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Editor's note: This version corrects the caption with the photo of Hi-Line rancher Tammy Copenhaver speaking at the National Farmers Union convention. Family farmers and ranchers from Montana traveled to Scottsdale, Ariz., March 10-12 for the 122nd National Farmers Union convention. Delegates and attendees heard from nationally known speakers, administration officials, and each other during policy debate. Over the past year, NFU has increased membership by more than 12,600 mem...
Tensions rose Monday at a working group meeting of the Hill County Commission between Commissioner Sheri Williams and Hill County Clerk and Recorder Lexis Dockter, arguing over who is responsible for the Hill County Council on Aging losing out on a substantial amount of state money. The matter was prompted when the commission was discussing how the county supplements funding of the Hill County Council on Aging, when Williams said the council's funding seems to have gone down...
Darin Bernard Caplette, 41, and Thomas Roderick Yallup, 42, died after being shot early Thursday morning while they were at the gas pumps at D&L Bar in Box Elder, Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said in a press release Thursday afternoon. Deputies were dispatched to the scene after the sheriff's office received a call at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday reporting shots had been fired. The first deputies on the scene discovered two men had been shot at the pumps, the release said. Both...
Havre Police Department Edwin Vernel Franklin of Havre, 63, was arrested on a criminal contempt charge related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation reported at 7:23 a.m. Wednesday at the police station. -- Officers searched for but couldn't locate a suspiciously parked vehicle reported Wednesday at 9:35 a.m. at a U.S. Highway 2 Northwest parking lot. -- Officers assisted with a Wednesday 12:40 p.m. medical call on Fourth Street. -- Someone stopped at the police station at...
A local family is reaching out for help after a crash that left three horses with injuries they are struggling to pay for care for. Local resident Lisa Holt set up a GoFundMe page for her brother and sister-in-law Kenny and Meghan Holt, who sent a trio of horses to stay with friends Chris and Liz Olson in Nebraska while the Holts are expecting their first child. Havre Daily was unable to directly contact the Holts for direct comment. On the GoFundMe page Lisa Holt said it...
Press release Montana Farmers Union has invested $30,000 in burgeoning FFA chapters over the past year through it’s new FFA New Chapter Sponsorship program. Montana Farmers Union’s standing FFA New Chapter Sponsorship program was created in 2023 to help with startup costs associated with building a chapter. The program is specifically for new or rechaptered FFA programs from Jan. 1, 2022, and offers $2,500 per qualifying chapter. Florence, Frenchtown, Harrison, Havre, Augusta, Belt Valley, Scobey, Nashua, Whitehall, Win...
Havre Police Department Officers provided services on a 7:56 a.m. Tuesday complaint of a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation. —— A hit and run vehicle crash was reported on Second Street at 8:53 a.m. Tuesday. —— Officers assisted a detective with another law enforcement agency who asked Tuesday at 8:58 a.m. to speak with an officer about someone in the Havre area. —— Raymond Windyboy of Box Elder, 62, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and littering after an 11:37 a.m. Tuesday caller reported an intoxicated man sitting...
Editor’s note: The Hill County Commission submitted an amended agenda for its Thursday business meeting after print deadline Tuesday. The full agenda follows. The Hill County Commission will hold its weekly business meeting Thursday in the Commission Office at 10 a.m. The agenda for the meeting is: Meeting called to order Approval of last week’s minutes Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Employment Budgets Abatements Journal and vouchers Ordinance Resolutions Contracts Hygienix Contract wit...
HELENA — Agricultural producers with land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program are invited to apply for enrollment in Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ CRP Add-on Lease option. This option is designed to benefit producers while also providing habitat for upland game birds and other wildlife and also giving game bird hunters more places to hunt. The CRP Add-on Lease option is offered through FWP’s Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program and is available to private landowners, including landowners with land enrol...
A community non-profit is combining some comedy entertainment with outreach and updates in Turner next month. Big Flat Community Grain Bin Inc. said in a release that it has set Saturday, April 6, as the date for its first hosting of Montana Actors' Theatre dinner theater. "The evening will serve a dual purpose as a brief activities' update for the (Community Grain Bin)," a release from the organization said. This year's MAT traveling dinner theater production is an original...
Representatives of Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation said in a press release they want to give an update on a funding opportunity to help rehabilitate the Chinook pool and Sweet Park. “As you may know, the wonderful Schellin Family pledged $100,000 towards the Chinook Pool and Park Project,” the release said. “… As of today, we are currently at $30,122.16 donated towards the match and we would like to encourage folks from near and far to help match their amazing donation.” The Chinook Pool was built in 1976 and is no...
The Havre-Hill County Library is holding an Easter egg hunt Friday. The hunt will be held in the juvenile book section in the library following Family Storytime which starts at 10:30 a.m. “Kids of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to attend,” a release from the library said. “As always, this library program is free and open to the public....
Editor’s note: The Hill County Commission submitted an amended agenda for its Thursday business meeting after print deadline today. The amended agenda will be printed in Wednesday’s edition of Havre Daily News. The full agenda follows. The Hill County Commission will hold its weekly business meeting Thursday in the Commission Office at 10 a.m. The agenda for the meeting is: Meeting called to order Approval of last week’s minutes Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Employment Budgets Abatements...
Democratic candidate for Montana's eastern U.S. House seat was Steve Held was in Havre over the weekend in a campaign swing through the district. Held is among the Democrats running for Montana's Second Congressional District, a campaign with a crowded primary field that does not include the seat's current occupant, Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont. In the Democratic primary, Held faces Kevin Hamm, a Helena community organizer and activist, as well as retired pharmaceutical rep...
Havre Police Department Officers searched for but couldn't find an intoxicated man having trouble walking reported on Eighth Avenue Monday at 10:07 a.m. -- The Child Abuse Hotline made Havre area a report at 10:28 a.m. Monday. -- Jesse Lee Schoening of Havre, 34, was arrested on a state District Court warrant served at probation and parole offices Monday at 2:21 p.m. -- A caller on 11th Street asked officers Monday at 3:28 p.m. for assistance for two juveniles who were...
Hill County Cemetery District will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 29, at the cemetery office. • Call to order • Public comment • Approval of minutes from previous meeting • Old business • New business • Claims....
In the student advertisements shown in the Havre Daily News special section Monday about the Sunnyside Intermediate School trade fair, on page B1 Havre Daily News misspelled the name of Kiley Bebee from Mrs. Thompson’s class. See the corrected version on this page....
Winter returned to this region with a late-March snowstorm last week, with chances of light snow still in the forecast through the weekend, though with warmer temperatures. National Weather Service reports that Havre received more than 7 inches of new snow from Wednesday through Sunday at the service's recording station at the Havre City County Airport. Temperatures also plummetted, from a high of 67 last Monday to highs in the mid-20s from Thursday on and a low of 17 Friday....
Havre Daily News staff Parents of preschool children in the area have been advised by Bear Paw Cooperative that early childhood screenings it sponsors are set for this week. The screenings are by appointment only and parents are asked to call to set an appointment. Chinook, Hartland Colony, Zurich, Davey, Bear Paw and Cleveland school districts parents are being offered screenings from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in Meadowlark Elementary School in Chinook. For appointments, people can call Callie at 406-357-2033...
Havre Police Department A caller on Third Avenue reported a two-vehicle crash Friday at 11:29 a.m. after accidentally sliding into a parked vehicle. -- A written or verbal warning was issued after a caller on Second Avenue reported two dogs running around Friday at 11:42 a.m. -- Officers were asked at 12:32 p.m. Friday to assist Montana Highway patrol on 15th Street West. -- Brandon Lee Wombold of Havre, 28, was arrested on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia after a c...
Two women were seriously injured Thursday early afternoon in a crash involving their passenger vehicle and two semitractor-trailers west of Harlem. Emergency responders were called to the crash on U.S. Highway 2 near mile marker 420 at 1:30 p.m. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Matt Erickson said that at the time of the crash both visibility and road conditions were poor due to heavy snowfall. One of the semis involved in the crash was pulled to the side of the highway on the westbound side so the driver could clear snow from...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., held a press call Thursday to discuss a number of legislative issues, including the looming deadline for a government shutdown, which will occur at midnight tonight if lawmakers cannot pass a series of long-debated spending bills. Tester is running for re-election and faces Michael Hummers of Helena in the Democratic primary. Tester said Thursday he thinks the final appropriations bills will be passed before the deadline, but he remains frustrated that partisan politics have held up the process for...
Press release HELENA — The Governor’s Office of Community Service, Reach Higher Montana, and Montana Campus Compact are announced that some local students are among the 100 Montana high school seniors who have been awarded Youth Serve Montana Scholarships. Harlem High School student Marie Hogan and Havre High School student Maggie Daniels were among the students receiving a $1,500 Youth Serve Montana Scholarship for serving 100 or more hours. This scholarship is offered in two awards, $1,000 for 50-99 hours of service and...
