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Hill County Board of Health will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today. People can join the meeting using their computer, tablet or smartphone by visiting https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/738069541 . They also can dial in using their phone at United States toll free, 1-866-899-4679 , or 1-571-317-3116 . The access code is 738-069-541 People who are new to GoToMeeting can get the app in advance and be ready when the meeting starts by visiting https://global.go...
As is the rest of the state and the country, this part of north-central Montana is trying to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic with a low number of kits available to test for the illness. “We have limited supplies and are doing our best to procure the necessary supplies to sustain testing,” Hill County Health Department Director Kim Larson said. Not everyone can get a test, she said. The decision to test has to come from a doctor. Larson said Northern Montana Health Care is foll...
Editor’s note: This corrects that the county clerk and recorders are the election administrators and ballots must be returned to the county clerk and recorder offices. As authorized by a directive from Gov. Steve Bullock intended to reduce the spread of novel coronavirus 2019 and the illness it causes, COVID-19, Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties all are holding all-mail elections for Montana’s primary elections scheduled for June 2. “This is about protecting Montanans’ right to vote at a time we face unprece...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 20. The number of tests completed was 5,320. The numbers by county were: Hill: 1 Liberty: 1 Blaine: 0 Chouteau: 0 Toole: 6 Gallatin: 85 Yelllowstone: 34 Flathead: 17 Missoula: 16 Lewis and Clark: 13 Silver Bow: 11 Cascade: 10 Madison: 6 Lincoln: 6 Park: 5 Deer Lodge: 3 Broadwater: 3 Lake: 3 Jefferson: 2 Carbon: 1 Ravalli: 1 Musselshell:1 Meagher:1 Roosevelt: 1 Visit the state tracking map online at http://bit.ly/MTCoronavirusMap...
Press release HELENA – The Montana attorney general is warning consumers to beware of frauds exploiting the outbreak of COVID-19 and the economic stimulus checks that will be distributed across the country. “Scammers are hard at work turning breaking news into ways to steal your money or personal information. While we know about several types of COVID-19 scams, these frauds are constantly evolving, and the best tool you have to protect yourself is your own good judgment,” Attorney General Tim Fox said. “Fraudsters are wor...
Montana State University Extension and North Dakota State University Extension hosted a free webinar Wednesday, an extra episode of their “Solid Finances” series, about recent legislation passed by congress to help those put under financial pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic. Joel Schumacher, an economics associate specialist at MSU Extension said the situation with the pandemic is still evolving and the CARES Act and recent stimulus bill will likely not be the last of the programs congress passes to provide economic rel...
Eric Dietrich Montana Free Press HELENA — Wednesday, four days after President Donald Trump signed the largest emergency spending measure in U.S. history, the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, Montana-based stimulus watchers were waiting with bated breath for details about how the Act will bring aid to bear on the state economy. While the CARES Act responds to the COVID-19 pandemic with funding allocations targeting wide swaths of society, ranging from individual Americans and small businesses t...
Havre Police Department A 14th Avenue caller reported Wednesday at 8:16 a.m. that an SUV had been sideswiped during the night. -- A 13th Street caller reported at 8:28 a.m. Wednesday that a white pickup had be hit by an Eclipse-type car. -- Albert Lee Goldsmith of Harlem, 51, was issued a summons on a theft charge, after an officer investigated suspicious activity on Second Street Wednesday at 12:34 p.m. Goldsmith was later issued a summons on a shoplifting charge after a call...
Walter Jerome Main of Hays, 82, passed away peacefully of natural causes in Billings Clinic March 31, 2020. A private family service will be held in Hays....
Now that I gained your attention, I confess, I have not a clue. Neither to survival nor to sanity. I’m fishing for answers. I figured if I cast out a line, I might hook you and you could tell me! Self-quarantine and social distance. You’d think they would be my old normal since that is pretty much my life during the summer months when my snow-bird neighbors return to the north-country. Yet I went through the same patterns of ups and downs as my friends reported. We found the...
Havre Daily News staff Bear Paw Veterinary Service has issued a list of procedures it is following, as an essential service exempted from shutdown during Gov. Steve Bullock’s stay-at-home directive, to practice safe social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. “As of March 28, 2020, we have adopted a strategy to provide the services and care that will help address this viral pandemic,” Dr. Paul McCann, DVM said in a statement listing the new procedures. “If there is confusion, please be patient and communicate with us...
Press release Chester-Joplin-Inverness elementary student Dylan Johnson was a winner in the Montana Farm Bureau Federation Montana Youth in Agriculture Literacy program drawing contest. Dylan was the second-grade winner in the "Montana Ag in Color" contest developed in recognition of National Ag Week, March 22-28, as a creative competition for elementary school children. Each grade was given a different agricultural theme ranging from "Grains of Montana" and "Cattle of...
The Havre High coaching tree is long and distinguished. But for now, one former Blue Pony with an impeccable girls basketball coaching record is stepping away. Former Pony Eric Peterson announced, via a Helena Public Schools press release earlier this week, that he is stepping down as the head girls basketball coach at Helena High. Peterson is a graduate of Havre High and Carroll College. In seven seasons in charge of the Helena girls basketball program, Peterson posted a reco...
With the exception of the first week of practice, the Havre Blue Pony tennis teams, like all other spring sports in Montana have been left in limbo. Thanks to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, there is a void in sports right now, but for the Havre High tennis teams, this weekend will especially feel empty. Friday and Saturday was scheduled for the Havre Invitational at the Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts, and the courts at MSU-Northern, which is one of biggest and most...
