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From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension will soon offer a program to help rural Montana residents gain skills needed to work from home as a remote employee, freelancer or entrepreneur. “This educational program will help people living in rural communities gain the skills needed to access high-paying jobs and larger markets for their business while remaining in their rural communities,” said Cody Stone, MSU Extension executive director. “This program has the potential to strengthen the economi...
Bearpaw Bowmen Archery Club is holding its Spring 3D Archery Shoot Sunday at Eagles Campground in Beaver Creek Park. The 25 3D targets - life-sized animal targets - will be a variety of sizes from the archery club's collection, which includes everything from small rabbits to big game and even a Sasquatch, club President Clyde R. Thomas Jr. said. And the shooting distances will be anywhere from 3 feet to 70 yards. "That's why they have these 3D shoots is to get people into...
Staff and wire report Anaconda watercraft inspectors were busy last weekend when three mussel-fouled watercraft were intercepted at the inspection station. The inspectors keep finding more fouled boats, with the previous weekend, on April 10, marking Montana’s watercraft inspectors intercepting the sixth mussel-fouled boat entering the state. That boat also was stopped at the Anaconda watercraft. Inspectors found dry and dead mussels on a used pontoon boat that had been purchased in Minnesota and was destined for W...
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Beginning May 15 and running through June 30, nonresident hunters can register their name to the Alternate’s List on MyFWP at https://myfwp.mt.gov/fwpExtPortal/login/login . Every year, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks gets several unused nonresident combination licenses — big game, general elk and general deer combination licenses — returned by customers. FWP resells these returned licenses through the Alternate’s List. The Alternate’s List is an option for nonresident hunters to express t...
In addition to welcoming four new board members, the Great Northern Fair Board at its monthly meeting Tuesday discussed proceeding with plans for the 2021 Great Northern Fair. New members are Bob Kaul, Bob Sivertsen, Lex Kellen, and Daryl Wright, who replace the four members who recently resigned, three of whom resigned at the board’s meeting last month. Fairgrounds Manager Frank English said the carnival the Great Northern Fair usually employs, Dreamland Carnival, will not be coming to Havre this year, but he’s been in con...
Havre Public Schools Superintendent Craig Mueller has transitioned through three job titles in a year, all during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic first began, he was assistant superintendent and then, when previous Superintendent Andy Carlson left in July 2020, Mueller stepped into an interim superintendent role. Eventually, he would transition to the superintendent role after initially declining the position. Looking at the year for not only himself, but Havre...
Montana Actors' Theatre is continuing to find ways to perform after the COVID-19 pandemic derailed its planned season last year. The pandemic hit Montana, and the college campuses in the state including Montana State University-Northern's were closed, the week MAT was planning to open its production of "Mama Mia." That production and the MAT dinner theater and its planned production of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all were postponed and have yet to hit the stage, but...
People can find online where vaccines are available in their area through https://vaccinefinder.org, operated by Boston’s Children’s Hospital and supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Digital Service. The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 107,537 with 167 new cases, 957 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 63. The number of deaths was 1,557. Blaine County Health Department reported Monday evening being notified of 1 new...
Havre Police Department Sancha Marie Valenzuela of Great Falls, 38, was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license, careless driving, negligent endangerment, habitual traffic offender and failing to carry proof of insurance after a two vehicle, non-injury crash was reported at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday on Ninth Street. -- A caller at a Fifth Street business reported Tuesday at 9:39 p.m. that the front of the building had been shot with paintballs. -- A...
Rural Fire District 1 Board will meet Thursday at 11 a.m. in Timmons Room in Hill County Courthouse. The meeting agenda is: • Call meeting to order • Reorganization of board • Approve minutes • Sign the title transfer • Request approval from Clyde R. Thomas • Situation with City of Havre...
Staff and wire report A press release from The White House April 16 announced that President Joe Biden intends to nominate Robert Bonnie for U.S. Department of Agriculture under secretary for farm production and conservation. “I am grateful to President Biden for announcing his intent to nominate Robert Bonnie (for the position),” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said April 16 in a statement released by USDA. “ Robert currently serves as the deputy chief of staff and senior climate advisor at USDA. He led the USDA Trans...
From U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA is implementing updates to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program for producers of agricultural commodities marketed in 2020 who faced market disruptions due to COVID-19. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced an expansion of CFAP on March 24, 2021. This is part of a larger effort to reach a greater share of farming operations and improve USDA pandemic assistance. Producers who, In 2020, owned or produced: • livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep/wool, broilers/pullets, eggs a...
From Montana Farm Service Agency website Following are upcoming deadlines for FSA programs • Underway: Conservation Reserve Program general signup, deadline to be determined. • March 1 to May 14: 2021 CRP Spring Non-Emergency Grazing Period, prior approval required. • April 5: Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 reopened. Sign-up period will remain open for at least 60 days. • May 31: Final availability date for loans and LDPs for prior year harvested corn, dry peas, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, rice, safflow...
The city of Chinook will be shutting down residents’ water between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday in order to repair a defective waterline with the assistance of COP Construction, and is advising people that get water through the city to prepare accordingly. After the water is turned back on, the city will be under a boil-order and people are asked not to use the water for drinking or cooking and some other activities without boiling it first. A release about the shutdown said the reason for the boil order is because t...
The Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association recently received a $10,000 grant from the Montana History Foundation, which will go toward repairing the Officers' Amusement Hall's roof to fix leaks discovered in 2019. Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association Chair Ron VandenBoom said the grant is a good start, but the association will need a lot more money to make the necessary repairs. VandenBoom said he discovered the leaks the grant will be used to address two years ago...
Although numbers of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in this part of Montana are not mirroring the surge in other parts of the state, the nation and the world, confirmations - and deaths - continue to trickle in and local officials have joined officials around the country and the world urging people to continue to use caution and to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Blaine County Health Department said in a release Monday evening that the department was notified of a new conf...
People can find online where vaccines are available in their area through https://vaccinefinder.org, operated by Boston’s Children’s Hospital and supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Digital Service. The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 107,379 with 186 new cases, 1,025 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 66. The number of deaths was 1,552. Blaine County Health Department reported Monday evening being notified of 1...
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 Social Host Resolutions Amended CARES Act funding Contracts Agreement for Ambulance Services Submittals FICO Courthouse Cameras, door project Board appointments Hill County Park Board Policy updates County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval County needs Hiring policy...
Havre Police Department A caller at a First Street business reported Monday at 10:23 a.m. that a blue and black bicycle had been sitting outside the business for more than a week. -- Officers investigated a complaint made at the police station Monday at 11:20 a.m. -- John William Loving of Havre, 71, was arrested on charges of trespass to vehicles and disorderly conduct after a caller at a U.S. Highway 2 West business reported at 2:02 p.m. Monday that an intoxicated man was ye...
Information sent from the Hill County Commission to Havre Daily News about the commission’s calendar this week misreported that a Unified Disposal Board meeting was scheduled for Wednesday. No UDB meeting is scheduled for Wednesday....
From Golden Prairie Community Foundation The Golden Prairie Community Foundation, an affiliate of Montana Community Foundation, recently awarded $2,000 in grants to Hi-Line Emergency Medical Services and the Liberty County 4-H Council. These organizations have exciting, community-based projects that will work for the improvement and sustainability of Hi-Line communities. The Golden Prairie Community Foundation has awarded over $4,500 in grants over the past six years to local...
Press release The Bear Paw Beavers 4-H Club members set a goal for a community service project to donate cat food and dog food to the Havre Animal Shelter. 4-H members contacted CHS Big Sky in Havre about purchasing the cat food and dog food. The 4-H'ers were delighted when CHS Big Sky informed them that they would be donating the cat food and dog food. The 4-H members delivered five bags of cat food and 10 bags of dog food to the Havre Animal Shelter recently. "Thank you to...
Havre Daily News staff Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument is inviting people to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument by joining the Boats in the Breaks canoe and kayak race Saturday, July 17. People at the event can paddle 20 miles of Montana’s Wild and Scenic Missouri River from Fort Benton to Wood Bottom Recreation Area while supporting the Friends’ efforts to protect and preserve the monument, a Friends release said. “Kick back and relax after the race at the Boats, Brews...
Public Works Director Dave Peterson said Friday that better winter weather has allowed the department to get ahead on the annual problem of “spider webbing,” resulting in street cracks and potholes in the community. “This winter was actually a pretty good winter for us as far as how the streets go, but (this is) what happens when you get snow and then you get a Chinook wind (coming) in. (The weather) warms up the streets and you get your snow melt,” Peterson said. The milder...
Havre Daily News staff Hi-Line Art Association and Downtown Havre Matters! had a successful premiere event at Havre's Art Alley Saturday, with hundreds of people coming to partake in music and art. Grant Olson of Hi-Line Art Association said at 6:30 p.m. he was guessing about 500 people had been to the event by that time, with it scheduled to continue to 8 p.m. The alley, between Second and Third streets and Third and Fourth avenues, is the inspiration of Downtown Havre...
