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At their weekly business meeting Thursday, the Hill County Commission tabled discussion of possibly raising county contributions to employee health insurance plans to cover a recent rate increase by their insurance provider. The Montana Association of Counties, the entity through which county employees get their health insurance plans, recently announced that its rates were going up 6.5 percent and the county’s insurance committee recently recommended that the county absorb this increase so employees wouldn’t need to see thei...
Havre Daily News staff Havre Trails has announced that the Normandy Coulee Disc Golf Course is set up for the year and ready to use. The Normandy Coulee turnoff for parking at the nine-hole course is located in Beaver Creek Park just south of Rotary Pond off Montana Highway 234. The map for the course is at the trailhead and discs can be purchased at Northstar Athletics and the Montana State University-Northern Bookstore. The group also reminded people that a park permit is required to use the disc golf course. Day permits...
from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks State Trails Advisory Committee meets April 7 to review trail grant applications and make recommendations to the department on how the funds should be allocated in 2022. “Trails are critical infrastructure for recreation in Montana based on recent research that found trails were the number one amenity residents want in our state parks,” FWP Parks and Outdoor Recreation Division Administrator Hope Stockwell said. “It’s easy for me to expect residen...
District 4 Human Resources and Development Council's operations proceed in 2022 with Adult Eduction Director Tricia Williams Ferry settling in to her new role at the organization and looking for volunteer tutors. Ferry has been at the position since June of last year and her department has been working closely with HRDC's employment and training department to get adults, young and otherwise, ready for work or higher education. She said adult education is not new ground for...
Press release The Montana Legislature’s State-Tribal Relations Committee will visit the Fort Belknap Indian Community April 6 and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck April 7. The committee will meet with tribal government leaders and visit various sites. A draft agenda for the meeting and other meeting materials are available on the committee webpage at https://leg.mt.gov/committees/interim/strc . There will be no remote participation available for this meeting. —— Who: State-Tribal Relations Committee When: April...
The agenda for the Hill County Commission weekly business meeting Thursday at 10 a.m. is: Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Claims Employment Budgets Ordinance Resolutions Contracts Colors in Life Board appointments Policy updates County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Minor subdivision — Clint Solomon Subdivision — Randy Anderson County needs Tentative Herd District #12 Travel policy update, Extension Office MACo insurance Quit claim deeds...
Information for a story on the front page of the March 17 edition of Havre Daily News about work to be done on Fresno Dam misreported who is responsible for repayment for people served on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation corrected its information, saying the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible for that 14 percent of the repayment, without interest....
Havre Police Department An Eighth Avenue caller reported Friday at 10:34 a.m. that her car had been egged, possibly a few days prior. -- Officers investigated a remote breathalyzer test violation reported at 2:27 p.m. Friday. -- A juvenile reported that a Mountaineer backed into a pickup truck at a First Street business Friday at 3:42 p.m. -- A caller on Ninth Avenue reported at 4:06 p.m. Friday that someone broke into a shed and had sprayed graffiti on the outside. --...
Friends of Beaver Creek Park will hold their kickoff event Saturday for the Save the Lodge fundraiser a raffle the organization is running to help pay for repairs and updates to the Camp Kiwanis Beaver Lodge in Beaver Creek Park. Between recent damage to the roof and ongoing wall shifting, the lodge has been in need of updates and repairs for some time, a project that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The park has put in for a grant that would cover much of this...
Monday 8 a.m. — Center for Mental Health in Great Falls 1:30 p.m. — Building manager meeting in commissioners’ office 2 p.m. — Pre-bid in commissioners’ office conference for RSID 21 lift station Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Road department meeting in commissioners’ office Wednesday 9 a.m. — Hill County Project call in commissioners’ office the commissioners did not respond to a query asking what “Hill County Project" meant. Thursday 8 a.m. — Payroll and claims 10 a.m. — Weekly business meeting in commissioners’ office F...
Havre Police Department A First Street Northeast caller asked Thursday at 8:25 a.m. to speak with an officer about suspicious activity. -- A caller on 10th Street West reported at 8:35 p.m. Thursday that both plates had been stolen from a vehicle overnight. -- Two summonses were issued after the school resource officer at Havre Middle School reported a fight Thursday at 9:50 a.m. No details on the charges were provided. -- Officers investigated a remote breathalyzer device...
Out our way, the roundup is nothing like it was in the old days when it was all open range. For us today, the herd usually stays within the boundaries of fenced-in pastures, but in the old days, herds tended to wander about and get mixed in with each other. In those days, every roundup included a representative, a "rep," from other outfits who checked brands and then cut out and claimed his own outfit's cattle. A "Split S" steer might look just like that "Diamond V" steer...
Ok, this is me a Roman Catholic breaking tradition! Just to clarify the above statement; the tradition mentioned above is a personal tradition (that is why I used a lower-case t instead of an upper-case T) not a church tradition. The tradition I mean is my personal tradition of using the upcoming Sunday readings for this reflection in the paper. The readings I will be writing about are Exodus 3: 1-8a, 13-15, 1 Corinthians 10: 1-6, 10-12 and Luke 13: 1-9. I am sure that you...
Press release All congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses across the world are being encouraged to begin holding in-person meetings during the week of April 1 including locally. Chinook resident Floyd Rasmussen has attended meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses for more than 70 years and is eagerly looking forward to meeting in-person again. “It will be much easier to express our love and appreciation for each other,” Rasmussen said. For most of the last two years, buildings for worship have remained closed globally due to the ris...
You know Lord, some days one awakens with a song in their heart, a smile on their lips and feel "in love" and it doesn't even have to be Valentine's Day or June! We might just have our heart in tune. Some favorite things might be hot soup on a cold day or a cold soup made of raw, blended vegetables on a hot day. Also, how about a good book to read? A friend suggested a few things she loved, she named: the American flag, our country, nature, her home, her dear family and she lo...
Press release Karen Vosen from Havre has been juried in as a semifinalist for the 2022 American Quilt Show Quilt Week in Branson, Missouri, March 23-26, and is also a semifinalist for the 2022 American Quilt Show Quilt Week in Puducah, Kentucky, April 27-30. Her quilts Dancing with the Stars and Estrelle Espanole - Spanish Star - will appear in Branson and Estrelle Espole and Infinity will appear in the show in Puducah. Dancing with the Stars and Infinity are also features in...
North Central Senior Citizens Center March 28 to April 1 Menu Monday, March 28 — Sloppy Joe, tatertots, broccoli, pudding Tuesday, March 29 — Salad, pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy, sunshine carrots, rolls, cake Wednesday, March 30 — Chicken parmesan, pasta, salad, fruit Thursday, March 31 — Hamburger one a bun, potato salad, baked beans, dessert Friday, April 1 — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert Keeping Up with the pandemic: March 23, three new cases of COVID-19, one recovered, total 4,824, active five, no hospitaliza...
Havre Daily News staff Havre-Hill County Library announced that both of its harp music programs have been suspended, both the Tuesday program and the Monday show. Library representatives said they are hopeful the shows will resume in the near future and the public will be notified....
from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks would like all folks to be "Bear Aware" this spring, even in northeast Montana. Although bear encounters are rare in most of FWP Region 6, there are known black bears present in the Little Rockies and the Bear Paw Mountains and grizzly bears have been confirmed the last two years southwest of Havre. Bears are occasionally found wandering far from the mountains, and preventative measures should always be...
The Hill County Fire Council had their biannual meeting Wednesday, where Bureau of Land Management Lewistown Duty Officer Don Pyrah presented a new system for filing initial reports on fires, and County Fire Warden Amanda Frickel suggested some areas of operational improvement and a few new procedures. Pyrah said the new online reporting system is built so fire departments can submit initial reports for fires easily from a phone, a streamlined new system he said will be faster and create more accurate data to pull information...
The sole theatrical production put on this year at Havre High School opens tonight at the high school auditorium, with Montana Actors' Theatre premiering its production of the musical "Anastasia" starting at 8 p.m. The Broadway musical, inspired by the 1996 20th Century Fox animated musical, tells of the fall of the Russian Empire and the start of the Soviet Union, and a young woman trying to discover the story of her past. Northern Montana Hospital is sponsoring the...
Montana Sen. Mark Sweeney, D-Philpsburg, is running for one of Montana's two seats in the U.S. House Representatives, and during a trip to the Havre area this week talked about his campaign and political goals recently. Sweeney is running for the seat held by Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who has filed as a candidate for reelection. The race also has three Republican challengers including Kyle Austin of Billings, a Havre native; James Boyette of Bozeman, and Charles...
Staff and wire Leadership High School at Havre High School returned this year after stopping due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, with the Class of 2022 graduating in a ceremony at Montana State University-Northern this year. This year's class was Havre High School students Kenny Shellenberger, Lane Kinsella, Conner McKay, Allie Messinger, Maddie Thomas, Ali Maloughney, Hannah Gingery, Sofia Dawson, Abigail Adams, Scott Woods, Kate Hemmer and Courtney Burchard. Havre...
Press release Montana State University-Northern will continue its Spring 2022 Brown Bag Lecture Series Thursday, March 31, with a presentation called “Victim Vulnerability: How Disabilities Affect the Likelihood, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Sexual Assault,” by Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Samantha Balemba-Brownlee, Ph.D. The event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Hagener Science 101 — the Pit — and it is open to the public. Sack lunches are provided but limited, so attendees are encouraged to RSVP by Mond...
Havre Police Department A summons was issued after a caller at Havre Middle School reported a fight at 12:11 p.m. Wednesday. No details on charges were provided. -- Someone stopped at the police station Wednesday at 1:53 p.m. to speak with an officer about a scam call. -- Randi Lynn Hill of Great Falls, 36, was issued a summons on a shoplifting charge after a caller at a U.S. Highway 2 Northwest business reported a shoplifting complaint Wednesday at 2:40 p.m. -- A 17-year-old...
