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With recent rain and snow, the amount of water in the Milk River has led the federal Bureau of Reclamation to cut back on its release of water into the river. "Recent precipitation across the (Milk River) Basin has significantly changed water release forecasts from a few weeks ago," Mike LaFrentz, field manager of the Marias/Milk Rivers Division located in Chester, said in a press release. "The snow and rain will contribute towards a better water year for all Milk River project beneficiaries." As of this morning, the BOR...
Edwin Arnold Kapernick passed away April 28, 2009, in Boise, Idaho. Graveside services will be held Saturday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m. at the Highland Cemetery with Pastor Brad Ulgenes officiating. Ed was born on Feb. 13, 1915, in Havre to Arnold and Mary (Maidie) Kapernick. He grew up and went to school in Havre, graduating from Havre High in 1932. Following graduation, he spent two years at Northern Montana College, then transferred to the University of Minnesota. His career was with the Bureau of Reclamation, retiring in...
Edwin Arnold Kapernick passed away April 28, 2009, in Boise, Idaho. Graveside services will be held Saturday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m. at the Highland Cemetery with Pastor Brad Ulgenes officiating. Ed was born on Feb. 13, 1915, in Havre to Arnold and Mary (Maidie) Kapernick. He grew up and went to school in Havre, graduating from Havre High in 1932. Following graduation, he spent two years at Northern Montana College, then transferred to the University of Minnesota. His career was with the Bureau of Reclamation, retiring in...
Edwin Arnold Kapernick passed away April 28, 2009, in Boise, Idaho. Graveside services will be held Saturday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m. at the Highland Cemetery with Pastor Brad Ulgenes officiating. Ed was born on Feb. 13, 1915, in Havre to Arnold and Mary (Maidie) Kapernick. He grew up and went to school in Havre, graduating from Havre High in 1932. Following graduation, he spent two years at Northern Montana College, then transferred to the University of Minnesota. His career was with the Bureau of Reclamation, retiring in...
Esther Marie (Johnson) Beaulieu, 95, of Great Falls, died of natural causes Sunday at her son Edward's home in Seattle. Mrs. Beaulieu was born on March 21, 1914, to Swedish- Americans, Oscar (Slim) and Maria Johnson, in Havre, Mont. She was the second child born of four children. It was often a very tough life, as her mother died when Esther was 6, and her father didn't remarry until in his later years. She learned good work habits at a very young age. She and her older brother Leonard used to make bread every day for the...
Esther Marie (Johnson) Beaulieu, 95, of Great Falls, died of natural causes Sunday at her son Edward's home in Seattle. Mrs. Beaulieu was born on March 21, 1914, to Swedish- Americans, Oscar (Slim) and Maria Johnson, in Havre, Mont. She was the second child born of four children. It was often a very tough life, as her mother died when Esther was 6, and her father didn't remarry until in his later years. She learned good work habits at a very young age. She and her older brother Leonard used to make bread every day for the...
Esther Marie (Johnson) Beaulieu, 95, of Great Falls, died of natural causes Sunday at her son Edward's home in Seattle. Mrs. Beaulieu was born on March 21, 1914, to Swedish- Americans, Oscar (Slim) and Maria Johnson, in Havre, Mont. She was the second child born of four children. It was often a very tough life, as her mother died when Esther was 6, and her father didn't remarry until in his later years. She learned good work habits at a very young age. She and her older brother Leonard used to make bread every day for the...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Some major funding for water projects in north-central Montana passed the Senate Thursday and now needs to be reconciled with a House bill in a conference committee. Montana's Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced in a joint release that the Senate passed the Water and Energy Appropriations Act, which includes more than $77 million for Montana including money for the Fort Peck-Dry Prairie Rural Water System, the Rocky Boy-North...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Some major funding for water projects in north-central Montana passed the Senate Thursday and now needs to be reconciled with a House bill in a conference committee. Montana's Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced in a joint release that the Senate passed the Water and Energy Appropriations Act, which includes more than $77 million for Montana including money for the Fort Peck-Dry Prairie Rural Water System, the Rocky Boy-North...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Some major funding for water projects in north-central Montana passed the Senate Thursday and now needs to be reconciled with a House bill in a conference committee. Montana's Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced in a joint release that the Senate passed the Water and Energy Appropriations Act, which includes more than $77 million for Montana including money for the Fort Peck-Dry Prairie Rural Water System, the Rocky Boy-North...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Local, state and federal officials had a busy afternoon in Havre Tuesday as they worked through what they would do if the Milk River were to flood and inundate communities below Fresno Reservoir. Dave Scanson of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation office in Billings, who coordinated the meeting, said the exercise is a required every three years to plan and coordinate action if a flood were to occur. If the dam at Fresno Reservoir failed or the water flow...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Local, state and federal officials had a busy afternoon in Havre Tuesday as they worked through what they would do if the Milk River were to flood and inundate communities below Fresno Reservoir. Dave Scanson of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation office in Billings, who coordinated the meeting, said the exercise is a required every three years to plan and coordinate action if a flood were to occur. If the dam at Fresno Reservoir failed or the water flow...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Local, state and federal officials had a busy afternoon in Havre Tuesday as they worked through what they would do if the Milk River were to flood and inundate communities below Fresno Reservoir. Dave Scanson of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation office in Billings, who coordinated the meeting, said the exercise is a required every three years to plan and coordinate action if a flood were to occur. If the dam at Fresno Reservoir failed or the water flow...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com A group working to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year is looking to expand its focus and create a regional authority that can help with the region's water resources for decades to come. “This is not only looking at the St. Mary working group today, it is looking 100 years into the future,” Larry Mires, executive director of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group, said at the group's meeting in Hav...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com A group working to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year is looking to expand its focus and create a regional authority that can help with the region's water resources for decades to come. “This is not only looking at the St. Mary working group today, it is looking 100 years into the future,” Larry Mires, executive director of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group, said at the group's meeting in Hav...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com A group working to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year is looking to expand its focus and create a regional authority that can help with the region's water resources for decades to come. “This is not only looking at the St. Mary working group today, it is looking 100 years into the future,” Larry Mires, executive director of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group, said at the group's meeting in Hav...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com The group working to find ways to rebuild the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water in the Milk River will meet in Havre Tuesday, July 14. One of the main issues planned to be di scus sed at the St . Mar y Rehabilitation Working Group meeting is the formation of a regional authority which could issue bonds to help fund rebui lding the St . Mar y Diversion, a 29-mile long system of dams, canals, dikes and siphons that diverts water...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com The group working to find ways to rebuild the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water in the Milk River will meet in Havre Tuesday, July 14. One of the main issues planned to be di scus sed at the St . Mar y Rehabilitation Working Group meeting is the formation of a regional authority which could issue bonds to help fund rebui lding the St . Mar y Diversion, a 29-mile long system of dams, canals, dikes and siphons that diverts water...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com The group working to find ways to rebuild the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water in the Milk River will meet in Havre Tuesday, July 14. One of the main issues planned to be di scus sed at the St . Mar y Rehabilitation Working Group meeting is the formation of a regional authority which could issue bonds to help fund rebui lding the St . Mar y Diversion, a 29-mile long system of dams, canals, dikes and siphons that diverts water...
MT could lose mine cleanup $$ under Obama's budget HELENA (AP) The director of Montana's Department of Environmental Quality said President Barack Obama's 2010 budget could translate into the state losing up to $120 million in federal funding meant for cleaning up abandoned mines. The White House is calling on Congress to cut $142 million in Abandoned Mine Lands payments to certain coal states next year and $1.5 billion over 10 years. The termination of AML payments is part of $17 billion the administration wants to...
MT could lose mine cleanup $$ under Obama's budget HELENA (AP) The director of Montana's Department of Environmental Quality said President Barack Obama's 2010 budget could translate into the state losing up to $120 million in federal funding meant for cleaning up abandoned mines. The White House is calling on Congress to cut $142 million in Abandoned Mine Lands payments to certain coal states next year and $1.5 billion over 10 years. The termination of AML payments is part of $17 billion the administration wants to...
MT could lose mine cleanup $$ under Obama's budget HELENA (AP) The director of Montana's Department of Environmental Quality said President Barack Obama's 2010 budget could translate into the state losing up to $120 million in federal funding meant for cleaning up abandoned mines. The White House is calling on Congress to cut $142 million in Abandoned Mine Lands payments to certain coal states next year and $1.5 billion over 10 years. The termination of AML payments is part of $17 billion the administration wants to...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Snow and rain throughout the area have raised the levels of streams and rivers but seem not to have caused major fears of flooding. “We are basically just keeping an eye on it, especially with some late moisture,” Ron Knudson, Hill County emergency services manager said Wednesday. Haley Gustitis, emergency services manager in Blaine County, said the chance of flooding looks low there as well. “We don't have any areas of concern at the moment,” she s...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Snow and rain throughout the area have raised the levels of streams and rivers but seem not to have caused major fears of flooding. “We are basically just keeping an eye on it, especially with some late moisture,” Ron Knudson, Hill County emergency services manager said Wednesday. Haley Gustitis, emergency services manager in Blaine County, said the chance of flooding looks low there as well. “We don't have any areas of concern at the moment,” she s...
Tim Leeds Havre Daily News tleeds@havredailynews.comtleeds@havredailynews.com Snow and rain throughout the area have raised the levels of streams and rivers but seem not to have caused major fears of flooding. “We are basically just keeping an eye on it, especially with some late moisture,” Ron Knudson, Hill County emergency services manager said Wednesday. Haley Gustitis, emergency services manager in Blaine County, said the chance of flooding looks low there as well. “We don't have any areas of concern at the moment,” she s...
