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  • Wind chill warnings for northeastern Montana

    Updated Jan 5, 2014

    GLASGOW (AP) — Northeastern Montana remained under a wind chill warning Sunday with wind chills up to 59 below zero due to a rare combination of conditions even for a state used to Arctic blasts. Meteorologist Patrick Gilchrist with the National Weather Service in Glasgow said temperatures of 18 below zero are combining with winds of 20 to 30 mph to create dangerous conditions. "To see the really strong winds like this under an Arctic air mass is unusual," said Gilchrist, noting the last time it happened was the winter of 2...

  • Big Sandy 'Six-man' film sets private showing

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Jan 5, 2014

    A special, private showing of the documentary, “Six-Man: Two Teams, One Season” will be held at the Fort Benton Elementary School Auditorium this weekend. The documentary is about an hour and a half long and follows Geraldine/Highwood and Big Sandy through their 2013 football seasons, according to producer Kurt Markus. “It’s a look at six-man football in Montana, but I’d like to think it has a little broader view,” Marcus said. The film will be shown three times this weekend and Monday, each time set-up for a different p...

  • Saturday's Prep Basketball: Malta too much for Pony boys and girls

    Updated Jan 4, 2014

    The new year hasn't been kind to the Havre High boys and girls basketball teams. And Saturday was especially tough at the Havre High gymnasium. The Malta M-Ettes beat the HHS girls for the second time this season, winning 53-37. The Malta boys also took down the Blue Ponies, 66-58 Saturday night. Payton Filius scored 12 points to lead the HHS girls, who suffered back-to-back losses for the first time this season. Dane Warp paced the Pony boys with 20 points. The Havre girls...

  • Deadly Ore. police standoff follows Butte robbery

    Updated Jan 4, 2014

    LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) — A patrol car hit and injured a man and a woman later fatally shot herself during a police standoff as Oregon authorities closed in on the two accused of robbing a Montana coin shop. Sarah Jo Johnson died shortly before 9 p.m. Friday, Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian said. She had been holed up in a vehicle with a handgun for hours, surrounded by the Oregon State Police SWAT team and officers from multiple agencies. The chief said Dale Edward Wallace, the man hit by a police car earlier F...

  • Could oil train disaster happen on the Hi-Line?

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jan 4, 2014
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    Officials prepare for chance of crude oil derailment, fire, as Bakken rail shipping increases With railroad shipments of crude oil extracted from the Bakken formation continuing to ramp up, officials around the country - including the Hi-Line - are preparing for the worst. Their concern is highlighted by another derailment and massive fire earlier this week. With the sight of 100-car tanker trains carrying Bakken sweet, light crude oil heading west along the Hi-Line becoming...

  • Warning: Dangerous cold wind chill

    John Kelleher|Updated Jan 4, 2014

    A wind chill warning is in effect for Havre and Chinook through Monday morning. Wind chills could range between minus 30 and minus 50 degrees for the next two days, the National Weather Service warns. Under those conditions, frostbite can occur within 10 minutes of exposed skin, the weather service said. People headed outside should be prepared for "dangerously cold conditions," the warning reads. The Weather Channel predicts that the actual temperature will be minus 19 degrees tonight, with winds from the Northeast at 19...

  • Grandin presents 'The Autism Experience' in Havre

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jan 4, 2014

    A large audience in Havre this evening heard some first-hand descriptions of the impacts of autism and ways to help people on the autism spectrum disorder succeed from a world-renowned researcher, author and lecturer — who is on the spectrum herself. Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin, Ph.D., presented “The Autism Experience” at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church, part of the Hill County Extension Office’s Cabin Fever series of classes. Grandin presented a lecture about autism spectrum disorder, then took qu...

  • Friday's Prep Basketball: Class AA Bison sweep Blue Ponies

    Updated Jan 3, 2014

    The Havre High boys and girls basketball teams had tough first outings of the new year. In Havre, the Class AA Great Falls High Bison beat the Blue Pony boys 62-47, while the Pony girls came up just short against the Bison at the Swarthout Fieldhouse in Great Falls Friday night. The Bison upended the Ponies 54-51. Both Havre High teams will be at the HHS gymnasium Saturday to face Class B Malta. The girls game is set for 5 p.m. and the boys tip off at 6:30 p.m. For full coverage, see Monday's Havre Daily News. Friday's...

  • Havre of the Past: Christmas food for the poor

    Emily Mayer|Updated Jan 3, 2014

    The newspapers for this week in both 1893 and 1898 were not available, and the best I could muster on microfilm was the Dec. 26, 1903, copy of the Havre Plaindealer for this time of the year. This 52nd installment completes the series celebrating Havre’s 120th anniversary of incorporation. There was an extremely lengthy article regarding the recent graduation of the Class of 1903 from eighth grade. Each graduate gave a presentation ranging from song to recitations. The graduating students were Vera E. Webber, Antoinette E. S...

  • For the Record, January 3, 2014

    Updated Jan 3, 2014

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 9:32 a.m. Tuesday call from a 1st Street business about a stolen tablet. ——— Chrissie Al Blackbird, 57, of Havre, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after officers responded to a 1:27 p.m. Tuesday call from a 1st Street establishment about three drunk men in an alley, on of whom is laying on the ground, who keep trying to buy alcohol. ——— Officers investigated a 6:40 p.m. Tuesday call from the post office about a found wallet. ——— Tyrel Henry Bear, 27, of Havre was a...

  • June Marie Bruning Watkins

    Updated Jan 3, 2014

    June Marie Bruning Watkins passed away on Dec. 31, 2013, at the Discovery Care Center in Hamilton. June was born on June 24, 1927, in Havre to William J. Bruning and Myrtle Gilbertson. She is preceded in death by her parents; and older brother, Aubrey (2008); and has a younger sister, Helen Miller, of Tacoma. June was raised in Havre and was an active member of St. Jude Thaddeus parish. From 1946 to 1950, she was employed at the optometry office of Dr. William Forester. June was a valued employee and lifetime friend of Dr....

  • Gwendolyn R. Sharples

    Updated Jan 3, 2014

    Gwendolyn R. Sharples, 93, passed away on Jan. 2, 2014, in Chinook, Mont., due to natural causes. Funeral services will be held on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, at 11 a.m. at the Chinook United Methodist Church. Arrangements have been made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. Gwen was born on Feb. 10, 1920, in Des Moines, Iowa to Rupert and Leslie McCanon. She graduated from high school in Kansas City, Kan., where she excelled in swimming and diving. Her family moved to Scobey, Mont., and Gwen attended Northern Montana College where...

  • Rocky Boy to hold annual powwow at Northern

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Jan 3, 2014
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    The annual Rocky Boy Winter Celebration Powwow will be held in the Montana State University-Northern gymnasium today. “Every year we have a Christmas powwow a week before or after Christmas,” said Dustin Whitford, one of the coordinators of the summer and winter powwows at Rocky Boy. “We usually have it at Rocky Boy, but it was so packed last year we decided to have it at Northern.” Last year, the powwow was held in the gymnasium of the new Stone Child College. “We’re expecting a huge crowd again,” Whitford said. “And we...

  • 4-H Chuckwagon gets equipment donation

    John Kelleher|Updated Jan 3, 2014

    A donation of a large amount of kitchen equipment from Town Pump has helped put the Hill County 4-H on track for its proposed new Chuckwagon at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. Volunteers were scurrying around the old Wendy's Building Tuesday, moving some of the kitchen equipment onto trucks that would transport it to the fairgrounds. Others were put into storage containers donated by Patrick Construction Co. Town Pump, the Butte-based company that has convenience stores...

  • Skylights topple Bears; Lights fall

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 3, 2014

    During a difficult non-conference schedule, the Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team played some stellar defense. It appears, that great defense has now carried over to Frontier Conference play. The No. 24 Skylights started the new year off in style, beating the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears 52-48 Thursday night at the Fortin Center in Billings. The win pushed the Skylights to 2-0 in league play and came by way of yet another dominant def...

  • Back to the Hardwood: Pony girls battle Bison, M-Ettes

    Daniel Horton|Updated Jan 3, 2014

    Break time is over and the Havre High girls basketball team is ready to go back to work. Before the holiday break, the Central A Blue Ponies got off to a 3-1 start overall and a 2-0 start in the division. The final games before the break resulted in a 64-25 win over Livingston and a 57-37 win over Belgrade for HHS. It was a hot start, and the Ponies have only gotten better since the beginning of the season. Today and Saturday, the Ponies will resume play, hopefully showing...

  • Back to the Hardwood: HHS boys home to host GFH, Malta

    Daniel Horton|Updated Jan 3, 2014

    Restarting the season after a short holiday break, the Havre High boys basketball team has two very tough non-conference home games waiting for them this weekend. After four games leading up to the break the Central A Blue Ponies went 2-2 overall and 1-1 in league play. But the nonconference portion of the schedule will once again test the Ponies tonight and Saturday night at the Havre High gymnasium in Havre. Tonight, the Ponies host the Class AA Great Falls High Bison (2-2)...