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Press release Montana Department of Transportation and Schellinger Construction are back out on the Lohman East and West project, upgrading the route. Miscellaneous work to finish construction on U.S. Highway 2 between Havre and Chinook will resume this week. Crews are starting with topsoil and shoulder work west of Chinook. Topsoil and shoulder work will continue beginning Wednesday throughout the project. Trucks will be hauling topsoil to work zones along the project, minimally impacting traffic flow. MDT will establish wor...
Monday 1:30 p.m. — Building manager meeting in the commissioner’s office Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Road Department meeting in the commissioner’s office 2: p.m. — Disaster and Emergency Services meeting in the commissioner’s office Wednesday 8 a.m. — Payroll and claims Thursday 10 a.m. — Weekly business meeting in the commissioner’s office Friday Regular business hours...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Havre Middle School to interview candidates for Havre superintendent of schools and possibly offer the position to one of the candidates. The agenda for the meeting is: A. Call to order 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll call 3. Welcome to visitors 4. Agenda deletions or corrections, and additions allowed by policy, if any B. New business 1. 5:45 p.m. — Board interview: Finalist Brett Zanto 2. 7 p.m. — Board interview: Fin...
Havre Police Department A caller from a caller at 10:27 a.m. Thursday reported a scam, type not listed. Another caller at 6:54 p.m. reported a Social Security scam. -- A caller from First Street at 1:41 p.m. Thursday reported finding a purple Huffy bicycle in their yard. -- After officers responded to a complaint from Third Street at 3:41 p.m. about neighbors yelling, the incident was resolved peacefully. -- Officers responding to a complaint at 1:55 a.m. this morning that a...
Out our way, when Charlie and I went to work the herd on the Tiger Ridge, our first task on arrival was to unload Doc and Jet and saddle them up. Now, I confess to being a tad prejudiced, but I was pretty proud of my rig - i.e. saddle. Not the fanciest or newest, but I confess it looked fine on ole Doc. 16½ hands of pure quarter horse, 1,200 pounds of power, and that saddle just fit him perfectly. In addition, I was also pretty proud of my own gear. My hat, scarf, work...
In our Roman Catholic Christian tradition, the scripture readings for this Sunday, March 28 lead us from the highest praise and exultation to the very pit of despair - the grave. The scripture readings for Palm Sunday are as follows: Mark 11:1-10 Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Isaiah 50:4-7 we hear of the Suffering Servant. Philippians 2:6-11 we hear of Jesus being obedient to the point of death. Mark 14:1-15:47 Mark's version of the last supper and Jesus' Passion &...
You know, Lord, friend A.F. shared this special/interesting letter, author unknown. So here we go, also sharing this letter titled; From A Friend: Dear Friend, How are you? I just had to send a note to tell you how much I care about you. I saw you yesterday as you were talking with your friends. I waited all day, hoping you would want to talk with me too. I gave you a sunset to close your day and a cool breeze to rest you - and I waited. You never came. It hurt me - but I stil...
by Keith J. Doll Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission Part 2 of a 2-part series During the first part of February 1921, the Rev. Leonard J. Christler was sent a telegram from St. John's Episcopal Church in Auburn, New York, his former field. It was a call for him to come back to his field and be the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Christler declined the offer. In March of that year, they notified him again to come back to his former field. This...
Staff and wire report People are invited to meet the finalists for Havre Public Schools superintendent in remote receptions Monday and to hear the Havre School Board of Trustees interview the candidates Tuesday. The board Tuesday selected, listed here alphabetically by name, are Havre Public Schools Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller and Helena Capital High School Principal Brett Zanto as finalists for the position. "We have selected excellent candidates to interview and...
From National Association of Federally Impacted Schools WASHINGTON - The National Association of Federally Impacted Schools - NAFIS - has announced that Voyd St. Pierre, superintendent of Rocky Boy School District 87 in Rocky Boy, Montana, has been reelected to the NAFIS Board of Directors as an at-large Director. The election took place at the 2021 NAFIS spring on-inline conference. As a member of the NAFIS Board of Directors, St. Pierre serves as a national leader...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 103,830 with 174 new cases, 957 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 48. The number of deaths was 1,435. Blaine County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified of no new cases, with 752 total, 3 active, 24 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified of no new cases, with 1,930 total, 2 active, 42 deaths. Rocky Boy Health Center reported March 11, also reported on e...
Staff and wire report With the first mussel-fouled boat already detected in Montana as watercraft inspections begin, officials are notifying boaters that certified boater training for Tiber Reservoir is available online from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Watercraft inspections have become a key component for trying to prevent invasive species from coming to Montana’s waterways since invasive mussel larvae were found in Tiber Reservoir and a suspected detection, never confirmed, was made in Canyon Ferry Reservoir in 2016....
A production crew from the Montana PBS series "Backroads of Montana" will be spending the weekend in the Bear Paw Mountains filming and interviewing a Chouteau County ranching family, who are helping to save an endangered breed of horses. Tom and Rene Brown, who ranch on the south side of the Bear Paws, started their journey breeding Cleveland Bay horses with the purchase of their first stallion, Tregoyd William, in the fall of 2011. Tom Brown wanted to use the stallion to cro...
Havre Police Department A remote alcohol monitoring device violation was reported at the police station Wednesday at 10:04 a.m. -- Caleb Logan Denny of Box Elder, 23, was arrested on a charge of trespass to vehicles after a caller at a First Street business reported Wednesday at 10:18 a.m. that someone tried to get into a customer's vehicle and drive away. -- A 12-year-old was arrested on an assault charge after a caller at Havre Middle School reported a fight Wednesday at 3:3...
The board of Rural Fire District 1 will hold a meeting Monday at 10 a.m. in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse....
A story in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about a Hill County Park Board committee hearing comments on control of beaver in Beaver Creek Park characterized Lou Hagener as a long-time advocate of non-lethal control of beaver. Hagener said that early in his natural resources management carreer he was a tacit supporter of lethal trapping but, after 40 years in the business, came to realize he was being closed-minded and that natural processes are something to work with and not against....
Hill County Commissioner and Board of Health Chair Mark Peterson released an official announcement Monday that the local mask mandate has been rescinded upon reaching the agreed-upon threshold of an average of 10 or fewer new cases of COVID-19 per day per 100,000 residents for two consecutive weeks. At least one member of the board has reservations about that meaning the mandate automatically ends. The announcement signed by Peterson said that last week the county had 4.33 new cases per day per 100,000 and the week before...
Local health officials say they are opening up clinics for COVID-19 vaccinations this week, ahead of the planned opening April 1, with some saying they have been doing so for a while. Alysia Mosness, director of infection prevention at Northern Montana Hospital, said the partners putting on a vaccination clinic Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Havre's Holiday Village Mall, are opening to everyone 18 and older, with walk-ins taken while vaccine supplies last. "As long as we...
The Havre Public School Board of Trustees voted Tuesday evening to interview Interim-Superintendent Craig Mueller and Capital High School Principal Brett Zanto from Helena for the position of Havre Public School Superintendent next week. Long-time Superintendent Andy Carlson resigned in June, and Mueller, then the assistant superintendent, accepted the position of interim superintendent effective July 1. Mueller had previously expressed that he had no interest in the...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 103,666 with 214 new cases, 898 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 59. The number of deaths was 1,413. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of no new cases, with 752 total, 3 active, 24 deaths. Hill County Health Department reported Tuesday evening being notified of no new cases, with 1,930 total, 4 active, 42 deaths. Rocky Boy Health Center reported March 11, also reported on either C...
An article about Hill County Park Board’s Rules and Regulation Committee holding a meeting to collect information on beaver management in Beaver Creek Park published in Tuesday’s edition of Havre Daily News did not make it clear that cabin owner Fran Buell, who is a member of Montana Trappers Association, was speaking as a cabin owner and not speaking for the association....
Havre Daily News Havre Police Department officers investigated after a caller at the emergency room reported at 9:23 p.m. Tuesday that a man had walked in with a stab wound to his neck. Police Capt. Aaron Wittmer said the victim told officers that a man dressed in black with a gas mask on approached him in the alley on the 1100 Block of Second Street and asked for a cigarette, then pulled a knife from his pocket, stabbed the victim and ran away. Investigating officers could find no evidence, Wittmer said, and the victim was...
Havre Police Department William Joe Skidmore of Havre, 40, was arrested on charges of trespass to property and obstructing a peace officer or other public servant and on a Justice or City court warrant after a Third Street caller asked Tuesday at 7:46 a.m. for assistance removing a man from a house. At Hill County Detention Center, officers served Skidmore with a state District Court warrant at 1:36 p.m. -- Tessa Shayne Bigknife of Box Elder, 19, was arrested on charges of...
From Montana Farm Service Agency website The following are upcoming deadlines for programs administered by Farm Service Agency. • Underway: CRP General Signup (Deadline TBD) • March 1 to May 14: 2021 CRP Spring Non-Emergency Grazing Period (prior approval required) • March 31: Final availability date for loans and LDPs for prior year harvested wheat, barley, canola, crambe, flaxseed, honey, oats, rapeseed, and sesame seed April 9: Deadline for Quality Loss Adjustment (QLA) Program signup • April 15: Noninsured Crop Disaste...
From USDA Farm Service Center Potential applicants interested in learning more about the following full-time permanent Program Technician position with the Montana Farm Service Agency and or applying for this position at usajobs.gov should click on the vacancy link below: County Program Technician: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/595815800. This is a position located in either Missoula County or Ravalli County This is a shared management operation between Ravalli County FSA Office in Hamilton, and the Missoula...
