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The U.S. Senate has approved naming the the local Veterans Affairs clinic in honor of the man instrumental in opening the clinic The Senate Thursday approved renming the Havre clinic the Merril Lundman Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic. A similar measure already had been approved by the House of Representatives, and the proposal is now in the desk of President Barack Obama for his signature. Sen. Max Baucus was a co-sponsor of the bill, proposed by Montana's Sen. Jon Tester. "This is great news," said Baucus,...
While Montana State University- Northern again has seen a significant drop in the number of students enrolled from fall to spring semester, Chancellor Frank Trocki said this morning that doesn't tell the whole story. "We have increased the number of new students coming in," Trocki said, adding that the increase in new students is for both new first-time students as well as students transferring from other institutions. Northern saw a drop in actual bodies from 1,272 people last fall to 1,181 this spring. While the drop in...
Montana State University President Waded Cruzado told community members Wednesday that she wants MSU's units to work together to provide the best education possible to the most people it can. "In the end, I want the students that we have to be not only great professionals, we want them to be productive citizens," she said. "All of that is part of what we do, part of what we accomplish in the university setting, and the more people have access to that the better society will be." Cruzado spoke in a forum during her third day...
Gov. Brian Schweitzer will not make a decision on which council is the official body leading the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, his communications director announced Tuesday. "The Governor's Office believes that the Little Shell, as a sovereign Tribe, can and must resolve its internal differences without interference from state government," Sarah Elliott said. "We encourage internal resolution of these issues, and look forward to continuing our government-to-government relationship with a unified Little Shell...
A goose flying into a power line caused a 35-minute power outage in the Havre area Tuesday. Claudia Rapkoch of NorthWestern Energy said this morning that a goose flying into one of the lines supplying electricity to the area caused the line to trip, taking out power for all of Havre and surrounding areas. Rapkoch said two lines normally provide power to the area, providing a safety line in case one goes out. Tuesday one was turned off while work was done by the Western Area Power Administration near the other line, she said....
Havre's local university is in its second day of a conference of instructors from the Pacific Northwest who teach in a field where Montana State University-Northern has some experience — diesel technology. "(It's going) fantastic, so far," Greg Kegel, dean of Northern's College of Technical Sciences said Thursday. Northern is hosting the two-day No r thwe s t Di e s e l Ins t r u c to r s Conference, a gathering of instructors primarily from two-year colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Last year Kegel, who was a presenter a...
Something caused the power to black out in all of Havre for a short time Tuesday morning, and the power company still is looking for the cause. Claudia Rapkoch of NorthWestern Energy said something took power to the entire community out. The outage went out about 10:45 a.m. Power had been restored to most of the community, although a few houses in North Havre still were without, by about 11:10 a.m. Rapkoch said crews were still patrolling the area early Tuesday afternoon trying to find the cause, All available NorthWestern...
A long-standing program that was temporarily stopped at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation due to a lack of funds is back on track. The Fort Belknap diabetes prevention program was awarded funding this year and began operations again this month, after a nearly five-month hiatus when it ended in October. Carol Strasheim of the Indian Health Service office in Billings said a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service was awarded in January, which will be paid to Fort Belknap on a cost-reimbur...
While water levels have hit their highest mark in Beaver Creek in at least 10 years, if not more, the worst seems to be over, and the water levels seem to be dropping. Hill County Commission Chair Mike Wendland said this morning that the level of water coming into Beaver Creek Reservoir south of Havre finally seems to be going down. "So, we're hoping we're past the crest," he said. La t e snowstorms in the B e a r 's Paw Mountains followed by the recent warm we a t h e r has raised the level of Beaver Creek, inundating...
The Hill County Commission is weighing in on a growing problem in the state, considering implementing a moratorium on new medical marijuana growing operations in the county until it can work out a way to regulate the industry. "We have to figure out what we want," Kristin Hansen, chief deputy Hill County attorney told the commission Wednesday, suggesting that the regulation of the drug could come through the county health board. Commissioner Kathy Bessette said issuing a moratorium would send a message that the industry will...
Specialists at an economic outlook seminar in Havre Wednesday said the economy seems to be turning around, but people shouldn't expect a boom in growth any time soon. "The recovery is going to be difficult this time," Patrick Barkey, director of the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said during the Outlook 2010 seminar. Barkey said the nature and depth of the recession — two-thirds of the world's nations were in recession, the most since 1930 — will hinder the recovery. The fact that a lar...
Increasing water levels continue to cause problems in the area, with the Hill County Commission asking people to stay out of Beaver Creek Park until the water recedes. Flooding in low areas near Havre was also reported, and rising levels are causing increasing concerns in Blaine County. "The entire park continues to flood, and we are asking people to stay away from the campgrounds — we actually escorted some people out last night," Hill County Commissioner Mike Anderson said this morning about Beaver Creek Park. "We are a...
A tractor-trailer rollover north of Havre Saturday left a Havre woman dead and a Havre man treated for minor injuries, the Montana Highway Patrol reports. Monica Badgley Campbell, 40, a passenger in the truck, was pronounced dead on the scene of the crash at 4:30 p.m. after she was extracted from the wrecked vehicle. Alan Jeorge Campbell, 42, was treated for minor injuries caused during the crash, the Highway Patrol report says. The crash occurred about 1:20 p.m. when Alan Campbell began to steer the 1996 Peterbilt he was...
The Hill County Commission is putting out a request for engineers to look at what could be a problem with a major sewer line, and see what, if anything, needs to be done with the situation. Commissioner Kathy Bessette said Wednesday that a line that runs from North Havre to the Havre Wastewater Treatment Plant under the Milk River has become exposed. "We're just afraid that, in the early spring, runoff and ice jams will damage the pipe itself … ," she said. "We want to do a study to see if we're right." The pipe was put in pl...
The Hill County Commission has scheduled a meeting Tuesday morning to talk about an issue confronting local governments throughout the state: how to handle a flood of users and providers of medical marijuana. Montana voters approved an initiative in 2004 allowing marijuana to be used to alleviate conditions such as chronic pain or nausea if prescribed by a physician. The law lists conditions— such as cancer, glaucoma, human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, severe or chronic pain, severe nausea, s...
The Hill County Commission is working to find out whether it can use a grant already awarded to pay for work on a dam south of Havre after two different government agencies have set different lists of work. The commissioners at a meeting Thursday directed Annmarie Robinson of Bear Paw Development Corp. to talk to representat ives of the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and set a conference to discuss whether the county can use part of a $100,000 grant from DNRC to pay its share of work being planned by t...
Montana State University officials say they are not terribly concerned about the option of closing Havre's university being listed as a way the state could save money in future budget cycles. But they say they are prepared to show the Legislature why that should not happen. The option was one listed in more than a hundred pages of reports written by the Legislative Fiscal Division detailing possible money-saving options. Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Frank Trocki said he has been hearing about concerns...
With recent rain and snow, the amount of water in the Milk River has led the federal Bureau of Reclamation to cut back on its release of water into the river. "Recent precipitation across the (Milk River) Basin has significantly changed water release forecasts from a few weeks ago," Mike LaFrentz, field manager of the Marias/Milk Rivers Division located in Chester, said in a press release. "The snow and rain will contribute towards a better water year for all Milk River project beneficiaries." As of this morning, the BOR...
Several Havre-area residents were among people making comments Thursday night to the commission tasked with adjusting the legislative districts in Montana, including some rather pointed comments about the last redistricting done to reflect the 2000 Census. "Senate District 16 is an abomination," said Richard Cronk, chair of the Blaine County Republican Central Committee. The meeting of the Districting and Apportionment Commission in Helena included Havre and Great Falls, which were linked via a videoconferencing system. The...
Despite nearly nonstop work for almost three weeks to alleviate flood damage at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, providing safe drinking water remains a concern. "We're hoping people won't drink their water without boiling it for at least three minutes," Neal Rosette, Rocky Boy's public information officer, said this morning. After a mid-June rainstorm dropped five inches of water in two days, substantial flooding at the reservation wiped out water supplies to hundreds of homes, destroyed roads, bridges and culverts, and damag...
A new mural is showcasing a paleontological display at a local museum, although how the mural was put up led to some friction between members of its board and its funding foundation at a meeting Tuesday. "I guess we had a communication breakdown," Mike Wendland, chair of the Hill County Commission said, during a meeting with the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Board. The question was whether foundation members working on the project were covered by the county's insurance. There were also concerns about...
Despite nearly nonstop work for almost three weeks to alleviate flood damage at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, providing safe drinking water remains a concern. "We're hoping people won't drink their water without boiling it for at least three minutes," Neal Rosette, Rocky Boy's public information officer, said this morning. After a mid-June rainstorm dropped five inches of water in two days, substantial flooding at the reservation wiped out water supplies to hundreds of homes, destroyed roads, bridges and culverts, and damag...
A candidate for second-incommand at Havre's university said her management style is hands-on and team-oriented. Ro s a l y n A n s t i n e Templeton said using a trialand- error style of implementing changes, without talking to people first, tends to lead to problems in the middle of the process. "Then you're taking 16 steps back to start over. You only do that one or two times before you figure out you have to start your conversations with the faculty and staff," she said during a public forum at Montana State University- No...
The Havre City Council Monday put a six-month ban on new medical marijuana growing operations in the city, and on expansion of existing operations. The ordinance grandfathers in existing operations to continue to operate at their current size. The emergency interim zoning ordinance also requires the owners of all existing grow operations, defined by state law as caregivers, to certify with the city the number of marijuana plants in their possession and the number of patients registered with the caregiver. Montana voters, in...
The amount of money reported received and spent in local primary elections has been all over the map. Some candidates are reporting they received or spent no money. But in the hotly contested race for Hill County attorney, nearly $22,000 has been raised by the three candidates — much from their own pockets — and more than $20,000 has been spent. The reporting seems to have caused some confusion, with some candidates filing their reports only with the state Commissioner of Political Practices office in Helena, although the...
