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Press release U.S. Sen. Jon Tester called on U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Kevin Shea Tuesday to quickly investigate and produce findings on multiple instances of Montanans receiving unsolicited packages of unidentified seeds that appear to have originated in China. “I am reaching out today regarding recent reports that individuals are receiving unsolicited packages of seeds that appear to be from somewhere in China. I urge you to t...
No local health departments by 5 p.m. today reported confirmation of new COVID-19 cases in Blaine, Chouteau, Hill or Liberty counties. The state COVID-19 case map this morning reported a total of 43 cases in Hill County, 27 active and 16 recovered. Chouteau County was listed as having two active cases and one recovery, and Blaine County had seven recovered cases. Liberty County was listed as having one recovered case. The Liberty County and one of the Hill County cases were...
Two new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Hill County Tuesday night. By this morning, the state COVID-19 tracking map reported three new cases in the county, with 27 active cases and 16 recoveries. That comes as the 10 a.m. tracking map update today reports 201 new cases for a state total of 3,676 cases and new deaths bringing the state death toll to COVID-19 to 54. Blaine County Health Department reported Tuesday the last of its confirmed cases is now recovered. Blaine County has seven recovered cases, all confirmed in... Full story
Like everything else going on with the coronavirus pandemic, if the Frontier Conference plays football this fall, it's going to look a lot different. No, the game of football hasn't changed, but the number of teams playing in the Frontier in the fall will. Tuesday, the league held its annual Frontier Football Media Day via a Zoom conference, and present was every coach in the league, though three of them won't get to coach their teams in the fall. Earlier this month, the...
Rocky Boy Schools Board of Trustees Tuesday approved a re-opening plan that starts with distanced learning and moves through phases into classroom instruction. Rocky Boy Public Schools Superintendent Voyd St. Pierre said Tuesday that the board approved his recommendation to start the school year off August 26 via a remote/distance learning model for all PreK-12 students attending the schools. St. Pierre said the remote or distance learning option would run through Sept. 30. Oct. 1, the district would switch to a... Full story
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees discussed during a special board meeting Tuesday the school district's re-opening plans for the upcoming school year. Three plans were presented. All three of Havre's plans are in accordance with Gov. Steve Bullock's state requirements and concurred with the Hill County Health Department, Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller said. He said Phase One will be used in the event they receive direction that the school buildings must be... Full story
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 211 with 59 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 165,355 with 3,947 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 54. The number of recoveries was 2,212 and the number of active cases was 1,410. People can visit the state tracking map online through a link at https://montana.maps.arcgis.com or https://covid19.mt.gov .... Full story
The Havre area has seen a high population of sawflies this year, along with many other areas in Montana where the wheat cutting insect hasn’t been a serious problem for years. See more on this story in the Hi-Line Farm and Ranch special edition next Wednesday. David Weaver, a professor of integrated pest management and insect physiology and sawfly researcher at Montana State University, said this year has seen some serious shifts in the insect’s population with areas where they have been a persistent problem seeing dec...
Tyler James Big Bow, O-Sah Mistatim (Yellow Horse), 26, passed away due to injuries sustained in a vehicle accident Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Sioux City, IA. Wake services will begin at 4:00 p.m. today, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, and will continue until his funeral service, which will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, July 30, 2020, all at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the Windy Boy Family Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with... Full story
Helen Anna Bye Egbert passed away July 27, 2020, at the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook, MT at the age of 94. She was just a few months shy of her 95th birthday. Please join us in celebrating her life Thursday morning, July 30, 2020, at 11:00 a.m. at the Evangelical Church in Harlem, MT.... Full story
Press release HELENA — The Montana Department of Justice announced today that in the first six months of 2020, the state’s cyber tips related to internet crimes against children rose by nearly 70 percent compared to the same period last year. From January through June of 2019, 244 cyber tips were reported for Montana. This year, 412 cyber tips were reported in the first six months. The cyber tips are software-detected images and videos of child explicit material with known IP addresses. Internet service providers are req...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a Tuesday at 8:05 a.m. report of a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation. -- A caller in the Havre area reported Tuesday at 4:18 p.m. that an adult son went missing while the caller was in a medical appointment. -- Brandon Wallace Beck of Hogeland, 25, was arrested on two Justice or City court warrants after an officer stopped in a Fourth Avenue alley Tuesday at 7:42 p.m. to investigate suspicious activity. -- Corey Ray Blackwolf of Box...
HELENA — The Montana Department of Agriculture is announcing the opening of the 2020 funding cycle for the Growth Through Agriculture Program. Montanans interested in creating or expanding their agricultural businesses are invited to apply for funds through the state grant program. Our Growth Through Agriculture program has a long history of helping Montana’s producers and small businesses add value, scale up, and access new markets,” Director Ben Thomas said. “Investing in the diversification and expansion of our ag industr...
Badger-Two Medicine: From Birch Creek and Family Peak in the south, to Lubec Ridge and Elk Calf Mountain in the north, the headwaters of Badger Creek and the Two Medicine River flow down from the sacred summits of Feather Woman and Heart Butte, Scarface and Morningstar, Half Dome and Kiyo Crag, Goat Mountain and the Bruin Peaks. This is classic east-of-divide country with the northern Great Plains of the Blackfeet Nation stretching far to the east. Immediately south of Glacier National Park, this wild, mostly roadless...
My husband, Peter, is fascinated by hummingbirds. This year has been a difficult year for hummingbird watching as there has been a lot of competition at the feeder. First, the ants wouldn't leave it alone. Then a bear smashed the feeder to bits. Right after Peter replaced the feeder, wasps found it. Peter gave up for a while and took the feeder down, replacing it with a fancy wasp trap that worked surprisingly well. Wasps were lining up to commit suicide in this hive-shaped...
It’s been a while, but thanks to Waddell and Reed’s Jeremy Jensen and Willard Fladager, there will be a new golf tournament at Prairie Farms Golf Course this weekend. Saturday and Sunday, Prairie Farms will play host to the 36-hole Waddel & Reed Member Guest Tournament, which will feature 36 two-person teams composed of one Prairie Farms member and a player who does not have either a membership or punch card at the course. The format will be 18 holes of Chapman (Modified Alt...
On Tuesday, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees approved the hiring of two new fall sports head coaches. Stephanie Huse will be the new head volleyball coach at Havre High, while Kari Filius will be the head coach of the HHS cross country program. Both have prior coaching experience, but are making their first forays into the head coaching ranks at Havre High. For much coverage on both new hirings, see Thursday and Friday's Havre Daily News sports se...
