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Havre Reviews Wastewater Improvement Plans
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - The city of Havre held a public meeting Tuesday to introduce early plans for upgrades to the city's wastewater system. Project Manager Judel Buls says the treatment plant faces several issues.
"The bulk of this project is to address regulatory issues that have become a problem for Havre with the latest discharge permit that's been released by the Montana DEQ."
Buls also touched on some of the new limits Havre must reach with its wastewater treatment.
"Havre needs to meet more stringent limits for ammonia treatment. They also need to update their disinfection system to be more reliable in order to achieve more stringent limits for E. coli, which is an indicator of coliform levels in the river."
Buls is with Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, which was hired by the city to plan the upgrades. Another public meeting is scheduled for April. The city will submit multiple grant applications in May for funding.
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Milk River Group Discusses Flood Mitigation
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CHINOOK, Mont. (NMB) - The Milk River Watershed Alliance held its annual meeting Tuesday in Chinook. During the event, Watershed Specialist Warren Kellogg discussed how comparing strategies for handling flood waters can prove beneficial.
"See how other people in other places in Montana are dealing with flood damage and mitigation of flood damage. There may be some things that people are doing in other places that apply to the Milk River."
Kellogg also addressed some of the most commonly asked questions he gets when he arrives to inspect flood damage.
"A lot of times, there's two questions. One is, 'What are some of the things we can do here?' What are some of the technical approaches to dealing with the problem today and avoiding it in the future. The second question is, 'How are we going to pay for this?' In some cases, the price tag is over $1 million."
Other featured speakers touched on erosion, emergency watershed protection programs, and re-vegetation in riparian environments.
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NMHC Still Looking at Options
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - Radiation oncology services end today at the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center following a recent Benefis announcement. Northern Montana Health Care Foundation Executive Director Christen Obresley says NMHC is hopeful it can find a way to bring cancer services back to the area.
"We can continue to evaluate the options that we have available to bring cancer care to the Hi-Line and to support the services that are necessary for our cancer patients along the Hi-Line. We haven't found any great options at this point in time, although we continue to search."
Obresley adds that the hospital and foundation are doing what they can to support local cancer patients.
"We are trying to support the patients in our area by providing them with financial assistance to get them to where they need to go. Of course, when they return, if they have any complications or they need any assistance, then their local providers are here to support them as they have been all along."
The cancer center was first established in 2008.
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Chancellor Excited Over Capital Campaign
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - MSU-Northern's new chancellor James Limbaugh was on hand for the presentation of the early designs for upgrades to the athletics complex Saturday night. Limbaugh says these upgrades will lead to the university being more marketable to potential students.
"If students walk around campus and they see that our facilities are upgraded, they are in tune with what they are looking for, they'll take a second look at us."
Limbaugh adds that all of the upgrades planned as part of the MSU-Northern Foundation's Capital Campaign will create an atmosphere more conducive to student success.
"Good surroundings can foster a sense of learning. Actually there have been studies that found surroundings contribute to a student's ability to succeed academically."
Northern hopes to begin early construction on the athletics complex later this year.
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Fire Breaks Out in Havre
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - A garage fire broke out early Monday around 2:30 am in Havre on the 600 block of 11th Street. The garage and the two vehicles that were inside are considered a total loss. The was some minor exterior damage to a neighboring garage. No one was injured and the cause of the blaze is under investigation.
The Havre Police Department is looking for anyone with information concerning the suspicious fire. Please contact Crime stoppers at 265-4444 if you have any information.
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Legislative Leader Pushing Referendum
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - State Senate Majority Leader Jeff Essmann was in Havre for the Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner Sunday. Essmann was promoting the passage of a measure on the June primary ballot, which would allow voters to elect state Supreme Court justices by district, instead of in a statewide election.
"Right now our justices are elected statewide, it makes the races very expensive. It also means that most Montanans do not get to know very much about the person that they're voting for."
Opponents say Legislative Referendum 119 would restrict voters' constitutional right to vote for any Supreme Court justice candidate in the general election.
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Officials Identify SD Woman Killed in MT Crash
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Officials in central Montana have released the name of a South Dakota woman who died in a weekend crash.
Fergus County Deputy Coroner Jeremy Bristol tells The Billings Gazette 49-year-old Naleen Doll of Aberdeen died at 2:30 a.m. Sunday in a tractor-trailer crash east of Lewistown.
The Montana Highway Patrol says Doll was a passenger in a tanker that swerved to miss an animal on U.S. 87. The patrol says the weight of the liquid in the tanker shifted, pushing the rig across the road and causing it to roll.
The patrol says Doll was asleep in the cab and was crushed during the crash.
The driver, a 52-year-old man from Mandan, N.D., suffered minor injuries.
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Secretary of State Candidates Visit Havre
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - The Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner also welcomed in candidates for Secretary of State. Brad Johnson served in the position from 2005 to 2009 and says he wants to finish what he started.
"We had some great accomplishments over those four years. I lost reelection in 2008 and I just feel very strongly that there's work we began that we need to finish and so I decided that I'd run for that same office again."
Helena engineer Scott Aspenlieder believes his background would serve him well in the office.
"I'm a civil engineer by trade. I'm a part-owner of a small business in Helena and I work in the energy sector. I've been watching what's been happening over the last four or five years and I've been severely disappointed with what we've done as a state with respect to resource development."
Former gubernatorial candidate Drew Turiano is the only other Republican in the running. Current Secretary of State Democrat Linda McCulloch is seeking reelection.
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Mont. Preps for Drilling in "Alberta Bakken"
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - State and federal officials next month will offer residents of north-central Montana a primer on the potential environmental and community effects of anticipated oil and gas development.
The March 1 meeting in Choteau comes as drilling in the rich Bakken fields of eastern Montana and western North Dakota spills over into areas of Glacier, Teton and other central Montana counties.
Tom Richmond with the Montana Board of Oil and Gas says several companies are drilling exploratory wells. They are seeking oil and gas in an area straddling the Canada border known as the "Alberta Bakken."
State Department of Environmental Quality officials say the Choteau meeting will include discussions of hydraulic fracturing and other drilling techniques, protection of water supplies and regulations for "man-camps" such as new trailer courts and campgrounds.
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Montana GOP Governor Candidates Speak in Havre
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - Multiple Montana gubernatorial candidates attended the Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner in Havre Sunday. Former state Senator Ken Miller says during his campaign, he has heard many Montanans voice their concern on natural resources.
"It doesn't matter where I'm at, the common question is, 'Why are we not utilizing our natural resources to create jobs, create tax base, and we have it everywhere. A lot of the focus is on the Bakken in the eastern part of the state, but we have it all the way across with oil and coal."
Jim Lynch claims that his prior experience as Department of Transportation Director will help him during the campaign.
"Not only do you need business experience, but you also need chief executive management experience. This job as governor is a job and the qualifications are you need to be able to manage very complex business arrangement, which are created throughout state government."
Five other Republicans are running, including rancher Bob Fanning, former Congressman Rick Hill, former state Senator Corey Stapleton, Chouteau County Commissioner Jim O'Hara, and anti-terrorism consultant Neil Livingstone. The two Democrats in the race are Attorney General Steve Bullock and state Senator Larry Jent.
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"Winter in the Blood" Preview This Week
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MISSOULA, Mont. (NMB) - A short preview of "Winter in the Blood" will be shown during the Big Sky Film Festival in Missoula on Saturday. Co-Director Andrew Smith says the crew is almost done editing the film, which was shot in Havre and throughout the Hi-Line.
"We're drawing close to the end of what they call the 'picture edit.' We have probably another 10 days at most of cutting picture and then we'll hand it off to the sound department and our music supervisor."
Smith adds that the short preview will show off the hard work of the entire production staff.
"What we're hoping to accomplish with this event is just to let people know the kind of work that went into making this film and how much we utilized the young blood of a number of students who worked on the film."
Smith expects there will be a cast and crew or community screening of the finished film in Havre during the summer or early fall.
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Capital Campaign Unveiled to Lights Crowd
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HAVRE, Mont. (NMB) - The MSU-Northern Foundation unveiled designs for planned athletics complex upgrades at Saturday's Lights Basketball game. Funding for the upgrades will come from the recently launched Capital Campaign. Campaign Co-Chair Dave Clausen hopes construction will begin soon.
"We're hoping to get things started here in the next year or so. As we're finding out, it's quite a process to get through all the building code and state agency issues that we have to deal with. But we're shooting to get things going in the next year for the first phase of the athletics complex."
Athletic Director Mark Samson says Northern has been dealing with outdated facilities for too long.
"One of the things that is a major concern of mine as an athletic director is the safety issue. Our bleachers, handicap accessibility, some of those things we need to get resolved and we have got to get things updated."
Following the upgrades to the athletics complex, the focus will turn to the Student Union Building and the residence halls.
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