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  • For the Record, Jan. 14, 2020

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Havre Police Department A Havre area caller reported Monday at 10:55 a.m. finding a debit card. -- A counterfeit $20 bill was reported by a caller at a First Street West establishment at 12:18 p.m. Monday. -- A caller at 13th Avenue and Third Street at 5:49 a.m. today reported that a one-way sign had been knocked over and a license plate was on the ground. Hill County Sheriff's Office The Hill County Sheriff's Office dispatch log showed no investigations, arrests made or...

  • County moves forward on plan for Milk River Levee

    Rachel Jamieson|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Work to bring the Havre-Milk River Levee back to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specifications is continuing, with Hill County holding a conference call Monday to discuss the progress and what is next. “Basically we are trying to figure out if we are going to proceed with the fixing of the levee and what we need to do to be able to proceed, so we needed to identify where we needed to get funding to fix the levee,” Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said this morning. “That is approximately $2.4 million today. That may i...

  • Northern moves closer to football stadium goal

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Three new donations are bringing Montana State University-Northern closer to the goal line in it’s project to build a football stadium to house Northern’s Lights. The MSU-Northern Alumni Foundation announced Monday that Russell and Jennifer Keller, John and Sarah Eisenbarth and D.A. Davidson have brought the fundraising for the project to nearly $2.6 million, leaving $450,000 to raise by spring to begin construction. “This project has never just been about football, but about creating long-term positive impacts for the univer...

  • Cold weather, snow sock in this week

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Snow that kept falling and melting at lower elevations in this part of The Golden Triangle built up in the Bear Paw Mountains, allowing Bear Paw Ski Bowl to open for its 59th season, and weather generally cooperated. Relatively mild winter temperatures and snow flurries greeted people out to hit the slopes, but things have turned colder and snowier since. Temperatures dropped steadily Sunday, as did light snow, with the low at the Havre recording station near the Havre...

  • Mental health council continues to seek more participants

    Rachel Jamieson|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Hill County Behavioral Health Local Advisory Council — formerly called the Mental Health Local Advisory Council — discussed how to be a voice for awareness, increase membership of consumers — people who utilize services — in the council including in outlying areas, and making presentations to organizations during its monthly meeting Monday. “The purpose of the LAC is to assist in the improvement of behavioral health services in Hill County and to review and make recommendations about behavioral health services, as well as p...

  • Obituary - Alice Louise Andersen

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Alice Louise Andersen of Havre, Montana, was born April 19, 1932. She passed into the presence of her Lord January 1, 2020, at 7:15 a.m. at the Northern Montana Care Center where she had resided since the first week of September 2019. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Isa Marie Andersen and Arnold Christian (Chris) Andersen, growing up on the family farm in the Andes area near Sidney, Montana. When she reached high school age, she moved to Sidney to attend Sidney...

  • Correction - College Park Plaza fire

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    A story on Page A1 of Monday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about a fire that burned part of College Park Plaza left out some information about the building. The original building that opened in 1926 as Deaconess Hospital had been demolished, and the building known as College Park Plaza was the addition erected in the 1950s....

  • Agenda - Hill County Commission weekly business meeting

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    The agenda for the Hill County Commission weekly business meeting Thursday at 10 a.m. is: Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Claims Employment Tax adjustments Resolutions Contracts RSID #22 certificate of completion Board appointments Notice of public hearing for county offices Policy updates County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Lotton Minor Subdivision Platt Reinowski Subdivision Platt County needs Milk River Levee EAP grant application...

  • Havre gives pointers on water line freeze-up and water main breaks

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Press release Havre Public Works Department is advising Havre residents that several reported instances of water service lines freezing during the cold weather are made every winter In an effort to prevent the costly and sometimes futile expense to the homeowner attempting to thaw the frozen service line, the city of Havre Water Department made the following suggestions. Even though a small additional cost to the homeowner may be involved, it is worthwhile to leave a small — pencil sized — stream of water from an open faucet...

  • Montana Land and Mineral Owner Association meeting in Havre

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Press release Montana Land and Minerals Owner Association will meet at the Hill County Electric Hospitality Room at 2121 U.S. Highway 2 West Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. The public is welcome to attend....

  • Havre speech wins at Great Falls invitational

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Press release Havre High School speech and debate excelled at the Great Falls Central High School New Year's Invitational, with students bringing home two first-place medals and a team trophy. "This was a great showing," head coach Tim Leeds said. "We seem to be building and peaking at just the right time, going into divisionals and state." Havre took 13 competitors to the meet to face competition from host Great Falls Central and four AA schools, Great Falls High and CM...

  • North Star speech and drama shines in Great Falls

    Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Press release The North Star Speech and Drama team from North Star High School in Rudyard traveled to Great Falls Saturday to compete against 19 teams, including AA schools. The Knights fared well against the competition, with Garret Pedersen taking eighth in humorous oral interpretation of literature, Aubrey Welch taking sixth in spontaneous oral interpretation of liturature, and Choral Wicks and Kaden Frickel placing third in dramatic theatre. North Star as a team took third in the drama sweepstakes competition. Next...

  • Frontier Notebook: Huge weekend puts the Fighting Saints out in front

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    There was a lot to be excited about with Frontier Conference play returning last week. But now that the dust has settled on the first week in January, the teams that have the most to be excited about are certainly the Carroll College Fighting Saints. Carroll resumed league play with men's' and women's sweeps of MSU-Northern and Providence last week. For the Carroll men, it was a gauntlet because, first, the Saints had to go into the Armory Gymnasium and beat the Lights, which...

  • Hi-Line Boys BB: Wildcats stun the Beeters; Longhorns cruise

    Aarron Thompson|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    It has been another exciting weekend for Hi-Line boys basketball, with many district rivalries and out-of-conference matchups among the fun games. On top of that, there were three days in-a-row where games took place for the Hi-Line, starting Thursday. Thursday saw three games, with the first being between two Hi-Line teams looking to keep their season strong. The Harlem Wildcats and the Chinook Sugarbeeters fought a close bout, with the Wildcats just scraping away with the...

  • Havre hockey not just for the boys

    Aarron Thompson|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    Hockey has become a sport that many in Havre have enjoyed over the years, especially considering the different teams that youths can play as they grow up. From bantam hockey to high school hockey, there are many opportunities to participate on the ice. And there are two high school hockey teams, including the girls team, the Havre Lady Ice Hawks, who are competing in the 19U. On top of that, the Lady Ice Hawks have put on quite the show this season, with only one loss, to the...

  • Hi-Line Girls BB: Turner, Harlem girls stay on the rise

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 14, 2020

    The 2020 portion of the high school basketball season will reach the halfway point at the end of this week. But looking back on last weekend, it was another big one for high school girls basketball on the Hi-Line. It's certainly been an exciting seasons so far for the Harlem Wildcats, who started the week with a 69-15 crushing of Chinook last Thursday night. Harlem jumped to a 22-4 lead and never looked back as L'Tia Lawrence scored 20 points, Taya Trottier added 18 and...

  • Hi-Line Sports Schedule

    Updated Jan 13, 2020

    THURSDAY High School Basketball Fort Benton girls vs CJI Fort Benton boys vs CJI College Basketball Skylights at LC State, 6:30 p.m. Lights at LC State, 8:30 p.m. FRIDAY High School Basketball Havre boys vs Browning, 6 p.m. Havre girls at Browning, 6 p.m. Big Sandy girls vs Turner Big Sandy boys vs Turner North Star girls vs Chinook North Star boys vs Chinook Box Elder girls vs Harlem Box Elder boys Harlem HLP girls vs R-Winifred HLP boys vs R-Winifred Rocky Boy girls at...