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From Montana Department of Agriculture HELENA — Applications for the State Hail Insurance Program are now available through the Montana Department of Agriculture. Information is available online at https://agr.mt.gov/HailInsurance-Applying . Producers can insure crops against hail damage at the maximum coverage rate of $75 per acre for dryland and $114 per acre for irrigated land. Rates charged are a percentage of the insured amount and vary by county. A detailed list of rates by county and crop can be found online by v...
From USDA Farm Service Agency The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency announced that signup has reopened for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 — CFAP 2 — as part of the Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative. The initial CFAP 2 signup ended Dec. 11, but USDA has reopened sign-up for CFAP 2 for at least 60 days beginning April 5 for producers to apply or make modifications to existing CFAP 2 applications. CFAP 2 provides direct financial relief to producers due to market disruptions and ass...
by Colleen Buck, Montana State University Extension Hill County agriculture agent Montana State University Ranch Management Systems Team, in collaboration with local MSU Extension agents, have put together a series of workshops to address potential strategies to reduce the effects of drought in 2021. As of April 1, Hill County is classified as a D1 on the U.S. Drought Monitor. This means that Hill County is in a moderate drought for this time of year. The 2021 Montana Drought Series has put together a tour of talks in five...
From Natural Resources Conservation Service BOZEMAN — Natural Resources Conservation Service and private landowners have partnered to protect more than 5 million acres of wetlands, grasslands and prime farmlands — an area the size of New Jersey. In Montana, NRCS enrolled 282,091 acres, helping achieve this important conservation milestone. “The nation’s farmers, ranchers and private landowners are critical to conserving our nation’s natural resources for future generations,” said Tom Watson, NRCS state conservatio...
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are calling for a "pause" in the use of Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine while investigation of potentially serious side effects are investigates. A fact sheet from CDC says six cases of a rare and severe blood have been identified out of the nearly 7 million people who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. "CDC and FDA are recommending a pause in use of the J&J COVID-19...
St. Mary's Catholic Church of Rocky Boy is in the process of rebuilding after a December 2019 fire burned the church to the ground. Church member Misty Brooks-Denny and others are raising funds in multiple ways including raffles and, in particular, a $1 million challenge on Facebook. Brooks-Denny posted on the challenge Facebook page, "The goal and the challenge is to reach 1 million people to donate $1 each or more to reach our million dollar goal. Share this around the...
The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum will switch to summer hours by Memorial Day and the Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump will open that same day. Members of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board voted unanimously, at their monthly meeting Monday, to have the museum open Monday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. after Memorial Day. The Buffalo Jump will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, but appointments may be available for after-hours visits. After closing for more than a year due to the coronavirus p...
The Havre Education Association is hosting a Havre Public School Board candidate forum Thursday in Hensler Auditorium at 7 p.m. The forum is limited to 25 family members and members of the press. The public is invited to watch via Zoom at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88060431149 . The forum questions will help the public and local teachers learn who the candidates are. The questions will be general questions that allow the candidates to voice their vision for...
The Hill County Behavioral Health Local Advisory Council voted at their monthly meeting Monday to fund a number of the group’s projects using a $20,000 grant recently received from the Addictive and Mental Disorders Division of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. LAC Vice-Chair Amber Spring said, in addition to presentations she’s been organizing for Hill County youth about anxiety, she’s been working with the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line to set up a contest for local students to create menta...
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 106,426 with 198 new cases, 1,0005 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 51. The number of deaths was 1,526. Blaine County Health Department reported March 30 being being notified of no...
The agenda for the Hill County Commission weekly business meeting Thursday at 11 a.m. is: Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Claims Employment Budgets Ordinance Resolutions Contracts Agreement for Ambulance Services Family Planning Contract #21-25-5-11-037-0 Board appointments Fair board Policy updates County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Shelstad Road abandonment County needs Media Cart WiFi Public Use...
Havre Police Department Someone stopped at the police station Monday at 1:28 p.m. to speak with an officer about Social Security number fraud. -- A caller reported Monday at 1:47 p.m. that a car hit a pole on Lincoln Avenue. -- A 2:10 p.m. Monday caller at Highland Park Early Primary School reported someone backed into a vehicle. -- A remote monitoring device violation was reported at 2:58 p.m. Monday at the police station. Hill County Sheriff's Office An arrest was made on a...
Havre Daily News staff Community Alliance Church has another food giveaway scheduled for Tuesday, April 27. Food distribution will be at 3:30 p.m. and not earlier, a release from the church said. The boxes will contain seasonal produce, meat and dairy. The church has solicited the help of Havre Police Department for the food deliveries to help with traffic control and to ensure smooth food distribution, the release said. The distribution is being done through the Farmers to Families grant and in partnership with Project 180...
Press release DENVER — Native American students interested in attending college who are seeking a scholarship from the American Indian College Fund have an additional incentive to apply this year — the college fund is offering $20 gift cards for every student who completes an application by April 30. The incentive is being offered to increase Native student enrollment in at tribal colleges and universities and to encourage students to continue their education goals uninterrupted, despite the pandemic. Current Native tri...
Havre Police Department A caller from a U.S. Highway 2 West business reported at 6:32 a.m. Friday that a company vehicle may have hit a light post at Seventh Avenue and First Street. -- A caller on Center Street reported backing into a neighbor's truck at 9:51 a.m. Friday. -- Seneca Tenielle Sutherland of Box Elder, 40, was issued a summons on charges of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license and speeding 12:17 p.m. Friday during a motor vehicle stop on 16th...
Sweetgrass Society at Montana State University-Northern is hosting an event this week in support of an important cause — suicide awareness. Sweetgrass Society, the American Indian student organization at Northern, and the American Indian support agency at the university, Little River Institute, will host a suicide awareness walk on the Northern campus beginning 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The society is collaborating with Northern’s Healthy Lifestyle Advocates. Sweetgrass Society Pre...
Jen Buckley, an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe and Havre High School graduate, is putting up billboards around Montana including one in Havre to raise awareness of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. The billboard in Havre went up last week and depicts a young Native American woman and asks how many have to disappear before people start to notice. Buckley said the goal of the project is to get people who don't know about the subject asking questions...
Vaccination against COVID-19 in the area continues despite a significant drop in traffic at the Hill County Health Department’s weekly vaccine clinics. Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said, at the Hill County Health Board’s bi-weekly COVID-19 update last Friday, about 30 percent of the eligible population in the county is fully vaccinated and a further 43 percent have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Larson said these numbers are very good, but the traffic at her dep...
Local teachers have had to overcome challenges this school year due to the pandemic. Schooling has been conducted fully online, two days per week in person learning and three days online learning and now four days of in-person learning. Curriculum and schedules have had to change to adapt to protect the safety of the local surges. The high school band and choir programs have not escaped these adaptations and challenges. In October, the high school choir did hold a choir...
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 106,253 with 70 new cases, 1,124 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 51. The number of deaths was 1,524. Blaine County Health Department reported March 30 being being notified of no ne...
by Havre-Hill County Library Staff Here are some of our newest titles. New fiction “A Matter of Life and Death: A IN Robin Lockwood Novel” by Phillip Margolin, homeless and desperately trying to provide for his young family, Joe Lattimore agrees to a no-holds-barred illegal fight — only to have his opponent die. Blackmailed by the fight’s organizers into burglarizing a house, Lattimore finds a murdered woman on the floor and the police have received an anonymous tip naming him the murderer. Robin Lockwood, an increas...
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Havre-Hill County Library’s summer reading program will return, continuing a tradition of at least 35 years. As is to be expected, things will just look a little different this time around. Children’s Librarian Ashley Verity said this year’s animal-themed program, called “Tails and Tales,” runs from June 9 through July 30. The program’s yearly theme comes from the Collaborative Summer Library Program which gives libraries access to co...
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and organizations in Hill County and across Montana are using the opportunity to increase awareness about the issue, which has been more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hill County, an organization the recruits and trains community members to be advocates in court for abused and neglected children who have been removed from their homes, along with Youth Dynamics, which provides mental and...
