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JoVonne Wagner Montana Free Press and ICT Editor’s note: This version states that a request for comment sent Tuesday to Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, had not been delivered to his email address by this morning. The Montana State Senate voted Tuesday afternoon against discussing a bill that would have established Indigenous Peoples Day in the state following debate over how the new holiday would replace Columbus Day. However, at least one member of the Montana American Indian Caucus plans to introduce another bill that would m...
Havre Public Schools said in a release it is working with law enforcement to investigate a threat that led to the evacuation of Havre Middle School. The release said all students are safe and were bused to Fifth Avenue Christian Church for reunification with their parents or guardians. The release added that students would only be released to appropriate parents or guardians and identification would be needed to pick the students up. A note was found in a middle school bathroom about 11 a.m. indicating a threat, the release... Full story
Havre Public Schools announced Havre Middle School was evacuated after a threat was discovered. Students were taken to Fifth Avenue Christian Church, where they can be picked up by parents or guardians who provide proper identification. Watch for more here, at Havre Daily News Facebook and in Friday's edition of Havre Daily News.... Full story
After multiple delays due to COVID-19, Montana Actors' Theatre will be premiering "Misery," a stage adaptation of Sephen King's novel, Thursday at 8 p.m. "Misery" will also run Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and has a matinée Sunday at 2 and performances at 8 p.m. Feb. 23-25. The play was originally going to start in January, but after many of the people involved in the production of the play came down with COVID-19 they decided to delay the premier. The play's director, Anjane...
U.S. Sen Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Tuesday that he today secured $77.56 million through his bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, IIJA, for the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System. The funding, which was awarded by the Bureau of Reclamation, will be used for core pipeline construction on segments 7 and 8, and the continued construction of a water treatment plant and segments serving the Havre, Chester and Shelby Hub service areas. “Montanans sent me to the Senate to deliver for our com...
Lawmakers are debating a bill that would expand on a computer science program for schools on reservations established in the 2021 legislative session by adding additional training for teachers in elementary and middle schools. Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, is sponsoring House Bill 346. "There is a lot of potential, and perhaps maybe in the near future, this program is successful, is going to be opened up to all schools, all across the whole state, because as we know,...
Havre City-County Airport Board will meet at City Hall Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2023, at 3 p.m. The meeting agenda is: 1. Approval of Jan. 19 minutes. 2. Correspondence. 3. Reports: (A) Manager (B) Inspection (C) Finance (D) Engineer 4. Public comments 5. Unfinished business (A) North end of South halfway lake (B) Painting Big Hangar (C) Loan repayments 6. New business 7. Approval of the February claims...
Havre City Council’s Safety Committee will meet at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in the City Hall Emergency Operations Center room. The meeting’s agenda is: Call to order Attendance: attendees are asked to sign in on attendance sheet. 1. Environmental remediation update for City Hall: Discussion of remediation plans for asbestos, lead, and other heavy metals. 2. Public complaint on seatbelt usage: The Safety Committee received a public comment on city workers not using seatbelts in their vehicles and this will be discussed. 3. T...
Havre Police Department A 14-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of minor in possession after a Lincoln Avenue caller reported finding a juvenile smoking marijuana in the house at 8:13 a.m. Tuesday. -- An assault was reported on Ninth Avenue Tuesday at 8:27 a.m. -- Aaryn Jace Cantrell of Havre, 23, was arrested on six Justice or City court warrants after a caller at a U.S. Highway 2 Northwest business reported Tuesday at 12:52 p.m. that a woman needed to be removed from...
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester In his continued push to support Montana cattle producers and add transparency to the cattle market, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., reintroduced his bipartisan Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, which would establish minimums for negotiated sales and require clear reporting of marketing contracts. The bill is co-led by Sens. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.. “As a third-generation farmer, I know Montanans are getting hurt by the four massive m...
Press release The Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp is now taking applications for July 16-21, 2023. For those who are not familiar with the camp, for 37 years, the Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp has provided youth an opportunity to study in an outdoor classroom. Today’s scientific principles, economic realities, historical heritage, and social perspectives help these future leaders in their quest to gain natural resources perspective that is informed and progressive. Campers learn about forests, streams, soils, geol...
Press release GREAT FALLS — The Montana Grain Growers Association and the Montana Grains Foundation will each offer scholarships to be used for the 2023-2024 school year. MGGA will award two $1,000 scholarships to students pursuing an agricultural related degree at the college of their choice. Applicants or their parent, grandparent, or legal guardian must be a current producer member of MGGA. MGF will award two $2,500 scholarships to Montana State University juniors or seniors pursuing a degree in ag business, ag e...
Jesse Bedayn Associated Press/ Report for America DENVER — On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland corn and winter wheat in short, seasonal windows. That is until his high-tech Steiger 370 tractor conks out. The tractor’s manufacturer doesn’t allow Wood to make certain fixes himself, and last spring his fertilizing operations were stalled for three days before the servicer arrived...
Press release Nearly 90 women gathered over their love of Montana’s farming and ranching communities this past weekend during the Montana Farmers Union 10th annual Women’s Conference. Attendees listened to inspiring speakers, participated in hands-on workshops and networked with women from across the state during the conference held at Fairmont Hot Springs Feb. 10-12. “Women’s Conference celebrates the women who are the backbone of our rural communities, whether it’s directly in production agriculture, rural entrepren...
Caven Wade UM Legislative News Service University of Montana School of Journalism A bill passed by the House of Representatives would require ranchers to corral livestock when the Department of Livestock requests to test animals for disease. The bill is now in the Senate. Rep. Ross Fitzgerald, R-Fairfield, is sponsoring House Bill 100, which allows the Department of Livestock to levy fees against Montana ranchers if they do not adequately corral animals for inspection of dangerous contaminants and diseases. “It turned into a...
Press release With bull sale season getting ready to kick off, a bull selection workshop to shed light on all the numbers and abbreviations in these catalogs has been scheduled for March 1, at 5:30 p.m. in the 4-H Chuckwagon on the Great Northern Fairgrounds. MSU Extension Agent Colleen Pegar will walk participants through bull sale catalogs to discuss the differences between breed associations and what the numbers actually mean in the presentation “The Art of Understanding EPD Alphabet Soup: An Introduction to EPD’s and Bul...
The H. Earl Clack Museum Board, in addition to discussing other business, announced during its monthly meeting Monday evening the return of Hands On History Saturday, April 29, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, an event that hasn't been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation Board President Elaine Morse said the event, which in previous years has included as many as 30 individual events, is an opportuni...
Press release Montana State University Extension Hill County and the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club will host a pruning workshop March 17 at 10 a.m. in the 4-H Chuckwagon on the Great Northern Fairgrounds. MSU Extension Horticulture Specialist Abi Saeed will be presenting on plumbing and answering all your pruning questions. This program is free and open to all that want to attend. Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club will be providing refreshments. Pruning trees can seem like a simple task but when you get into the whens and hows...
Press release Havre High School Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held Thursday, March 2, from 3:45 until 7:15 p.m. for all parents/guardians of HHS students. Parents/guardians may visit with their child’s teacher about any concerns or issues regarding grades. Conferences will be held in the individual teacher classrooms. All parents/guardians of HHS students are invited and encouraged to attend....
Driving just south of Havre the hillsides and fields were almost totally devoid of snow. Only the barrow pits and leeward sides of hills and coulees still held the wintry white stuff. From the upper lake, the snow cover built as did the anticipation of eager skiers and shredders on their journey to the fabled slopes of Bear Paw. Upon reaching their destination, downhill enthusiasts were greeted by abundant quantities of snow. Snow that was boosted by a recent dump of nearly 5...
Havre Police Department A hit and run crash damaging a Chevrolet Silverado on 14th Street was reported at 1:39 p.m. Monday. -- A theft was reported by a Monday 3:04 p.m caller on First Street Northeast. -- Collette Marie Stiffarm of Harlem, 33, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant after a Monday 3:41 p.m. caller at the hospital asked for assistance with a person brought in by ambulance. -- Brett Warren Landon of Havre, 56, was arrested on charges of assault on a...
Colleen Long, Lolita C. Baldor and Zeke Miller Associated Press WASHINGTON - A U.S. fighter jet shot down an "unidentified object" over Lake Huron Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden, possibly the same object that led to closure of airspace over Havre, Montana, Saturday. It was the fourth such downing in eight days and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. airspace that Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime precedent. Part of the...
Airspace in the Havre area was closed temporarily to civilian airplanes by the Federal Aviation Administration Saturday morning due to a radar anomaly now confirmed to have been the yet-unidentified object that was shot down over Lake Huron, Michigan Sunday. Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said they sent fighter aircraft to investigate the object detected in Montana airspace, but did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, referring to it as an anomaly at the time, and they would...
Press release Havre High School speech and debate took a small squad to a national qualifying tournament, and while none of the Blue Ponies qualified this year for a trip to nationals, they did well against the toughest competition in the district. “I am really proud of how we did this weekend in Belgrade,” head coach Tim Leeds said. “I would have loved to have taken some kids to nationals in Mesa, Arizona, this year, but our students did well against tough competition.” The tournament allows members of the National Speech...
