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Editor’s note: This version includes online and mail access to provide comments, which was inadvertently left out of the original version. The Montana Bureau of Land Management is soliciting public comment on their plan to possibly open the Bullwhacker area of the Upper Missouri River Breaks to mechanized and motorized vehicle access. A description of the proposal and maps of the project area are available on the e-Planning website at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2030427/510 . Comments may be submitted using...
The H. Earl Clack Museum board members met Monday evening and talked about future plans for the museum. The museum will be closed for the month of January, but still open for Prehistoric Passport stamps and book sales. Hours of operation have been updated on the website. Museum and Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump Manager Caroline Tuss talked about past and future displays. “The traditional Christmas display was fairly popular with our relatively limited attendance, people really seemed to like it. Especially board members who vis...
In their monthly meeting Monday, members of the Hill County Park Board voted not to participate in an upcoming watershed assessment by the state, potentially forgoing significant grant funding for Beaver Creek Park, in fears that it would give up local control. Board member Lou Hagener said the state is looking at doing a wide-ranging watershed assessment, including Beaver Creek Park, and if they participate in and support the assessment they could gain access to a...
Havre Daily News staff Havre Public Works issued a release about the forecast below-zero weather and how it could lead to frozen pipes and how to help prevent that. “With the cold weather arriving, we here at the Public Works Department thought we might pass along some helpful tips to prevent frozen water pipes inside your residences,” the release said. “Most of us know these tips and tricks, but we have been pretty spoiled this year so far and (we) wanted to remind everyone that being prepared is paramount.” The release...
The National Weather Service has issued a High Winds Warning for Tuesday as Havre starts a week of plummeting temperatures and high chances of snow, the area's unseasonable warmth appearing to come to an end. National Weather Service in Great Falls put out a warning this morning to central, north-central and southwest Montana saying there will likely be winds of between 35 and 45 miles per hour with gusts of up to 65 miles per hour between noon and midnight Tuesday. The...
Amanda Eggert Montana Free Press While some snow hit the state and more is in the forecast, More than half of the snowpack monitoring sites used to measure the water supply for Montana watersheds are posting record-low accumulations, according to a report out last week. Several basins in central Montana have one-third of their normal snow-water equivalent — a measurement of water in the snow. About half of all of the basins in the report, including the Upper Missouri, Flathead, and Upper and Lower Clark Fork basins, are p...
Press release Havre High School took a small team of speakers and debaters to a tournament at Shelby Saturday, with the Havre team performing well and winning the Class A team trophy. Havre won with 29 points, while Bigfork High School took second with 15 points and Browning came in third with 9. Sophomore Lyvia Little led the way for the Blue Ponies with a perfect 3-0 record and a first-place finish in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Teammate Trinity Olsen was just behind in...
Press release North Star speech and drama team got back into the season by traveling to Shelby Saturday and represented the school very well. In original oratory, Ecko Fraser took second. In spontaneous oral interpretation of literature, Emily Conner placed first and CJ Berton took third. In humorous interpretation of literature, Troy Barrett placed fifth. In humorous theater Joshua Campbell and Cooper Clawson placed fifth. The Knights speech and drama team, coached by Linda Lett, travels to Townsend this weekend, so wish...
by Emily Mayer Happy 2024! Exactly 100 years ago this week, news broke from faraway Egypt that Howard Carter had finally found King Tutankhamun’s mummy in amidst all those “wonderful things.” While the tomb had been found in 1922, it took quite some time to sort through all those artifacts before finding his sarcophagus. This was big news across the world, and news of Carter’s discoveries were printed in the Havre Daily Promoter. More local news focused on the desire of Havre businessmen to have a county agent to stimula...
Havre Salvation Army brought in significantly less in donations in 2023 than previous years, even as needs continue to become more significant, and will need to cut back on services as a result. Havre Salvation Army Director Trina Crawford said she and her organization are always appreciative of every donation they get, but they are almost $10,000 behind their $38,000 goal for last year’s Red Kettle Campaign, their largest fundraiser of the year, and that means they can’t do as much this year. “We’re not going to be able to...
The name of a 77-year old Havre woman who died after a fatal crash that occurred around 9 a.m. New Year’s Eve in the Havre area has been released. Joy Hokanson died after being taken to the hospital after her vehicle crashed after leaving the road on U.S. Highway 2 West. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Conor Doyle said Tuesday that Hokanson was traveling eastbound when she suffered a medical event and drove off the road in her 2018 Chevy Silverado. He said she left the road near mile marker 379 and crashed into private p...
At the year's first meeting of the Havre City Council Tuesday, Havre Police Department Animal Control Officer Pete Federspiel and Havreite Matt Boucher were presented the Lifesaving Award for saving a woman from a burning vehicle last year, and the council heard complaints about insufficient training on mental health issues for city police officers. Havre Chief of Police Gabe Matosich presented Federspiel and Boucher the award for "their heroism and extraordinary courage,...
A 77-year old woman died after a fatal crash that occurred around 9 a.m. New Year’s Eve in the Havre area. The Hill County Sheriff’s Office has not yet released the name of the woman who died pending notification of relatives. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Conor Doyle said the woman was traveling eastbound on U.S. Highway 2 when she suffered a medical event and drove off the road in her 2018 Chevy Silverado. He said she left the road near mile marker 379 and crashed into private property before being transported to the hos...
Havre Daily News staff Northern Montana Hospital reports that the first baby of 2024 was born at 2:43 p.m. New Year’s Day. The hospital reports that the family has respectfully declined to have a photo posted, but the baby’s name is Hailey Waldner and she weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz. at birth and is 19 inches long. Her parents are David and Bernice Waldner. “They thoroughly enjoyed the gift that we presented them from NMH,” a release from the hospital said. “Happy New Year!...
Unseasonably warm but increasingly chilly temperatures seem to be on the horizon this coming week, along with fog and a chance of snow as the weekend approaches. Today, Havre is predicted to see a high of 40 and a low of 18, with a mostly sunny day, but fog rolling in overnight and sticking around through Wednesday morning. Wednesday temperatures will drop, with a predicted high of 34 degrees and a low of 15 with fog returning that evening, and tapering off around 9 a.m. Thursday. Thursday’s temperatures will be similar to W...
7 was a year full of stories, good and bad, and a new year of news is on the horizon. Here is a roundup of some of the biggest stories the Havre Daily News covered this in 2023, as the year draws to a close. Suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down Early this year an apparent Chinese spy balloon was spotted over Montana, and later shot down off the coast of South Carolina, prompting outcry from local, state and national officials, directed at China and the federal government which some say didn’t act fast enough. The Pentag...
The Havre Daily News has covered a number of impactful political events in 2023, from controversies and internal division on the local level, to a chaotic legislative session on the state level, along with the tension between local and state government that has risen in this year as well. Here are some of the stories the Havre Daily News has been able to cover in 2023: Commission and state spar over property taxes One political issue at the forefront of practically everyone's...
Editor’s note: This version corrects that Republican Mike Lang of Malta is a senator, not representative. 2023 has been an eventful year for education on the Hi-Line, from a major paradigm shift at Havre Public Schools to a massive investment in Montana State University-Northern for a new recreation center, all as the state and nation faces an ongoing teacher shortage. The Havre Daily News has covered a number of significant events in education this year. Here are the biggest. Havre adopts four-day week Likely the most i...
