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Since COVID-19 started spreading across the United States and hit Montana last March, universities were faced with difficult decisions. After going online-only through the summer, Montana State University-Northern reopened for a shortened fall semester on campus, working to provide a safe but high-quality education including using technological advances, adding additional time to classes and having finals remotely. The university system had to quickly adapt to dealing with the...
The Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited, Montana Fish and Wildlife and Parks and the City of Havre plan to collect Christmas trees for the purpose of enhancing fishing at the Fresno Reservoir. Starting Thursday, people can discard their Christmas trees at Memorial Park on the 100 Block of Fifth Avenue to be used in the spawning habitat project. Since 2017, the collective has been collecting and bundling discarded trees to create artificial spawning reefs to increase perch populations. Perch are a primary forage fish as well...
By 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Small Business Administrator Montana District Director Brent Donnelly had made 11 stops on on his tour promoting the support of small businesses in Montana, which Tuesday included a stop at Havre's Boxcar's Restaurant and Bar. He came to Havre from Chester and was on his way to Chinook after he left, three of his stops to visit all 56 counties in seven days. While in Havre, Donnelly championed small businesses across the state, which he said serve as the...
In a press release issued this morning, Havre police said they will increase patrols in Havre from Dec. 16 to Jan. 2. The holiday season brings cheer and seasons greetings, but people will also have to mindful of drunk driving as patrols will be in full force during the holidays, the release said. There are many things people look forward to from year to year, one thing that should not be a tradition is Montanans losing their lives because of drunk drivers. “The holiday season should be a happy time for all Montanans,” Hav...
The city of Havre is canceling. effective June, its agreement to provide fire services to Rural Fire District 1, a ring-shaped space around the boundaries of Havre, so a new agreement can be put in place, Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said. Solomon said the 30-year-old agreement for Havre to provide fire services to Rural Fire 1 has nothing in it about enforcing fire codes in the area, and the city wants a new agreement that includes that. Solomon said such agreements are common. “In Hill County, there are other Rural 1’s out the...
A group of local residents is trying to raise awareness of the need to mask up during the holidays - and after. Will Rawn, Susan Somers and Marilee Russell are making an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 by hanging signs around town encouraging citizens to wear protective face masks. The posters created by the group were designed to encourage those who "defiantly refuse to wear masks," Rawn said, which is still prevalent in the community. The medical community has said...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Montana, Montana State University-Northern, like the other universities and colleges in the state, was faced with the task of teaching students safely through technological advances, including this fall semester adding additional time to classes and having finals remotely. Along with all other campuses last March, Northern went to remote learning over spring break, then set a schedule with in-class learning the start of the fall semester,...
Physician and table tennis enthusiast Terry Hankins has set up the Havre Table Tennis Club in the lower level of the Atrium. Players of all experiences over the age of 12 are welcome to come and play for free. Hankins started the club at the Atrium Wednesday, Nov. 27, attracting other enthusiasts through his Facebook page and by hanging flyers around town. "My goal is to have pretty much adults, 13 years and older, playing, its not for kids to play," Hankins said. "These are...
Havre City Council Monday unanimously passed on first reading Monday a resolution making feeding deer in the city illegal. The ordinance will have its second reading at the council’s meeting in January and will take effect 30 days later if passed then. The council has been discussing the issue for several months, and the ordinance was proposed just to raise awareness and set some regulations. Feeding wildlife already is against state law, but government officials said in past meetings that Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks d...
Montana State University-Northern Senior Jennell Huff was recognized with The Montana Student Volunteer Award by the Governor's Office of Community Service and Montana Campus Compact campuses. The award was unexpected for Huff. "I was very shocked and very humbled. Very, very humbled to even be considered, and I didn't know until the newspaper contacted me and I was like, 'What are you talking about?" Huff is a business administration major and is pursuing a minor in...
A line of horned Herefords that were instrumental at Northern Agricultural Development Center's development of early genetic selection indexes and models to break correlated traits are being auctioned off this week. The herd is going up for sale Tuesday. The line originated in 1966 as a closed herd where no external genetics were brought into the herd and were retained, Superintendent of Northern Agriculture Research Center Darin Boss said. "We generate our own replacements an...
The Live Nativity held for decades at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church will be held under different circumstances this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic with a drive-through format, where attendees will view the scene from their cars. The Nativity will run Saturday, Dec. 5, from 5 to 7 p.m., a release from Van Orsdel United Methodist Church said. The Live Nativity will be set up in the back of the church by the storage shed, facing the alley. People viewing the Nativity will drive their cars in from the north side of the...
Editor's note: Watch for an extended article on this topic in the December Farm and Ranch special edition included in the Dec. 2 edition of the Havre Daily News. Groups and lawmakers including Montana's senior senator are pushing back against a movement to limit agricultural producers' ability to get equipment repaired. About 2014, farm implement companies started limiting farmers' options to maintain their own equipment by limiting the resources and choice of mechanics...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is proposing continuing a withdrawal of federal land in the Little Rocky Mountains from mining, in an area still recovering from pollution caused by earlier mining. In 1997, Pegasus Mining Company filed for bankruptcy after contaminating Fort Belknap Indian Reservation’s water using such practices as acid rock drainage while mining gold south of the reservation near Zortman and Landusky. In the acid rock mining Pegausus used chemicals including cyanide to extract gold and silver from ore. S...
The nursing program at Montana State University-Northern is attracting some major attention. Northern's nursing pass rate for 2020 is 90.91 percent. The rate is above the national pass rate of 87.53 percent and one of the highest for Northern in the past seven years, and the program's students have attracted the attention of the renowned Mayo Clinic. Nursing students go through rigorous state approved curriculum and spend hundreds of hours observing and participating in...
Despite the Montana Department of Motor Vehicles being shut down for computer upgrades, people will still be able to do some work online and will have a grace period for renewals. Driver Services Bureau Chief Rebecca Conners said the Montana Motor Vehicle Division in Helena will be closed Friday, Nov. 20, through Friday, Nov. 27, to allow for major system updates. Despite the shut down renewals will be given a three-month grace period. People will be able to renew driver’s licenses online or mail in paperwork for d...
At the Havre Ice Dome Saturday, curlers were wrapped in warm clothes, some sipping on beers and others dragging the ice, showing a camaraderie amongst everyone involved. The people organizing the activities have been doing so for several years. "I want to say that the club started in 2008 or 2009. We kind of took over about six or seven years ago," Hi-Line Curling Club Vice President Andy Herdina said before the ice was dragged. "The major highlights of the curling club for...
Thursday, Nov. 19, the Montana Motor Vehicle Division will be upgrading its systems, disrupting services to the public until full services resume Nov. 23. Motor Vehicle Division informed county officials in the state via email Tuesday and issued a press release Thursday. The release said that, during the upgrade, vehicle and driver services will be unavailable, but customers can still schedule appointments or use mail-in renewal options. DMV did not respond to multiple requests for additional information, including the...
Some local businesses say they are trying to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19, although it depends on the cooperation of their customers. The virus continues to spread, with Montana reporting a new high - 1,101 - of daily news cases in its update Tuesday. Today's update was not available by printing deadline this morning. Hill County has seen a decrease in the number of new daily cases in the last week, with 15 new confirmed cases reported Tuesday night. Hill...
Sara Knorr, 24, who has worked at Bergren Transmission and Auto Care since June 1, after receiving an associate degree in automotive technology from Helena College of Technology, just received her Master Technician Certification last week, in a field she said she entered almost as a challenge. Knorr said she became a young mechanic after a friend said she couldn't. "I got told I couldn't do it by a friend of mine. I had already done a year of college at Bozeman for cell biolog...
With the report on the final Hill County precinct counted at 3:02 a.m. today, the unofficial count for the 2020 election saw Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, retain his seat, Democrat Jacob "Jake" Strissel win a vacant seat on the Hill County Commission and Republican Ed Hill win the seat in Montana House District 28. The election also saw Havre voters approve switching the city to a charter form of government and county voters outside of Havre approve a mill levy...
People can contributing to Montana State University-Northern students who will spend their fall break on campus or alone, relieving some of that by food donations. Campus sports teams and organizations will participate in a competition collecting and distributing non-perishable items to students who can’t be with their families over the Thanksgiving break. One of the organizers, Associated Students of Montana State University-Northern President Riley Mortenson, said they wanted to give something to students who have to s...
Sunday, pick-ups and cars filled the Republican headquarters parking lot with Trump flags waving before the vehicles paraded down First Street then looped down Fifth Avenue in support of incumbent President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. One of the participants of the parade was Havre Public School Board member Ed Hill, who is running against Democrat Krystal Steinmetz to be the Republican representative for House District 28. "It looks like a pretty good...
Horror is coming to Havre tonight at the Cottonwood Cinema in the form of a Montana-produced horror film titled, “Nexus of Evil.” Second Winds Productions is a film company started by partners Eden Bryant and Brandon Smith in June of 2019. The team’s company is based in Polson and “Nexus of Evil” is its first feature film, focusing on a group of adults who revisit a camp they abandoned as children. “Honestly, it was inspired by horror films from the ’80s,” Smith said. “You know the campground horror movies. What really happe...
COVID-19 hasn’t stopped Havre Public Works from performing their services within the community, Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said Wednesday. Public Works services include water, sewer, streets, garbage, storm sewers and building maintenance. Services have been well-maintained in the midst of the coronavirus by working in specifically designed shifts to curve the virus, Peterson said. “Some of the things we’ve done is split up our shifts a bit. So everybody isn’t coming in at the same time,” he said. “We try to ke...
