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MISSOULA (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock ordered two Montana Army National Guard helicopter teams and 18 checkpoint teams to join firefighting efforts on the Lolo Creek Complex west of Lolo. A total of nearly 110 Guardsmen are expected to be on duty by Thursday morning. The UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter teams will be stationed at the Montana Department of Natural Resources state land office in Missoula, while the checkpoint teams will report to their locations at 8 a.m. Thursday. The soldiers will be placed on active duty for up to 1...
The Salvation Army of Havre hosted its “Stuff the Bus” event aimed at collecting school supplies to give to students in need at Walmart 11 a.m. Tuesday. Trina Crawford of the Salvation Army, who is heading this year’s Stuff the Bus, said that they received more than $500 worth of donations Tuesday. This morning, she and the Salvation Army, Boy Scouts and many volunteers were filling backpacks with what the teachers in Havre are asking the students to buy. The backpacks are s...
Eight days. Just eight days stand between the Montana State University-Northern Lights and a season-opening Frontier Conference clash with the Dickinson State Blue Hawks. And while that Aug. 29 opener seems close at hand, the Lights aren’t presently focused on the Blue Hawks just yet. No, Northern is focused on continuing to improve, and most importantly, grinding through training camp. The Lights are into their second week of two-a-day practices, and that’s exactly what it...
The 2013 Havre High golf season got off to a hot start, literally. The Blue Ponies opened their golf season by hosting the Havre High Golf Tournament Tuesday at a warm and blustery Prairie Farms Golf Course. Teams from Browning and Lewistown were in attendance, and the conditions were tough for a season-opener, with high temperatures and strong winds testing even the most seasoned golfers in the field. Conditions aside, the day was a good one for many Havre boys and girls,...
LOLO (AP) — Fires have burned at least four homes so far in western Montana and high temperatures and increasing winds made the blazes likely to keep spreading, a state fire official said Tuesday. The two fires west of Lolo had been holding most of the day at nearly 8 square miles burned, but the wind speed started picking up Tuesday afternoon, state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation fire spokeswoman Crystal Beckman said. By evening, the Lolo Creek complex of fi...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 8:55 a.m. Tuesday report of chalk all over a field in Optimist Park. ——— Officers investigated 10:23 a.m. Tuesday call about chemicals being through on the caller’s grass because he calls with complaints about the offender’s dog barking on Curve Drive. ——— Officers issued a summons after investigating a 12:01 p.m. Tuesday report at the police station about a neighbor’s dog jumping on vehicles and scratching up a brand new pickup truck. ——— A two-vehicle, noninjury crash on 5th...
A nonprofit organized to support Beaver Creek Park has invited people to come to an evening of music, dancing and auctions to help it in its mission of fostering recreation and preservation of the park for generations to come. Ursula Brese of Friends of Beaver Creek Park said the group’s second annual fundraiser, “Fall in Love with Beaver Creek Park,” is set for Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Beaver Lodge at Camp Kiwanis in the park. She said the fundraiser last year, which was held in May, was successful, with about 75 peopl...
Graveside services for Eliene Gridley, who died July 2 at Columbia Falls, Mont., will be 3 p.m., Saturday at Highland Cemetery....
Who should put on the rodeo at the annual Hill County fair still is undecided, with the Great Northern Fair Board Tuesday discussing options including talking with the group that pulled out last month or possibly talking to other local groups. A representative of the local association that has put the Great Northern Fair rodeo for free the last two years — three years ago the board gave it $10,000 as seed money for its first rodeo — announced last month that the association was done. Clint Solomon of the association, who was...
