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Editor’s note: This version includes online and mail access to provide comments, which was inadvertently left out of the original version. The Montana Bureau of Land Management is soliciting public comment on their plan to possibly open the Bullwhacker area of the Upper Missouri River Breaks to mechanized and motorized vehicle access. A description of the proposal and maps of the project area are available on the e-Planning website at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2030427/510 . Comments may be submitted using...
9:57 a.m. Havre Public Schools announced nothing was found in search of school buildings this morning following the district receiving threats Tuesday nothing. “I wanted to let everyone know that buildings have been cleared and we are ready for school,” Superintendent Brian Gum said in a post. “Sorry for the inconvenience this morning, as I know it was short notice. Student safety is always our primary concern so, so we navigate situations with that always in mind.” Gum said t...
While the frigid cold seems poised to lessen on the Hi-Line in the next few days the area will likely see an inundation of snow as the National Weather Service upgrades its Winter Storm advisory, set to start tonight, to a more severe winter storm warning. The warning begins tonight at 11 p.m. and will be active until 11 a.m. Thursday for Havre, Rocky Boy, Lewistown and Hilger, as well as Hill County and the Bear Paw Mountains broadly and the south of Blaine and Fergus...
Havre hit a record low of -44 last night, surpassing the previous record of -43 set more than a century ago in 1907, and while temperatures are poised to rise somewhat as the week progresses, it looks like a winter storm is on the way Tuesday night. The cold this weekend was so extreme that it caused Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to declare a state of emergency just after 2 p.m. Saturday and tribal officials set up an incident command center to coordinate service in emergency situations. Ten hours later Rocky Boy Health C...
Despite the cold, almost 70 agriculture producers from across the area attended this year's Golden Triangle Cropping Seminar at the 4-H Chuckwagon Friday where they got up to date on a number of subjects from vertebrate pest control to crop rotation. Producers heard from a number of experts including Tim Seipel, a Montana State University Extension Cropland Weed Specialist who talked about the emergence of pesticide-resistant cropland weeds and the work being done to combat...
Most local schools that were planning to be open today announced they would have late starts with several altering or canceling morning buses. The North Star School District with high school in Rudyard and the elementary in Gildford announced Sunday that it would have a late start today, with classes at 10 a.m., and announced this morning that no morning buses would run. The district said in a release Sunday that, due to the extreme cold temperatures and prioritizing the health and safety of students and staff the North Star...
Despite the extreme cold, Havre Public Works operations have remained largely unaffected, even as wind chill values are predicted to reach as low as -45 today. Havre Public Works Director Trevor Mork said the department's sanders are out and if the snow reaches four inches they will bring out the plows. "Not much change from the whole history of Havre that we've always dealt with," Mork said. Earlier this week the department put out some suggestions for people that may help...
By Emily Mayer It was reported 100 years ago in this week’s Havre Daily Promoter that after several individuals and local civic groups worked hard to petition the Hill County Commissioners to create and fund a county agent position, the commissioners approved the measure. The Jan. 10, 1924, issue stated: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL EMPLOY COUNTY AGENT Provision Is Made to Secure Most Competent Man Possible and to Give Him Every Assistance The members of the board of county commissioners in conference with r...
Montana State University-Northern is accepting donations of winter wear for their Student and Community Winter Clothing Drive. Organizers are accepting donations of coats, hats, scarves, gloves and mittens for students until Feb. 2 at the college’s Vande Bogart Library during library hours of operation. Northern students can pick up winter wear there while donations are open, and any clothing left over after that date will be given to Havre Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen to distribute to community members. For information, p...
Press release Inga Well-Off-Man, daughter of Manuela and John Well-Off-Man, will present on “A Culturally Responsive Approach to Teaching Indigenous Music to Beginning Violinists” at the American String Teachers Association conference in Kentucky in March. Her presentation also discusses Montana’s Indian Education for All program related to music education. Inga Well-Off-Man graduated with a master’s degree in violin and music pedagogy from University of Colorado Boulder, and is an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tr...
HELENA — Carroll College named the following local students to its 2023 fall semester dean’s list. To be included on the dean’s list, a student must receive a 3.5 grade point average or higher on a 4.0 scale and take at least 12 graded credits in a semester. A complete, sortable list of fall 2023 dean’s list recipients can be found at https://www.carroll.edu/deanslist . Big Sandy Katherine Bold Chinook Anna Terry Havre Sadie Filius Kyndall Keller Carley Wertheimer...
Montana Actors' Theatre will be putting on the Hill Country Revue Variety Show starting next week at the Little Theatre at Montana State University-Northern, a new production featuring music and comedy with an eye toward local humor. MAT Artistic Director Grant Olson said the show will be in the same vein as "Hee Haw" or "Saturday Night Live," with a music act as a centerpiece, interspursed with skits and musical comedy set in an alternate version of Havre that kept the name...
As foul weather crisscrosses the country with more on the way, the National Weather Service has put out a wind chill advisory for Hill and northern Blaine counties which will last until 5 p.m. tonight, and a much more serious wind chill warning for the area between then and 5 p.m. Sunday, as temperatures are predicted to plummet further as the week continues. An advisory indicates that conditions will likely cause significant inconvenience or danger without precaution, and a...
At their monthly meeting Tuesday, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees was updated on voting items at an upcoming meeting of the Montana High School Association, as well as presentations and updates on a number of other issues. HPS Superintendent Brian Gum said he and Havre High School Activities Director Mark Irvin will be going to the MHSA meeting later this week and they wanted to bring the board up to speed on the voting items they will be looking at. Irvin said...
The H. Earl Clack Museum board members met Monday evening and talked about future plans for the museum. The museum will be closed for the month of January, but still open for Prehistoric Passport stamps and book sales. Hours of operation have been updated on the website. Museum and Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump Manager Caroline Tuss talked about past and future displays. “The traditional Christmas display was fairly popular with our relatively limited attendance, people really seemed to like it. Especially board members who vis...
In their monthly meeting Monday, members of the Hill County Park Board voted not to participate in an upcoming watershed assessment by the state, potentially forgoing significant grant funding for Beaver Creek Park, in fears that it would give up local control. Board member Lou Hagener said the state is looking at doing a wide-ranging watershed assessment, including Beaver Creek Park, and if they participate in and support the assessment they could gain access to a...
Havre Daily News staff Havre Public Works issued a release about the forecast below-zero weather and how it could lead to frozen pipes and how to help prevent that. “With the cold weather arriving, we here at the Public Works Department thought we might pass along some helpful tips to prevent frozen water pipes inside your residences,” the release said. “Most of us know these tips and tricks, but we have been pretty spoiled this year so far and (we) wanted to remind everyone that being prepared is paramount.” The release...
The National Weather Service has issued a High Winds Warning for Tuesday as Havre starts a week of plummeting temperatures and high chances of snow, the area's unseasonable warmth appearing to come to an end. National Weather Service in Great Falls put out a warning this morning to central, north-central and southwest Montana saying there will likely be winds of between 35 and 45 miles per hour with gusts of up to 65 miles per hour between noon and midnight Tuesday. The...
Amanda Eggert Montana Free Press While some snow hit the state and more is in the forecast, More than half of the snowpack monitoring sites used to measure the water supply for Montana watersheds are posting record-low accumulations, according to a report out last week. Several basins in central Montana have one-third of their normal snow-water equivalent — a measurement of water in the snow. About half of all of the basins in the report, including the Upper Missouri, Flathead, and Upper and Lower Clark Fork basins, are p...
Press release Havre High School took a small team of speakers and debaters to a tournament at Shelby Saturday, with the Havre team performing well and winning the Class A team trophy. Havre won with 29 points, while Bigfork High School took second with 15 points and Browning came in third with 9. Sophomore Lyvia Little led the way for the Blue Ponies with a perfect 3-0 record and a first-place finish in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Teammate Trinity Olsen was just behind in...
Press release North Star speech and drama team got back into the season by traveling to Shelby Saturday and represented the school very well. In original oratory, Ecko Fraser took second. In spontaneous oral interpretation of literature, Emily Conner placed first and CJ Berton took third. In humorous interpretation of literature, Troy Barrett placed fifth. In humorous theater Joshua Campbell and Cooper Clawson placed fifth. The Knights speech and drama team, coached by Linda Lett, travels to Townsend this weekend, so wish...
by Emily Mayer Happy 2024! Exactly 100 years ago this week, news broke from faraway Egypt that Howard Carter had finally found King Tutankhamun’s mummy in amidst all those “wonderful things.” While the tomb had been found in 1922, it took quite some time to sort through all those artifacts before finding his sarcophagus. This was big news across the world, and news of Carter’s discoveries were printed in the Havre Daily Promoter. More local news focused on the desire of Havre businessmen to have a county agent to stimula...
Havre Salvation Army brought in significantly less in donations in 2023 than previous years, even as needs continue to become more significant, and will need to cut back on services as a result. Havre Salvation Army Director Trina Crawford said she and her organization are always appreciative of every donation they get, but they are almost $10,000 behind their $38,000 goal for last year’s Red Kettle Campaign, their largest fundraiser of the year, and that means they can’t do as much this year. “We’re not going to be able to...
