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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that it is implementing a multi-step effort aimed at strengthening the substantiation of animal-raising claims. This action builds on the significant work USDA has already undertaken to protect consumers from false and misleading labels and to implement President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American economy. “Consumers should be able to trust that the label claims they see on products bearing the USDA mark of inspection are truth...
Press release HELENA — Montana Department of Agriculture and Montana State University Extension were recently announced as partners in a $30 million U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to establish a regional center to create opportunities for food producers and increase food security. Co-led by Colorado State University and Oregon State University, the new Northwest and Rocky Mountain Food Business Center is part of a larger effort nationwide, for which the USDA announced $400 million in funding last September. “This fun...
Press release WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday the deployment of a tool to assist industry and small disadvantaged entities in identifying potential opportunities for selling their products and services to USDA. USDA’s Procurement Forecast lists the types of anticipated solicitations that small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, women-owned businesses, HUBZone businesses, service-disabled veterans, and other businesses may be able to participate in contracts with USDA, or thr...
Harlem Mayor and former state Sen. Ken "Kim" Hansen died of natural causes Saturday at age 71. Harlem City Clerk Becky Schroeder said City Council President Chris Green is serving as mayor, with a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to decide whether he, or another council member, will finish out Hansen's term, which lasts until 2025. Hansen, who operated a farm near Harlem before moving to town, was born in 1951 and graduated from Harlem High School in 1971. He attended...
The H. Earl Clack Museum Board discussed, at their monthly meeting Monday evening, a number of issues, including museum hours, parking and incoming gift shop items, and also discussed presentations recently given at a meeting of the Montana Dinosaur Trail. Board members decided not to change the museum’s hours for the summer, but did decide to put up a sign cautioning people that the museum may open a half-hour late occasionally due to the schedule of tours at the Wahkpa C...
Evening summertime music is back in Havre starting Wednesday with the first Sounds on the Square scheduled to start at Havre’s Town Square at 6 p.m. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has been organizing free music at the square pretty much since it was created two decades ago. “Pack up that picnic basket and dine al fresco with friends, neighbors and family at the square all while enjoying the rhythm of the music from old favorites, country and rock,” a post from the Chamber says. “Large crowds enjoy the variety music p...
Press release Paws of Chinook, a non-profit, no-kill shelter, is holding an adoption event at North 40 Outfitters in Havre Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with several of their dogs and puppies attending. All animals at the event will be current on vaccines, spayed or neutered, and microchipped. Adoption fees will be reduced to $150 during this event only. People are encouraged to check out the dogs posted on the Paws website at http://www.pawsofchinook.org, fill out an apply and get pre-approved before the...
Havre Police Department A break-in was reported at 10:18 a.m. Monday on Ninth Avenue. -- A caller reported spray paint on the wall in the alley at a Fourth Avenue facility Monday at 11:09 a.m. -- A First Street caller reported at 12:50 p.m. Monday that someone had thrown feces into his backyard. -- A Monday 7:01 p.m. caller reported a building north off First Street had been hit in the last two days. -- Officers investigated a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation reported Monday at...
Montana Actors' Theatre's Ren Faire and production of "Twelfth Night" at Beaver Creek Park this weekend appears to have been a big success, with over 1,000 attendees and a successful show all three days. MAT Executive Director Jay Pyette said the crowd was about the same as last year, but the events relocation to Eagles Campground on Beaver Creek Park made for a great event with tons of space for the Faire and everyone who went to it. "It really worked out great," Pyette...
While a patch of dry conditions is still centered on Hill, Blaine and northern Chouteau counties and a patch of drought in northwestern Montana is pushing into the western edge of Liberty County, significant winter snowfall and recent rains have been helping lighten the Montana drought map in this area. After years of dry weather pushed the area into significant moisture deficits — the region was more than 11 inches short of normal over a five-year period last fall — snowfall and recent rains have driven parts of this are...
Havre Police Department A caller reported juveniles were on a roof on First Avenue Friday at 9:06 a.m. -- A Ninth Avenue caller asked Friday at 9:42 a.m. to speak with an officer about having been threatened. -- A caller reported Friday at 11:33 a.m. getting fake money as change from the Department of Motor Vehicles. -- Medication was reported missing from a Second Street residence at 1:14 p.m. Friday. -- Mikayla Elizabeth Magnussen of Havre, 23, was arrested on a federal warr...
Havre Daily News staff With the summer reading program kicked off with a party at the Havre-Hill County Library, last Wednesday, the library has listed upcoming specific events in the next couple of months. The evens listed are: Thursday, June 15, 6 p.m., book discussion “Wizard of Oz” Friday, June 16, 4 p.m., Yarn Circle Thursday, June 29, 6 p.m., book discussion, “We Are Satellites” Thursday, July 13, 6 p.m., book discussion, “Caleb’s Crossing” Friday, July 21, 4 p.m., Yarn Circle Saturday, July 22, 3:30 p.m., assemble comm...
Press release June 15, Stockman Bank will be participating in World Elder Abuse Awareness Day by helping to heighten awareness about elder abuse and fraud in local communities. Stockman will hold open houses at all 37 branches across the state. Financial abuse targeting older adults is on the rise, with the AARP reporting more than 369,000 nationwide incidents each year. Thursday, June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and people can come into Stockman Bank for an open house during normal business hours in the lobby....
Staff and wire report Havre Public Works announced it is having problems with people flushing things down the toilet that should not go through that system. “Please do not flush anything but human waste, water and toilet paper,” a release from the department said. “Even items that claim that they are flushable do not break down and get stuck in sewer lines or create problems at the Waste Water Treatment Plant. “These issues can be very expensive to repair, from the individual service lines to the mains and equipment at the...
Havre-local Madison Ruff, now based out of Los Angeles in the winter and living here in the summer, continues to bring color to the town. This spring, she has been painting murals at The Oxford Sports Bar and Valley Furniture, and, later in the summer, will paint at Pepin Park. She was commissioned in 2022 to paint a "Havre, Montana" mural on the back of the Elks Lodge, visible from U.S. Highway 2, First Street where it passes through Havre. Hi-Line Arts Council and the...
Montana State University-Northern recently received more than $60,000 in grant funding to construct a trail around the campus as part of their efforts to make the area more walkable. Northern Office of Teaching and Learning Excellence Director Lindsey Brandt-Bennett, Ph.D., said the idea to construct a trail around Northern has been on the mind of Northern staff since before she came to work Northern seven years ago. Brandt-Bennett said there is a large swath of land in the southeast corner of the campus that is difficult to...
Press release Town Pump Charitable Foundation awarded three Hill County rural schools $7,140 for four automated external defibrillators, or AED, devices, used to deliver a jolt of electricity if someone is suffering cardiac arrest, to try to normalize the heart beat. The three schools hat received the AEDs are Cottonwood West and Cottonwood North District #57, Davey Elementary District #12 and Gildford Colony Elementary District #89. The four Phillips HeartSine Onsite AED...
The summer meal program started this week at Havre schools, with free breakfast and lunch served to anyone 18 and younger with the meals available to adults at a charge of $3 for breakfast and $5 for lunch, with extra milk available for 50 cents. The meals are served at Highland Park Early Primary School, Lincoln-McKinley Primary School and Sunnyside intermediate school. The breakfasts are served from 8:30-10:30 a.m. and lunches are served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The breakfast menu for next week is: Monday, waffle, sausage,...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. in the Havre Middle School. The agenda for the meeting is: A. Call to order 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll call 3. Welcome to visitors 4. Presentation and display 5. Agenda deletions or corrections, and additions allowed by policy, if any B. Unanimous consent agenda C. Old business 1. Safe Return to Schools and Continuity of Services Plan D. New business 1. Consideration of eighth grade participation in high school sports 2....
Monday Noon — Local Advisory Committee meeting via ZOOM 3:30 p.m. — Council on Aging meeting in Commissioners Office Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Hill County Road Department meeting in Commissioners Office 10:30 a.m. — Local Emergency Preparedness Committee meeting at Hill County Sheriff’s Office 1:30 p.m. — 911 meeting at Havre Fire Department 3 p.m. — Meeting with Hill County Clerk and Recorder in Commissioners Office Wednesday 10 a.m. — Mountain View CO-OP meeting in Commissioners Office 1 p.m. — Hill County stewardship meeti...
The Rural Fire District 1 board will meet Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 11 a.m. in the Hill County Courthouse Timmons Room The meeting agenda is: Discussion and adoption of the minutes of the March, April and May 2023 meetings Financial Report...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated two sexual or violent offender complaints at 2:03 p.m. Thursday. -- A caller today at 12:14 a.m. at a First Street business reported a man who appeared to be assaulted. Hill County Sheriff's Office An arrest was made after a Thursday 1:05 p.m. transport from Rocky Boy Police Department to Hill County Detention Center. No details on charges were provided. Havre Fire Department Emergency medical technicians responded to four calls...
Cottonwood Schools’ June regular/quarterly safety/interview meetings Tuesday, June 13, at 5 p.m. at the West School. The public can attend via electronics by contacting the clerk at 406-265-6970....
