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Hamilton's school system could soon choose to hire Havre's assistant superintendent for its head position. Tom Korst is one of the school board's final four candidates in the search for a new Hamilton superintendent to replace retiring Duby Santee, the Ravalli Republic reported this morning. Korst, with other candidates from St. Ignatius, Stevensville and C'oeur D'Alene, Idaho, will be interviewed late next week, including a public meeting on Friday, Jan. 20, at 5 p. m. Korst was hired as assistant superintendent of Havre...
Few candidates had trickled in to file as of deadline this morning, but a series of hot races in north-central Montana opened up for people to officially declare their candidacy today. Perhaps the hottest race, gathering national, as well as state attention, is for the U. S. Senate. Five-term incumbent Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Republican, announced early last year he would not run for re-election, instead taking on first-term Democrat Jon Tester. The Republican and Democratic parties on a national level have been watching that...
Myra Pagel Toth Myra Pagel Toth, 89, a lifelong Hill County resident, passed away peacefully at her home of natural causes Jan. 10, 2012. Family graveside services will be held Saturday, Jan. 14, with a Celebration of Life service to be held at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 3 p. m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bear Paw Hospice, 30 W. 13th St., Havre, MT or to one's choice. Arrangements are under the direction of Holland & Bonine Funeral Home, and cremation has taken place. Myra...
Today officially marks the beginning of the 2012 political season Candidates can begin filing for seats in the Nov. 6 election. In Montana, Election 2012 promises to be a political junkie's dream. There will be hotly contested races from president of the United States to Hill County commissioner. Every statewide political office is open, highlighted by what promises to be a doozy of a governor's race. And the race for U.S. Senate between Democrat Jon Tester and Dennis Rehberg is getting national attention. John Kelleher...
Last week, the Montana Supreme Court overturned an earlier victory for free speech rights won in Helena district court by American Tradition Partnership, Montana Shooting Sports Association and Champion Painting Inc. over government bureaucrats' right to bar individuals and companies from airing political opinions under a non-profit or for-profit corporate umbrella. The ban on speech that Montana's court temporarily restored was enacted before Prohibition, in response to this state's embarrassing history of political...
Remember when we were 6 going on 7. Remember when birthdays were a joy, a cause for celebration, awaited with keen anticipation. Remember the excitement of 12 going on 13, becoming a teenager. Or counting the days until we passed that major milestone and turned 21. Ah, the sweet expectations of youth. Then suddenly we were 29 and heading over the hill. Sondra Ashton A few weeks ago I enjoyed the Christmas feast with my cousin Shirley and her older son, Tim. While sewing gift p...
Editor: We live by Lincoln-McKinley Primary School, and we are often shocked and upset to see how fast some people drive by here. A lot of the drivers look like young mothers who are taking their children to school. We worry so much about the children who are walking to and from school and the other people in the area. As fast as some people drive, there is no way they could stop if someone gets in front of them. Just this morning, there was a black SUV which raced by here, didn't even slow for the intersection. We would...
AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Penn State University President Rodney Erickson waits for the beginning of a town hall meeting with alumni in Pittsburgh, Wednesday. Erickson was grilled Wednesday by alumni unhappy about how the school handled a child sex abuse scandal, the firing of longtime football coach Joe Paterno and a lack of transparency over the case. KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — A plan designed to soothe angry Penn State University alumni may instead be sowing seeds of outrage. School President Rodney Erickson was scheduled to app...
BILLINGS (AP) — The FBI says dozens of calls have come into an automated tip line set up to help find missing Montana teacher Sherry Arnold. Agency spokeswoman Deborah Bertram says authorities are reviewing all tips that have come in so far. She urged people to continue calling with any information in the case. The FBI on Thursday issued a missing person poster for Arnold, a 43-year-old math teacher from the oil boom town of Sidney near the North Dakota border. Authorities are investigating the possibility Arnold was a...
Thursday's Scores The Associated Press BOYS BASKETBALL Belt 47, Fort Benton 29 Deer Lodge 67, Drummond 55 Dillon 71, Helena 62 Fairfield 48, Shelby 27 Florence 59, Missoula Loyola 55 Great Falls 48, Great Falls Russell 44 Hays-Lodgepole 81, Turner 32 Helena Capital 58, Anaconda 27 Hinsdale 45, Frazer 39 Hot Springs 40, St. Regis 16 Lodge Grass 87, Hardin 71 Manhattan Christian 60, Harrison-Willow Creek 34 Noxon 40, Superior 39 Ronan 48, St. Ignatius 43 Stevensville 70, Hamilton 51 Twin Bridges 67, Shields Valley 58 Valley...
Montana State University-Northern's Nick King (right) locks up with a Souther Oregon heavyweight during an NAIA dual back in November in Havre. The eighth-ranked Lights travel to Arizona for the Mile High Duals and Mile High Open this weekend. The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team had a rough go in Illinois last weekend. The Lights' longest bus ride of the season yielded little results as they went 1-2 at the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals last weekend in Spring...
It's been noted that every night in the Frontier Conference is a big one during the basketball season. Montana State University-Northern head coaches Shawn Huse and Chris Mouat preach that religiously. But there's big games and then there's big games, and that's what could happen Saturday night in Havre when the UM-Western Bulldogs visit the Skylights and Lights. Both the Northern men and women have developed a serious rivalry with the Bulldogs and that rivalry has really mani...
After the Havre High wrestling team snatched a team title at the Cut Bank Invite last weekend, the Blue Ponies head right back into another tough weekend of competition. Last weekend the Ponies Havre High's Grant Pattison (top) drives a CMR opponent into the mat during the 2011 Havre Invitational last month. The Ponies dual the Rustlers today in Great Falls, then travel to the Rocky Mountain Classic Friday and Saturday. outscored the field with 279 points, grabbing a team title in Cut Bank. The season's success continues to...
Opponents of a plan to relocate 68 wild bison filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the transfer of the animals to Fort Belknap and Fort Peck Indian reservations. The plaintiffs contend Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks should be blocked from relocating the animals until the agency crafts a statewide bison management plan and conducts further environmental reviews. The suit was filed in state District Court in Blaine County by a coalition of property owners, ranchers, public land access advocates and a state lawmaker, stat...
The Hill County Park Board plans to look at the amounts charged for leasing cabin sites in Beaver Creek Park at its February meeting, with the intent to set the fees at its meeting the following month. At the board's monthly meeting held this week, board Chair Steve Mariani said the issue could be fully explored over the next two meetings. Mariani said the regulations on cabin leasing on the park have been updated and are being reviewed by the Hill County attorney's office. Part of the new draft is to keep the fees outside...
Local AmeriCorps workers are hoping members of the community will help them commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by emulating his dedication to community service and enhancing their own community in Havre. AmeriCorps is taking part in a national Day of Service on Monday, which in Havre will consist of helping, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., in cleaning up, weatherizing and restoring the former post office building at 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue. Volunteers will get a tour of the building at noon. Lisa Smith, Havre's AmeriCorps...
The atmosphere inside Bobcat Stadium last Friday night was electric. Actually, it's been that way most of what has been a magical season for the Montana State University football team. But Friday night was special, as the Cats were playing a nationally-televised night game at home in the Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinals. And right from the start, you could feel how special the night was. But as special as the night was, as loud an hostile as the nearly 17,000...
MSU-N's Nikki Tresch, left, drives by a Carroll College defender during a Frontier Conference women's basketball game last month in Havre. Tresch is averaging 15 points per game in her senior season. Shooting guards, 3-point sharpshooters and excellent ball handlers — those attributes are hard to find all in one package when it comes to NAIA and Frontier Conference women's basketball. The Montana State University-Northern Skylights have had their share of good ones over the ye...
As the 63rd session of the Montana state Legislature nears, all of the groups that rely on that body to function are getting ready to make their case. And the state's smaller school districts are doing more preparation than usual. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson supported a request from the recently formed Class A Caucus to the school board at their meeting Tuesday night. Mike Longbottom, chair of the Class A Caucus board and vice chair of the Laurel School Board, explained in a letter that all of the school...
It will be a day of the dozens for Havre Middle School student Holly Strobel. She turns 12 today, on 12/12/12. According to a CNN story, only 9,000 people in the world will have such an honor. The next time there will be such an alteration, will be when someone turns 1 on 1/1/01, that is 3001. Holly said she started her celebration over the weekend when she had 12 friends over for a sleepover. Today will be made special when her mother takes her out to dinner and her father takes her out for more celebrations. Holly is...
Plans are in motion to ensure that if the power goes out in Havre, the lights will stay on at at least one local school. Officials from Havre Public Schools and the Hill County government met with Kent Atwood, Montana Disaster and Emergency Services hazard mitigation officer, to find what the next steps are in a federal grant to install a diesel generator at Havre High School. The $16,650 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant is through disaster mitigation funds. "FEMA is doing this to mitigate a severe winter storm or...
The AP Government class at Havre High School always offers students a more in-depth view of the government, but next month it will give some of the students a front-row, in-person look. At Tuesday night's Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting, the board voted to allow John Ita, the AP Government teacher, to take 18 people to Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 21. Ita said the group — which will include four parents and 14 students, including two recent graduates — would be traveling down...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The gunman who killed two people and himself in a shooting rampage at an Oregon mall was 22 years old and used a stolen rifle from someone he knew, authorities said Wednesday. Jacob Tyler Roberts had armed himself with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and had several fully loaded magazines when he arrived at a Portland mall on Tuesday, said Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts. AP Photo/The Oregonian, Bruce Ely Onlookers observe the scene outside Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore., where a shooting occurre...
Thursday's Scores The Associated Press BOYS BASKETBALL Belt 47, Fort Benton 29 Deer Lodge 67, Drummond 55 Dillon 71, Helena 62 Fairfield 48, Shelby 27 Florence 59, Missoula Loyola 55 Great Falls 48, Great Falls Russell 44 Hays-Lodgepole 81, Turner 32 Helena Capital 58, Anaconda 27 Hinsdale 45, Frazer 39 Hot Springs 40, St. Regis 16 Lodge Grass 87, Hardin 71 Manhattan Christian 60, Harrison-Willow Creek 34 Noxon 40, Superior 39 Ronan 48, St. Ignatius 43 Stevensville 70, Hamilton 51 Twin Bridges 67, Shields Valley 58 Valley...
HELENA (AP) — A judge has authorized the start of payments to American Indians in a $3.4 billion settlement involving the federal government's mishandling of land trust royalties. The settlement was the result of a lawsuit originally filed by Elouise Cobell of Browning, Mont. Cobell died of cancer last year. A law firm representing Cobell and others said Wednesday that a judge authorized it to start sending $1,000 checks to about 350,000 beneficiaries. Attorney Keith Harper says the firm wants to get the first round of c...
