Board of Health chair lifts Hill County mask mandate

Hill County Commissioner and Board of Health Chair Mark Peterson sent an email to the Havre Daily News this morning announcing that the county has reached the threshold required to lift the area's mask mandate.

"I am working on a draft to announce it," the email read.

The Havre Daily News had not received this draft by print deadline this morning.

In the meeting Feb. 18 where the mandate was voted for 3-1 it was determined that once the metric of 10 or fewer new COVID-19 cases per day per 100,000 residents was met the duration of the order, 90 days, could be changed.

However, the langua...