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  • Havre Weekly Chronicle online today, distributed Friday

    Havre Weekly Chronicle Staff|Updated May 23, 2024

    Due to problems with the press, Havre Weekly Chronicle will be online only today. Technicians are working on the press today, and the Chronicle expects this week’s edition to be printed and on the street and in the mail Friday....

  • Havre officials detail timeline, issues in boil advisory

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 21, 2024

    In a slightly shorter - but still often contentious - meeting about Havre's boil advisory, Havre City Council heard an update on the timeline and background of the boil advisory, comments from the public and an announcement that the city is in the process of distributing some free bottled water. The presence of active Giardia, a microscopic parasite that can cause illness, has not been confirmed in Havre's water supply but because three cases of Giardiasis were confirmed in...

  • Local law enforcement stepping up seat belt enforcement

    Updated May 20, 2024

    • Local law enforcement and the Montana Highway Patrol are increasing patrols and presence from the end of May through the beginning of June as part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Click It or Ticket Enforcement. • While non-seat belt use is a secondary offense in Montana, wearing a seat belt is still required by law. • Seat belts are one of the most effective ways to increase your chance of survival in a crash, reducing the risk of death for a front...

  • Havre Weekly Chronicle being mailed today

    Updated May 16, 2024

    Posted May 16, 2024 Due to production problems, this week’s edition of Havre Weekly Chronicle could not be mailed Wednesday. The production manager expects the paper to be mailed and be in racks and outlets today. The paper expects that the problem has been resolved and the Chronicle should be back to its normal schedule next week. The paper’s staff said they apologized to subscribers for the delay....

  • Deputy shoots armed suspect in chase

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 16, 2024

    Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said in a release issued Tuesday that a deputy shot a man in Hill County early Tuesday morning after a chase. There is no risk to public safety at this time and all suspects have been apprehended, Ross said in the release. Hill County sheriff’s deputies responded to notification from Rocky Boy police at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday that tribal officers were in pursuit of a pickup truck leaving Rocky Boy”s Indian Reservation and the occupants of the vehicle were shooting at the officers while fleeing. The...

  • H. Earl Clack Museum board members get ready for summer

    Updated May 16, 2024

    H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board members met Monday evening to discuss the upcoming summer season preparations for the museum, as well as the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump. Museum manager Caroline Tuss talke about the museum summer hours beginning after Memorial Day "Staffing allowing it, will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day of the week," she said. If the board is unable to staff those hours, the hours may switch to Tuesday to Saturday. The hours for the Buffalo Jump will be 9...

  • Rally to discuss safeguarding Box Elder schools to follow cross walk

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 16, 2024

    A cross walk followed by a rally to investigate better protection for Box Elder schools is set for Saturday. The cross walk is set to start in Big Sandy at 9 a.m. Saturday at the rest area there and will proceed to Box Elder. “Because of the darkness of alcoholism, drug addiction, missing and murdered indigenous persons and violence in north-central Montana and the Hi-Line, we will carry a cross, walk and pray,” a flyer about the event says, saying people can call Pastor Rich Jesperson at 406-680-7080 fro more inf...

  • Level of Beaver Creek going down, still will be flooding for some time

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 16, 2024

    Commissioner Mark Peterson said during a commission working meeting Monday that levels in Beaver Creek are going down, but slowly and it may be high for some time. Peterson said the only major damage so far has been at Evergeen Campground off of U.S. Highway 87 and Beaver Creek Golf Course west of town on U.S. Highway 2, other than on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, which also declared an emergency. The Hill County Commission issued a declaration of emergency last week due to the rising levels of the creek. Peterson said M...

  • Hill County Park Board discusses upcoming recreational season

    Christy Bambrough|Updated May 16, 2024

    Editor’s note: Due to an editorial error, this story was not published in the Thursday, May 6, edition of the Weekly Chronicle. Hill County Park Board members met Monday evening, May 6, to discuss maintenance for Beaver Creek Park. Jeff Jensen was re-elected as the chairman for the board, and Pam Wilson was elected to be the vice chairman. The committee is waiting for estimates from Clausen and Son’s and Korb construction to replace the Beaver Lodge. Extra funds are still required to proceed with the project, as well as possi...

  • FWP to host bear awareness meetings in Chinook, Havre and Zortman

    Updated May 16, 2024

    Press release Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will host a series of public meetings on bear awareness, including how to minimize conflict. The events are open to the public, and area landowners and recreators are encouraged to attend. • Chinook: o Saturday, May 18, 3-5 p.m. o Blaine County Library o 112 4th St W • Havre: o Saturday, May 18, 7-9 p.m. o Hill County Electric Building o 2121 US-2 o Hospitality Room • Zortman: o Sunday, May 19, 12-2 p.m. o Zortman BLM fire station o 1 mile southeast of Zortman on Bear Gulch...

  • Havre holds successful Red Cross blood brive

    Updated May 16, 2024

    Judy Vosen, Local Red Cross blood drive volunteer coordinator The recent Havre Community Red Cross Blood Drive held at St. Jude Parish Center Monday, May 6, was a huge success. We had a few first time donors again this month. From 112 registered donors there were 108 units successfully collected. The Red Cross team arrives early on a Monday morning every other month, and remains in the area until Thursday evening. During that time an average of 300 units are collected from the Havre area out of five different blood drive site...

  • Emotional intelligence seminar set in Havre

    Updated May 16, 2024

    Press release Montana State University Extension Hill County has invited people to an interactive lunchtime workshop May 22 to explore emotional intelligence. A release said the seminar presented by Ashley Kent of the MSU-Extension Government Center will discuss what emotional intelligence is and how it can impact professional and personal relationships and which tools and tips people can implement by the end of the day. The release said the workshop is for everyone including local community and nonprofit leaders, coaches,...

  • Havre Public Assistance, Vocational Rehabilitation offices closing May 23-24

    Updated May 16, 2024

    From Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services The Office of Public Assistance and the Vocational Rehabilitation and Blind Services office located at 48 Second Avenue in Havre will be closed to the public and employees Thursday, May 23, and Friday, May 24, to address building maintenance issues. Normal business operations will resume on Tuesday, May 28. Havre OPA employees working remotely during the office closure will be responding to calls placed through the Public Assistance Helpline and via email...

  • Malta dinosaur museum launching exhibit on Dinosaur Mummy

    Updated May 16, 2024

    Press release The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum announced it will launch its new exhibit “Into the world of the Dinosaur Mummy” Saturday, May 18, with free admission and a special showcase beginning at 4 p.m. Utilizing tourism grant funds from the Montana Department of Commerce Eastern Montana Initiative, the project invested in technologies to develop an interactive wall exhibit, a marketing plan that included an updated website and social media campaign for an augmented exhibit focused on the Mummy Dinosaur, Leonardo. Dis...

  • Havre's Lynch receives National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

    Updated May 16, 2024

    Press release The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation announced that Erin Lynch, a teacher at Sunnyside Intermediate School in Havre, has been accepted to participate in its workshop for educators sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration will teach educators about the conditions that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, at Heart Mountain, Wyo., and nine other camps around the country. The...

  • Cross walk from Big Sandy to Box Elder followed by rally set

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 15, 2024

    Editor’s note: This version corrects the location of the rally. A cross walk followed by a rally to call for Box Elder being made a Native American Dependent Community is set for Saturday, May 18. “Because of the darkness of alcoholism, drug addiction, missing and murdered indigenous persons and violence in north-central Montana and the Hi-Line, we will carry a cross, walk and pray,” a flyer about the event says, saying people can call Pastor Rich Jesperson at 406-680-7080 fro more information. G. Bruce Meyers said Tuesd...

  • City Council has three-hour session discussion boil advisory

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 14, 2024

    Havre City Council held a lengthy discussion to an over-flow capacity crowd at its meeting Monday about the boil advisory in place in the city. At the end of the meeting, following a presentation by a worker at the water plant that met with extended applause, the council scheduled another meeting Monday, May 20, to debrief over what was said at this week"'s meeting and what answers had been found to questions people asked this week. Havre Department of Public Works Director Tr...

  • Hill County Justice Court relocating temporarily

    Updated May 13, 2024

    Press release The office of the Hill County Justice of the Peace announced last week some relocations and possible temporary disruption of service due to work on the Hill County Courthouse. A press release said that, due to replacement of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system on the second and third floors of the Hill County Courthouse, Hill County Justice Court of Record will be temporarily relocated until further notice. The office will be moving the week of May 20, 2024, to the Timmons Conference Room in...

  • Rasmussen offers advice to Northern graduating class

    Tim Leeds|Updated May 9, 2024

    Montana State University-Northern held its 2024 graduation ceremonies Saturday, with commencement speaker world-renowned entertainer and rodeo clown Flint Rasmussen providing the graduates with some good advice filled with local references and lots of humor. The graduating class had279 candidates eligible to receive a total of 411 degrees; 115 women and 164 men eligible for 64 certificates, 158 associate degrees, 174 bachelor's degrees and 14 master's degrees. The ceremony...

  • BLM issues decision on Left Coulee Bullwhacker Access

    Updated May 9, 2024

    U.S. Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Land Management officials signed a Decision Record and Finding of No Significant Impact for a travel plan amendment opening a 0.6-mile primitive road in the Left Coulee area of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument’s Bullwhacker region, providing legal public motorized and mechanized access to that area. In 2023, the Square Butte Grazing Association and Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks finalized a Public Access Land Agreement through a private parcel along Cow Creek. The B...

  • Donaldson Hall has a long history at Northern

    Updated May 9, 2024

    By Kelsey Doncaster One of the most recent projects of the Havre-Hill County Historic Preservation Commission was a collaboration with Montana State University-Northern to nominate Donaldson Hall to the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register is the official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. They hired me, Kelsey Doncaster of Doncaster Consulting in Choteau, Montana, to complete this nomination. In completing a National Register nomination...

  • Chester's Riggin, Havre's Bold among students receiving Blewett wrestling scholarship

    Updated May 9, 2024

    Press release Savannah Riggin of Chester-Joplin-Inverness High School and Reinhard Bold of Havre High School were among north-central Montana students awarded scholarships due to their performance in wrestling. Alexander “Zander” Blewett III, a trial lawyer from the personal injury law firm of Hoyt and Blewett PLLC in Great Falls, Montana, has awarded $500 Scholarships to the top student-athlete wrestlers in north-central Montana from four schools in north-central Montana who have displayed the best combined qualities of wre...

  • Maze Zerbe completes medical residency

    Updated May 9, 2024

    Press release Dr. Sarah Maze Zerbe, daughter of Tim and Meg Maze of Ranchester, WY, granddaughter of Norman and Margaret Maze of Havre and Lt. Col. Richard and Marguerite LaVigne of Ogdensburg, New York, and niece of Lucinda Maze of Havre has completed her Residancy in Family Medicine through the University of Washington Medical School. Maze Zerbe is a 2013 graduate of Tongue River High School in Dayton Wy, a 2017 graduate of the University of Wyoming and a 2021 graduate of...

  • Middle school lists April students of the month

    Updated May 9, 2024

    Press release Havre Middle School's Sixth-Grade Student of the Month for April is Zechia "Dash" Logan. Dash is the son of Dave and Dawn Kaasa. He has four siblings, Nathan Albert, Rhianna Albert, Elizabeth Anderson and Amy Legge. At HMS, Dash takes pride in his schoolwork and maintains a high GPA. He also participates in the middle school choir. Outside of school, he loves to play basketball, sing and hunt with his father. In his free time, Dash loves to go on road trips with...

  • Big Sandy's Proulx in Utah Tech University's 113th graduating class

    Updated May 9, 2024

    Press release ST. GEORGE, Utah — Bailey Proulx of Big Sandy was one of the 2,967 students graduating at Utah Tech University’s 113th Commencement ceremonies Friday. During the first ceremony, held in the morning May 3 at the Greater Zion Stadium at Utah Tech University, 31 percent of graduates earned their associate degree. During the evening ceremony, 37 percent of the graduates received a bachelor’s degree, 31 percent received a certificate, and one percent earned their master’s degree....

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