Meet-up event set for Sept. 4 in place of Fossil Festival

The Havre Public Schools Education Foundation will be having a local meet-up event Saturday, Sept. 4, in place of its Fossil Festival event to honor long-term graduates, “fossils” which could not take place last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The foundation’s executive director, Amanda Meyer, said the amount of planning, time and commitment necessary to plan the festival, typically held every five years, is extensive enough the foundation decided to have a different event since it didn’t know how things would play out this summer.

“Hearing that there was going to be quite a...