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Montana State University-Northern has received $25 million for a new recreation center on campus, the Aurora Complex, a long-time project of Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel and a potential asset for the campus' recruitment efforts. The $25 million comes from Montana House Bill 5, which became law last week, passing through the Legislature with bi-partisan support, a major funding bill also provided $6.8 million to Northern for repairs and upgrades to current buildings. The firs...
Havre Daily News staff Editor’s note: This version clarifies that the non-profit Red Ants Pants Foundation provides the grants, not the for-profit women’s workear company Red Ants Pants. Red Ants Pants Foundation announced that Liberty County 4-H Council in Chester has received a grant in the foundation’s 2023 Community Grant. The White Sulphur Springs-based nonprofit foundation gave the 4-H Council $1,000. “The Liberty County 4-H Council provides financial support and guidance to their local 4-H youth clubs,” a release a...
EWBERG, Ore. — Rainey Stoner of Havre was among the undergraduate, adult degree and graduate-level students who received diplomas from George Fox University at its spring graduation ceremony in April of 2023. Stoner earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree....
Editor’s note: This version adds comment from Emily Mayer about proposed talks about the Faber Schoolhouse and Homestead Shack. The Great Northern Fair Board announced at their monthly meeting Tuesday that new bathrooms are being installed on the fairgrounds in front of the grandstand and they are on track to be operational by this year’s fair. The board approved at the meeting a bid to install the foundation for these new bathrooms, with board member Ken Erickson saying they should have the building set up and the bat...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN - Montana State University awarded 1,623 undergraduate degrees and 433 graduate degrees during its 138th commencement ceremonies held May 12 at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. An additional 162 students from Gallatin College MSU received associate degrees or certificates. A list of local graduates follows. Some local students may have listed their Bozeman residence and not be listed in the local towns. Students with two asterisks after their names (**) graduated with highest honors, having earned...
Work is being done on Highway 2 east of Havre, which may delay drivers on that road for the next few weeks. Montana Department of Transportation Havre Area Engineering Project Manager Mike Moore said MDT and Schellinger Construction are milling off the top section of the roadway and placing new pavement. The project starts just west of Pork Chop Hill and runs about 10 miles east. He said they are also performing a chip seal, replacing signs, removing guardrails at the bus...
The Havre City Council's ordinance committee met Tuesday to take public comments on a proposal to allow people to own chickens in city limits, drawing only a handful of attendees, most of them against the proposal. The city considered adopting an ordinance to allow the ownership of chickens in 2015 but it was voted down 5-2. In recent months, Havre resident Al Garver has asked the council to reconsider that decision and asked that they consider a similar ordinance, but one...
The local ham radio club is inviting people to come watch — and use — amateur radios and take the opportunity to hunt for an electronic fox. Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the American Radio Relay League — ARRL — Field Day Saturday from noon to Sunday at US Bank Park on 11th Street west across from Montana State University-Northern’s Tilleman Field, club member Heather Hinckley said. Throughout the event, the club will be holding fox hunts, she added. “It’s called fox hunting, but it’s really hunting...
Press release The Department of Public Health and Human Services will honor Montana centenarians during the 54th annual Governor’s Conference on Aging Oct. 3, 2023. The annual conference will take place at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Great Falls. Centenarians will be honored during a noon luncheon. DPHHS is asking Montanans who will turn age 100 as of December 31, 2023, or those who are already over the age of 100 to submit their name and a brief profile. “This is an excellent opportunity to honor Montana cen...
HELENA — Starting today, hunters can sign up for leftover licenses and permits that were not distributed by the drawing through MyFWP on the FWP website at https://fwp.mt.gov . The resulting Surplus License List will be randomized with hunters at the top of the list contacted via email with instructions to finalize their purchase within a specified time. To be placed on the Surplus License List, resident and nonresident hunters can sign up through the MyFWP portal. This process requires hunters to keep their email address cur...
Car enthusiasts had a chance for a thrill Tuesday at Havre's Subway, when the drivers of 16 Model T's stopped for lunch during their trip in the 2023 Montana 500. The event takes minimally modified Model T's on a 500-mile race on Montana's roads. Dan Lukowski of Kansas City, Missouri, said he ran his 1926 Model T Roadster, which he calls The Rattle Can, when he first bought it in 2013. He hadn't run it since, but thought he would on the 10th anniversary, for the special...
The Daughters of the American Revolution have paid tribute to the community and its members who have spent decades paying tribute to 13 U.S. airmen who died as the result of a crash during a training exercise Nov. 30, 1992, over the town where the memorial was created. DAR presented the committee and the community its Excellence in Historic Preservation Medal for the Harlem Airmen's Memorial. Two U.S. Air Force cargo planes conducting nighttime training exercises at 25,000...
Press release Editor’s note: A version of this ran in the online edition of Havre Daily News Monday. BOZEMAN — U.S. Department of Agriuculture announced that USDA is investing more than $16 million with three local business development corporations, including Havre-based Bear Paw Development Corp., to create new and better markets for agricultural producers and food businesses in rural Montana. Bear Paw received a $10,000,000 Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Devel...
Editor’s note: A version of this ran in Monday’s online edition of Havre Daily News. Montana Disaster and Emergency Services has put out a survey for property owners and renters in the area who’ve had flood damage this year, a survey that will hopefully help get them some assistance from the state and from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hill County DES Coordinator Amanda Frickel said the survey takes about five minutes and is for anyone with a property that has sustained flooding damage in 2023 that isn’t already...
Staff and wire report Havre Rotary Club again held a successful Father's Day Fishing Derby at Rotary Pond in Beaver Creek Park Sunday, and has released the names of the winners. The derby was broken up into categories of girls ages 3-10 and boys ages 3-10 and boys ages 11 and older and girls ages 11 and older. No girls 11 or older competed Sunday. The winners in the girls ages 3-10 were Parker Paulsen, first, Chloe Beck, second, Claire Grabofski, third. In boys 3-10, first...
Eric Dietrich Montana Free Press Montana’s Republican-controlled Legislature directed hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s budget surplus — $899 million in total — toward income and property tax rebates during its 2023 session. With those rebates signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte, here’s what taxpayers need to know to make sure they get their refund from the Montana Department of Revenue: HOW MUCH DO I QUALIFY FOR? Lawmakers passed two buckets of rebates, one focused on income taxes and the other on property...
Montana Disaster and Emergency Services has put out a survey for property owners and renters in the area who’ve had flood damage since May 31, a survey that will hopefully help get them some assistance from the state and from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hill County DES Coordinator Amanda Frickel said the survey takes about five minutes and is for anyone with a property that has sustained flooding damage that isn’t already covered by insurance. Frickel said she heard that some home and business owners had gon...
The members of the community of Harlem who have been paying tribute for more than 30 years to 13 airmen who died in a training were commemorated recently by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Harlem Airmen Memorial Committee created a memorial at Harlem's Centennial Park to the airmen who died Nov. 30, 1992, and recently dedicated a bridge in their honor at the park as well. Daughters of the American Revolution presented the committee, and the community, its...
Montana State University-Northern has received $25 million for a new recreation center on campus, the Aurora Complex, a long-time project of Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel. The $25 million comes from Montana House Bill 5, which became law last week, passing through the Legislature with bi-partisan support. The major funding bill also provided another $6.8 million to Northern for repairs and upgrades to current buildings. The Aurora Complex is the biggest of nine initiatives to boost student recruitment and retention that...
Press release BOZEMAN — U.S. Department of Agriuculture announced that USDA is investing more than $16 million with three local business development corporations, including Havre-based Bear Paw Development Corp., to create new and better markets for agricultural producers and food businesses in rural Montana. Bear Paw received a $10,000,000 Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development to administer a revolving loan fund for the Montana Meat and Poultry Int...
A man is in jail after an incident that occurred Sunday evening while he was transporting a woman with a gunshot wound from Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to the hospital in Havre. Theodore Gregory Montes of Box Elder, 59, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing a peace officer, driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license and reckless driving. Montes called 911 Sunday at 8:13 p.m. to report he was northbound on Laredo Road transporting a 55-year-old female with a gunshot wou...
A mural by a local student now adorns Box Elder High School to warn people about and urge them not to start taking methamphetamine. Box Elder graduating senior Juliet MacDonald created the Paint the State mural for the Montana Meth Project. The mural depicts a message of awareness on the dangers of methamphetamine. The image was designed on MacDonald's iPad using the Pro Create digital app. MacDonald was a featured speaker at the kickoff event for the Paint the State contest...
Havre's hospital is in the process of converting into a critical access facility. Northern Montana Vice President of Regulatory and Community Services Christen Obresley said the change, which the hospital hopes to have in place by July 1, should be essentially invisible to its patients and members of the community. "The patients won't notice anything," she said Thursday. Obresley said the change is more in accounting, how information is reported to Medicare and Medicaid and...
