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Hill County Health Officer Jessica Sheehy provided a statewide update Friday during the Hill County Board of Health meeting on the COVID-19 situation. “Currently, as of this (Friday) morning, we have 243 cases in the state of Montana, last Friday we had 108, so, obviously we’ve had a pretty good increase,” she said, “five deaths total in the state of Montana and 24 hospitalizations. “Worldwide, we are looking at just topped over a million cases this morning, so clearing still seeing those numbers rise and this obviously...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 24. The number of tests completed was 6,789. The number of deaths was 6. The numbers by county were: Hill: 1 Liberty: 1 Blaine: 0 Chouteau: 0 Toole: 15 Gallatin: 116 Yelllowstone: 40 Flathead: 26 Missoula: 21 Lewis and Clark: 14 Silver Bow: 11 Cascade: 11 Madison: 9 Lincoln: 7 Park: 6 Broadwater: 4 Lake: 4 Deer Lodge: 3 Jefferson: 2 Ravalli: 2 Carbon: 1 Beaverhead: 1 Musselshell: 1 Meagher: 1 Roosevelt: 1 Glacier: 1 Visit the state...
Montana State University-Northern announced Friday it is postponing its spring commencement ceremonies and will combine them with its fall ceremonies, usually held the first Saturday in December. Commissioner Clayton Christian, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, issued a directive Wednesday ordering all campuses in the Montana University System to to cancel in-person spring 2020 commencement ceremonies. Northern University Relations Director Jim Potter said Sunday Northern...
Havre Daily News staff Several new actions happened in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of last week, including the governor saying he will likely extend his stay-at-home directive, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending people wear masks if they have to leave their homes and Montana State University-Northern saying it would postpone its spring graduation ceremony until next fell. Gov. Steve Bullock said in a press conference Friday he will be issuing a directive next week extending the...
Crawford Distillery on 2nd Street in Havre has joined many distilleries around the U.S. that have moved their operations to creating hand sanitizer which they are giving away for free in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Neil Crawford, who owns the distillery with his wife, Alyssa, said they're in the process of bottling their second batch, which will be freely available to the public. "The first batch went out to the elderly and first responders and health care workers,"...
United Way of Hill County recently received a surprise donation of $2,000 for COVID-19 relief from the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. “We’re so grateful to the foundation to be able to provide the additional support during the COVID-19 crisis,” United Way of Hill County Board Member and Treasurer Kristi Peterson. The donation comes shortly after United Way of Hill County received a grant from the foundation to add to their quarterly allocation. “In 2019, we applied for a grant with the Dennis and Phyllis Washing...
With heavy heart we are announcing the passing March 31, 2020, of our beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, Walter Jerome Main, "Filesteel," "EE-DAWTH-HAW." Jerome was born July 30, 1937, in Hays, Montana. He was a proud member of the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Agency. Jerome was the youngest son of Mae Filesteel and Thomas "Tom" Main. He grew up in Hays at the old Main place. Jerome lost his father, Tom, at the young age of 15, which was one of the great... Full story
Sky Child “Gesik” Big Knife, 79, passed away due to natural causes at the Morning Star Care Center in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, Friday, April 3, 2020. Wake services began at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 5, 2020, and continued until his funeral service at 10:00 a.m. today, April 6, 2020, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Burial was to follow in the Rocky Boy Cemetery.... Full story
Davey Elementary School’s announced that for public safety, the regular board meeting tonight at 6 p.m will be held electronically. People can contact Clerk Serena Dawson for information on how to connect to the meeting....
Press release Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services officials said they are concerned about a sharp decrease in the number of calls to the child abuse and neglect hotline in the past several weeks related to the current COVID-19 emergency. DPHHS Director Sheila Hogan said from March 8-14, the week prior to the required closure of public schools, a total of 765 calls a week were being made to the hotline at 1-866-820-KIDS, 5437. However, since March 15, the number of calls made to the hotline has dropped to... Full story
Havre Police Department Chan Nmn Bigknife of Box Elder, 47, was arrested on a charge of failure to register as a sexual or violent offender, after an officers investigated a trespasser in Havre Saturday at 1:04 a.m. -- Officers investigated a Saturday 6:40 p.m. report of stolen guns on Second Street. -- Saturday at 8:33 p.m. a caller at a First Street business reported a prior theft. -- A caller at Northern Montana Hospital said Sunday at 12:16 p.m. that a female needed to...
I’ve got to admit for a people person like myself, self-distancing has been a challenge. Living three-and-a half miles from the nearest neighbor helps. I’ve done a lot of sewing projects and cleaned out areas that were long past due. My mind has gone back to some thoughts about self-isolation in history. The first is 1918 and the Spanish Flu Epidemic that WWI soldiers returned home from Europe with. In reading “In Years Gone By” about homestead families in the Simpson and Cot...
Press release HELENA — Gov. Steve Bullock said Friday in a press conference that, in the coming days and weeks, he will extend federal food assistance to more than 100,000 Montanans, increase food supplies at emergency food pantries and food banks and streamline nutrition assistance for new mothers and children. A release from Bullock’s office said he is also using new flexibility through the CARES Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump last Friday, to allow SNAP participants in Montana to con... Full story
From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States. We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms, “asymptomatic,” and that even those who eventually develop symptoms, “pre-symptomatic,” can transmit the virus to others before showing symptoms. This means that the virus can spread between people interacting in close proximity—for example, speaking, coughing or sneezing... Full story
Year-in-year-out, the talent in boys basketball on the Hi-Line is palpable. And it's always reflected in the Havre Daily News All Hi-Line Team. And 2020 is no different, but, what it different is, this year's All Hi-Line Boys Team represents a changing of the guard, so to speak. There are just four players on this year's list who have made the team before, meaning there are 10 newcomers. And yet upperclassmen still dominate the list with eight seniors and four juniors earning...
