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JoVonne Wagner Montana Free Press and ICT Editor’s note: This version states that a request for comment sent Tuesday to Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, had not been delivered to his email address by this morning. The Montana State Senate voted Tuesday afternoon against discussing a bill that would have established Indigenous Peoples Day in the state following debate over how the new holiday would replace Columbus Day. However, at least one member of the Montana American Indian Caucus plans to introduce another bill that would m...
After multiple delays due to COVID-19, Montana Actors' Theatre will be premiering "Misery," a stage adaptation of Sephen King's novel, Thursday at 8 p.m. "Misery" will also run Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and has a matinée Sunday at 2 and performances at 8 p.m. Feb. 23-25. The play was originally going to start in January, but after many of the people involved in the production of the play came down with COVID-19 they decided to delay the premier. The play's director, Anjane...
U.S. Sen Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Tuesday that he today secured $77.56 million through his bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, IIJA, for the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System. The funding, which was awarded by the Bureau of Reclamation, will be used for core pipeline construction on segments 7 and 8, and the continued construction of a water treatment plant and segments serving the Havre, Chester and Shelby Hub service areas. “Montanans sent me to the Senate to deliver for our com...
Lawmakers are debating a bill that would expand on a computer science program for schools on reservations established in the 2021 legislative session by adding additional training for teachers in elementary and middle schools. Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, is sponsoring House Bill 346. "There is a lot of potential, and perhaps maybe in the near future, this program is successful, is going to be opened up to all schools, all across the whole state, because as we know,...
Press release The Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp is now taking applications for July 16-21, 2023. For those who are not familiar with the camp, for 37 years, the Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp has provided youth an opportunity to study in an outdoor classroom. Today’s scientific principles, economic realities, historical heritage, and social perspectives help these future leaders in their quest to gain natural resources perspective that is informed and progressive. Campers learn about forests, streams, soils, geol...
Press release GREAT FALLS — The Montana Grain Growers Association and the Montana Grains Foundation will each offer scholarships to be used for the 2023-2024 school year. MGGA will award two $1,000 scholarships to students pursuing an agricultural related degree at the college of their choice. Applicants or their parent, grandparent, or legal guardian must be a current producer member of MGGA. MGF will award two $2,500 scholarships to Montana State University juniors or seniors pursuing a degree in ag business, ag e...
The H. Earl Clack Museum Board, in addition to discussing other business, announced during its monthly meeting Monday evening the return of Hands On History Saturday, April 29, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, an event that hasn't been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation Board President Elaine Morse said the event, which in previous years has included as many as 30 individual events, is an opportuni...
Press release Montana State University Extension Hill County and the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club will host a pruning workshop March 17 at 10 a.m. in the 4-H Chuckwagon on the Great Northern Fairgrounds. MSU Extension Horticulture Specialist Abi Saeed will be presenting on plumbing and answering all your pruning questions. This program is free and open to all that want to attend. Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club will be providing refreshments. Pruning trees can seem like a simple task but when you get into the whens and hows...
Press release Havre High School Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held Thursday, March 2, from 3:45 until 7:15 p.m. for all parents/guardians of HHS students. Parents/guardians may visit with their child’s teacher about any concerns or issues regarding grades. Conferences will be held in the individual teacher classrooms. All parents/guardians of HHS students are invited and encouraged to attend....
Driving just south of Havre the hillsides and fields were almost totally devoid of snow. Only the barrow pits and leeward sides of hills and coulees still held the wintry white stuff. From the upper lake, the snow cover built as did the anticipation of eager skiers and shredders on their journey to the fabled slopes of Bear Paw. Upon reaching their destination, downhill enthusiasts were greeted by abundant quantities of snow. Snow that was boosted by a recent dump of nearly 5...
Colleen Long, Lolita C. Baldor and Zeke Miller Associated Press WASHINGTON - A U.S. fighter jet shot down an "unidentified object" over Lake Huron Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden, possibly the same object that led to closure of airspace over Havre, Montana, Saturday. It was the fourth such downing in eight days and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. airspace that Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime precedent. Part of the...
Airspace in the Havre area was closed temporarily to civilian airplanes by the Federal Aviation Administration Saturday morning due to a radar anomaly now confirmed to have been the yet-unidentified object that was shot down over Lake Huron, Michigan Sunday. Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said they sent fighter aircraft to investigate the object detected in Montana airspace, but did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, referring to it as an anomaly at the time, and they would...
Press release Havre High School speech and debate took a small squad to a national qualifying tournament, and while none of the Blue Ponies qualified this year for a trip to nationals, they did well against the toughest competition in the district. “I am really proud of how we did this weekend in Belgrade,” head coach Tim Leeds said. “I would have loved to have taken some kids to nationals in Mesa, Arizona, this year, but our students did well against tough competition.” The tournament allows members of the National Speech...
After interviewing two candidates for the position of Havre Public Schools Superintendent the HPS Board of Trustees voted to offer a three-year contract to Stevensville High School Principal Brian Gum in a unanimous vote at a special meeting Thursday. The position of superintendent has been open since October of last year, which saw the unexpected death of then-Superintendent Craig Muller at age 50. Since then Assistant Superintendent Brad Moore has been interim-superintendent...
Thursday’s meeting of the Hill County Commission was dominated by discussion of new limitations to public comment announced by the commission’s chair at last week’s meeting, with no indication that the change will be rolled back. Last Thursday, Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson announced a change to the way meetings are going to work from now on, with comments and questions from county officials and the public limited to only the very beginning of the meeting. Until then, members of the public and county offic...
Press release Rocky Boy Schools inducted three new members into its National Honors Society Chapter Sunday, Feb. 5. The students inducted were senior Tyra Parker and juniors Marisol Areyano and Kaliah Moore. The chapter's other members are April Windy Boy, president; Talise Broncho, vice president; Terrance Johnson, secretary/treasurer; Kellen Colliflower, and Sharon Patacsil. A dinner at St. Mary Catholic Church in Rocky Boy honored the inductees, current members, and their...
ST. GEORGE, Utah — Utah Tech University announced that Bailey Proulx of Big Sandy is among the Trailblazers honored on the UT Dean’s List for the fall 2022 semester. “On behalf of the faculty and staff, congratulations to all Utah Tech students who made the 2022 fall semester honor roll list,” said Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost Michael Lacourse. “Your hard work and persistence have paid off and you should be proud of your achievement. Keep up the great work and we hope to see your name on the honor roll for...
After a fairly tame start of February, meteorologists are predicting temperatures to dip in the third week of this month. The past week the area has seen highs in the high 30s, and until the last two days lows hadn't dipped into negative numbers with Feb. 2, the coldest day of the month so far registering a low of 3 and a high of 11. While many roads remain covered in Havre, the above freezing highs in the area have allowed some of the snow and ice to melt for long enough to...
Alex Sakariassen and Arren Kimbel-Sannit Montana Free Press A pair of legislative proposals sparked considerable debate across the Montana House Wednesday about their potential impacts on transgender youth and local control in the state’s public school system. The first arose during a morning hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. Lawmakers fielded testimony on House Bill 361, introduced by Rep. Brandon Ler, R-Savage, which would change Montana law to explicitly state that misgendering a transgender student or calling t...
Alex Sakariassen Montana Free Press This story is excerpted from Capitolized, a twice-weekly newsletter that keeps an eye on the representatives you voted for (or against) with expert reporting, analysis and insight from the editors and reporters of Montana Free Press. Helena middle and high school students gave lawmakers a crash course in science Monday. Testifying before the Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee, they sought to explain how a bill restricting public school science curriculum to “scientific f...
From the MSU News Service BOZEMAN — The Montana State University College of Agriculture has announced finalists including a ranchers from Hays for a new leadership program focused on sustainable agriculture and agritourism. Liz and Toby Werk of Hays, who are exploring cultural agritourism, are among the finalists. The Montana Agritourism Fellows Program will center on the goal of developing leaders to advance sustainable agritourism. The fellowship is designed to engage agricultural producers and train them in methods of c...
Rural Dynamic's Tax Help Montana team will be coming to District 4 Human Resources Development Council March 8, offering most people in the area free help preparing their taxes. Rural Dynamics Volunteer Manager Adair Peach said they will be at HRDC from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a six-person team and they will help as many people as they can. Peach said they can do taxes for anyone under the age of 60 with less than $60,000 of income, and people 60 or older of any income level....
from Byron Ophus Warmer weather welcomed another great crowd of skiers and shredders to Bear Paw. This writer was in Spokane celebrating with his mom on her 91st birthday, but a good report was made by others. While the relatively warm weather made skiing very comfortable, it was not so warm as to melt the ample snow. Less than 6 inches of new snow had been received in the prior week. Skiing and shredding were done on drifted snow that softened by noon. Another group of...
