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Articles from the April 3, 2024 edition


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  • Park Board talks infrastructure, Beaver Lodge rebuild funding

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Members of the Hill County Park Board met Monday evening and discussed employee pay and heard updates regarding work on park infrastructure and park conditions. During the meeting Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said the Kiwanis Chapel sustained some damage during a high water flow event and he's been looking into the best way to repair it. He said he did get an estimate from a contractor of $16,300 for repairs, but he wants the board to give him more time to...

  • Legacy Rudyard building torn down, new community center to come

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Apr 3, 2024

    The old J & J Grocery Store building, previously Sanvik's, in Rudyard was torn down Tuesday after standing empty since 2004 to make way for the Rudyard Community Center, a multi-purpose event space for the local community. Plans for the new building are being finalized. The project is being paid for with a grant given to the Rudyard Historical Society, which bought the land and helped tear down the building which had been deemed unsafe after two decades of little use. Rudyard...

  • Play by Havre's Pyette to be produced in Anaconda

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Press release Continuing with the tradition of producing new plays and highlighting Montana artists, Anaconda Ensemble Theatre is presenting the Southwest Montana premiere of “The Harvest” by Jay Pyette of Havre. The play premiered in a Montana Actor’s Theatre — Pyette is a founder and executive director of MAT — production in Havre in March 2022. “The Harvest” is a family drama tells the story of a Montana farm family coming to grips with a changing world. Six adult children face the reality of aging parents, the grim econom...

  • Local News - An evening of poetry scheduled at Beaver Creek Perk

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Hi-Line Arts Council has sponsored an evening of poetry in Havre Thursday. “Poetic Musings” is scheduled to start at Beaver Creek Perk at 137 Second St. in Havre Thursday at 6 p.m. The evening features Montana Poet Laureate Chris LaTray, author of “Becoming Little Shell,” and Montana book award winner Debra Magpie Earling, author of “The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.” Havre’s Charles Finn, himself a Montana book award winner, is scheduled to moderate the event....

  • For the Record, April 3, 2024

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Havre Police Department Officers were asked at 7:48 a.m. Tuesday to escort a wide load through town. -- Officers responded to a Tuesday 9:17 a.m. complaint of a vehicle speeding through the First Street alley. -- A First Street caller reported at 9:33 Tuesday that a suspicious backpack was sitting along the west side of the caller's house. -- A caller on First Street West reported Tuesday at 9:46 a.m. that another driver backed into his vehicle. The responding officer...

  • Correction - MFU members help shape National policy

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    The caption on a photo with a story about National Farmers Union Convention that printed in the March 27 Havre Daily News Farm and Ranch page misnamed HI-Line rancher Tammy Copenhaver....

  • Governor proclaims Montana Soil Health Week

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Press release HELENA — Gov. Greg Gianforte held a roundtable discussion Monday to recognize Soil Health Week in Montana and raise awareness about how healthy soils can increase crop yields, improve nutrition, and strengthen food security. “Montana Soil Health Week serves as an opportunity to highlight our farmers, ranchers, and all producers working toward better soil health stewardship,” Gianforte said. “By being good stewards, we are creating opportunities for the next generation and cultivating a future where Montana...

  • USDA seeks partnerships to expand conservation on grazing lands

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Press release WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing up to $22 million in partnerships that expand access to conservation technical assistance for livestock producers and increase the use of conservation practices on grazing lands. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting proposals through its Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative — GLCI — until Sunday, May 26, 2024. “Privately owned grazing lands cover nearly 30 percent of the national landscape, which means we have a tremendou...

  • USDA Invests in clean energy projects to strengthen Montana farms and businesses

    Updated Apr 3, 2024

    BOZEMAN — U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Montana State Director Kathleen Williams announced Thursday that USDA is investing nearly $2 million in 26 renewable energy projects throughout Montana to lower energy costs, generate new income, and support Montana’s farmers, ranchers, and rural small business. “One way to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses retain more income for their families and communities is by helping them lower their operating costs — in this case, what they pay for ene...