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Hill County Health Department reports that a harmful algal bloom has been detected at Beaver Creek Reservoir, also called First Lake. People are warned to use caution at the reservoir, and any time they detect a possible harmful algal bloom to avoid exposure to the potential harmful substance and to keep pets out of the areas where they see algae, and to make sure children don't get into the water. Harmful algal blooms, commonly called blue-green algae, can potentially be...
The Fifth Annual Veterans and First Responders Family BBQ is set for Saturday, Aug. 5, at Pepin Park, an event meant to thank the groups for their service to the community. Havre Elks Lodge Secretary Brandy Kurtz, one of the organizers for the barbecue, said the event is for veterans, police, firefighters, border patrol and any other first responder and their families to celebrate with music, food and games for children. Kurtz said they will have hamburgers, hot dogs, tuna salad, chips and pop for any veterans and first...
A highly decorated U.S. Army private who died serving his country in Viet Nam is one of the service members being honored this weekend at the 10th Annual Veterans Memorial Softball Classic in Belgrade. Havre's Pfc. Mark Hinkle, who died of wounds sustained in combat in 1965, is the soldier the Army team is playing in honor of this year. This is the 10th year for the classic, which invites the state's best high school softball players to come together to showcase their talents...
Watch for more on the ceremony in an upcoming edition of Havre Daily News. The Rocky Boy Health Center broke ground on its new Youth Wellness Center in a Thursday morning ceremony with speakers sharing their hopes for the center and how it will help local young people, especially those struggling with addiction. Health Center staff and tribal leaders spoke at the event before members of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation's Tribal Youth Council put shovels in the ground, the...
The Blaine County Fair will return to Chinook Thursday, Aug. 10 through Aug. 13 with a new centerpiece event, a carnival, food and tons of 4-H events throughout. Fair Manager Debra Ramberg said the biggest event this year would be a concert by country music writer and singer Darryl Worley at 7 p.m. that Saturday. The concert will feature an opening act by Cole Kleinert from CK and the Slow Rollers and the Milk River Band will be playing at the afterparty in the fairground’s beer gardens. Ramberg said the fair can’t do their t...
Havre Daily News staff Havre Trails is hosting its Fifth Annual Brewfest fundraiser in Pepin Park Aug. 26 2-7 p.m., and the group is looking for volunteers to help run the event. Havre Trails is a local non-profit group that promotes appreciation of and activities in area outdoor spaces by hosting hikes on local trails along with improving and building hiking trails and other outdoor facilities. The brewfest will include dozens of Montana-made beers, along with ciders, wines and seltzers for non-beer drinkers, food from...
From U.S. Bureau of Land Management Wildland fire-fighting crews and aerial resources working the Black Butte Fire, in north-central Montana, were able to suppress the fire's growth Thursday, with containment estimated at about 20%. Aerial perimeter mapping conducted Thursday brought more-accurate and welcome news that the fire's total acreage is approximately 460 acres – smaller than initial ground-level visual estimates. The wildfire located on BLM-managed lands near the M...
A 700-acre fire is burning in southern Blaine County on Bureau of Land Management-managed land in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. A release from BLM says the now-named Black Butte Fire is about 20 miles west of Landusky, burning timber grass and sagebrush, but is in a remote area of the monument and no structures are at risk for the moment. The wildfire was reported Aug. 1 at 1 p.m. when smoke was spotted in the Ervin Ridge area of the monument, the release said, and BLM’s North Central Montana District wil...
Havre Daily News staff Montana Department of Transportation announced it has a project in the works to stabilize an area on U.S. Highway 2 damaged by the heavy flooding this spring. The proposal is to stabilize the Big Sandy Creek bank and complete erosion repair efforts on the ditches located next to U.S. Highway 2 three miles west of Havre. The project begins at mile marker 376, and extends for approximately half a mile, ending just west of the Big Sandy Creek Bridge. Project Design Engineer Chris Ward said that during the...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development in Montana is touting $20 million in investments it has made to improve rural health care in the state, with more than half of that here in this part of north-central Montana and another providing services in this region. Rural Development State Director Kathleen Williams announced in a release last week a total of $20 million in recent investments in 11 public organizations, non-profits, and rural health care facilities in Montana through the Emergency Rural Health Care grant...
Tensions between the Hill County Commission and Hill County Health Department appear to have arisen over a pair of canceled spring vaccination clinics scheduled at local public schools, with argument ensuing over where responsibility lies for that. Then-superintendents from the districts where clinics were canceled, Havre Public Schools and North Star Public Schools, had not responded to requests for comment by filing deadline for this story. At the end of a meeting of the Hill County Board of Health last week, board member...
AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA - Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company's inspectors caused the derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people and injured 49 others in 2021, federal investigators said in a final report. The severity of the injuries were made worse by the Amtrak train's lack of seatbelts and windows that weren't strong enough to keep passengers from being ejected when the train...
Judy Vosen Local Red Cross Blood Drive volunteer coordinator The recent Havre Community Red Cross Blood Drive held at St. Jude Parish Center Monday, July 24, was once again a success. There were 103 units collected, 12 of which were double red cell units, more commonly known as Power Red units. Once again there were a few first-time donors this month. Yay, Havre community donors! Thank-you is given to the First Lutheran Church volunteers for providing a selection of delicious...
Havre Daily News staff Officials have released the name of the fatality that occurred in an off-road side-by-side crash last Wednesday on private property north of the intersection of Sucker Creek Road and Clear Creek Road in Blaine County. Davyd Ferfetskiy of Seattle, 12, died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash when he was partially ejected from the vehicle. Two others were injured as a result of the crash. The crash was reported at 4 p.m. Wednesday to Blaine County dispatch and Blaine County Sheriff’s d...
A hearing scheduled for Monday in a case involving local businessman Tom Patrick was canceled after the Hill County Attorney dismissed the case against him pending further investigation. Patrick, owner of Patrick Construction, is accused of pointing a gun July 21 at another contractor and BNSF officials who were on Patrick's property at the site of a freight train derailment about 8 miles east of Havre. He was arrested on suspicion of felony charges of criminal endangerment,...
The Blaine County area saw golfball- to tennis ball-sized hail Sunday evening causing damage to crops and property. National Weather Service Meteorologist Austin McDowell said reports of hail were submitted to the service between 8:20 p.m. and 9:19 p.m. that evening, and based on his reading of the radar activity it seems like the hail may have fallen throughout the whole hour, or close to it. McDowell said they received reports from Chinook and the surrounding areas, including Fort Belknap, of hail between 1.25 inches in...
Hill County will move into Stage 1 fire restrictions Friday after seeing five fires in the past week. During a regional fire call this morning Hill County Commissioner Jake Strissel said all five fires were human caused and affected 25 acres of land since the fire call last week, so the county will be implementing Stage 1 fire restrictions. These restrictions prohibit building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire or campfire unless noted in the exemptions below or as designated in the specific closure order. Smoking is...
A historic deal more than a century in the making requiring the federal government to ensure members of the Fort Belknap Indian Community have water — and ensures water is available to everyone along the Milk River — took another major step forward Thursday. The Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act, led by Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., unanimously was passed by the U.S. Senate as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, a release from Tester’s office said. The Fort...
MATTHEW BROWN and MORGAN LEE The Associated Press HAVRE — A man was detained and questioned by police and his Montana apartment searched as authorities tried to piece together the mysterious disappearance and sudden reappearance this week of Alicia Navarro, who was 14 when she vanished from her Arizona home four years ago. Police provided no details Friday about Wednesday’s search or the identity of the man, who was released. But Garrett Smith, who lives in the apartment next to the one that was searched, said for at least a...
JOSH FUNK and SAM METZ Associated Press Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment near Joplin in northern Montana. But installing the sensors on the tens of thousands of locomotives in the fleet could be cost prohibitive, and it’s not entirely clear if one would have caught the combination of rail flaws that the National Transportation Safety B...
Press release Two local authors will be at the Havre-Hill County Library Thursday to answer questions and sign their books. Gwen Hart and Roger Hart will be at the library Thursday at 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served at the event, which is free and open to the public. Books will be sold for $10-$15. Gwen Hart is a professor of writing at Montana State University-Northern and a winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Award. Her latest book, released this spring. Her...
