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Articles from the March 31, 2022 edition


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  • St. Mary Diversion sees $85M more on the way

    Tim Leeds|Updated Apr 4, 2022

    A project more than two decades in the making finally has some significant funding, with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announcing Wednesday that $85 million is going to repairs and rehabilitation on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works. "This is a critical, targeted investment in the Milk River Project that will update essential water infrastructure for our state and provide certainty and economic growth for communities, producers, and future generations in north-central...

  • Bear Paw Development has $13.1 million impact in 2021

    Updated Apr 1, 2022

    Staff and wire Bear Paw Development Corp. continued its major economic impact in the region, highlighted in its annual report. The nonprofit economic and community development organization had a $13.1 million impact on the region it serves in northern Montana. The annual report also documented that Bear Paw Development assisted the private sector to create or retain 61 jobs through their small business lending and advising activities. “The work Bear Paw Development was able to accomplish in 2021 helped the communities we s...

  • US approves bison grazing on Montana prairie amid criticism

    Updated Mar 31, 2022

    By Matthew Brown Associated Press BILLINGS — U.S. officials announced Wednesday approval of a conservation group’s proposal to expand bison grazing on prairies in north-central Montana as part of a vast nature reserve over objections from some ranchers and elected officials. The decision allows the American Prairie group to graze bison on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property and to remove about 30 miles of fences so the animals can roam more freely. The Bozeman-based group already has more than 800 bison on a mix of pub...

  • Local ag and meat processing businesses receiving $1 million for expansions

    Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Tester As part of his ongoing push to support Montana small businesses and agriculture producers, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., secured $1,000,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding for three north-central Montana small businesses. Bear Paw Meats, Big Sandy Organics and Evergood Commodities Ltd, will receive $150,000, $400,000 and $450,000, respectively, as a part of more than $7.8 million in ARPA funds for 30 Montana small businesses, including 17 meat processing projects and...

  • Havre Chamber welcomes new executive director

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Jessica Fagerbakke is the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce’s new executive director and is excited to get working on the chamber’s yearly events. Fagerbakke said she’s passionate about the community and is looking forward to serving it through the Chamber. “I’m just really excited about it,” she aid. Fagerbakke was born and raised in northwestern North Dakota to a farming and ranching family but got her degree in marketing and entrepreneurship from Montana State University in Bozeman. After that, she said, she got a job with BN...

  • Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited banquet is back

    Pam Burke|Updated Mar 31, 2022

    After missing a year due to the pandemic, the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited is back for its 37th Annual Banquet Saturday, April 23, at Havre Ice Dome. The doors at the Ice Dome south of town at 2585 Fifth Ave. open for the event at 4:30 p.m., with early bird prize drawings 5 to 5:30 p.m. The event also includes a gun raffle and silent auction, but the main draw of the evening, the all-you-can-eat meal of walleye and baron of beef, starts serving at 6:30 p.m. The dinner...

  • 3D archery shoot set for May 1 in Beaver Creek Park

    Pam Burke|Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Archers only have a month to get practiced up for the Bearpaw Bowmen Archery Club's Spring 3D Archery Shoot, which is set for Sunday, May 1, at Eagles Campground in Beaver Creek Park. Registration opens at 8 a.m., but archers can sign up at any point in the day as long as they make it through the course and turn in their score cards by 3 p.m. The competition is open to everyone, with all types of bows allowed, though rangefinders are prohibited. People are also advised to...

  • Obituary - Harriet Standing Rock

    Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Harriet Standing Rock, “Coming Daylight Woman,” 74, passed away due to natural causes Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at Logan Health in Kalispell. Wake services will begin at 3:00 p.m. today, March 31, 2022, and will continue until her funeral services, which will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday, April 1, 2022, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the Standing Rock Family Cemetery.... Full story

  • Obituary - Eileen A. Patrick

    Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Eileen A. Patrick, 91, passed away of natural causes Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at the Northern Montana Care Center. Cremation has taken place, a full obituary and service information will follow.... Full story

  • For the Record, March 31, 2022

    Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Havre Police Department A caller on Third Avenue reported Wednesday at 9:59 a.m. that a semitractor-trailer may have hit a fire hydrant. -- A Sixth Street caller reported a scam Wednesday at 10:14 a.m. -- A dead deer was reported on the boulevard of 10th Street at 10:51 a.m. Wednesday. -- A drug pipe was reported found at a First Street business Wednesday at 11:14 a.m. -- Cameron Michael Boggs Duran of Havre, 20, was arrested on a shoplifting charge after a caller at a First S...

  • Random observations of an opinionated woman

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Mar 31, 2022

    Birds: Karen from Floweree reported to our girl-group that she heard her first meadowlark singing from atop a fencepost in her garden. We who no longer live in Montana sighed as the meadowlark’s unmistakable and beautiful song rang in our refreshed memories. Here in Jalisco, as everywhere else in spring, the skies crisscross with bird travel, some heading north, some arriving to build nests in which to plant new baby birdy eggs. Especially in early morning and late afternoon,...

  • High school track and field returns to the Hi-Line

    Kason Clark|Updated Mar 31, 2022

    While all eyes will be on the return of area spring sports, local sports of fans should not forget the return track and field teams on the Hi-Line. Class B schools such as Rocky Boy and Harlem will be making their returns while the District 9C will see Fort Benton, North Star, Chester-Joplin-Inverness, Chinook, Hays-Lodge Pole, Box Elder, Turner and Big Sandy compete against one another this season. According to North Star head coach Brian Campbell, the Fort Benton Longhorns...