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The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team was in two dramatic games just a week ago, both resulting in home losses. The Skylights found themselves in another tight one Thursday night in Helena, only Northern reversed roles. MSU-N came back from a halftime deficit and another tough shooting night to upend Carroll College 55-50 in Helena Thursday night. The win pushed Northern to 2-2 in Frontier Conference play and returned the Skylights to a good feeling...
Just past the school year's halfway mark, students and teachers are excited to show off what they've been doing since August. They will start demonstrating their work with a family activity night from 5:30 to 6:30 p. m. Monday at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School. The week wraps up Friday, Jan. 27, with an afternoon event, from 2:10 to 3:20 p. m., at Sunnyside Intermediate School. Marilyn Granell, a third-grade teacher, said the Lincoln-McKinley event will be called "Chilling Out With Math, " referring to both the fun game-play...
Montana State University-Northern is continuing to take steps ensuring its place among top national biodiesel researchers and producers. The U. S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration announced on Thursday a grant sending $647,748 to Northern "to support the North Central Montana Renewable Industry Initiative to commercialize green technology and create new high-skill, living-wage jobs. " The release says that the "project is expected to create 26 jobs and generate $90 million in private investment,...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre Day Activity Center's Recycling Center worker Don Leach loads shredded paper in to a baler Thursday afternoon. Recycling Center assistant supervisor Dustin Murphy said the Havre Day clients either pick up the paper from local businesses or paper is delivered to the center to be shredded and baled by clients. A group of Hi-Line residents are holding a meeting Wednesday to explore reorganizing and expanding their operation to promote and facilitate recycling. "We've grown to the point where...
The Havre High girls basketball team remained perfect in the Central A after thumping the Livingston Rangers 49-26 Friday night in Livingston. The HHS boys weren't as fortunate. The Rangers beat the Ponies 63-45 Friday night. Both HHS teams are in Belgrade fpr games Saturday afternoon. Friday's Scores The Associated Press BOYS BASKETBALL Augusta 52, Fort Benton 22 Belt 58, Cascade 29 Big Sandy 79, Box Elder 55 Billings West 79, Butte 55 Bozeman 70, Great Falls 58 Browning 55, Belgrade 45 Centerville 76, Great Falls Central...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Thursday angrily denied that he asked his second wife for an "open marriage" that would allow him to have a mistress as she claims in an interview broadcast two days before the South Carolina primary. "Let me be quite clear. The story is false," Gingrich said at a debate, without elaborating. AP Photo/David Goldman Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stands with his wife Callista at the end of the Republican presidential c...
Time is winding down for the Havre High boys and girls swim teams. The Blue Ponies have just two meets left before the All-Class State Swimming Championships which take place Feb. 10-11 in Billings. An Havre High's Morgan Jappe competes in the 100-meter breaststroke during the 2011 Havre Invitational last month at the Havre Community Pool. The Blue Pony boys and girls swim teams compete in their next-to-last regular season meet when they visit Missoula Saturday for the annual...
Coming off of the best game the Havre High boys basketball team has played this season, the Blue Ponies are looking to build on their recent success. Now heading into the weekend with two winnable games, the Ponies will see if they can find some consistency. The Central A Blue Ponies are coming off of a 57-43 romping of the Class B Malta Mustang Havre High's Kade Rismon (middle) goes high for a shot during a Central A boys basketball game last month against Livingston. The Pony boys are in Livingston tonight and Belgrade...
Heading back into conference play, the Havre High girls basketball team has a chance to add two more wins to its record. The Central A Blue Ponies are 4-0 in conference play and are 7-3 overall. And gearing up to play two conference teams the Ponies already beat once this season, Havre could very well return home from the road trip with a flawless 6-0 conference record. Tonight HHS will face the Livingston Rangers in Livingston, and Saturday the Ponies will face the Belgrade Panthers in Belgrade. Havre High's Sammy Evans...
If the Carroll College Saints were out for revenge for their loss to the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team in last year's Frontier Conference championship game, they certainly got it. Carroll's Ben Cutler made a running jumper with two seconds left in overtime to lift the Saints to a 53-51 win over the No. 12 Lights Thursday night at the Carroll P.E. Center in Helena. The loss was Northern's first in Frontier Conference play, and Cutler's game-winner...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team was in two dramatic games just a week ago, both resulting in home losses. The Skylights found themselves in another tight one Thursday night in Helena, only Northern reversed roles. MSU-N came back from a halftime deficit and another tough shooting night to upend Carroll College 55-50 in Helena Thursday night. The win pushed Northern to 2-2 in Frontier Conference play and returned the Skylights to a good feeling...
MSU-Northern's Nick King (left) goes for a take down in a heavyweight bout during Thursday night's dual between the Lights and Northwest College at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. Montana State University-Northern's Kody Reed (top) pins a Northwest College opponent to the mat during a 184-pound match Thursday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse in Havre. The Lights beat the Trappers 34-10. The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team is getting hot, just as it's finally...
Laurels — The late-Terry Schend and the late-Kevin Keim did tremendous work in planning and constructing Town Square in downtown Havre. The park has become a centerpiece of Havre life. Saturday Market and Sounds on the Square take place there. Other festivities and political gatherings have also been held in the park. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, which spearheaded the effort to build the park more than a decade ago, honored Schend and Keim for their work by naming them recipients of the North Star Award this week. T...
MISSOULA (AP) — The state Board of Regents plans a system-wide look at the way it handles reports of sexual assault after an ongoing investigation uncovered reports of at least five recent attacks at the University of Montana. At Thursday's meeting in Helena, board members expressed concern about the sexual assaults at UM and made a commitment to work to prevent similar attacks on all of Montana's college campuses, the Missoulian reported. The regents called the attacks "intolerable" and affirmed their commitment to safe s...
The echoes had barely stopped from an announcement that a permit for a transcontinental pipeline had been denied before the camps of two U. S. Senate candidates were taking shots at each other. President Barack Obama Wednesday denied issuing a permit to TransCanada Corp. to build a pipeline to transport tar sand oil. Obama, who had delayed making a decision until 2013, was required to make a decision by Feb. 21 by a rider attached to legislation extending payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.,...
Pearl Chilton, 83, of Chinook, passed away Jan. 18, 2012, due to natural causes. Memorial services will be held Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, at 11 a.m., at Edwards Funeral Home Chapel. Arrangements are made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
Another local legislator has filed as a candidate for re-election, setting up a rematch of the 2008 election in Senate District 16. Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, filed this morning. Rep. Frank Smith, D-Poplar, filed Jan. 12, the first day filing was allowed. Windy Boy, challenged Smith in 2008 when Smith was the incumbent in the district. Windy Boy defeated Smith in the Democratic primary, then again in the general election after Smith filed as an independent. Windy Boy gave up his opportunity to run for a fourth...
A coalition of Hill County landowners, upset with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, have decided they are done with the department and are closing their property to the hunters they have always allowed on their land. About 17 property owners with land totaling 50,000 acres have joined the few farmers and ranchers who said at the FWP Commission meeting last week that they were going to cut access, after the commission voted 4 to 1 to buy the Milk River Ranch, against the wishes of more than 100 attendees. At the meeting Dan...
There is no get-out-of-jail-free card for America's small business owners—when times are tight they have to find new ways to stretch their resources in order to keep their doors open and stay competitive. That is why it is so disappointing to see how our leadership in Washington is handling our current financial situation Rep. Mike Mille Instead of addressing the fiscal cliff by ratcheting back unnecessary spending and making government more accountable, some of our elected officials are looking to the taxpayers to provide t...
Both the Havre High girls and boys basketball teams closed out 2012 with tough losses to the Class AA Great Falls High Bison. Thursday night in Havre, The Ponies lost a heartbreaker, 46-43 to the Bison. Havre ends the 2012 portion of its schedule with a 2-3 overall record and 2-0 in the Central A. Meanwhile, the HHS boys fell to 0-5 after losing to the Bison, 69-43 Thursday night in Great Falls. For full coverage, see Friday's Havre Daily News. Thursday's Scores The Associated Press Havre High's Peyton Filius, right,...
Thursday High School Basketball Havre girls vs GFH, 7 p.m. Havre boys at GFH, 7 p.m. Big Sandy girls vs Winifred, 6 p.m. Big Sandy boys vs Winifred, 7:30 Turner girls at Hinsdale, 6 p.m. Turner boys at Hinsdale, 7:30 C/J-I girls at D-Brady, 6 p.m. C/J-I boys at D-Brady, 7:30 High School Wrestling Havre at GFH, 7 p.m. College Basketball Lights at Portland Bible, 7:30 p.m. Friday High School Basketball Big Sandy girls vs Turner, 6 p.m. Big Sandy boys vs Turner, 7:30 North Star girls vs Box Elder, 6 p.m. North Star boys vs Box...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team plated pretty much non-stop from the beginning of October to the beginning of December. But the Lights have had the last 19 days without playing a game. Tonight in Portland, Ore., that all changes as the No. 22 Lights (11-2) take on Portland Bible College as part of a two-day road trip in Oregon. Northern also faces Linfield College on Friday night in McMinville, Ore. The Lights last took the court Dec. 1 when they...
With two major tournaments already behind the Havre High wrestling team, the load doesn't get much lighter tonight. Instead of dozens of schools and hundreds of wrestlers, the Central A Ponies will face one very talented Class AA squad on the road. Tonight at 6 p.m., the No. 2 Class A Ponies will dual the No. 2 Class AA Great Falls High Bison in Great Falls. This will be the third time the Ponies and Bison cross paths this season, but the first in a dual format. The most recent meeting came last weekend at the CMR Holiday...
Both the Havre High boys and girls basketball teams have already faced one Class AA opponent, and now heading into week three of the season, both Blue Pony squads will face another tough Class AA team before heading into the holiday break. The Blue Pony girls (2-0, 2-2) will make their home debut tonight at the Havre High gymn Havre High's Thurman Holdsclaw, left, grabs a loose ball during a boys basketball game against CMR earlier this month in Havre. The Ponies travel to Great Falls to close out the 2012 portion of their sc...
I generally accept what is rather than focus on what isn't. But every now and then I get a hankering to have a man around the house. The way I figure it, it's like a disease, neither all pervasive nor life threatening. It's more like a nebulous yearning for someone with whom to share experiences, someone to whom I could hand a "honey-do" list. My wanting comes and goes, doesn't stick around long; often months pass between attacks. Sondra Ashton Maybe the approaching holiday season is a factor; another could be that I...
