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MISSOULA (AP) — More than 100 people carrying candles held a vigil Friday in the Montana city where a 17-year-old German exchange student was gunned down in a homeowner's garage. The gathering for Diren Dede brought scores of people to the Fort Missoula soccer fields, where balloons with German and American colors were displayed for the somber memorial. Dede was an all-state soccer player for Big Sky High School. He started playing soccer the day he arrived in Missoula in August and quickly made friends, said Kate Walker a...
BILLINGS (AP) - The director of the Billings Area Indian Health Service has resigned less than 18 months into the job, saying her efforts to improve health care for Indians were being crippled by a dysfunctional system. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1fWcjmI ) Anna Whiting-Sorrell complained about the quality and level of services provided. The Billings-area IHS provides health services to more than 70,000 Native Americans and Alaska Native people in Montana and Wyoming. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, chairman of the...
Laurel — Rocky Boy residents on Thursday gathered for a candlelight vigil for Kaidynce Small, the 11-month-old child who died last year. It has been a tough time for Rocky Boy in recent years. The tight-knit community has been torn asunder by political differences, corruption and then this tragic death which led to murder charges. Maybe the candlelight ceremony will be the beginning of healing on the reservation. Dart — The Bakken oil boom has had lots of advantages for the Mon-Dak region, but it has also created a lot of...
In the late ’70s — when disco was first showing signs of dying a merciful death and my puberty was still lying dormant beyond its expected arrival — author and avid pilot Richard Bach wrote this popular bit of wisdom: “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, they're yours. If they don't, they never were.” I hated that sappy saying. And then someone gave me a poster. The quote was flourished over a fantastical scene of white doves flying off into a tu...
Several years ago when I made the monumental move from Poulsbo, Washington, to Harlem, Montana, with several truckloads of stuff, I unpacked and created a home that was also a library, an art gallery, a virtual grocery store, a tool shed, a fabric store and a workshop. My life was as complicated as that sentence. Jokingly, I swore that if ever I relocated again, I would take nothing with me. I would become a minimalist. My life would be defined by sparseness and simplicity. I...
The Havre Area Special Olympics were in in full swing Wednesday at Havre Middle School. Athletes from all around the Hi-Line came to Havre to participate in the multi-event day. Around 90 competitors from Chinook, Shelby, Harlem, Havre and many other towns in the region banded together to test the skills they have been practicing for months and, in many cases, years. Some of the events included track competitions like the 100-meter dash and long jump, the softball throw and...
A Havre psychologist is the latest of a string of defendants to plead guilty to charges alleging fraud and embezzlement at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The indictments also involve a former state and tribal official, while some unnamed figures still wait in the wings with possible charges pending. James Howard Eastlick Jr., who worked at Rocky Boy and was a former interim CEO of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Health Board, pleaded guilty to two charges of bribery and a charge of tax evasion. Eastlick pleaded guilty to one cha...
Absentee ballots for the June 3 primary election will be mailed out Monday, with last-minute filings adding to the contested primary races. In Hill County, Clerk and Recorder Sue Armstrong reports that six ballots already have been mailed to people serving in the military. Another 1,719 will be mailed Monday. The primary absentee ballots account for more than 18 percent of the 9,358 registered voters in the county and 23 percent of the 7,496 active voters. The polls open for the nonabsentee voters June 3. Local races have...
The weekend forecast has already changed, and changed again for the Havre area, but the Havre High softball program is hoping for a window of opportunity, as the Central A Blue Ponies gear up to host their annual Havre Softball Invitational. Saturday, several teams will gather at Sixth Avenue Memorial Field and at Hospital Park in Havre. This weekend, Lewistown, Conrad, Glasgow, Shelby and Cut Bank will be in attendance for varsity action, while Shelby, Lewistown, Cut Bank,...
Coming off of a couple good showings at the Malta Invitational track meet Tuesday, the Havre High boys and girls track and field teams are looking to continue on the upswing. But the competition Saturday in Whitefish is going to be a lot stiffer than Tuesday’s. Saturday the Havre High Blue Ponies will compete in Whitefish ARM Invitational. There will be several Class AA teams in attendance, as well as plenty of Class A talent out of the west the Ponies can’t wait to see. Squ...
Montana State University-Northern head wrestling coach Tyson Thivierge is adding some more star power to his 2014 recruiting class. Earlier this week, Thivierge announced the signing of Mhar “Andrew” Caballa to an NAIA national letter of intent. Caballa will be coming to Northern from Kodiak, Alaska, where he was a four-time Alaska state qualifier, as well as an Alaska state champion as a sophomore. Overall, Caballa reached the Alaska state championship match three times, fin...
Brenda Lee TopSky-Gardipee, Walking on Sweetgrass Woman — Wi-Kahs-Ki-Pi-Mo-Tew Is-Kew, 54, of Rocky Boy, passed away on April 30, 2014, at Peace Hospice in Great Falls, Montana. Wake services began at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2014, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy. Funeral service will be at noon on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at the Old Stone Child College gym, with Chippewa Cree Tribal Elders officiating. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with ser...
