Articles from the June 27, 2018 edition
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Get ready to Cruise...
The Eighth Annual Blaine County Cruise is finally here. Get the family together and head to the Blaine County Fairgrounds this Friday to get signed up for this years Cruise. This year the group will...
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MDT bus tour sees projects along US Hwy 2 from Havre to Fort Belknap Agency
Last week about 30 people joined a Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) bus tour to view completed and future road projects along US 2 from Havre to Fort Belknap. The tour was held the day...
Tom Fairbank selected to fill District 3 County Commission seat
On Friday, June 22, Blaine County Commissioners Dolores Plumage and Frank DePriest selected Tom Fairbank to complete the unexpired term of the commission seat vacated by Charlie Kulbeck. The Blaine...
Chinook Eagles Club now offers community daily lunch service
Many folks would say not much ever changes in a small town but sometimes change can be subtle and that was the case last week when the Chinook Eagles Club began offering a full lunch service. Monday,...
Krystal Steinmetz rejoins Bear Paw Development as Planner
HAVRE – Bear Paw Development Corporation announced that Krystal Steinmetz of Havre was recently hired as the organization's Director of Community Planning. Steinmetz worked for the economic d...
Hill County Electrics 73rd Annual Meeting of Members Well Attended
HAVRE – Bear Paw Development Corporation Hill County Electric (HCE) held its 73rd Annual Meeting of Members on Saturday, May 12, 2018. Nearly 200 individuals attended the meeting including members, t...
Hogeland Happenings
Crystal, Cassidy, Holly, Cooper, and Lucy Grabofsky were over to Wally and Loretta Beck’s home on Thursday, June 14, and helped them with yard work. On Friday evening, June 15, Jake and Lizzie Nelson were supper guests at the Wallace Beck home. T...
Turner Talk
The Turner High School boys basketball team traveled to Cutbank to compete in the Cutbank Classic a week or so ago. Last Saturday the Welsh family attended the Jones/Baird wedding. Ron, Avery, and Piper Fox went to Buffalo, WY to help Lyvee Fox...
Curtis E. Van Voast
Curtis E. Van Voast passed away March 22, 2018 in Kalispell, MT. He was born August 20, 1929 to Jess and Cora Van Voast in Turner, MT. Curt attended school in Turner and graduated from Turner High in... Full story
Ed Whitaker
Edwin Whitaker (Ed), Mayfield, passed away June 21 at his home surrounded by his loving family. We celebrate that he is free from the 26 plus years of Parkinson's Disease. He was the best example of... Full story
Maggie Lewis called as new pastor for Chinook and Havre Presbyterian Churches
The new pastor recently called to serve the Chinook and Havre Presbyterian Churches is no stranger to north central Montana. In August 2012 Maggie (Margaret) Lewis came as the first Young Adult...
Harlem Library
Children are encouraged to keep reading for the “Libraries Rock!” Summer Reading program which continues until the end of July. Bring in your reading record sheets to earn prizes and chances to win the grand prize in each age group. Weekly pro...
Harlem Senior Center
Thank You to Blaine County Democrats for the cookies. Thank You to Barb McDonald for the peony on the piano. Thank you to Dale and Vonnie Klungland for putting the new board on the courtyard Get Ready for the Fourth of July midweek events!!! The...
Chinook Senior Center
By Marlane Wenzel, Friday, June 29, is the birthday lunch and we will be having a 50/50 Raffle this month. This week in Bingo there were four winners on one game. It got pretty exciting. Thank you for the lovely centerpieces and bouquets of flowers M...
Blaine County Library
New movies available this week are Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim Uprising. We have two non-fiction books ready for checkout this week. "The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the West" by John Branch, is...
Nominations Open for the 2018 County Committee Elections
USDA Farm Service Agency encourages all farmers, ranchers, and FSA program participants to take part in the county committee election nomination process. Committees are comprised of locally elected agricultural producers responsible for the fair and...
Chinook Lions, Harlem swim teams reach midway point of season
The Chinook Lions and Harlem swim teams are at the midway point of the summer swim season having completed four meets and with Divisionals just four weeks away. Both teams were in Chester this past we...
2018 Blaine County Cruise heads North to Turner
The eighth annual Blaine County Cruise has a full slate of events planned for the weekend as activities get underway Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. with registration taking place at the Blaine County...
A road trip west and discovery of a new rest stop on US Highway 2
My wife and I were driving to Conrad for a meeting. Readers who have traveled west along US 2 from Blaine County know that once you leave Havre, rest stops are virtually nonexistent until you reach...
A message from the Blaine County Health department: It's never too late to quit tobacco use
Jana McPherson-Hauer, RN, is Lead Local Health Official and Public Health Nurse in Blaine County. The average adult takes 15 to 20 breaths a minute — more than 20,000 per day, according to the American Lung Association. Healthy lungs are important t...
