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CHINOOK - The importance of museums for local Montana towns is the topic of a presentation Friday at the Blaine County Museum. Sabre Moore, executive director of the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, will be speaking at the Blaine County Fairgrounds Commercial Building Friday, April 21, at noon. The event is scheduled to end around 1 p.m. She will elaborate on how Montana's rural museums are vital to the state's rural populations. Blaine County Museum Director Samantha French...
The Great Northern Fair Board provided an update on all ongoing projects during its monthly meeting Tuesday and confirmed that the most expensive project will be delayed a year. Members of the board and Fairgrounds Manager Frank English said all but one of their projects are on track, the exception being the new bathrooms on the west side of the grounds, a project they are more than $200,000 short of being able to fund. English said new toilets have been installed in the Bigger Better Barn and he is working with Loch...
The International St. Mary and Milk Rivers Study Board will be holding a public town hall meeting May 2, a press release from the International Joint Commission said, adding that all are welcome to attend. The board, launched in November 2021, is looking at water shared between the United States and Canada in a 1921 agreement regulating the sharing of water from the St. Mary and Milk rivers. The study board was created to explore "options to improve access to apportioned...
Press release Editor’s note: This version corrects misreporting in the press release about where Tyler Schoen will attend college. Two local wrestlers, Tyler Schoen of Chinook High School, Kale VanCampen of Havre High School, were awarded $1,000 in scholarships by Alexander “Zander” Blewett III, a trial lawyer from the personal injury law firm of Hoyt & Blewett PLLC in Great Falls. Schoen was a two-time state champion and two-time placer, all while maintaining a 3.73 GPA. Schoen intends to study business administration and f...
The body of Donald Haseagle, who was reported missing April 11, was found on the bank of the Milk River Sunday outside of Dodson. Phillips County Sheriff Jerry Lytle said it appears that Haseagle swam across the river before he died, but the Blaine County Sheriff’s office is taking the lead on the investigation and will conduct the autopsy. Blaine County Sheriff John Colby was not able to respond to requests for comment from the Havre Daily News by print deadline this morning. The search for Haseagle was started on the F...
The public has an opportunity to attend a presentation by nationally recognized expressionist-impressionist artist Carolyn Anderson at Havre-Hill County Library Thursday starting at 7 p.m. In an evening event sponsored by Havre-Hill County-Library Foundation, Anderson will be giving her presentation "A Very Short Story of Art." From the Egyptians to the post Impressionists, Anderson said in a release, the presentation will guide people through the centuries as they learn how...
Joshua Wood Stevenson Newspaper The Havre Daily News has a new, but familiar, face at the helm following the departure of publisher George Ferguson. Don Thoma was recently promoted to the position of publisher of the daily newspaper in northern Montana by owners Gary Stevenson and Robb Hicks. "There were a number of qualified candidates who applied for this position," said Joshua Wood, operations director for Grand Teton News, which owns the Havre Daily. "Don, however, rose...
The Hill County Community Clean Up, previously called Havre Pride, is coming up Saturday, Earth Day, from 10 a.m. to noon. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Hill County Community Foundation is holding the event, which typically will be held around Earth Day, which encourages local residents to get out and spend the morning cleaning up the community after a long winter inside. "Winter leaves a lot of debris and garbage lying around town," Chamber...
After a comparatively balmy few days, temperatures are expected to dip this week on the Hi-Line as flooding continues. Havre and the surrounding areas have seen substantial flooding after a warm spell last week melted much of the accumulated snow that had built up after a long and record-setting winter season. The National Weather Service is predicting a high of 55 today with partly sunny conditions, but temps will drop to a low of 34 tonight with a 70 percent chance of rain. Tuesday there will be a 30 percent chance of...
As flood impacts continue to increase, Hill County has set a forum for Wednesday to discuss the flooding and what can be done to deal with it. Rapidly warming temperatures this week following a high level of snowfall this winter in this region led to flooding of roads and state and federal highways, with ongoing work to reduce the impacts, reduced speed limits and road closures. As more precipitation, rain and snow both, fell in the are a Wednesday through this morning, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has announced closures...
Two brothers, on a mission for closure, came to Havre this week to see Great Northern Railway Steam Engine 2584, a sister engine to the one their father died on back in 1945 in a crash. Brothers Gary and Ervin Zinter, who arrived this week in Havre by train from St. Paul, Minnesota, lost their father, also named Ervin Zinter, to a train crash with Engine 2581 in 1947 when the former was only 5 years old and the latter was only 5 days old, and they view this trip, in part, as...
Havre Daily News staff Montana State University-Northern Assistant Professor in English Gwen Hart, Ph.D, will present “Never Be the Same: Finding and Following Poetic Imagination” in a brown bag luncheon Monday. Seating for the luncheon is freely available but RSVPs are appreciated for providing lunches. In her presentation, Hart will cover the theme where do poems come from? Her answer is, everywhere. In the presentation, Hart will introduce her newly published volume of poetry, “Never Be the Same,” and share insight...
Havre Daily News staff A Caregiver Respite Retreat is being sponsored in Havre by Montana State University Extension Healthy Aging, which includes a stipend for caregivers who attend. A release from MSU Extension Hill County said each caregiver will receive a $100 gift card to help cover costs of caregiving in their absence or for their own self care. A team is coming from Bozeman to hold the April 20 retreat, headed by MSU assistant professor Daniel J. Koltz, Ph.D., MSU Extension Family and Consumer Science gerontology...
Press release A generational healing Learning Circle is set at Rocky Boy Health Center April 19 for people 18 and older. “This learning circle explores our healing journey with an understanding of the generational influences that contributed to the harm we have known,” a release said. “It anchors us in the hope a generational perspective of recovery provides.” The Learning Circle runs from 5-7 p.m. in Conference Room A at Rocky Boy Health Center. Dinner will be served. Transportation to the event can be provided, For more in...
North Central Senior Center April 17-21 Menu Monday, April 17 —Biscuits and gravy, sausage link, fruit Tuesday, April 18 —Hamburger steak, salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, dessert Wednesday, April 19 — Philly steak sandwich, corn, dessert Thursday, April 20 — Bacon, lettuce tomato sandwich, tatertots, cake Friday, April 21 — Salt and vinegar breaded cod, rice, peas, dessert Digging Into Vitamin D: This is all about the “Sunshine” vitamin. Are we getting enough vitamins and minerals for our body to stay healt...
Five candidates for three open seats on the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees participated in a forum held by the Havre Education Association Wednesday evening, where they answered a series of questions about themselves and what they believe they can bring to the board. Ballots for the election have been mailed out and the election itself is May 2. Trustees Curtis Smeby and Tim Scheele's seats on the board are on the ballot this year, and both are running for reelection,...
Press release Aaniiih Nakoda College President Sean Chandler said he is welcoming Ron Bruschi as the new station manager for KGVA 88.1 FM Radio Station that is located on the college campus at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Bruschi's voice is well-known along the northern tier of Montana from innovative ads to exciting play-by-play high school and college basketball games for his years of work with New Media Broadcasting. Bruschi brings 27 years radio station expertise and...
Press release Havre Masonic Lodge Chapter #55 presented a $10,963 check to the Davey School Board of Trustees at the board's April 3 meeting. The money from this grant was used to purchase Discover SMART technologies from T.E.S.T Enterprises to include two 65" interactive flat panel displays, two Lenovo IdeaPad 5 HD laptops, SMART interactive software, two adjustable wall-stand mechanisms and installation through Munari IT. Tami Redinger, Davey K-3 Teacher, said that with the...
CASA release Blue Pinwheels are blooming around Havre. April is National Child Abuse Prevention month and the pinwheels symbolize happy, healthy childhoods. Every child deserves a good one! CASA of Hill County is spreading awareness about child abuse and neglect prevention. With the support of the Montana Children's Trust Fund, our volunteers are planting pinwheels, painting pinwheels, spreading awareness and promoting Strengthening Families. Court Appointed Special Advocates,...
With the long-awaited arrival of spring has come warm weather and melting snow along with a lot of flooding in north-central Montana. Hill and the surrounding counties have seen flooding on roads as the winter's substantial snow accumulation has melted over the last few days. Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Amanda Frickel said Monday evening that the county is aware of water running over sections of roads north of town, and urged motorists to keep...
Editor’s note: This version adds information about the works being read at the presentation. Three Havre authors, and a Missoula photographer, will be doing readings and book signings at a Literary Night Friday. Award-winning writers Charles Finn, Gwen Hart and Roger Hart, along with photographer Barbara Michelman, will be at The Little Theatre in Montana State University-Northern's Cowan Hall Friday. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for the night of fiction, poetry and p...
After recent warm temperatures caused flooding with melting of high levels of snowpack in this area, the region is expected to see more snow mixed with rain. National Weather Service has a flood advisory in effect through 6 tonight for Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties, with snowmelt closing or at least running over roads and highways since Sunday, A flood warning on Battle Creek in Blaine County is in effect through Thursday morning, with the creek expected to...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees discussed a number of issues at their meeting Tuesday, including the coming year’s calendar, elections, successful programs and awards for district paraprofessionals. While the matter of the coming school year’s calendar was not on the agenda for the meeting Tuesday evening, the matter was brought up during public comments by Havre Education Association President Jess Jones, who requested that any vote take place after the upcoming school board election due to an abrupt change in...
The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board introduced two new members in Dona Woods and Jeanne Gingery at its monthly meeting Monday, where members discussed staffing, upcoming events and donations. Board Chair David Sageser said they are still looking for people to staff the museum and Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump and it seems like no one is applying. Board member Lela Patera said she knows some people who may be interested in working at the museum and the board members briefly discussed people they think might be available, b...
