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Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson, at the commission's weekly meeting Thursday, announced a change to future meetings that will limit comments from public officials and the public. Peterson said that, from now on, the public and county officials will only be permitted to make comments or ask questions at the very beginning of the meeting during the sections labeled "public comment on non-agenda items" and "public comment on agenda items" in their agenda. After that,...
Havre Middle School's Sixth-Grade Student of the Month for January is Tia Kallenberger. Tia is the daughter of Justin and Bridget Kallenberger. She has one sister, Cadence Kallenberger. At the middle school, Tia sings in the school's choir. Outside of school, she is involved in 4-H. She also takes pride in her school work and maintains a high GPA. In her free time, Tia loves to swim, create art, and spend quality with friends and family. In the classroom, Tia has a positive...
Press release Attention quilters: it’s time again for the 73rd Annual Montana Seed Show, and with it, the 30th Annual Quilt Show. The show will be held Thursday, March 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, March 11 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Band Room of Harlem High School. Bring your entries and entry forms to Richman Insurance on Main Street in Harlem by 5 p.m. Friday, March 3. No late entries can be accepted. Great cash prizes will be awarded. Get busy and get those projects finished and enter them in our show. Y...
Press release Mark your calendar for the upcoming Montana Seed Show in Harlem. Show dates are March 9-11 at Harlem High School. The Bread Show entry date and time is Friday, March 10, between 8 and 9:30 a.m. at the school’s big gym. Categories (youth and adult) are: white bread, 100% whole wheat bread, machine white bread and machine 50% combination whole wheat bread. Again, speciality yeast breads may be entered by both adults and youth. Prizes are awarded in each category. Adult first place winners may not enter that c...
Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees is interviewing two candidates for the position of superintendent of the school district. The board is in a search of a replacement for Superintendent Craig Mueller, who died unexpectedly at age 50 Oct. 22. The board will interview the two candidates, Brian Gunn and David Perkins, after convening the special meeting of the board in Havre Middle School at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. That will come after the two have a full day meeting groups in Havre. They will run through a schedule of...
After some argument on the issue, Havre City Council voted to adopt the proposed Downtown Master Plan, a framework for revitalizing the city's downtown area encouraging economic growth, at a meeting Monday evening. The plan, which lays out goals and methods for making a better downtown area includes things like increasing housing in the area, making the streets more walkable, beautifying the area and, most controversially, potentially reducing the width of First Street....
The Hill County Park Board heard an update on the committee drawing up plans for the new Camp Kiwanis Beaver Lodge as well as park conditions at their monthly meeting Monday evening. Board Chair Jeff Jensen said the lodge committee met and talked about things like the structure's size and potential heating sources and has started researching specifics. Jensen said they've also drawn up requests for qualifications for an architect. Board member Lou Hagener said architects can...
Press release The 56th Annual Hill County Spelling Bee will be held Thursday, Feb. 9, at 9 a.m. in the Havre Middle School Assembly Room. To prepare for this year’s competition, Hill County schools held their district spelling bees and, collectively, 68 champion spellers and 18 alternates are representing these schools. The annual contest is open to fourth through eighth grade students and this year’s winner will represent Hill County at the 2023 Treasure State Spelling Bee held Saturday, March 11, at 1 p.m. in the Str...
Montana Premium Processing Cooperative, which will process its first cow this week, held tours of its facility Sunday for locals interested in its future work or potentially investing. The user-owned co-op's steering committee was started three years ago with the help of Montana Farmers Union and is part of a larger effort to increase local processing and packing capacity as the industry becomes increasingly consolidated. Montana Premium Processing Board Chair Paul Neubauer...
The 89th Annual Lutheran Swedish Meatball and Norwegian Lutefisk Dinner was held Saturday at Havre's First Lutheran Church, with its usual fixings and a good turnout. Dinner Co-Chair Jim Griggs said he didn't see quite as many people as he was hoping, but plenty of people came out to enjoy the food and company. "Everything went well," he said. This is the event's second year back after canceling in 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a lot of yearly events to see...
Mara Silvers and JoVonne Wagner via Montana Free Press House Bill 317, sponsored by Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, would create the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act, a policy similar to the federal law known as ICWA that puts guardrails on the removal of Native children from their families and restricts placement of Native children with non-Native families and guardians. The seminal 1978 ICWA was implemented after decades of wrongful child removals from Native families, followed by foster care and adoption placements t...
Havre Daily News staff Montana Department of Transportation announced that it is working on streetlights on U.S. Highway 2, which is known as First Street when it passes through Havre. MDT said in a press release that it is aware that a portion of streetlights are not working along US-2 in Havre. “We are troubleshooting the problem and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible, weather permitting,” the release said. “MDT’s goal is to keep the roadways safe for the traveling public.” “We would like to thank the community f...
Press release The 2023 Montana Junior Duck Stamp Contest announced to student artists, art educators and mentors that the contest is accepting entries now until March 24. Entries can be mailed or hand delivered to Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge at 4567 Wildfowl Lane, Stevensville, MT 59870 406-777-5552. The art image should be of a live, native North American waterfowl species with image measuring 9 inches by 12 inches in a horizontal layout. Artwork can be drawn using ink, paint, pastel, crayon or pencil. Entries...
Press release The Montana Federation of Garden Clubs Inc. recently voted to increase the annual Life Members Scholarship to $2,000 this year from $1,000 in previous years. The MFGC Life Members awards this annual scholarship to a student who is a citizen of the United States, a Montana resident and a student majoring in conservation, horticulture, parks or forestry, floriculture, greenhouse management, land management or related subjects. Students from Montana State University-Northern have the opportunity to compete for...
Press release HELENA — After almost 40 years as The Montana History Foundation, the organization has undergone a complete rebrand, including renaming as The Foundation for Montana History. The mission remains the same: to preserve the legacy of Montana’s past by raising money and providing grant funding for history and preservation projects across the state. Past and current projects include: • Funding the Mai Wah Society’s project on translating and interpreting Chinese headstones in cemeteries located in Bozeman, Billing...
Montana Premium Processing Co-op will be holding tours of its facility from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday, which will provide information on the origins of the organization, its building and how it will operate. Co-op Chair Paul Neubauer said people will have a chance to look at the whole facility, including its processing and packaging floor, kill floor and corral system. Neubauer said it's a good opportunity to learn about the co-operative model they use and the potential benefits of...
Havre Daily News staff With warm weather and snow on the ground, Havre Trails members are going snowshoeing Sunday at 11 a.m. on Eagle Creek in Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and the public is invited to join them. Organizers have asked that people bring their snowshoe gear, wear comfortable shoes, and dress in warm layers. The trek will start out from Bear Paw Ski Bowl parking lot and people will hike for about 1 1/2 hours on a 2-mile roundtrip, mostly on level terrain with a short climb at the end. Rocky Boy group hike e...
Havre Daily News staff Organizers are working on getting a Girl Scouts troop again in Blaine County. Brittany Dawson is looking for girls interested in joining Troop 3161. Anyone looking for information or to sign up can follow the Blaine County Girl Scouts 3161 Facebook page and message Dawson for information, or email her at blainecountygstroop3161@outlook.com. Dawson said in a post that she is hoping to get a meeting planned for as early as next week, but the Girl Scouts cookie sale starts today....
Press release Tim R. Blair of Chester, who is majoring in law at the University of Idaho, has been named to the university’s Dean’s List. A total of 2,787 students qualified for the Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 semester, which ended Dec. 16. To qualify for the Dean’s List, U of I students must maintain at least a 3.5 GPA on a minimum of 12 graded credits during the semester....
Press release Join Montana Farmers Union Feb. 16 in Billings for a complimentary dinner, connection with other members and information about the Inflation Reduction Act, Rural Development and MFU’s legislative work. “Montana Farmers Union is all about providing educational opportunities for members to learn from each other and how to improve their farms, ranches and soil,” MFU President Walter Schweitzer said. The gathering also is a chance to spend time with other likeminded people and hopefully buoy spirits after a year def...
Press release Crawford Terry is a Havre High School Student of the Month for January, 2023. His parents are Chuck and Teresa Terry and he has three siblings, Naomi, Caitlyn and Griffin. Crawford is a senior who is active in football, basketball and FFA. Outside of school, he is employed during the summer by Gold Harvest Seeds in Big Sandy. "Crawford is a responsible, conscientious, and motivated student," Heather Haney, who nominated Crawford, said. "He always completes his wo...
The City of Harlem had to turn off their water services for much of the last few days due to a water main break, causing schools to close. City of Harlem Clerk Treasurer Becky Schroeder said they had to shut off the water to locate the break, which they found and fixed Wednesday afternoon and evening. Water services have since been restored, but the intervening time left much of the city without water, causing the schools that use that water to close for two days and return to remote learning. “It was kind of like a COVID f...
A quarterly meeting of the Hill County Health Board Wednesday was dominated by a discussion about the health department’s pay, with employees of the department asking the commission for better communication on the issue. The argument was prompted by a discussion of the county’s still-vacant sanitarian position, with Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson, also the chair of the health board, saying he’s spoken with people from across the state about whether they’d be interested in the position, but with little success...
Press release Representatives of the Hi-Line Arts Council said they are honored to welcome Montana Chamber Music Society Trio to the Hi-Line, with a concert set for Friday, Feb. 10, adding it will be an exciting and fun evening for music lovers. "The mission of Montana Chamber Music Society is to advance chamber music by delivering the highest quality performances in the Big Sky Country, and to expand ongoing cultural relevance for all by engaging a diverse public," a release...
