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Editor’s note: This version corrects some misreporting of comments by Hill County Clerk and Recorder Sue Armstrong that was introduced due to mistakes in editing by the editor. Tuesday, Senate Bill 162, a bill which would allow verifying and counting absentee and mail-in ballots earlier, unanimously passed out of the Montana House State Administration Committee. “I think that it is a great step in the right direction,” sponsor Sen. Roger Webb, R-Billings, said Tuesday after the vote. “… I think it will run smoother next elec...
Editor’s note: This corrects the amount of prize money in the chili contest. Friends and family of a woman severely injured in a February car rollover are challenging people to "Bring the Heat" Sunday to a medical benefit to help her pay expenses for her medical care and rehabilitation. Friends of Havre businesswoman Makenna Cody said she is back in Havre, recovering and undergoing therapy but still has a long way to go for full recovery. She suffered severe head injuries f...
Three months after moving back to the Hi-Line, Cass and Kent Pattison said they are ready to serve the community. Cass Pattison earned her veterinary doctorate from Washington State University, and the couple is opening Pattison Veterinary Mobile Clinic while also farming on their family’s land. “We are here to serve you and offer our services,” Kent Pattison said, adding, “I grew up in Havre and it is really, from my experience, a good community. There have been a lot of...
The Havre Police Protective Association annual concert is coming up April 11 at Montana State University-Northern’s Armory Gymnasium featuring Little Texas with comedian Mark Cordes opening the show. Little Texas is a country music band that was started in 1988 and has performed all over the country. Their bass player, Duane Propes said the band likes to support organizations like the Police Protective Association. “Little Texas is so very proud of the people who put themselves in harm’s way every day to keep us safe and we s...
Havre Daily News staff Montana Highway Patrol reported Tuesday that Trooper Wade Palmer, hospitalized after receiving multiple gunshot wounds March 15, has regained consciousness and that his condition has been upgraded from critical to stable condition. "We are immensely grateful for Trooper Palmer's progress," Col. Tom Butler, chief of the Montana Highway Patrol, said in a release issued this afternoon. "We remain hopeful as we see Wade continue to heal and make positive...
Friends and family of Dianna Longknife Main, 61, a member of the Assiniboine, or Nakoda, Tribe of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation have set up some fundraisers to help cover costs while she recovers from a liver transplant. Lorraine Pester, her cousin, said Main had been waiting for a transplant for non-alcohol related liver disease at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and then was transferred to the list at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. With her overall condition quickly...
The Havre Daily News is putting a call out for photos and information for a special section on graduation this spring. Graduating seniors are asked to email their photos and name and school to [email protected]. Photos and information must be received by Friday, April 12, to be included in the Graduation 2019 Edition. Emailed photos and information is preferred. Schools also are asked to send the information about their graduating class to the above email. Schools are asked to include: 1. School Name 2. Class...
Havre Police Department A Tuesday 10:41 a.m. report of blood in a hotel room was referred to another agency. -- A 15-year-old was issued a summons on charges of possession of both drug paraphernalia and dangerous drugs after a Seventh Avenue caller reported three juveniles were smoking something in a backpack Tuesday at 7:16 p.m. -- Someone at Sunnyside School reported Tuesday at 8:27 p.m. that occupants of a van were taking pictures of kids at the school. -- A caller on the...
Due to an editing error, the amount of a flat tax proposed on opioid importers/distributers in a bill in the Legislature was misprinted in a letter from state Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, that was printed on the Opinion Page of Tuesday’s Havre Daily News. Tempel said the amount of the flat tax was $5 million.... Full story
An article printed on Page A1 in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about the Hill County Park Board meeting Monday misreported that Havre Girl Scouts were considering moving their summer camp to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The alternate location is in the Little Rocky Mountains near Zortman.... Full story
From the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester The Montana Family Planning Program will receive nearly $2 million in federal grant money, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced, enabling the program to provide affordable reproductive health care to thousands of low-income Montanans. The grant, worth $1.9 million, is administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and will help provide family planning and reproductive health services to women across Montana. “This funding will help provide Montana women and f...
From the office of Sen. Jon Tester Community health centers in Montana including Havre’s Bullhook Community Health Center got a big boost today, thanks to U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. As part of his ongoing mission to deliver affordable health care to all Montanans, Tester delivered grants worth more than $9 million to six different health care facilities that serve the Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy’s Indian reservations as well as Native Americans living in urban areas. The grants will benefit Bighorn Val...
The 2019 Montana State University-Northern Hall of Fame Class will feature a Skylight basketball player who made a big, big splash in her days at Northern, and a Northern wrestler who came to MSU-N from just up the Hi-Line. The Northern Alumni Foundation recently announced that former Skylight All-American basketball player Stacie (Little) Barker and Northern wrestling All-American Mitch Overlie will be inducted into the Northern Hall of Fame later this spring. Overlie was bor...
If the Montana State University-Northern football team is going to start winning games consistently, it will be in large part because of the growth and development of players like Justin Pfeifer. Pfeifer, a product from Cut Bank, was actually recruited to MSU-Northern by former head coach Aaron Christensen. However, as a redshirt freshman, it didn't take long for the stout defensive lineman to endear himself to the new coaching staff and when the 2018 season rolled around, he...
Mark Twain is credited with saying, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” And so it is with SB 331, which is winding its way through the legislature. This bill authorizes NorthWest-ern Energy to buy more interest in old coal plants and automatically pass the costs, plus profit margin, onto their customers without review by the Public Service Commission. It also puts ratepayers on the hook for more of the decommissioning and cleanup costs in the future. There have been a lot of articles and editorials war...
The end of the bowling season is closing in on us. Remember to sign up for the No-Tap Tournament, which is $1,000 for first place. High scores for the week were, Lindsey O'Brecht 234-621 for the ladies, and Nick Turner 267 and Jay Shulund 679 for the men. Sunday Keglers: Pam Conaster 175-459, Dana Springer 177, Suener Springer 191-456, Donna Tilleman 165, Sabrina St. Marks 154, DeAnne Mullner-Kalk 156, Alicia Burrington 175, Julie Smith 172, Ali Ward 157, Bill Dougherty 194,...
