond to...
Hill County Park Board meeting will be at the Beaver Lodge at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park Monday at 5:30 p.m. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only/agenda requests for next meeting 4. Cabin business: #20 Sawmill Gulch 5. Old business: Monitoring progress, scheduling monitoring presentation in October; Folf Course; South Cross fence; Cabin inspections; Campfire ban status 6. New business: Budget changes, truck purchase; AED acquisition; Delinquent cabin; Updates...
Hill County Park Board meeting will be at the Beaver Lodge at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park Monday at 5:30 p.m. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only/agenda requests for next meeting 4. Cabin business: #20 Sawmill Gulch 5. Old business: Monitoring progress, scheduling monitoring presentation in October; Folf Course; South Cross fence; Cabin inspections; Campfire ban status 6. New business: Budget changes, truck purchase; AED acquisition; Delinquent cabin; Updates...
Starting Tuesday, cattle will be grazing on Beaver Creek Park which, along with the Montana Department of Transportation, is advising people driving through the area to exercise caution and pay attention to the signs being put up. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said the transportation department will be putting up a reader board to indicate that the speed limit on the roads through the park have been reduced to 35 miles per hour at night. Edgar said the park...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe Natural Resources Department has issued a warning to the public about black bear sightings in the Bear Paw Mountains. Officials said people have reported several sightings, so they are warning people to remember to keep their property and campsites tidy with food and garbage secured. State recommendations for campers are for garbage to be in a container or enclosed structure and food to be in bear-proof containers, an enclosed structure or hung several...
Havre Police Department A theft, forgery or fraud was reported at 9:46 a.m. Friday in the Smithville area. -- Travis Lee Price of Havre, 38, was issued a summons on a theft charge after a SCRAM alcohol monitor bracelet was reported stolen in the Havre area Friday at 12:30 p.m. -- A Third Avenue caller reported Friday at 5:16 p.m. that a handicap license plate was taken off the front of a truck. -- A 17-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of under age tobacco possession o...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a Wednesday 11:36 a.m. report of a vehicle rolling into a tree on Cleveland Avenue. -- A two-vehicle crash was reported on First Street West at 12:57 p.m. Wednesday. -- A Ninth Avenue caller reported Wednesday at 3:24 p.m. that medication was stolen. -- Desmond Thomas Ferguson of Havre, 26, was arrested on eight Justice or City court warrant during a vehicle stop on First Street Wednesday 6:47 p.m. -- Michael Jay Stump of Havre,...
The Hill County Fair Board discussed Tuesday a number of improvements that could be made to the fairgrounds in the coming year that may be complicated by the financial handicap of this year’s fair having been canceled. The board discussed during its monthly meeting making improvements to asphalt in the campground, which Board Member Tyler Smith said, is not in great shape. He proposed that they could use insurance money obtained from collapse of the fairgrounds office roof last winter to overlay it to make the campground m...
Havre Police Department Someone stopped at the police station Monday at 10:46 a.m. to ask officers about fake money. -- An arrest was made after someone reported Monday at 4:03 p.m. that a woman was passed out in the middle of Pepin Park. No details on the charges were provided. -- Clarrissa Lynn Sanchez of Havre, 33, was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence after a caller reported a vehicle headed north on Wilson Avenue from 11th Street was hitting the curb...
Editor’s note: This version clarifies who would have received mail ballots and how provisional ballots are handled. The Hill County Commission voted down a resolution to allow for mail-in ballots in the 2020 general election at their weekly business meeting Thursday, with Hill County Commissioners Diane McLean and Mark Peterson voting no and Hill County Commissioner Mike Wendland voting yes. The resolution would have allowed the county to send ballots to provisional and active registered voters which they could fill out a...
The Forestry Department at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation reported this morning that the fire near the top of Baldy Mountain is being contained and poses no immediate danger. “The fire is looking really good, mostly just interior smokes,” said Chippewa Cree Tribe Fire Management Officer Jason Lodgepole. Lodgepole said the fire was started last week by a lightning strike and was just over three acres. He said on the first day of the fire, Saturday, Aug. 8, a small squad from the Rocky Boy Volunteer Fire Department hiked up th...
The Hill County Park Board discussed, during its monthly meeting Monday, issues related to Beaver Creek Park’s 14-day rule and heard more public concern about the cross fence they were looking to put up in the park to prevent environmental damage via overgrazing. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said the 14-day rule, which states that a person renting a campsite on the park can stay in it for 14 consecutive days in one month before having to moving sites, and the accompanying 48-hour rule which states that campers...
Hill County Park Board will meet Monday at 5:30 p.m. Please note that due to social distancing concerns, the meeting will be held at the Beaver Lodge at Camp Kiwanis. The dodge is located 20 miles south of Havre on Beaver Creek Highway — Montana Secondary Highway 234 — and is the big log structure on the top of the hill. If anyone needs directions they can call the office at 395-4565. The meeting agenda is: 1) Approval of minutes 2) Approval of agenda 3) Guests and public comments on agenda items only; agenda requests for...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the time of Thursday’s Hill County Park Board Haying and Grazing Committee meeting. We are owners of Beaver Creek Park and so are you. All residents of Hill County share ownership and responsibility for this one-of-a-kind park. Several Havre citizens first envisioned a public park in the 1910s. Eventually, in 1950, a land patent was issued by the federal government to Hill County designating this land for a park or recreational purposes. With care and proper management, Beaver Creek Par...
Specialty license plates, which are sold as fundraising resources for nonprofit groups, reached the end of its extension last Wednesday to try to sell enough to continue the funding source. A bill passed last legislative session mandates that if groups do not sell 400 or more plates in three years, the plates will be revoked. Previously Motor Vehicle Division of the State Department of Justice had the option to revoke plates with fewer than 400 sales but it was not mandatory....
See more photos in color at www.havredailynews.com Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club has nominated Beaver Creek Park for its featured yard. Located on the north slopes of the Bear Paw Mountains, the 10,000 acre county park was established in 1916 following the closing of Fort Assinniboine Military Post. Just minutes from Havre, the park affords the visitors with an ever-changing landscape of wildflowers. Here, Mother Nature is the Master Gardener...
Hill County officials and department heads met Thursday to provide their monthly updates and discuss recent COVID-19 developments including Gov. Steve Bullock’s recent directive requiring people in certain indoor situations and large outdoor gatherings to wear face masks. Hill County Public Health Director Kim Larson said her department has been inundated with calls about the recent directive and she encouraged people with questions to get in touch with her via email, but said it might take time for her to get back given t...
Havre Trails, with the help of a Montana Conservation Corps trail building crew, is cutting a new trail this week into the hills of Beaver Creek Park. This trail breaks off the already popular upper Rotary Canyon loop trail and winds its way down a ridge towards Beaver Creek. After more than two years of planning and working with the Beaver Creek Park Board and the park superintendent the new spur trail has come to fruition, Havre Trails President Lindsey Brandt-Bennett said....
