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The Hill County Commission during its business meeting Thursday set a date for a public hearing on a proposed zoning change for a new location for selling agricultural chemicals. The commission set a hearing for 9 a.m. July 13 in the Commission Office in the Hill County Courthouse about Mountain View Co-op’s request to change some land just east of Havre and south of U.S. Highway 2 from agricultural to commercial zoning. Commissioner Mark Peterson said representatives of the company told the commission they want to erect a n...
The local ham radio club is inviting people to come watch — and use — amateur radios and take the opportunity to hunt for an electronic fox. Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the American Radio Relay League — ARRL — Field Day Saturday from noon to Sunday at US Bank Park on 11th Street west across from Montana State University-Northern’s Tilleman Field, club member Heather Hinckley said. Throughout the event, the club will be holding fox hunts, she added. “It’s called fox hunting, but it’s really hunting...
Car enthusiasts had a chance for a thrill Tuesday at Havre's Subway, when the drivers of 16 Model T's stopped for lunch during their trip in the 2023 Montana 500. The event takes minimally modified Model T's on a 500-mile race on Montana's roads. Dan Lukowski of Kansas City, Missouri, said he ran his 1926 Model T Roadster, which he calls The Rattle Can, when he first bought it in 2013. He hadn't run it since, but thought he would on the 10th anniversary, for the special...
The Daughters of the American Revolution have paid tribute to the community and its members who have spent decades paying tribute to 13 U.S. airmen who died as the result of a crash during a training exercise Nov. 30, 1992, over the town where the memorial was created. DAR presented the committee and the community its Excellence in Historic Preservation Medal for the Harlem Airmen's Memorial. Two U.S. Air Force cargo planes conducting nighttime training exercises at 25,000...
The members of the community of Harlem who have been paying tribute for more than 30 years to 13 airmen who died in a training were commemorated recently by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Harlem Airmen Memorial Committee created a memorial at Harlem's Centennial Park to the airmen who died Nov. 30, 1992, and recently dedicated a bridge in their honor at the park as well. Daughters of the American Revolution presented the committee, and the community, its...
Havre's hospital is in the process of converting into a critical access facility. Northern Montana Vice President of Regulatory and Community Services Christen Obresley said the change, which the hospital hopes to have in place by July 1, should be essentially invisible to its patients and members of the community. "The patients won't notice anything," she said Thursday. Obresley said the change is more in accounting, how information is reported to Medicare and Medicaid and...
Harlem Mayor and former state Sen. Ken "Kim" Hansen died of natural causes Saturday at age 71. Harlem City Clerk Becky Schroeder said City Council President Chris Green is serving as mayor, with a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to decide whether he, or another council member, will finish out Hansen's term, which lasts until 2025. Hansen, who operated a farm near Harlem before moving to town, was born in 1951 and graduated from Harlem High School in 1971. He attended...
Evening summertime music is back in Havre starting Wednesday with the first Sounds on the Square scheduled to start at Havre’s Town Square at 6 p.m. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has been organizing free music at the square pretty much since it was created two decades ago. “Pack up that picnic basket and dine al fresco with friends, neighbors and family at the square all while enjoying the rhythm of the music from old favorites, country and rock,” a post from the Chamber says. “Large crowds enjoy the variety music p...
While a patch of dry conditions is still centered on Hill, Blaine and northern Chouteau counties and a patch of drought in northwestern Montana is pushing into the western edge of Liberty County, significant winter snowfall and recent rains have been helping lighten the Montana drought map in this area. After years of dry weather pushed the area into significant moisture deficits — the region was more than 11 inches short of normal over a five-year period last fall — snowfall and recent rains have driven parts of this are...
National Weather Service has a flood watch in effect for the end of this week as a storm is expected to bring widespread rain and potential downpours during thunderstorms. “Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams and other low-lying and flood-prone locations,” the flood watch says. “Area creeks and streams are running high and could flood with more heavy rain.” The watch is in effect for Thursday afternoon through Friday night and covers much of north-central Montana, including Blaine, Choueau...
A major storm dropped a major amount of rain in this part of the state, shutting down some of the events planned for a jam-packed weekend but not even slowing down others, as much-needed 1 inch to 2 inches of precipitation fell from east of Shelby to Harlem and down to Great Falls. "This rainfall was a really beneficial rain to recharge the subsurface moisture," National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Brusda of Great Falls said this monring. " ... This siginificantly...
Editor’s note: This version corrects who Kelly Brough faces in the runoff election for mayor of Denver. A Havre High School graduate is facing off Tuesday in the runoff election to be mayor of the 19th-largest city of the nation. Kelly (Broere) Brough is facing Micheal Johnston Tuesday in nonpartisan runoff election for mayor of Denver. The two received the most votes in a crowded election April 4, with 22 candidates, but neither received a majority of the votes, leading to T...
Havre's Salvation Army will be out visiting first responders Friday in an old tradition, Director Trina Crawford said, taking them donuts on Donut Day. The Salvation Army website reports that the first-ever National Donut Day was celebrated in 1938 in Chicago, a tribute to the women who brought supplies to the troops in Word War I. The Salvation Army's Donut Lassies were sent to France in 1917 to establish field bases near the front lines, the site says. "In makeshift huts,...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the event in the headline. The Hi-Line Cruz’n Association is once again expecting to bring people and their classic vehicles from around the state, around the country and across the border to Havre with its 35th Annual Bear Paw Rod Run and Show ’n’ Shine set for Friday and Saturday next week, June 9-10. All events are at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The theme this year is “The Roaring Twenties.” Cruz’n Association media representative Craig Otterstrom said the event brings p...
Blaine County Health Department Wednesday reported two more COVID-19-related deaths. The county had a surge in COVID-19-reported cases in the past few months, and also reported another COVID-19-related death May 11. The deaths bring Blaine County’s total COVID-19-related deaths since the emergency was declared in March 2020 to 37. Hill County Health Department reports it was made aware of the latest COVID-19-related death in the county May 17. Wednesday’s release said no new cases were confirmed from May 13 to May 24, and...
Gov. Greg Gianforte declared a disaster Wednesday due to flooding, opening up assistance from the state and the possibility of a federal disaster declaration. “Runoff from recent rainfall and snowmelt has compromised critical infrastructure and roads in Montana,” Gianforte said in a press release. “This order will help impacted communities rebuild and get back on their feet.” Following heavy snow this winter through March — including a likely new record for December snowfall in Havre — and temperatures staying relatively...
National Weather Service is warning that smoke from Canadian wildfires is likely to be in this region today and Thursday, although it is expected to clear up some by Friday. Hill County Health Department has announced that, with the assistance and collaboration of Montana Department of Environmental Quality and Montana State University-Northern, it now has a permanent air quality monitor people can use to check the conditions in this area. The monitor is available online at...
The Montana Senior Medicare Patrol is warning people that calls are circulating targeting older Montanans with the callers claiming to represent Medicare. “Medicare will never call people on Medicare to ask for or check their Medicare number,” Renee Labrie-Shanks, statewide Senior Medicare Patrol program director at Missoula Aging Services, said in a press release. “As with any unsolicited call, do not give personal information over the phone, whether it’s your Medicare number, Social Security number, bank account informa...
The addition of a new building to house administrative services at Rocky Boy Health Center will allow expanded services including improved medical and mental health services, a press release said. The center on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is receiving $11.3 million in funding through the federal New Markets Tax Credit Program, freeing up space in the existing facility to allow improved access to high-quality and efficient medical, mental health and substance abuse services. “With the addition of the new Health Adm...
Blaine County Health Department reported Thursday it was notified of a COVID-19-related death, taking the county’s total deaths related to the disease to 35. The death is reported just weeks after the department reported a surge in newly reported cases in the county, with 58 new cases reported from April 19 through April 25. The latest report listing the death said the health department was notified of one new case of COVID-19 from April 9 through April 12, with no recoveries. It listed two active cases. The last Hill C...
This week has brought cooler temperatures, after temperatures hit the 80s in this area last week, along with some much-needed rain, but the expectations are for above-normal highs to return next week. Highs have hit mostly the 60s and low 70s - Havre saw a high of 56 Saturday and 70 Wednesday - from Saturday on through this week, with the normal highs for this time of year about 65. At least a trace of rain has fallen in the area Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with...
Law enforcement officers came into Havre Wednesday carrying the torch on their leg of the Montana Special Olympics Torch Run. The run was set to start again this morning, taking the torch, the journey of which started in Wolf Point, south on U.S. Highway 87 toward its final destination at the opening ceremonies of the 2023 State Summer Games in Bozeman May 17. A release from Special Olympics Montana said the relay has 10 starting points around the state with hundreds of...
Montana State University-Northern’s graduation is this Saturday in Northern’s Armory Gymnasium, with local teacher and thespian Jay Pyette set as the commencement speaker. A release from Northern said the doors will open at 9 a.m. and the processional will begin at 10 a.m., with a reception to follow in the library entryway. No seats will be reserved for individuals. A section of lower bleacher seats will be reserved for the handicapped. Handicapped parking spaces are limited. It is suggested people arrive early and use the n...
A COVID-19 outbreak in Blaine County is under investigation, Blaine County Health Department said in a release. The release said public health mitigation steps are in place and public health is responding to the outbreak. The department reported being notified of eight new cases April 19, 14 new cases April 20, 20 new cases April 21-24 and 16 new cases from April 25 to Monday. Kim Berg, chief health officer at Hill County Health Department, said this morning that her department had right around 25 positives reported in...
The International St. Mary and Milk Rivers Study Board will be holding a public town hall meeting May 2, a press release from the International Joint Commission said, adding that all are welcome to attend. The board, launched in November 2021, is looking at water shared between the United States and Canada in a 1921 agreement regulating the sharing of water from the St. Mary and Milk rivers. The study board was created to explore "options to improve access to apportioned...
