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Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods was forced to close and evacuate employees and customers around 3:45 p.m. Thursday afternoon after a heater in a back room began producing smoke which filled the building. Havre Fire and Police responded to the scene, and the building was reopened about half an hour later. Co-owner John Malisani said there was no fire during the incident. No injuries were reported. Read tomorrow's Havre Daily News for a full story....
Havre Daily News Staff The Havre Ice Hawks hockey program is hanging another state championship banner in the Havre Ice Dome, thanks to its Pee Wee team. Last weekend in Miles City, the Ice Hawks captured their second straight 12U state championship winning the B division title with an 8-1 victory over Bozeman in the championship game. The Ice Hawks entered the state tournaments as the No. 1 seed. Within their five-team tournament the Ice Hawks were up against Flathead, Great...
Wild Horse Volunteer Fire Department firefighters responded to a grassland fire on the 10100 Block of River Road shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday. The fire appeared to start from an electrical arc where a tree branch had been rubbing on a power line, Wild Horse Fire Chief Shawn Rismon said. It was hard to gauge in the dark, he said, but he thinks between 20 and 25 acres burned and other than the power pole and line no damage was reported. Hill County Electric repaired damage to the power line. Rismon said he was grateful for...
The Signal Point Golf Club at 345 Signal Point Road in Fort Benton is holding a special year-end tournament Sunday to raise funds for equipment repairs and expenses. In the Fore Fun Golf Tournament, starting at 10 a.m., people may only use four clubs on the first nine holes and on the second must swap out two of the clubs used. No flags will be used on greens but oversized cups will be used. “Do you have the skills,” organizers asked, adding, “Expect some added challenges like a hockey stick, pool cue, marshmallow, frisb...
Nichole Borst of Montana State University-Northern has been named the 2017 NAIA Athletic Trainer of the Year. Borst serves as the department's head athletic trainer and has been helping MSU-Northern student-athletes stay healthy for more than a decade. She is an active member of both the NAIA-Athletic Trainers Association and the National Athletic Trainers Association, and was also appointed to the Montana Board of Athletic Trainers by the governor of Montana. In addition to...
5:45 p.m. A fact sheet released by the East Fork Fire emergency operations center at 5:35 p.m. said the fire in the Bear Paw Mountains remained at about 15,000 acres as of 2 p.m. The sheet said the fire was not advancing as aggressively in the north, but was burning more aggresively in the southeast part of the fire in the Clear Creek Drainage. The sheet said firefighters would continue to try to hold the fire between Shambo Road and Beaver Creek. Due to a cold front moving...
Havre Daily News staff A local effort to expand the hours of an international port of entry has earned a Havre economic development agency a national award. A press release from the National Association of Development Organizations announced that the association awarded Bear Paw Development Corp. a 2016 Innovation Award for the Wild Horse Border Project. “We are pleased and humbled that we have received this prestigious national recognition for a project that has such incredible potential in both Montana and Alberta,” sai...
With the first confirmed case of influenza reported in Hill County, the county health department is reminding the public to get vaccinated against influenza as soon as possible. Influenza vaccination is recommended for everyone 6 months of age and older. Annual vaccination is safe and the most effective method to prevent influenza infections. Protection provided by vaccination lasts throughout the entire flu season, even when vaccine is given in early fall. Hill County Health Department will have flu shots available Monday...
The Havre High School Booster Club is looking to recognize someone for going above and beyond in supporting high school activities with the Dr. Jim Elliott Award. Stacy Rismon, president of the Blue Pony Booster Club, said the club wants people to “put on your thinking cap and send us who you would like to nominate and an explanation of why you would like to have them honored with this award.” The award was established by the family of longtime Havre physician and Havre High School supporter Dr. Jim Elliott, who died in 200...
Havre school board Vice President Harvey Capellen is stepping down from a top school board association's presidency to serve as the immediate past president. Capellan passed the gavel to incoming Montana School Board Association President Carole Jones at the MTSBA Annual Membership Meeting, the association said in a press release. Capellen was first elected to the Havre Board in 2009 and elected vice chair in 2012. He was elected to the MTSBA Board of Directors in 2010....
Havre Daily News staff The Hill County Clerk and Recorder’s Office has reminded voters that absentee ballots must be in the Clerk and Recorder’s office by Nov. 8. Ballots received after Nov. 8 will not be counted. If a ballot is mailed before Nov. 8 but does not arrive by Election Day, it will not be counted. Voters are recommended to drop them off at the Hill County Clerk and Recorder’s Office in the Hill County Courthouse at 315 Fourth St. in Havre....
Havre Daily News staff A local economic development corporation is urging small businesses to look into getting some financial help with low-interest loans. Bear Paw Development Corp. announced the state of Montana has recertified Bear Paw as a MicroBusiness Development Corporation — MBDC — for the region it serves in northern Montana. Bear Paw Development has served as an MBDC since the creation of the program in the early 1990s, it said in a press release. The program allows Bear Paw to access funds through the state tha...
By Havre Daily News staff Activities are set throughout the community next week to teach children the dangers of drug abuse during National Red Ribbon Week. “As citizens, we have the right to live in drug-free families and communities, learn in drug-free schools, work in drug-free work places, and drive on drug-free highways,” a statement reads. “Since drugs will always be available, we must change attitudes to intolerance of the use of illegal drugs, and to the illegal use of legal drugs. The Red Ribbon Campaign is desig...
People can see a “ghoulish delight” at the yard selected for Halloween by the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club. West of Highland Park on Old Post Road and 26th Avenue West, the Bob and Teri Jacobson home is set to show the season, a press release says. Teri’s Theatrical Yard features her Halloween friends, which will greet people both inside and outside her home. The location will be marked by orange, purple and green balloons. While ghosts and goblins abound both day and night, people are recommended to see them at night for t...
Montana State Univesity-Northern announced it received a major boost to help students attend the university from a family with a long history of supporting students and higher education in Montana. The Haynes Foundation gifted Northern with a $661,000 endowment to the MSU-Northern Alumni Foundation, the university said in a press release. The endowment will be used to provide scholarships to undergraduate students who graduated from a Montana high school. The Haynes Foundation was established in 1958 by Jack Ellis Haynes a...
Havre High School Key Club members will be going door-to-door in Havre Monday, Oct. 17, starting at 6:30 p.m. collecting money for UNICEF. Nearly 100 million women and their newborns in more than 15 countries need help and protection from the painful and deadly disease of tetanus. The money Key Club members will collecte will be used to help eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. “Every dollar donated protects a mother and newborn,” the club said in a press release. “Thank You Havre for your support of HHS Key Club and t...
The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board canceled its October meeting scheduled for Monday due to the weather and having a light agenda for this month, the chair said. Chair Judi Dritshulas said in an email to the other board members that the Clack Museum Christmas party will be held Saturday, Dec. 10, from 1 to 3 p.m., adding that the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has been notified. The Clack Foundation’s Annual Meeting will be Saturday, Oct. 22, starting at 6 p.m. at the Havre Inn and Suites in the Montana Room. Montana A...
Montana Actors’ Theatre is set to hold auditions for a musical take on a popular cult movie series: “The Evil Dead” Auditions begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Little Theatre on the bottom floor of the west end of Cowan Hall on the Montana State University-Northern campus. The MAT promotion for the auditions says that "Evil Dead: The Musical" — based on Sam Raimi’s films telling the story of five college students who unleash an evil force — may sound like a horror story, but it’s not. “The songs are hilariously...
With the school year about to start Wednesday, Aug. 31, Havre High School has some events set to help students get ready for the new year. Registration is set the week before school starts, and a freshman and new student orientation is slated for the morning of the first day. Fall registration for the 2016-2017 school year is: • Seniors, Monday, Aug. 22; • Juniors, Tuesday, Aug. 23; • Sophomores, Wednesday, Aug. 24, and • Freshmen, Thursday, Aug. 25. For all classes, registration will be from 7 to 11 a.m., closed during lunch...
An Amber Alert has been issued for Sandy Moore, a 16-year-old mentally delayed girl, who is believed to have been abducted from her Sheridan home overnight. She is 5 foot, 7 inches, weighs 116 pounds and wear glass. She is wearing a white shirt with black short leaves and jeans. The suspect is Rodney Lee Zahn, 5 feet, 5 inches, with short black hair. He is a registered violent offender. They may be headed to Boise, Idaho, or Billings. If anyone has any information, they should call the Madison County Sheriff’s Office at 4...
Havre Daily News staff Mary Nault's "Spreading My Wings" is the featured show this month at Artitudes Gallery in the Atrium Mall. Artitudes sponsored an artist's reception for Nault last Friday in the gallery. Nault said her first art show was in 1990, but she has been creating art since she was a child. "I was raised on a farm and was always getting in trouble for drawing. ... I was suppose to be doing chores," she said. Nault said she is always experimenting with different...
A Chinook native, Darcy Buhmann, 37, has been murdered, according to Bozeman police. Anthony Tobias Fagiano, 35, turned himself in early Wednesday morning, police told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Police said Bpzeman resident Christopher Wood told them that Fagiano had texted him at 5:23 a.m. to tell him that he had killed Fagiano. Wood immediately notified police. The Havre Daily News will have more on the story in Thursday’s edition....
Havre police are investigating several business burglaries which occurred in recent days. Thursday, Feb. 25, Taco Treat on 1st Street was entered and several items were taken. Last Friday, Rod’s Drive Inn and 5th Ave Grind on south 5th Avenue were entered and items were reported missing. Officers are looking for information on the entries. People can contact Crimestoppers at 265-4444 or the Havre Police Department at 265-4361 with any information....
Due to dry and windy conditions in the area, Blaine County Commissioners and Fort Belknap Fire Management are implementing a “burn ban” effective immediately. All burning associated with debris disposal or agricultural clearing is prohibited until further notice. The burn ban applies to all outdoor burning except recreational cooking fires. No burn permits will be issued until conditions improve. The public is reminded that even the smallest spark has the potential to cause significant damage: One Less Spark, One Less Wil...
