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St. Jude Thaddeus School announced Wednesday on its school Facebook page that it will be closed Thursday and Friday due to an outbreak of influenza at the school. St. Jude Thaddeus School Principal Mike Haugen said more than 30 percent of their students were absent Wednesday which is up from the 15 percent of students absent Monday. “Nothing like this has happened before,” he said. “Many phone calls were made and articles read to help make the decision.” Northern Montana Hospital Infection Preventionist Ginny Herberl...
Editor’s note: This corrects the spelling of Havre Area Chamber of Commerce board member Kasey Dietz. Executive Director Julea Robbins said the Chamber is continuing in the next year in its mission of helping Havre businesses. She said during the Chamber's 111th annual meeting and banquet in the Duck Inn Olympic Room Wednesday that it has three main goals in the next year, with the first to align the Chamber's projects to better-represent the interest of businesses. Robbins s...
From Montana Farm Bureau Federation Recognizing the high levels of stress affecting America’s farmers and ranchers, Farm Credit, American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union have partnered on a program to train people who interact with farmers and ranchers to recognize signs of stress and offer help. Based on the farm stress program Michigan State University Extension developed for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, the combination of online and in-person trainings is designed spe...
More than a year after starting to negotiate a replacement to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Congress has sent a new North American agreement to President Donald Trump. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement overwhelmingly passed the Senate this morning. The agreement, after nearly a year of negotiations, tweaks and revision, passed the House in December on a 385-41 vote. Montana’s Sens. Steve Daines, a Republican, and Jon Tester, a Democrat, both praised its passage, although Tester added that enforcement is c...
The 2020 president of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce said the speaker at the Chamber's 11th annual meeting and banquet Wednesday is a well-known voice in the area. "Agriculture is a key to our community, it's a staple in our economy and anyone who grew up listening to (KPQX radio) 92.5 like I did, it was like the unwritten rule on the farm that when Taylor Brown's voice came on, you knew it was time to stop talking," President Bethany Chinadle said. "It didn't matter if yo...
After an 18-month trade war and escalating tariffs, President Donald Trump Wednesday signed a trade agreement with China, the first phase of agreements he said will reform China’s policy and benefit U.S. trade. “From day one, my administration has fought tirelessly to achieve a level playing field for the American worker,” Trump is quoted in a release from the White House. But some are skeptical of the deal, with some economists saying it leaves in place tariffs, doesn’t address many issues and lacks export diversification. T...
With great sadness, we write Darlene Tonjum's ending story. She left us peacefully at the age of 73 January 3, 2020, in Great Falls after complications from a sudden illness. Our loving mother, sister, grandmother, and friend was surrounded throughout the week by all those who loved her. Darlene was born October 31, 1946, in Havre, MT, to Lloyd A. and Lois (Crites) Olson. She spent her childhood raised on the east end of Havre with her brother Terry Olson, late sister Rhonda...
A front-page story in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misreported that the Hill County sheriff position held by Jamieson Ross and the Senate seat held by Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, are up for election this year. Those elected seats are not on the ballot in this election....
Marlene Fay Bahr Teske, 68, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, surrounded by family. Services will be held Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, at 3 p.m. at the Van Orsdel United Methodist Church. A full obituary will be published at a later date....
Dennis Bymaster, 82, was called to heaven, surrounded by his loving family, January 13, 2020. Cremation has taken place and a Celebration of Life will be held at a later date....
William Robert Preeshl, 85, passed away January 14, 2020, at Northern Montana Hospital. A graveside service will be held Friday, January 17, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. at Kuper Memorial Cemetery in Chinook, MT....
Havre Police Department A Washington Avenue caller, Wednesday at 8:28 a.m., requested assistance. -- A caller with a service agency at 9:06 a.m. Wednesday requested a well-being check on someone on Fifth Street. -- Wednesday at 12:51 p.m., a vehicle was reported possibly stolen from a Washington Avenue caller. -- Someone stopped at the police station Wednesday at 4:51 p.m. to speak to an officer about a crime that had been committed. -- Steven Castillo of Havre, 30, was...
Hunters and anglers can expect a few changes this year when they buy their 2020 licenses starting March 1. The most visible change Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks customers will see is a change to license paper. Starting this year, both licenses and carcass tags will be printed on normal-sized paper, and license buyers will be able to print them at home. For years, FWP licenses and tags have been produced on weather-resistant paper. However, this paper is not only expensive, but requires printing technology so outdated that...
Press release 4-H members of the Bear Paw Beavers 4-H Club have been busy with community service projects. The club members' first project was to help a local family during the Christmas season. To help financially with the goal of buying presents for the family members and food for a Christmas dinner, a club leader saw a blurp in the Havre Daily News encouraging non-profit groups to apply for a Adopt-A-Family grant through the Town Pump Charitable Foundation. The 4-H club...
The other day my son Ben, here in Etzatlan to help me in recovery, showed me a video he and his daughter Lexi had enjoyed. The animated video by a German scientist with an unpronouncable name demonstrated characteristics and world migration of Argentine Ants. “Arrgh!,” I shouted. “I know those ants. Intimately. I’ve eaten some. Inadvertently. They are a kitchen plague. All of us here battle them continuously. Now I can name them. Imagine that.” Argentine Ants. These buggers a...
There's no doubt, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is hungry for a win. Especially after some bitter losses last week in Frontier Conference play. To get those wins back, however, the Lights will have to do it on the road. Tonight, Northern (1-3, 11-5) meets No. 12 Lewis-Clark State (3-1, 15-1) in Lewiston, Idaho, before MSU-N travels to Butte Saturday to face upstart Montana Tech (2-2, 10-5). And, while both opponents will be daunting for the...
If last week was rough for the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team, then things aren't going to get an easier this weekend. The No. 18 Skylights (2-2, 13-3), who lost their first two games of Frontier Conference play last weekend, will have to be road warriors tonight when they visit the No. 25 Lewis-Clark State Warriors, as well as Saturday when they travel to Montana Tech. And Northern head coach Chris Mouat knows just how daunting the trip will be....
It may be a week of bitter cold along the Hi-Line, but the Havre High wrestling team is looking to stay hot Friday and Saturday down in Missoula for the Jug Beck Rocky Mountain Classic against some of the elite talent in the northwest. The Jug Beck Rocky Mountain Classic has had a history of being one of the toughest, if not the toughest, wrestling tournaments in Montana. There is no holding back on the mat down in Missoula, where the competition is fierce and intense. It...
