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Havre Police Department A 12th Avenue caller reported Monday at 2:28 p.m. that a suburban was keyed. -- Someone stole beer from a First Street West business Tuesday at 1:07 a.m. Hill County Sheriff's Office Deputies investigated a complaint from the Rudyard area Monday at 1:05 p.m. -- A caller at Beaver Creek Reservoir reported a theft, forgery or fraud at 3:26 p.m. Monday. -- Deputies were asked at 6:48 p.m. Monday to assist at a vehicle fire on Wildhorse Road, Montana...
Press release GREAT FALLS — The Montana Wheat and Barley Committee is asking producers to participate in the upcoming Wheat and Barley Varieties Survey conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. “By participating in this year’s varieties survey, you’ll be providing the Montana State University breeding programs with insight as to what is important to Montana producers,” said Jason Laird, marketing and communications director of the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee....
Press release BOZEMAN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting offers for more than 3.1 million acres from agricultural producers and private landowners through this year’s Conservation Reserve Program Grassland Signup, the highest in history. The signup’s results include more than 215,000 acres in Montana. This program allows producers and landowners to continue grazing and haying practices while protecting grasslands and promoting plant and animal biodiversity and conservation, and it’s part of the Biden-Harris adm...
Editor’s note: Information in these stories appeared in stories a special section in Monday’s Havre Daily News 2022’s Great Northern Fair is set to be much larger than previous years, with far more events, rides and entertainment, the fairgrounds manager said. “Bigger, badder, better,” Great Northern Fairgrounds Manager Frank English said. English said he and the Great Northern Fair Board have been working hard to get this year’s fair set up, and they’re set to nearly double the amount of events planned. Parking on th...
Rain and slightly cooler weather held on a day longer than expected with some steady rain falling Sunday, but very hot weather is expected to hit just in time for the Great Northern Fair. National Weather Service forecasts highs in this area to hit the 90s today and near or more than 100 degrees Wednesday. After highs dropping to the upper 80s and lower 90s Thursday and Friday, the temperatures are again expected to peak near 100 Saturday and Sunday. A steady high-pressure...
The Hill County Behavioral Health Local Advisory Council met Monday and provided updates on its members activities, as well as the group’s upcoming efforts to rebuild the Western Service Area Authority and the LACs under it. LAC member National Alliance on Mental Illness Havre President Crystal Laufer said the Western Service Area Authority, the governing body of LACs in western Montana, has had many members leave recently and people from the Central Service Area Authority, which governs the Hill County LAC, is going to 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 Resolutions Contracts Board appointments Policy updates County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval County needs County credit card policy Quit claim deeds...
BILLINGS — A Shepherd man lost his hunting privileges for 16 years and will pay fines and restitution exceeding $6,000 after pleading guilty to 16 state and federal charges of poaching mule deer and leaving some parts at a federal recreation area. Brayden Reed, 19, pleaded guilty in Yellowstone County Justice Court to four counts of unlawful possession of deer, two counts of wasting game, three counts of hunting during a closed season, two counts of unlawful use of equipment, two counts of hunting without a license and one c...
A bomb scare at Montana State University-Northern was reported at 2:45 p.m. Friday Assistant Police Chief Aaron Wittmer said, but investigation found no sign of an explosive device. The unnamed caller, speaking in what Wittmer described as a heavy Middle Eastern accent, told police dispatch that a bomb with a timer set to go off in one hour and 15 minutes was in a classroom at Northern. Investigation by law enforcement found no evidence of a bomb or other device. The call...
A missed typo in the fair schedule in the Great Northern Fair special section in today’s paper misreported the cost of parking at the Great Northern Fair. The charge is $5 per day between 1 and 9 p.m., and $20 for the week.... Full story
Havre Police Department A deer with a broken leg was reported on Cowan Drive Friday at 6:32 a.m. -- Theft of items was reported by a caller on First Avenue Friday at 9:49 a.m. -- A caller on First Street reported Friday at 10:53 a.m. that a vehicle had been vandalized. -- A bike was reported abandoned at a Ninth Avenue residence Friday at 11:55 a.m. -- Officers investigated a Friday 12:05 p.m. report that someone had smashed the windows out of a vehicle on Second Avenue. -- A...
A missed typo in the fair schedule in the Great Northern Fair special section in today’s paper misreported the cost of parking at the Great Northern Fair. The charge is $5 dollars per day between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m., and $20 dollars for the week.... Full story
The Havre City Council Water and Sewer Committee met Thursday, primarily to discuss a number of concerns brought to them by local business owner Cody Miles. While most of the meeting was spent addressing Miles’ concerns, another member of the public, who did not give his name, talked about a recent rise in city water rates, which he said is really difficult for him because he’s on a fixed income. Committee member Sarah McKinney said she understands his concern as well as that of others on fixed incomes who are always hit the...
After years of moving from location to location, the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum held a grand reopening in the former Griggs Printing Building Saturday, marking its first day open to the public in its new, perment location. Saturday's grand reopening packed the museum's new location, which began with a ribbon cutting with the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and an address by members of the museum's board and foundation board. H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board Chair Lela...
Press release HELENA (AP) - Kris Hansen, who recently departed the No. 2 post at Montana Attorney General's Office, has died at age 52, according to state officials. A news release from the Montana Department of Justice said Hansen died early Thursday, the Independent Record reported. No information about her cause of death was released. Hansen was named chief deputy of the Montana Department of Justice in December 2020. Before that, she worked for the Montana state Auditor's...
Press release Chinook will be hosting a blood drive Tuesday, July 19, 2022 from noon till 6 p.m. at Wallner Hall, 330 Ohio. To make an appointment, people can go to www.redcrossblood.org. If people are unable to make an appointment but would like to donate, walk ins are always welcome. Masks are no longer required as of April 25th, 2022....
The July meeting of the board of Rural Fire District 1 has been canceled....
Havre City Council’s Safety Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at 1:30 p.m. in the Emergency Operations Center in the basement of City Hall. The meeting agenda is: Call to order Attendance: Please sign-in on attendance sheet. 2022’s Safety Committee Members from the council: Josh Miller (Chair), Denise Brewer 1. Training updates: Each department lead, or designee, that is present will provide a brief update on safety related training that has been completed since the last safety meeting. Safety training tha...
Havre Police Department A Thursday 11:44 a.m. caller reported backing into another vehicle in the parking lot of a Second Street business. -- A deer was reported struck by a vehicle at 13th Street and Knob Road at 4:15 p.m. Thursday. -- Nathan Edward Morsette of Great Falls, 37, was arrested on a theft charge after a caller at a U.S. Highway 2 Northwest business reported Thursday at 6:37 p.m. that man took several items from the business and was seen heading southwest to a...
To My Beloved Grandchildren, Most of the time when I share my childhood memories with you, your reaction is “That couldn’t be true” or “So what, no big deal.” You’ve been trained well not to say something like that out loud but I can sense it. I am writing this letter so that in 20, 30 or 40 years you just might like to know what your Grandma Ila’s childhood really was like. I grew up in the saddle. From a very early age until I got married, I helped my father herd and chec...
Staff and wire report A former local resident is going up for auction with the presale estimate for the going price $5 million to $8 million, The Assoiated Press reports. The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's announced Tuesday. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby's natural history auction July 28, the auction house said. The Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore...
Clashing weather patterns have brought storms to the area that released damaging hail and short, heavy rains showers, but not enough to overcome the moisture deficit that has covered this part of the area in drought. National Weather Service Meteorologist Paul Nutter in Great Falls said Thursday morning that reports came in of nickel-sized hail 9 miles west-southwest of Havre, 2-inch hail 5 miles west of town and tennis ball-sized hail 8 miles west. He said other thunderstorms...
After a month of construction, the Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department Fire Hall is now fully constructed, and in another month will be ready to house vehicles. Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Josh Bebee said the building still needs to be hooked up to power and have a boiler installed, but construction was finished on schedule, and if everything keeps going that way the building should be ready for use by August, which he and his crew couldn't be happier for....
July 11-15 Press release Summer meals are offered to local children for free at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School and Highland Park Early Primary School, with breakfast served from 8:30-10:45 a.m. and lunch served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The meals are free for people 18 younger, with breakfast costing $3 for people 19 and older and lunch costing $5 for people 19 and older. The menus scheduled for next week, subject to change as needed, are: Breakfast Monday — French toast Tuesday — Sliced bread Wednesday — Sausage egg muffi...
July North Central Senior Citizens Center activity calendar “Wear your years with pride, like a badge of honor, for you have conquered. You have thrived. You have survived!” Monday, July 11, 1-3 p.m. Cards, cribbage and pinochle game tables for players. Come and play your favorite game with your friends. Meet new friends! Tuesday, July 12, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The barbershop quartet The Nerds of Notes will harmonize and sing popular songs Tuesday, July 12, 1-3 p.m. Bingo Thursday, July 14, 10-2 p.m. Great Northern Fair tri...
