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This story originally was filed Oct. 27, 2021. Reports say witnesses dispute the facts about the police shooting on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation Saturday that killed 34-year-old Clayton Grant. Blaine County Sheriff and Coroner John Colby released Tuesday Grant’s name as the person who was shot. Family and friends were reported to have planned a “Justice for Clayburn” rally outside of his home at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Fort Belknap Indian Community Council reported in posts on its Facebook page Saturday and Sunday that a man...
North Central Senior Citizens Center Nov. 1-5 The senior center is now open Menu Monday — Hamburger steak, hashbrowns and gravy, corn, poor man bars Tuesday — Spiced apple and pecan pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy, winter-blend veggies, rolls, cake Wednesday — Oven-baked fish, au gratin potatoes, peas, coffee cake Thursday — Taco burger, Mexican rice, chips/salsa, dessert Friday — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert Keeping Up with the Pandemic: As of Oct 27, there were 15 new COVID-19 cases, 14 recovered, reported fo...
On Thursday, October 7th, 2021, the Greater Havre Area Ministerial Association had its second meeting of the new school year, 2021-2022. Our special guest was Andrew Morrow, Child Bridge's Great Falls regional director. We made plans for his coming to our Havre area churches to recruit new foster parents and promote Child Bridge's future ministry here in Havre. On Sunday, October 24th, Andrew came and preached during the morning service at Havre Assembly of God Church. He...
The Hill County Commission, the remaining members of the Rural Fire 1 District Board and Hill County DES Coordinator Amanda Frickel held a public meeting Wednesday to discuss the future of events at the Great Northern Fairgrounds in the wake of recent complications regarding fire codes. The legality of a number of Halloween events at the fairgrounds was called into question last week, and for a while it looked like many of these events were canceled. Most have since been approved by the commission, but the ongoing enforcement...
Gov. Greg Gianforte visited Blaine, Hill and Liberty counties Wednesday, where he spoke representatives of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, the operators of Bear Paw Meats in Chinook and the staff of Liberty Medical Center in Chester, as part of his 56-county tour. At Bear Paw Meats, Gianforte spoke to owners Dexter and Karla Buck, as well as their daughter and Bear Paw Meats Manager Ashley Buck, who took him on a tour of the facility. During the tour, Ashley Buck talked about...
After participating in their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday evening, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees engaged in a long-term strategic planning meeting, where they discussed their goals for the future of the district. Montana School Boards Association General Counsel Debra Silk led the meeting, the first in a series, where trustees and school administrators looked at aspects of their strategic plan from 2016 and discuss revisions and improvements. Silk said strategic plans typically need to have 10- to 15-year...
The Hill County DUI Task Force presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line a $600 check Wednesday to pay for all the ribbons for Red Ribbon Week in Hill County schools. Red Ribbon Week is a nationwide drug abuse awareness campaign that Hill County schools participate in, and this year the task force decided that it wanted to help out. Red Ribbon Week started after the death of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, who was murdered by drug t...
The Montana state COVID tracking map was not updated by this morning’s printing deadline. Wednesday it listed listed 994 new cases, 11,041 active cases, 463 hospitalizations and 2,321 deaths. The cumulative total for the state was 174,087 cases. Blaine County did not have an update Wednesday. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday 5 new cases, 70 active, 4 active hospitalizations, 1,369 total cases, 26 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Wednesday evening that 15 new cases, 83 active, 13 active hospitaliz...
Havre Police Department Officers responding to a call from Eighth Street at 7:55 a.m. in which the caller said a man refused to leave arrested Gary Louis Doney of Havre, 59, on a Justice or City court warrant. -- Officers investigated a report made from an establishment on the 300 Block of First Street at 9:25 a.m. Wednesday that someone had tried to break into an automated teller machine. -- Havre police referred to Montana Highway Patrol a report made at 1:34 p.m. Wednesday...
Press release With demand for food bank services continuing to surge in Montana as the pandemic wears on, the Town Pump Charitable Foundation is matching $1,000,000 in contributions during its 20th annual fundraising campaign for food banks across Montana, including Havre Community Food Bank and Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen. “The good work of Montana’s local food banks is especially vital in the ongoing pandemic,” said Bill McGladdery, of the Town Pump Charitable Foundation. “Please join Town Pump and our dedicated food ba...
The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Tuesday about the Amtrak derailment near Joplin last month that took three lives and injured many more, a report that provides few clues as to what caused the tragic event. The report begins with a warning that the information is preliminary and will be supplemented and/or corrected as the investigation continues. The report lays out the series of events leading up to and immediately following the derailment which happened at 3:47 p.m. Sept. 25 at a curve...
Rocky Boy - Tuesday was a day of celebration on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation as the area became home to bison for the first time in over two decades. After a celebration that included dancing, prayers and food, 11 bison were released and hundreds, including many local schools' students, looked on as they ran into the reserve just west of Box Elder. The return of the animals is an event that's been a long time coming, and is of incredible significance not just to the local...
The Montana state COVID tracking map after this morning’s update listed 994 new cases, 11,041 active cases, 463 hospitalizations and 2,321 deaths. The cumulative total for the state was 174,087 cases. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of 5 new cases, 70 active, 4 active hospitalizations, 1,369 total cases, 26 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Tuesday evening that 14 new cases were reported, 82 active, 13 active hospitalizations, 3,265 total cases, 60 deaths. Rocky Boy r...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees met Tuesday night to discuss a variety of issues including long-term strategic planing, possible improvements to school buildings that could increase airflow and ventilation and an update on the calendar committee’s work on an important community survey. HPS Superintendent Craig Mueller said members of the calendar committee met Monday and made progress putting together a survey to gauge public support for a modified four-day school week that could be proposed to take effect in t...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a sex offense reported Tuesday at 11:42 a.m. by a Havre agency. -- Tuesday at 5:23 p.m., a caller at a First Street business reported a theft that occurred during the previous night. -- Kaleb Steven Dobrenz of Havre, 25, was arrested on a state District Court warrant and charges of no insurance and probation violation during a vehicle stop at 2:16 a.m. today of U.S. Highway 2 East. -- A Seventh Street caller reported at 3:33 a.m. t...
From U.S. Department of Agriculture WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is announcing fiscal year 2022 assistance opportunities for agricultural producers and private landowners for key programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP; Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP; Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, ACEP; Regional Conservation Partnership Program, RCPP, and Agricultural Management Assistance, AMA, program. While USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service accepts application...
From Montana FFA BOZEMAN — Montana FFA will be returning to Montana State University Nov.11-13 for the 10th Annual Montana FFA Ag Expo, sponsored by Montana John Deere Dealers: C&B Operations, Frontline Ag Solutions, and RDO Equipment Co. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, the Montana FFA Foundation visited communities across the state to deliver experiential learning through small, competitive events as part of the Ag Expo. They ventured into 12 local communities to provide in-person contests while holding others o...
From U.S. Department of Agriculture An online tool is now available to help ranchers document and estimate payments to cover feed transportation costs caused by drought, which are now covered by the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-raised Fish Program, ELAP. The U.S. Department of Agriculture updated the program this year to include feed transportation costs as well as lowered the threshold for when assistance for water hauling expenses is available. USDA’s Farm Service Agency will begin taking applicati...
From https://www.fsa.usda.gov/state-offices/Montana Nov. 1: Deadline for Organic Certification Cost Share Program, OCCSP, applications for eligible certification expenses paid between Oct. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021. Early November: 2021 county committee election ballots to be mailed to voters. Nov. 15: 2022 acreage reporting deadline for apiculture, fall wheat — hard red winter, and all other fall-seeded small grains. Please note that this is the final date that FSA can accept late-filed 2021 reports for these crops. Dec. 6...
This region of Montana has seen two more COVID-19-related deaths. Blaine County Health Department reported Monday another COVID-19-related death in the area, bringing that county's total to 26 deaths, and the state COVID data tracking map listed a total of two deaths in Liberty County with its first new COVID-19-related death since 2020. The COVID-19-related death reported by the health department is Blaine County's second in October. That department also reported 22 new...
Havre Public Schools will be sending out a survey later this week to gauge public support of a modified four-day school schedule, which is being considered as a proposal for the next school year. Havre Public Schools Calendar Committee Chair Brad Moore, also assistant superintendent in the school district, said this potential change was made possible by legislation passed years ago that altered the requirements for the amount of learning time schools had to provide to be measured in hours, rather than days. But modifications...
Havre Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Brad Moore has been recognized as Montana's 2021-2022 Superintendent of the Year and will go on to be considered for national superintendent of the year in February of next year. Moore said he found out about receiving this award at last Thursday's Montana Conference of Educational Leadership, and he's overwhelmed and proud to have received this recognition from his peers. "For one of the few times in my career, I was pretty speech...
Blaine County Health Department and the state tracking map reported new COVID-19-related deaths in Blaine and Liberty counties, one in each county. Blaine County Health Department reported Monday evening the county had suffered another COVID-19-related death. It reported being notified of 22 new cases Friday through Monday, 76 active, 3 active hospitalizations, 1,364 total cases, 26 deaths. Fort Belknap reported Monday evening, also reported on either Blaine or Phillips county numbers, 2 new cases, 19 active, no active...
Montana State University-Northern announced Monday that it is celebrating a new $50,000 endowment, a gift from the estate of the late Ethel A. (McIntyre) Hess. Per the family’s wishes, the funds will be called the Ethel A. McIntyre Memorial Endowment and Scholarship supporting scholarships specifically for students at MSU-Northern majoring in education. “Education is one of the cornerstones of Northern,” Chancellor Greg Kegel said. ‘We are grateful for this generous gift from Ethel Hess and we know it will have an impact on o...
Montana Actors’ Theatre is inviting people to audition tonight or Wednesday for a new spin on an old classic — a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” using Japanese Bunraku puppets. The large puppets that will be used in the production each require three puppeteers, so the acting troupe is looking to fill at least 30 roles, a release said, although not all will be speaking roles. People of all ages are welcome to audition, it added. “This is a great opportunity for first-time participants,” the release said....
