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Press release Hill County Electric Cooperative Inc. will be holding its 78th Annual Meeting of Members Saturday, May 13, 2023, at the Student Union Building on the campus of Montana State University-Northern in Havre. Members will be electing two trustees, one for District 2 and one for District 3. Voting may occur via mail or in person at the meeting. Registration begins at 9 a.m., the business meeting starts at 10 a.m. followed by lunch and prize drawings. Four “Luck of the Draw” scholarships will be awarded during the mee...
Havre Police Department A caller on Third Avenue reported Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. money had been stolen. -- A Grant Avenue caller asked at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday to speak with an officer about a roommate. -- A phone theft was reported on First Street Tuesday at 8:17 p.m. -- A written or verbal warning was issued after a caller reported Tuesday at 9:03 p.m. that juveniles were repeatedly getting on the caller's Sixth Street property. Hill County Sheriff's Office Jalen Jaret Watson of...
Press release HELENA — The Montana Department of Agriculture is reminding agricultural producers to respond to the 2022 Census of Agriculture by June 1, 2023. Taken only once every five years by the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service, the census provides a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Census of Agriculture covers land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income, and expenditures, and more. Census d...
Press release BOZEMAN — Agricultural producers and landowners with certain expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts can receive additional rental incentives and extend that land’s role in conservation for another 30 years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened the signup period for its Clean Lakes, Estuaries, And Rivers enrollment — CLEAR30 — now through July 31, 2023. CLEAR30 is a part of the CLEAR initiative, which prioritizes water quality practices as a part of Continuous CRP enrollment, and is one of seve...
The Hill County Park Board voted to impose time limits on public comments at their monthly meeting this week where they also considered consolidating their committees and looked at the coming year's budget. During the meeting, Board Member Lou Hagener presented an updated version of the board's public comments and agenda-setting policy in the hopes that it would be approved. Board Chair Jeff Jensen said the board doesn't need that, and all he wants to change is the time...
The topic of urban chickens was again raised to Havre City Council at its monthly meeting Monday. Havre resident Al Garver has started a petition to allow urban chickens in the city, and told Havre Daily News that he has obtained 290 signatures and he is very pleased with that. He was out of town for Monday, but council member Denise Brewer - Garver said he met with Brewer and council member Heather Parker about his petition - brought the petition up during the public comment...
A COVID-19 outbreak in Blaine County is under investigation, Blaine County Health Department said in a release. The release said public health mitigation steps are in place and public health is responding to the outbreak. The department reported being notified of eight new cases April 19, 14 new cases April 20, 20 new cases April 21-24 and 16 new cases from April 25 to Monday. Kim Berg, chief health officer at Hill County Health Department, said this morning that her department had right around 25 positives reported in...
HELENA (AP) — A judge in Montana temporarily blocked a new rule Monday that would have required physicians in the state to provide prior documentation showing that an abortion is medically necessary before the state’s Medicaid program will authorize payment for the procedure. District Court Judge Mike Menahan wrote that his order “will serve the public interest by ensuring that Medicaid-eligible Montanans continue to have access to constitutionally protected abortions and safe, effective medical care.” All three of the sta...
Press release GLASGOW - Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks honored the service of its Region 6 Hunter and Bowhunter Education volunteer instructors at the annual workshop, which was held Saturday, April 15, in Glasgow. The workshop has been an annual event that invites all the volunteer instructors across the region for a day filled with visiting, updates to the program, demonstrations of new equipment and ideas, and most importantly, honoring years of service in 5-year...
Press release Havre Public Works Department released a notice today asking residents to help their workers Wednesday and Thursday by not parking streetside in the downtown area while they sweep the streets those days. The city will be running its sweeper and support equipment on downtown streets for spring cleaning. Havre Public Works asked that people adjust their travel routes and parking accommodations accordingly and to be aware of men and machinery working in the area. For more information, people can call...
AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA — Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters. Attorneys for the first-term lawmaker sued in state district court in Helena on behalf of Zephyr, a transgender Democrat who represents a liberal district in the college town of Missoula, and several c...
JoVonne Wagner Montana Free Press Indigenous Legislative Fellow for 2023 A legislative conference committee voted against restoring the original language of a bill that would codify the federal Indian Child Welfare Act into state law, as had been requested by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder. House Bill 317, which was designed to secure protections for Indigenous children under state care while the federal ICWA is threatened in a Supreme Court case, is moving forward with a contested amendment that wou...
Havre Police Department A Second Street caller asked Monday at 8:13 a.m. to speak with an officer about vandalism at a church. -- Wilma Howard of Havre, 35, was arrested on a pick up and hold order and two Justice or City court warrants on Third Avenue Monday at 11:02 a.m. -- Craig Warren Landon of Havre, 56, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a First Avenue caller asked Monday at 11:38 a.m. for assistance with a renter who was running around waving a BB gun...
Montana Sen. Jon Tester in a press conference Thursday said the biggest news relevant to his committees is bad, unfortunately, with the recent rejection of a bill that would have, among other things, expanded home health care for aging and disabled veterans, expanded work for veterans' service officers, improved the VA's Caregivers Program and bolstered mental health treatment. He said it would also help Native Americans and Alaskans, who serve in the military at a higher...
Press release HELENA - Representative Paul Tuss, D-Havre, announced Thursday that Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law House Bill 795, legislation Tuss sponsored that would exempt certain grants from the Montana Environmental Policy Act. HB 795 exempts grants from the Montana Coal Endowment Program and the Coal Board from having to complete a MEPA analysis for proposals submitted to these two programs. "The passage of this legislation, along with the governor's signature to...
Havre Police Department A two-vehicle crash was reported on 13th Street at 9:53 a.m. Friday. -- Leona Marie Chiefstick of Box Elder, 56, was arrested on four Justice or City court warrants after a Friday 3:03 p.m. caller on First Street West reported someone passed out in the in alley. -- Officers assisted with a medical call on Sixth Street at 5:36 p.m. Friday. -- A written or verbal warning was issued after a Friday 8:04 p.m. caller at a First Street establishment reported...
Editor’s note: Havre Daily News did not receive this before printing deadline Friday. Monday 3:30 p.m. — COA Director meeting in Commissioners Office 5:30 p.m. – Hill County Park Board meeting in Timmons Room Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Road department meeting in Commissioners Office 1 p.m. — Hill County RSID 11 construction progress meeting in Commissioners Office 2 p.m. — Summit contract for the detention center in Commissioners Office Wednesday Regular business hours Thursday 10:00 a.m. — Commissioners weekly business meet...
A hero is a person of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his or her brave deeds and noble qualities. Heroes come in many forms in life. We look up to our heroes. They are role models, shining examples of what we should be. They are selfless, genuinely good persons. Often, they are willing to risk their own life to save another. If you are in need of a hero, someone to look up to, a role model and a shining example of what we all should be, someone selfless who think...
The decision of what the Havre Public Schools' calendar for the 2023-2024 school year will be has been delayed again after a contentious meeting Thursday evening. At the beginning of the meeting HPS Interim-Superintendent Brad Moore, said he will continue to support the Havre Education Association's request to delay voting on this issue until after the election. The issue of whether to move to a four-day school week with extended class periods has been discussed by the school...
James S. Rosien Anaconda Leader Editor This story originally ran in The Anaconda Leader March 10. The Montana Legislature is on its midsession break this week as lawmakers return to their constituencies following a marathon voting session in which 180 bills passed the Montana House of Representatives in roughly 48 hours before the March 3 adjournment. But before that marathon kicked off, the Anaconda Leader caught up with a pair of freshman representatives at the 2023...
Hands on History, a long-running event put on for local youth by the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation, will be returning, after three years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Event co-chairs Claudia Howard and Cindy Lamb said the event features 20 activities ranging from beading, to leathercraft, to instruments and an Atlatl cost. Howard said one of the big themes of the event is to let children make something with their own hands that...
Press release Karen Vosen from Havre has been juried in as a semifinalist for the 2023 American Quilt Show Week in Paducah, Kentucky, this week, April 26-29, 2023. Her quilt Rosemaling is in the show. "(American Quilter's Society) has a longstanding history of having the best in our contest," American Quilter's Society President Bill Schroeder said. "Just when we thin the quality of the quilts can't get any better, quilters step up the relativity even more and set a new...
Havre City Council will meet Monday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in City Hall. The meeting agenda is: Call to order Pledge of Allegiance Roll call Minutes Committee reports 1 through 6. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda — 1. Resolution No. 3879 — A resolution recognizing the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce as the local non-profit Convention and Visitors Bureau in Havre, Montana. 2. Ratification of Montana Federation of Public Emp...
Hill County Park Board will meet Monday, May 1, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. in the Hill County Courthouse Timmons Room. 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 Cabin inspections dates 5) Old business Lodge Planning Committee Clarification of the agenda-setting process and follow up action(s) 6) New business Marathon Committee reappointments and committee restructuring Park Budget Park fire truck 7)...
