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Staff and wire report The Montana Skatepark Association has announced the launch of Madness in the Mountains, a statewide fundraiser and skateboard challenge happening all across Montana beginning Wednesday, June 21 — International Go Skateboarding Day — and running through September 4. Along with raising funds to continue its work of building free, public, concrete skateparks around Montana, the goal of Madness in the Mountains is to engage and unite Montana’s skateboard community, a release from the association said. Monta...
Bullhook Community Health Center's new mobile care unit is up and running, providing physicals to Havre High students in the unit's first major public event. Doctors and medical staff from Bullhook provided physical exams for students looking to get approved for the upcoming year of athletics, an event being done in partnership with Havre Public Schools. The handicap-accessible mobile unit contains two medical exam rooms with enough space and equipment for Bullhook staff to...
In a lengthy meeting Tuesday evening, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees discussed the possibility of allowing eighth graders to participate in certain sports, as well as approving contracts, establishing new committees and hearing an update on the district's technology department. The board has discussed the possibility of letting eighth graders participate in high school sports before and no action has been taken on the matter yet, but a decision will need to be made...
From MSU News Service The leadership of Montana State University's flagship campus in Bozeman is going on a bus tour of the state June 20-22, with social events planned in Havre and Chester. Today is the deadline to RSVP for the Tuesday, June 20, tour at Northern Agricultural Research Center at Fort Assinniboine south of Havre and the Wednesday, June 21, event at Liberty County Senior Citizens Center in Chester. The event at NARC starts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and the social in...
Press release FORT BENTON - As paddle fishing season winds down, the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument begins seasonal boating restrictions along segments of the river designated as wild and scenic. Starting Thursday, June 15, seasonally restricted segments include: • Pilot Rock to Deadman's Rapids (River Mile 52 to 84.5): Motorized watercraft travel downstream only at no-wake speeds, every day. • Holmes Council Island to Fred Robinson Bridge (River Mile 92.5 to...
Press release Finalists for the 2023 High Plains Book Awards were recently released, with winners to be announced at an awards event Oct. 7, in Billings. All nominated works — 263 of them this year — were read and evaluated by community readers. Winners in each category will be determined by a judging panel of published writers with connections to the High Plains region. This year, 12 of the finalists hailed from Canada, and eight were from Montana, including Big Sky Award finalist Charles Finn, a poet whose book “On a Bened...
Harlem Mayor and former state Sen. Ken "Kim" Hansen died of natural causes Saturday at age 71. Harlem City Clerk Becky Schroeder said City Council President Chris Green is serving as mayor, with a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to decide whether he, or another council member, will finish out Hansen's term, which lasts until 2025. Hansen, who operated a farm near Harlem before moving to town, was born in 1951 and graduated from Harlem High School in 1971. He attended...
The H. Earl Clack Museum Board discussed, at their monthly meeting Monday evening, a number of issues, including museum hours, parking and incoming gift shop items, and also discussed presentations recently given at a meeting of the Montana Dinosaur Trail. Board members decided not to change the museum’s hours for the summer, but did decide to put up a sign cautioning people that the museum may open a half-hour late occasionally due to the schedule of tours at the Wahkpa C...
Evening summertime music is back in Havre starting Wednesday with the first Sounds on the Square scheduled to start at Havre’s Town Square at 6 p.m. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has been organizing free music at the square pretty much since it was created two decades ago. “Pack up that picnic basket and dine al fresco with friends, neighbors and family at the square all while enjoying the rhythm of the music from old favorites, country and rock,” a post from the Chamber says. “Large crowds enjoy the variety music p...
Press release Paws of Chinook, a non-profit, no-kill shelter, is holding an adoption event at North 40 Outfitters in Havre Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with several of their dogs and puppies attending. All animals at the event will be current on vaccines, spayed or neutered, and microchipped. Adoption fees will be reduced to $150 during this event only. People are encouraged to check out the dogs posted on the Paws website at http://www.pawsofchinook.org, fill out an apply and get pre-approved before the...
Montana Actors' Theatre's Ren Faire and production of "Twelfth Night" at Beaver Creek Park this weekend appears to have been a big success, with over 1,000 attendees and a successful show all three days. MAT Executive Director Jay Pyette said the crowd was about the same as last year, but the events relocation to Eagles Campground on Beaver Creek Park made for a great event with tons of space for the Faire and everyone who went to it. "It really worked out great," Pyette...
While a patch of dry conditions is still centered on Hill, Blaine and northern Chouteau counties and a patch of drought in northwestern Montana is pushing into the western edge of Liberty County, significant winter snowfall and recent rains have been helping lighten the Montana drought map in this area. After years of dry weather pushed the area into significant moisture deficits — the region was more than 11 inches short of normal over a five-year period last fall — snowfall and recent rains have driven parts of this are...
Havre Police Department A caller reported juveniles were on a roof on First Avenue Friday at 9:06 a.m. -- A Ninth Avenue caller asked Friday at 9:42 a.m. to speak with an officer about having been threatened. -- A caller reported Friday at 11:33 a.m. getting fake money as change from the Department of Motor Vehicles. -- Medication was reported missing from a Second Street residence at 1:14 p.m. Friday. -- Mikayla Elizabeth Magnussen of Havre, 23, was arrested on a federal warr...
Havre Daily News staff With the summer reading program kicked off with a party at the Havre-Hill County Library, last Wednesday, the library has listed upcoming specific events in the next couple of months. The evens listed are: Thursday, June 15, 6 p.m., book discussion “Wizard of Oz” Friday, June 16, 4 p.m., Yarn Circle Thursday, June 29, 6 p.m., book discussion, “We Are Satellites” Thursday, July 13, 6 p.m., book discussion, “Caleb’s Crossing” Friday, July 21, 4 p.m., Yarn Circle Saturday, July 22, 3:30 p.m., assemble comm...
Press release June 15, Stockman Bank will be participating in World Elder Abuse Awareness Day by helping to heighten awareness about elder abuse and fraud in local communities. Stockman will hold open houses at all 37 branches across the state. Financial abuse targeting older adults is on the rise, with the AARP reporting more than 369,000 nationwide incidents each year. Thursday, June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and people can come into Stockman Bank for an open house during normal business hours in the lobby....
Staff and wire report Havre Public Works announced it is having problems with people flushing things down the toilet that should not go through that system. “Please do not flush anything but human waste, water and toilet paper,” a release from the department said. “Even items that claim that they are flushable do not break down and get stuck in sewer lines or create problems at the Waste Water Treatment Plant. “These issues can be very expensive to repair, from the individual service lines to the mains and equipment at the...
Havre-local Madison Ruff, now based out of Los Angeles in the winter and living here in the summer, continues to bring color to the town. This spring, she has been painting murals at The Oxford Sports Bar and Valley Furniture, and, later in the summer, will paint at Pepin Park. She was commissioned in 2022 to paint a "Havre, Montana" mural on the back of the Elks Lodge, visible from U.S. Highway 2, First Street where it passes through Havre. Hi-Line Arts Council and the...
Montana State University-Northern recently received more than $60,000 in grant funding to construct a trail around the campus as part of their efforts to make the area more walkable. Northern Office of Teaching and Learning Excellence Director Lindsey Brandt-Bennett, Ph.D., said the idea to construct a trail around Northern has been on the mind of Northern staff since before she came to work Northern seven years ago. Brandt-Bennett said there is a large swath of land in the southeast corner of the campus that is difficult to...
Press release Town Pump Charitable Foundation awarded three Hill County rural schools $7,140 for four automated external defibrillators, or AED, devices, used to deliver a jolt of electricity if someone is suffering cardiac arrest, to try to normalize the heart beat. The three schools hat received the AEDs are Cottonwood West and Cottonwood North District #57, Davey Elementary District #12 and Gildford Colony Elementary District #89. The four Phillips HeartSine Onsite AED...
The summer meal program started this week at Havre schools, with free breakfast and lunch served to anyone 18 and younger with the meals available to adults at a charge of $3 for breakfast and $5 for lunch, with extra milk available for 50 cents. The meals are served at Highland Park Early Primary School, Lincoln-McKinley Primary School and Sunnyside intermediate school. The breakfasts are served from 8:30-10:30 a.m. and lunches are served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The breakfast menu for next week is: Monday, waffle, sausage,...
The Havre-Hill County Library kicked off this year's summer reading program for local youth with a sign-up event featuring rock painting and hand tracing Wednesday. Young students from around the area signed up at the library before grabbing brushes and pencils to have fun painting Kindness Rocks for the local community and hand tracings to decorate the library's walls for the Hands Across the Library Event. Library Director Rachel Rawn said their summer reading program aims t...
Press release Eighty-eight shooters participated in the 43rd annual Bullhook Bottoms Black Powder Club Spring Shoot held May 27-28-29 at historic Fort Assinniboine south of Havre. The weather started out a little damp Saturday, but the temperature was not cold, although the needed rain did effect some scores. Sunday and Monday were very nice days with only an occasional shower. Shooting conditions would be rated as good. Shooters came from all parts of Montana with attendance...
Montana Actors' Theatre's "Twelfth Night" will open at the Eagles Campground on Beaver Creek Park Friday along with a Ren Faire featuring costumes, vendors and children's games. The faire will open at 4:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday with performances of the play at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. MAT Executive Director Jay Pyette said they have more vendors this year than last, with more food and a wider variety of goods, as well as more room...
