News you can use
News you can use
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 29
The Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen is in dire need of a permanent director and is looking for someone in the community who can fill that role. The soup kitchen, created, and still supported by, local churches more than 30 years ago, provides meals to people who need them six days a week free of charge. “Seventy to 100 people get a meal every day who wouldn’t have one,” said Feed My Sheep Board Member Jody Hellegaard. Hellegaard said, while local churches still provide many of their volunteers, the kitchen is, in essence, an or...
Kitty Martin Wines, aka Vickey Broughton, age 62, of Chinook MT, passed away Dec 10, 2020 after diagnosed with COVID. Kitty was born May 13th, 1958, to Ruth Solomon and Gene Broughton in Long Beach, CA. In 1969, Ruth moved her four children to Havre MT to raise her family on the ranch that was left to Ruth and her brother Ted after their father passed. Being raised on the ranch south of Havre is where Kitty found her passion and love for horses and the outdoors. While still in...
As many of you readers are already aware, I am the very, very part-time chaplain at the Northern Montana Care Center, and have been since November of 2019. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 situation and continuing cases, I have been unable to to do services and visits in-person in the Care Center since Sept. 23, 2020 - two-and-a-half months! That has been really tough on the residents, and I haven't liked it much either. ... With no end in sight to the continuing COVID-19...
Long time ago, when we were kids "training" for Christmas show, we almost didn't have 'nuf kids to make the show a go! The church was small, 'bout 'leven kids, they all wanted a part. Teacher, Ms. Kay, assigned the roles; she had a caring heart. One gal, Mary, had her robe stuffed; actors were all pre-teens! Joseph would lead stick-horse donkey - now that was quite a scene! Came to an inn, asked for a room, innkeeper said, "Not here!" But pointed back behind the inn, "The...
ERROR...
Havre Daily News staff Havre Eagles Club Manager Tom Farnham said this morning that due to some issues with COVID-19, the North Central Senior Center will not be able to take calls to ask to have Christmas meals delivered in the Community Christmas Dinner held a the Eagles Club. Farnham said, instead of calling the senior center, people should call the Hill County Commission office at 400-2327 before 3 p.m. Thursday to request a meal delivery....
In a special board meeting Thursday, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees unanimously passed memorandums of agreement between the Havre Public School District and the Havre Education Association, Havre Public Paraprofessional Education Association and Teamster Local #2. The compensation is for work performed outside the duty day completed by staff to prepare for, respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the school district. The memorandums passed Thursday are...
The change of the elementary trimester brought many changes to parents’ choices to opt their children out of school or opt the students back into in-person learning. “I have just talked to parents and just asked them what are your family’s needs?” said Lincoln-McKinley Primary School Principal Holly Bitz. “We kind of work out a plan. Sometimes they have pre-existing health concerns or they’re uncertain of the health effects due to the ongoing pandemic or they’re just more com...
In a series of unanimous votes, the Hill County Commission approved a resolution to amend Hill County Health Department’s budget, the appointment of a special deputy county attorney and holding a public hearing on a road abandonment. The commission passed the resolution amending the health department’s budget to receive and disperse funds from a recent $20,000 Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant, which will be used to provide home visits and family support services to the people of Hill County. Last week the com...
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 75,992 with 522 new cases, 9,265 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 275. The number of deaths was 854. Blaine County reported Thursday evening 3 new cases, 584 total, 29 active, 3 active hospitalizations, 22 deaths Hill County reported Thursday evening 9 new cases, 1,532 total, 72 active, 2 active hospitalizations, 34 deaths Rocky Boy — reported Thursday evening, also reported on either Chouteau or Hill County num...
I try to stay positive, but there’s just a whole lot of nope in the paper this week, and I hate to say that it’s affecting me, but here we are and I’m starting things off with chicken feathers as food. Nope. In fact, I would describe that as a “hard nope with a full stop.” I know what you’re thinking: I faked that news for dramatic affect, something punchy to open my column with. Sadly, I must inform you of another hard nope on that, too. A few sources, including Reuters, re...
Joy Baye Corner, 76, passed away due to natural causes at her home in Havre December 12th, 2020. Cremation has taken place by Wilderness Funeral Home and family services at Highland Cemetery will be held at a later date. Joy was born in Oakland, CA, September 10th, 1944, to parents Fred and Olga Bennett. Joy had two older siblings, sister Penny Whitaker, brother Gary Bennett, and two younger sisters, Sara Rodgers and Bonnie Bennett. Joy attended school in Havre and married...
Charles “Charlie” E. Manuel, 87, passed away due to natural causes at his residence on Thursday, December 10, 2020. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, on the hill behind the cross on Highway 234, and a celebration of Charlie’s life will follow immediately after the graveside service in the Quonset hut just down the road....
Lois C. (Pattison) Kato, 90, passed away due to natural causes at the Care and Comfort Home Sunday, December 13, 2020. Cremation has taken place, and services will be held when it is safe to gather. Her family has suggested memorial donations be made in Lois’ memory to St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church or St. Jude Thaddeus School, PO Box 407, Havre, MT 59501, or to the charity of the donor’s choice....
Havre Police Department Someone stopped at the police station Thursday at 9:17 a.m. to report a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation for failing to sign up for the program. -- Stacie Leigh Small of Box Elder, 19, was arrested on charges of trespass to property, obstructing a peace officer or other public servant, resisting arrest and assault with bodily fluid and on a Justice or City court warrant after a caller on First Street Northeast reported a trespasser Thursday at 10:46 a.m....
Monday 1:30 a.m. — Building Manager Meeting Tuesday 9:30 a.m. — Opening of bid — Purchase and installation of control panel for Hill County Detention Center 10:30 a.m. — Hill County Road Department meeting Wednesday Regular scheduled business hours Thursday 10 a.m. — Commissioner business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Time for comments from the public Friday All county offices are closed in observation of Christmas Day...
From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is launching a new website intended to improve customer service, make it easier to use, and to provide a more mobile-friendly experience. “We’re excited to share this new website with the public,” said FWP director Martha Williams. “At FWP we know people look to us for many of their outdoor recreation opportunities. Getting out timely, accurate and useful information is important to them and to us. The new website will be critical in providing better...
Press release District 4 Human Resources Development Council will be closed from Thursday, Dec. 24, to Sunday, Jan. 3. For food emergencies during this closure, people can call Alma at 406-945-2403. For heating emergencies, people can call Anthony at 406-262-5183. For domestic abuse or sexual assault emergencies, please call the Crisis Line at 406-265-2222. District 4 HRDC will reopen to the public at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4...
From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks The season for taking swift fox in a portion of Trapping District 6 in northeastern Montana will close at midnight the evening of Saturday, Dec. 19. The district includes portions of Blaine, Hill, Phillips and Valley counties. For more information, visit FWP’s website at http://fwp.mt.gov, click on “Hunting” then choose “Drawing & Quota Status,” or call the toll-free number at 1-800-385-7826....
Havre Daily News staff The Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line will be closed Monday through Jan. 4, but that doesn’t mean club members have to miss their club meals. Free curbside to-go meals for members are available for pick-up at 500 First Ave., Monday through Wednesday both weeks. The Wednesday meal packages will also include meals for Thursday and Friday of that week....
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University Extension will host a series of discussions in 2021 on its MontGuide fact sheets about estates and legacy planning. MontGuide Mondays will run 10 to 11 a.m. each Monday in January and February via Webex. Sessions will be hosted by Marsha Goetting, MSU Extension family economics specialist, and also feature several Extension agents from across the state. Goetting said the sessions will run like a book club, where participants will read a MontGuide and take part in a v...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — As part of its ongoing efforts to support families and educators during the COVID-19 pandemic, MontanaPBS will continue in 2021 to offer its Learn at Home broadcast curriculum of educational programming and corresponding free digital resources. The new Learn at Home schedule begins Jan. 4 and will continue through the end of the school year on June 4. Through Learn at Home, MontanaPBS is dedicating its daytime weekday schedule to educational programming provided by MontanaPBS and the Montana O...
The Frontier Conference was already supposed to have played 20 games around the league before Christmas break. Because of the coronavirus, however, the league has played just two men's and four women's games to this point. Yes, it's not just NCAA programs at massive campuses and in metropolitan areas that are having trouble playing games right now. It's everybody, right down to NAIA schools in Montana. Of course, the effects of COVID-19 have been felt at Montana State Universi...
Wednesday was national signing day for football players and college teams across the country. And while Montana State University-Northern head football coach Andrew Rolin said he’ll add a full recruiting class for the fall of 2021, Thursday, he announced five players who have already signed on to be Lights. That list includes Florence-Carlton quarterback Colby Kohlman (6-1, 195). Kohlman is a left-hander who was Class B All-State at both QB and safety. “Very athletic with a g...
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team picked up their first win of the 2020-21 season last weekend in Kalispell. Now Havre is hoping to build some momentum at home. Havre will close out the 2020 portion of its season this weekend against the Miles City General inside the Havre Ice Dome. The Ice Hawks play the Generals tonight and Saturday morning. Havre is coming off two thrilling games against Flathead last week. The Ice Hawks lost 6-5 to the Fusion last Saturday...
