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The local economic development agency held a symposium in Havre Thursday to talk about a program in its infancy at the agency, and work already done through the program to assess and clean up properties and bring them back to full use. "Our goal, really, is just to really introduce you to Bear Paw (Development Corporation's) Brownfield Program this morning and present some case studies of actual properties Bear Paw has done work on through this program, " program Director Christin Hileman said at the start of the symposium. "...
Daniel Michael Koszuta Daniel Michael Koszuta, 70, of Kremlin, Mont., passed away of natural causes on Friday, July 6, 2012. at Missouri River Manor in Great Falls, Mont. No services are planned. Cremation has taken place. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Daniel Michael Koszuta was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago, to Joseph J. Koszuta and Stella Delores (Gorski) Koszuta. He graduated from Lane High School and went on to get his bachelor's degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He then came to Bozeman...
The members of Montana's congressional delegation all announced in seperate press releases Wednesday that a water project in north-central Montana will receive some funding in the coming year. U. S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester and Rep. Denny Rehberg announced that the federal Bureau of Reclamation has set $3.9 million for work on the Rocky Boy's/North Central Montana regional water system. The system is designed to treat water from Lake Elwell at Tiber Dam south of Chester and transport it to Rocky Boy's Indian...
Montana's U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced today that the federal Bureau of Reclamation has set $3.9 million for work on the Rocky Boy's/ North Central Montana regional water system. The system is designed to treat water from Lake Elwell at Tiber Dam south of Chester and transport it to Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and to residents of 22 communities across the region including Big Sandy, Box Elder, Havre, the Hill County Water District and the North Havre Water District in northern Hill County. The bureau...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson A structure is caught in the middle of a huge grass fire Friday afternoon, just east of Laredo Road, south of Havre. The region survived another major grass fire, the second in two weeks, again with no injuries and no structure damage. "That was another blessing, " Kremlin Fire Chief Kody Peterson, who took over as incident commander when he arrived Friday, said this morning. The cause of the fire is not known, he said. Peterson said the fire, which the firefighters named the Big Stretch Fire...
Editor: Fresno Reservoir is a popular recreation site with an increasing problem — litter and vandalism. Evidently, a few people are intent on ruining this area for the rest of us. Recently one of the newer picnic tables (built by the Boy Scouts with materials donated by a local businessman) was cut up and used as firewood. The beach is regularly littered with beer cans, glass and other garbage. Baby diapers are left on the ground. People throw trash from their vehicles. Others continue to use pallets for firewood, leaving a...
Despite years of heap-leach mining in the area, no one in Zortman is concerned about the situation on the mountains that loom over the town. Their water is fine. "Our wells are all out on the Ruby Gulch, " Clayton Wallace, owner of the Miner's Club Bar and Cafe in Zortman, said. "I never have been worried about it. The water samples say we're 1 percent purer than Lewistown and Lewistown is supposed to have the purest water in the state. " In fact, Wallace thinks there is plenty of opportunity to start up the Zortman Landusky...
The group working to find ways to rehabilitate the system that normally provides much of the water in the Milk River each year has reset its meeting that was cancelled due to June flooding. The St. Mary Working Group will meet Wednesday in the Tin Cup in Malta from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. The original meeting had been set for June 15, but was cancelled due to the flooding in the Milk River Valley. The working group, formed early last decade, is coordinating efforts to rehabilitate the St. Mary Diversion, one of the first...
Havre Daily News/Zach White This composite image shows the Landusky water treatment plant. In the background to the left is a mountain untouched by mining. To the right is Gold Bug Mountain, which was covered with cyanide-soaked rock piles in the 1980s and filled over with topsoil and vegetation during reclamation after Pegasus Gold declared bankruptcy in the late 1990s. This is the version run in the Dec. 29 issue of the Havre Daily News. To read the unabridged version, with additional information, photos and other...
Local residents warned to continue watching water levels Tim Leeds The flooding situation is virtually unchanged for local flood watchers since last week, with the Hill County Disaster and Emergency Service Coordinator urging residents to continue to keep a watchful eye on water levels. "As long as (the runoff is) not too fast we'll be in good shape, " Joe Parenteau said this morning, adding that people still need to be watchful. "We're still just in a holding pattern, waiting for the temperature to do what it will do, " he...
A U. S. Bureau of Reclamations official said work to replace the diversion dam on the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year is progressing, although not at the rate at which he had hoped last year. Kelly Titensor said in June 2010 that the bureau had hoped to have studies and procedures to meet National Environmental Policy Act requirements in place by September 2011, to allow construction on replacing the dam that diverts water to the Milk to start in 2012. "That has been put indefinitely on...
A group working to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River every year will hold its April meeting in Havre Tuesday. The St. Mary Working Group monthly meeting will start at 10 a. m. in the Havre City Hall Conference Room in the lower level of Havre City Hall. The agenda for this month's meeting includes discusion of an engineering study for work planned on the diversion dam and the headworks of the St. Mary Diversion system, an update and review of agreement processes, and a presentation...
A group of officials meeting in Chinook told U. S. Sen. Jon Tester Tuesday that flood damages could mount over time, leaving cash-strapped local governments with little recourse while not giving them the one-time expenses for government aid. Hill and Blaine counties officials told Tester that, so far, they have been able to deal with the flooding. However, especially if a fast melt increases the flooding, the costs over time could be more than they can bear. "If you think about emergencies, you think about one-time events, "...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette's family members embrace his daughter-in-law, Jessica Pyette, and wife, Terri Pyette, while his son, Kristopher Pyette, hugs his children, Tristan and Taylor Pyette, during the undersheriff's funeral Monday at the Chinook High School gymnasium. Pat Pyette died Wednesday in the line of duty. The Blaine County undersheriff who died in the line of duty last week was remembered Monday as a stern man but a man with a sense of humor. Pat Pyette was remembered as...
An official from the bureau that oversees the reservoir west of Havre said the reservoir has been full since April. But Fresno Reservoir should be able to keep snowmelt from causing serious flooding downstream on the Milk River, Chuck Heinje of the Bureau of Reclamation said this morning. "If we can just keep some cool temperatures for a couple of weeks and get the (precipitation) to stop coming, maybe we can get things to drain out and get some more room in the channels, " Heinje said. Water has been going over the spillway...
Forecasters are predicting water to rise above the flood level on the Milk River in Harlem, and potentially Chinook, by the end of the week. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch in Blaine County for the Harlem area, with the potential for water in the streets of that town, and possibly Chinook, by next week. While conditions are changing hourly, and the latest warnings have pushed the estimated time of potential flooding back by several days, officials are warning local residents to be watchful. Conditions...
Water system plan could send untreated water to Havre plant Tim Leeds The Havre City Council Monday got its first look at a proposal that would change how the city would get its water. Council member Gerry Veis, who represents Havre on the North Central Montana Regional Water Authority along with Mayor Tim Solomon and Department of Public Works Director Dave Peterson, distributed a page of a report from the Bureau of Reclamation at Monday's council meeting. Veis said that when Havre approved joining the system, which would su...
Hi-Line braces for near-certain flooding Meeting set for tonight in Chinook Tim Leeds With one of the wettest winters in more than a decade coming toward its end, local officials — especially in Blaine County — are making preparations for likely floods. "We are expecting flooding at the Harlem gaging station …, " Blaine County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Haley Gustitis said Friday, adding that the amount of flooding really is the question. "It all depends on how the (snow) melt comes off, " she said, Hill...
Grace (Guckenburg) Carlson Grace (Guckenburg) Carlson, 90, died Saturday morning, Oct. 29, 2011, at Immanuel Lutheran Home, with her daughter and son-in-law comforting her. Her funeral will be held at 3 p. m. on Friday, Nov. 4, at Bethlehem Lutheran in Kalispell. A reception will follow at the Split Rock Cafe in Kalispell. Grace's ashes will be scattered on the family ranch in Choteau in the spring. Grace was born in Havre on April 20, 1921, and graduated from high school there in 1939. She was the first one in her family to...
BOR warns of releases to Milk River Residents, recreationists cautioned to watch for rising levels Tim Leeds The federal agency that operates Fresno Dam west of Havre has warned that the amounts of water being released are going up, and people should be watching for rising levels in the Milk River. A Bureau of Reclamation press release said that to control the level of the reservoir and to prepare for runoff during the spring the amount of water being released has more than tripled, with additional increases possibly...
Despite warmer weather and some rain, the weather in Hill and Blaine counties so far seems to have limited flooding, although officials are still warning that conditions could change at any time. Blaine County Commissioner Vic Miller said this morning that the levels of the Milk River and its tributaries appears to be down from earlier in the week. "With 50-degree weather, it's anybody's guess over the weekend, " he added. Officials have been monitoring the levels of water, with high levels of snow with a high moisture...
Bison range advocates to participate in panel A local stockgrowers association will meet in Chinook Saturday, with discussions to include a topic of high interest over the summer — what should be done to preserve the Montana prairies. The North Central Montana Stockgrowers annual meeting agenda has a panel discussion titled "Debunking the Myth: A Vision for Montana Prairies" with panelists to include a representative of the American Prairie Foundation. That foundation has advocated creating an immense bison reserve in n...
Orval Brenden Orval Brenden, beloved husband, father and grandfather, passed away at the age of 85, after a lengthy illness, at the Dobson Hospice House in Chandler, Ariz., on Aug. 16, 2010. His prayer vigil/rosary service will be 7 p.m. Thursday, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel, with his funeral Mass 11 a.m. Friday, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Burial with full military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Orval's honor may be made to a charity of one's choice. He was born in...
Turning on the Spigot in North Havre rural water district Tim Leeds tleeds@havredailynews.com The celebration of turning on the spigot to rural water users in northern Hill County got off to a bang this morning at TownHouse Inn of Havre. "This day was a long time coming for all involved," Dan Keil of the Tiber County Water District, president of the North Central Montana Regional Water Authority, said in his introduction to the celebration. The day started at the Havre hotel, and was scheduled to travel north to the pump...
If everything goes right, rebuilding the dam and intake structure that diverts much of the water flowing through the Milk River could begin within a couple of years. A Bureau of Reclamation official made the prediction Wednesday in Havre. Kelly Titensor said the bureau expects to start scoping meetings for National Environmental Policy Act requirements in August or September, with a goal to have the procedures to meet those requirements completed by Sept. 30, 2011. "It is ambitious," Titensor said in response to a question...
