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While the news on COVID-19 in Hill County is mostly good, Northern Montana Health Care Chief of Medical Staff Dr. Kevin Harada said residents must continue to fight the pandemic by getting vaccinated as soon as possible. Cases and hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have plummeted in the county and the surrounding area and the state is opening the vaccine to everyone 16 and older on Thursday, and while that is good news, Harada said, it is imperative that efforts to prevent...
Jolee Lyn Landgraf of Havre, 29, was arrested Friday on a charge of deliberate homicide stemming from a head-on crash Jan. 28 that killed Loretta Park of Havre, 73. Investigating officers said she told them she deliberately swerved into oncoming traffic. Landgraf was being held in the Hill County Detention Center on $500,000 bond this morning. Court documents said Montana Highway Patrol was notified of the crash at about 12:22 p.m.. The trooper investigating found that it appeared the silver Dodge Dakota driven by Landgraf...
Havre Daily News staff Editor’s note: This version corrects the location and the web link. Beginning Monday, April 5, Montana Actors’ Theatre will be offering a month-long workshop for middle school and high school aged youth on costume design and construction. The workshop will be held Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at the former Creative Leisure location. This is part of a series of workshops with each month focusing on a different theater aspect, a press release said, and will be led by various MAT staff and vol...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees unanimously voted at a meeting Tuesday night to offer the position of HPS Superintendent to current Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller on a three-year contract. Mueller and Capital High School Principal Brett Zanto were both interviewed for the position at the meeting and the consensus among the trustees was that both candidates were not only qualified for the position but performed admirably in their interviews, but Mueller's...
COVID-19 vaccinations are becoming more available in this part of north-central Montana, and are coming at a time when the number of cases are again starting to surge in the United States. Hill County health officials announced that at the vaccination clinic scheduled at Holiday Village Mall Thursday of next week, April 8, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved for youths 16 to 18 will be available, and shots will be administered to that age group from noon to 5. Hill County Health Officer Kim Larson said the vaccine became...
Havre Daily News staff With one fire already started and extinguished in the area, National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for this region Thursday through Friday. Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation firefighters successfully contained and extinguished a fire on the reservation Sunday, keeping it to 6.6 acres in a wind that could have made it spread rapidly. Weather Service says in its watch that high winds and low humidity will make fires easily started and difficult to contain during the period of the watch, from Th...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 104,552 with 203 new cases, 912 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 47. The number of deaths was 1,437. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of no new cases, 752 total, none active, no active hospitalizations, 24 deaths. the department said it would not list case numbers unless they change. Hill County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of no new cases, 1,931 t...
From National Park Service WEST GLACIER, —The National Park Service announces a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) seeking responses from individuals, educational institutions, government agencies or entities, and non-profit or for-profit organizations, interested in the preservation and re-use of one or more historic buildings at Glacier National Park through a lease with the National Park Service. The NPS invites individuals and/or organizations to express their interest in leasing, rehabilitating, preserving and m...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Registration is now open for Montana State University’s Rural Journalism Camp, to be held July 11–16 on MSU’s campus. The camp, presented by the Yellowstone Writing Project and the MSU Continuing, Professional and Lifelong Learning program in Academic Technology and Outreach, is a weeklong residential experience immersing rural high school students in the theory and practice of daily journalism. Students will explore issues facing American journalists today and develop skills of the craft by cove...
The Hill County Park Board will hold its monthly meeting Monday in the Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center. The meeting agenda is: 1) Approval of minutes 2) Approval of Agenda 3) Guests and public comments on agenda items only and agenda requests for the next meeting 4) Cabin business #12 Mooney Coulee #24 Mooney Coulee 5) Old business Monitoring progress South cross fence Wind damage and insurance claim Memorial bench 6) New business Potluck meeting date and location Budget requests 7) Committee reports Rules and...
Editor’s note: Due to an editorial error, an addition to the agenda originally sent, an ordinance for a request for prosecutorial assistance, was left out of the agenda printed Tuesday. 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 ordinance Resolution Resolution No. 21-2657: Requested prosecutorial assistance Contracts Agreement for ambulance service Board a...
Havre Police Department Tuesday at 8:09 a.m., a First Avenue caller reported a hit and run crash that happened during the night. -- Someone stopped at the police station Tuesday at 8:32 a.m. to report a theft. -- Child and Family Services filed a cross report Tuesday at 10:05 a.m. at the police station. -- Two summonses were issued after a disturbance was reported at Havre High School Tuesday at 2:32 p.m. No details on the charges were provided. -- A 4:31 p.m. Tuesday caller a...
Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Teter WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester released the following statement after the United States Department of Agriculture announced that billions of dollars in coronavirus relief funding will be opened up to bring critical financial assistance to agricultural producers impacted by COVID-19 market disruptions: “This announcement is welcome news to Montana farmers and ranchers who have been impacted by the coronavirus crisis. I’m happy to see that this money will be put to go...
Press release WASHINGTON — Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jon Tester, D-Mont., along with their colleagues Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, John Hoeven, R-N.D., Tina Smith, D-Minn., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., have introduced legislation to foster efficient markets while increasing competition and transparency among meat packers who purchase livestock directly from independent producers. This bipartisan bill will require that a minimum of 50 percent of a meat p...
Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Tester U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is fighting to ensure Montana ag and livestock haulers have the flexibility they need to safely deliver their products to market with the reintroduction of his bipartisan Haulers of Agriculture and Livestock Safety — HAULS — Act of 2021. “Ranchers and livestock haulers face unique challenges when transporting perishable crops and live animals, and the rules should reflect that,” Tester said. “This commonsense bill cuts the burdensome red tape that...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension, in partnership with the MSU Alumni Foundation, will offer a five-part webinar series on estate and legacy planning. Thoughtful Thursdays will run from 10 to 11 a.m. beginning April 15 through May 15. In the first session, viewers will learn how to pass property without probate while saving more money for their heirs. The Montana Legislature has provided payable-on-death designations, transfer-on-death registrations and transfer-on-death deeds, and according to E...
Firefighters from multiple tribal agencies came together in rapid response to get a wildfire contained to minimal acreage in high winds on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Sunday evening. “Everybody pulled together and got this fire controlled, contained at 6.6 acres,” Chippewa Cree Natural Resources Fire Management Officer Jason Lodgepole said. “It could’ve been worse.” A resident in the Parker School area at the east edge of the reservation near Taylor Road reported a...
Winifred, Montana, a town of fewer than 200 people, will be the home of a new high-tech K-12 school which began construction in earnest today, a project Montana State University-Northern staff members have been a consultant for. The school is the brainchild of multi-millionaire Norm Asbjornson, current chairman and co-Founder of Aaon Inc. as well as its former CEO, the namesake of Montana State University's College of Engineering, and a Winifred native. The designers of the...
Hill County recently hired a new Montana State University Extension agriculture agent, Colleen Buck, taking over the position previously held by Tom Allen, who left at the end of last year. Buck started her position last week. Buck said she's been excited to start her new job, and is especially looking forward to getting to know the people of Hill County and help local ag producers with whatever they need. "I have a deep passion for agriculture and this is my way of giving...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 104,321 with 157 new cases, 898 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 46. The number of deaths was 1,437. Although numbers of new cases are down in north-central Montana, local health officials are still urging people to take precautions like wearing masks, regularly washing hands and surfaces and avoiding large crowds to keep the numbers down. These warnings come as parts of the United States are again seeing a rise in t...
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 ordinance Contracts Agreement for ambulance service Board appointments Policy updates County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval County needs Insurance plan renewal Justice of the Peace equipment transfer to District Court...
Havre Police Department A Havre Public Works employee reported the theft of a pole and signage at Sixth Street and Twelfth Avenue Monday at 8:47 p.m. -- Patrick Ryan Schroeder of Havre, 30, was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and failure to carry proof of vehicle insurance after Schroeder stopped at the police station Monday at 10:30 a.m. for assistance regarding the sexual or violent offender registry. -- A Monday 11:09 a.m. caller at a First Street...
Quick response from several organizations on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Sunday contained a wildfire to less than seven acres in the Parker School area at the east edge of the reservation near Taylor Road. Chippewa Cree Natural Resources Fire Management Officer Jason Lodgepole said a call about a grass fire quickly spreading north up the hill into the timber came in at 5:20 p.m. and the first engine arrived on scene at 5:31 p.m. As subsequent engines and personnel arrived, they got out in front of the flames and stopped t...
Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson, in a Hill County Board of Health COVID-19 update last Friday, said the county is in good shape with regards to the pandemic. She said as of last Thursday at 5 p.m. the county only had three active cases of COVID-19 and as many people being monitored in quarantine. She said the rate-of-spread for the week of March 15 through 21 was 4.33 new cases per day per 100,000 residents. Of the eligible population of Hill County 24 percent has been fully vaccinated, she...
