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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...
The Hill County Commission, in its weekly business meeting Thursday, unanimously approved a stipend increase to the volunteers of the Rudyard Ambulance Service. Denise Strissel of the Rudyard Ambulance service requested a patient transported stipend of $125 per trip per volunteer; a non-transport fee of $75 and $25 for welfare checks that take less than an hour. The commission also discussed the resignation, effective April 2, of deputy clerk and recorders Kaci Hipple and Bethany Jensen. The commissioners also unanimously...
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...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 104,163 with 39 new cases, 935 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 42. The number of deaths was, 436. Blaine County, reported on the state update this morning, had no new cases, 729 total, 1 active, 24 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Sunday evening being notified of no new cases Saturday and Sunday with 1,931 total, 2 active, 42 deaths. Rocky Boy Health Center reported March 11, also reported on either C...
Havre Police Department A caller at 4:28 p.m. Friday reported a tractor-trailer struck a streetlight at First Street and First Avenue. -- A two-vehicle crash between a car and a pickup truck was reported on 15th Avenue Friday at 5:24 p.m. -- Misty Dawn O'Claray or Havre, 42, was arrested on two Justice or City court warrants Friday at 6:36 p.m. or Second Street. -- Kiana Lee Roastingstick of Box Elder, 21, and Darrel Michael Dubois of Missoula, 31, were each issued a summons...
Satff and wire “Art Never Sleeps” is showing at Artitudes Gallery beginning Thursday, April 1. A release from the art gallery said all Artitudes artists know that every day is a good day for art, so they have been creating art all year. “We miss all of our patrons and hope to be back ‘full-time’ soon,” the release said. “Because we won’t be ready for public receptions for a while, people can stop by Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Kris Shaw at High Plains Gallery will be happy to let you in to view...
From Federal Bureau of Investigation SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City FBI invites all interested high school juniors and seniors, 16-18 years of age, in Utah, Idaho, and Montana to apply to the FBI’s Teen Symposium. Classes will be held online Thursday, April 22, and Friday, April 23, from 3-6 p.m. The FBI Teen Symposium provides an opportunity for high school students to catch a behind-the-scenes look at the FBI through presentations and demonstrations. Upon completion, students will foster a greater understanding of the...
Even with numbers of new cases down, officials and local health departments are reminding people still to work to keep transmission of COVID-19 down. In the same release announcing no new cases, for example, Blaine County Health Department reminded people to “wash your hands, wear a mask in public and stay home if you are ill.” With no new cases, Fort Belknap Indian Community said Thursday in its statement, “This continues to be extremely dangerous.” Rocky Boy Health Center reminded people the mask mandate still is in plac...
Gov. Greg Gianforte held a press conference Thursday where he talked about Montana Agriculture Week and detailed some of his plans to support Montana agricultuial producers. Gianforte said he had a roundtable with many of the state's agricultural leaders. He said the message he received was that Montana's "regulatory schemes" bury ag producers in red tape and he hopes his Red Tape Relief Task Force will be able to address that. He said ag producers complained of taxes they...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., held a press call Thursday with Glendive Mayor Jerry Jimison, Bear Paw Development Corp. Executive Director Paul Tuss, Montana Farmers Union President Walt Schweitzer and Montana Hospital Association President Rich Rasmussen to discuss the direct impacts of the American Rescue Plan, recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. Tester said that, over the past year, he's spoken with hundreds of Montanans in a range of professions from health care...
GREAT FALLS — A Harlem man who admitted a domestic abuse crime after beating a woman on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and to two years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said. Jeremy Leo Tincher, 39, pleaded guilty Nov. 10 to domestic abuse by habitual offender. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the sentencing. In court documents filed in the case, the government alleged that Tincher attacked and injured the victim, identified as J...
North Central Senior Citizens Center March Menu by Earlene DeWinter, subject to change Monday — Tatertot casserole, salad, biscuits, applesauce bars Tuesday — Salad, pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, rolls, cake Wednesday — Philly Steak Sandwich, potato wedges, cookies Thursday — Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and beef gravy, peas and carrots, pudding Friday — Soup, chef’s choice, dessert The Senior Center’s doors are still closed to the public. We are providing limited services by phone with individuals b...
