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@Montana State with Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss
Anne Cantrell MSU News Service Editor's note: @Montana State is a periodic series of Q&A-style interviews featuring notable visitors to the university. This is the latest installment. Previous Q&As...
Rocky Boy lists September students of the month
Janessa Standing Rock is a Rocky Boy schools Student of the Month for September. Janessa is a wonderful shining star in the Rocky Boy galaxy. She is hard-working, thoughtful and diligent. Kindness...
Great Falls Symphony presents Americana with Béla Fleck
Press release The Great Falls Symphony, is bringing in world-famous banjoist Béla Fleck to perform his second banjo concerto, "Juno," Saturday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. One of the greatest banjoists...
New grants awarded in community-driven eastern Montana tourism initiative
From Montana Department of commerce HELENA — The Montana Department of Commerce announced grant awards as part of a new, community-led initiative to encourage long-term tourism and economic development in eastern Montana communities, including in...
Havre celebrates 10 years of smoke-free indoor air
From the Havre Encourages Long-Range Prevention Committee In 2005, the Montana Legislature passed the Clean Indoor Air Act — CIAA — one of the most important public health policies in state history. The law was fully implemented on Oct. 1, 2009....
Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club features Peterson yard
Story and photos courtesy Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club What a difference a day makes! This past Friday, Beth and Tom Peterson's yard at 710 13th Street was in full colors with orange and yellow...
Montana firefighter to be honored at national service
EMMITSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Fire Service will honor one firefighter, who died in the line of duty, from Montana during the 38th National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service Sunday, Oct. 6. He is among the 92 firefighters who died in the line of...
Arthur Wade Bickford, 2019 District 4 Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Living Award inductee
Press release Arthur Wade Bickford was born in Havre, Montana, Jan. 26, 1934, one of eight children, to Henry and Mary (Smith) Bickford. His father was a general laborer who eventually worked for the...
Montana Taxable Wage Base released for 2020
From Montana Department of Labor and Industry HELENA — The Montana Department of Labor & Industry announces that the Unemployment Insurance — UI — Taxable Wage Base for 2020 will be $34,100, an increase of $1,100 from 2019. The taxable wage ba...
Governor recognizes Native American Women's Equal Pay Day
Press release Gov. Steve Bullock joined the nation Monday in recognizing Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, a day to symbolize how far into the year an American Indian woman must work to earn what a man earned in the previous year. “American Indian...
Montana centenarians to be honored in Billings
From Department of Health and Human Services Montana centenarians will be honored today in Billings at the Billings Hotel and Convention Center located at 1223 Mullowney Lane during a special banquet. Department of Public Health and Human Services Di...
AERO to host expo and annual meeting in Bozeman Oct. 25-27
Press release BOZEMAN — AERO will be hosting the 2019 Expo event SEEDING THE FUTURE: Cultivating Community Resilience on the Montana State University campus in the Strand Union Building. Registration is available online at https://aeromt.org/expo...
FEMA launches updated Ready Campaign webpages for kids
Press release WASHINGTON – This week, Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Ready Campaign relaunched its newly updated kids webpages at http://ready.gov.kids . The relaunch is part of week three of National Preparedness Month, which focuses on...
Charley Pride to receive inaugural Crossroads Of American Music Award
Press release CLEVELAND, Miss. - Three-time Grammy Award-winning, Mississippi-born country artist Charley Pride will be the inaugural recipient of Grammy Museum Mississippi’s Crossroads of American Music Award at the Mississippi Museum’s 2019...
Volunteers wanted for service at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park
From Montana State Parks People can connect to nature through service on National Public Lands Day at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.. First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park needs volunteer help to...
By Tester inserts Amtrak ticket agents in appropriations bill
Montana’s senior senator said Thursday he inserted language in a appropriations bill to benefit Montana, including language and funding to require Amtrak to bring ticket agents back to the Havre and Shelby stations. The language directing Amtrak to...
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame announces 2019 inductions
From Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame Today the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center — MCHF and WHC — announced the 12th class of inductions into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame. The inductees were chosen from a field of candidates...
From Hill County Community Foundation
Press release The Hill County Community Foundation is seeking applications for the 2019 grant cycle. All Hill County-area nonprofits are encouraged to apply for a grant. HCCF is looking to fund...
Havre Festival Days Events Calendar
Friday, Sept. 20 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale (Library Meeting Room) 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. — Anka’s Treasures Trunk Show and Demonstration (Bearly Square Quilt Shop) Noon - 6 p.m. — Quilt Guild Show and Vendors (former...
Lawmakers continue push for Little Shell federal recognition
With the clock ticking on this year’s session, the members of Montana’s congressional delegation are continuing to work on passing federal recognition of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., said Thursday he...
Local schools joining or expanding use of PAX Good Behavior Game
From the office of Montana Governor Montana’s governor announced Wednesday that Havre, Box Elder, Hays-Lodge Pole, Rocky Boy, Chester and Joplin are among schools that are joining or expanding an initiative intended to increase productivity and use...
Friede-Kloppenburg Kremlin yard recognized by Bullhook Blossoms
By Carrie Aageson of Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club Once again we are headed west of Havre for this week's Yard of the Week. Congratulations to Brenda Friede and Scott Kloppenburg of Kremlin on their b...
Wisdom and Grace: North to Alaska: Part 3
"Five weeks together?" they asked. "You spent five weeks together in a pickup camper? No one else? Just the two of you. Wow!" To which I responded, "Yup, and we're still married and still friends ......
Helena set to keep up with the past
Press release Seventy years ago, tragedy struck at Mann Gulch, when an out of control wildfire killed thirteen firefighters. Fifty years ago, saw the Woodstock music festival and Neil Armstrong took...
Interior announces $170.6M to support state parks and outdoor recreation through LWCF
From U.S. Department of the Interior WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced today that $170,623,713 million in grants from the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been awarded to all 50 States, five U.S....
