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From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension has once again teamed up with the Montana 4-H Foundation and MSU 4-H Center to offer its Fabulous Fridays webinar series on estate and legacy planning. The six-part webinar series will happen Fridays, Jan. 27 through March 3. Each installment will run from 10 to 11:15 a.m., which includes a 15-minute Q&A period. Fabulous Fridays topics include: • What factors determine who receives your property after you die? • Saving more money for your heirs by avoid...
Between the harsh December weather and an aging volunteer base, Havre Salvation Army saw a significantly lower amount of money come in during the 2022 Red Kettle Campaign, the main funding source of their 2023 budget. Havre Salvation Army Director Trina Crawford said they brought in $31,000 this year, $29,000 of which they can use after covering costs, well short of their $38,000 goal and a noticeable drop from the $36,000 in 2021 and the numbers they've seen over the last...
Press release The Hi-Line Arts Council is hosting the Montana Chamber Music Society Friday, Feb. 10, at a very unique setting, the Montana Style Events location, 10975 River Road in Havre. The musical evening will include a no-host full-service bar along with gourmet appetizers created by the evening hostess, Betsi Knight. The evening will start at 6:30 p.m. with music to follow. Tickets are $35. Reservations are encouraged, as space is limited. Just visit the Hi-Line Arts Council web site to purchase your ticket on line or...
Press release Havre High School speech and debate did well at the divisional tournament at Park High School in Livingston Saturday, qualifying most of the team for the state tournament. State starts Friday at Sidney High School. The top 12 in each event from the eastern divisionals and the top 12 from the western divisionals, held Saturday in Columbia Falls, qualify for state competition. Head coach Tim Leeds said he was pleased with the results. “I was hoping for all the students to qualify, but this was the biggest, most c...
The North Star speech and drama team traveled to Dutton Saturday for the Northern B-C Speech, Debate and Drama Divisional Tournament. The top six in each category get to move on to compete at the state tourney in Manhattan this Friday and Saturday. All three of the Knights will be competing in Manhattan as they showed off their impressive performance skills, placing in the top six. Results are as follows: In speech, Ecko Fraser took second in original oratory, and Joshua Campbell placed second in humorous interpretation of...
Carla Jenewein Local Red Cross blood drive coordinater The Chinook Community Red Cross Blood Drive was held Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the Chinook Community Commercial Building down at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. It was another great success with 57 presenting donors, 55 productive units collected on a goal of 52. We registered one first-time donor, Simon Wurz. Melanie Qualls reached seven gallons, Judy Johnson five gallons and Don Ranstrom 17 gallons. People accepting door prizes were Royce Houtzel, Don Ranstrom, Le Ann...
from Montana State University-Northern Montana’s shortage of educators is no secret — in fact, according to Elsie Arntzen, Superintendent of the Office of Public Instruction, Montana will face a deficit of approximately 800 teachers in the coming year. The causes for the deficit vary; and efforts to address the crisis have been a topic of much concern among state officials. One issue contributing to the shortage is the lack of young adults who are interested in education or see it as a viable career path. Montana State Univer...
At their weekly business meeting Thursday the Hill County Commission approved County Disaster and Emergency Services to apply for a grant to get a new vehicle, voiced their support for Montana State University-Northern's Aurora Complex, and discussed the county's policy for reimbursing meal cost for employees going to events relevant to their jobs. Hill County DES Coordinator Amanda Frickel, who attended the meeting, said her department is in need of a designated vehicle to...
Xavier Alexander Clark of Havre is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in a plea agreement to a charge of deliberate homicide stemming from the shooting death of Dyllan Murray, 21, at a party on Saddle Butte Drive Oct. 17, 2021. As per the plea agreement, Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz dropped two felony counts of attempted assault with a weapon, ordered a presentence investigation be prepared and set sentencing for March 20. In the plea agreement, the prosecution recommends Clark, who was 23 at the time of the incident, be...
Montana Actors’ Theatre’s three-actor production of “Misery,” an adaptation of the Stephen King story of the same name, has been delayed due to two-thirds of its cast coming down with COVID-19. MAT Artistic Director Grant Olson said next week was supposed to be their opening week, but they’ve had to push it back, cutting the production’s run to two weeks, though they’ve added another matinee to try to make up for it. Olson said a number of the technical staff for the production have also gotten sick, which is especially pr...
Press release MANCHESTER, N.H. — Southern New Hampshire University announced that Angelina Toth of Havre, Montana, was among the students named to the Fall 2022 President’s List at the university. The fall terms run from September to December. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above for the reporting term are named to the President’s List. Full-time status is achieved by earning 12 credits over each 16-week term or paired eight-week terms grouped in fall, winte...
Press release Judge Kaydee N. Snipes Ruiz, Twelfth Judicial District Court Judge for Hill, Chouteau, and Liberty counties, from Jan. 9-13 successfully completed the National Computer Forensic Institute's Digital Evidence for Judges five-day training course in Hoover, Alabama. "Digital evidence is an evolving area of criminal law," Snipes Ruiz said. "What an opportunity to meet, train, and network with experts in this field. Bringing back this information will assist the Twelft...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the name of the firm designing a building to house bathrooms and where sprinkler systems are being installed. The Great Northern Fair Board voted to accept a bid from Heberly and Associates to design the building to house new bathrooms on the west end of the grounds and discussed progress on various other ongoing projects on the fairgrounds at their monthly meeting Tuesday. Fair Board Vice-Chair Bob Kaul said he called eight firms trying to find someone that could create an a...
Though the C-130 Hercules tactical aircraft that landed at the Havre City-County Airport Wednesday only stayed on the runway about 10 minutes before the flight crew took off again to continue the training run, that historic moment was almost four years in the making. The C-130 and its crew are part of the Montana Air National Guard wing based in Great Falls, and the aircraft is, as far as airport manager Tony Dolphay can recall, the largest airplane to ever land at the Havre...
Amber Hofstad of Windrift Hills spoke at the annual meeting of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce as their keynote speaker Wednesday about her journey as a small business owner building a business with goat's milk that sells to customers around the world. Chamber Executive Director Jessica Fagerbakke said Hofstad, whose company makes natural skin care products like soap, lotion and body butter using goat milk, is a second-generation business owner who was the driving force...
The Havre-Area Chamber of Commerce held its 113th annual meeting Wednesday to introduce their new board, talk about the past year and outline their goals for 2023. Incoming Chamber President Maia LaSalle thanked those in attendance, including Havre Mayor Doug Kaercher, the Hill County Commissioners and a delegation from Montana State University-Northern. LaSalle also thanked the chamber's members, her colleagues on the board and the leadership that preceded her, as well as Cha...
Havre Daily News staff Havre law enforcement dispatch received a report Wednesday at 7:29 p.m. of a person in Box Elder injured by one or more gunshots causing wounds to the stomach, thigh and groin. Hill County Undersheriff Stan Martin said this morning that the incident occurred on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, but deputies responded to help with transport of the victim. No one was made available with Rocky Boy Police to comment on the incident and the FBI hadn’t responded by print deadline on a request for comment. Hav...
Havre Daily News Staff The Triangle Communications Youth Club/Organization Technology Grant program is nearing its grant application deadline. The grant offers up to $500 in grant support to youth clubs and organizations — such as 4-H, FFA, BPA, FCCLA, DECA, Boys & Girls Club and others — with the majority of its members in the Triangle service area, the Triangle website says. Funds can be used for science, technology, engineering or math related projects. The application can be found online at http://www....
Press release A scholarship is again offered by the North Central Montana Cattle Women and the North Central Montana Stock Growers. This annual scholarship is available to high school seniors and college students completing their sophomore year. Interest from a memorial fund honoring the memory of deceased members is contributed to by the Cattle Women. Stock Growers supplies their portion of the scholarship through fundraising efforts and interest from money left from the Livestock Protective Association, a forerunner to the...
Montana State University-Northern held its second annual Community Involvement Fair Tuesday, an event trying to connect students and student groups with local non-profits and service organizations. The event's organizer, Amber Spring, said the event was created, in part, as a way to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but since school is out that day they decided to do it the day after. "MLK Day is thought of primarily as a holiday, but it was supposed to be a day of service,"...
Press release Recently, Recycle Montana held its Recycling Legislative Event in the Rotunda of the State Capitol, Helena, to honor the recipients of the 2022 recycling awards and the winner of a recycling trailer grant for $10,000. "It's important to recognize Montanans that promote recycling as well as incentivize our youth to recycle," Recycle Montana's Executive Director Candi Zion said. Recycle Montana served lunch to the legislators who met invited businesses displaying...
The Blaine County Museum, in conjunction with Humanities Montana, will be holding a speaker series starting Thursday at 6 p.m. at the museum with a presentation on the pre-statehood history of northern Montana by historical researcher Austin Haney. A post on the museum’s Facebook page said Haney’s lecture, titled “In the Shadow of the Bear Paws,” will discuss the often-overlooked early history of the region including its original inhabitants as well as the wandering traders, explorers and soldiers, as well as the “colorf...
The return of cold and snow has continued poor driving conditions in the area, with highways in this regions listed as having snow and ice, even some black ice, and driving in towns still a problem in some areas despite work to remove snow and ice. Continued dense fog also is causing problems for driving. Havre Public Works is recommending that drivers in the area stick to the most well-traveled roads as much as possible amid the difficult driving conditions caused by recent...
Travis M. Sheffelmaer of Dodson died following a crash on U.S. Highway 2 in Blaine County of injuries unrelated to the crash, which is still under investigation, Blaine County Sheriff John Colby said in a press release. The release said that Blaine County sheriff’s deputies were doing traffic control Wednesday for a vehicle that had slid into the ditch on U.S. Highway 2 at mile marker 409. Deputies advised that the road conditions were too dangerous to continue with the vehicle that was in the ditch and out of traffic, the r...
