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Cecilia Rose Gardipee of Box Elder is being sentenced today for her role in the death of Kaidynce Small, an 11-month-old who died Oct. 21. The sentencing hearing was being held in U.S. District Court at Great Falls this morning. Witnesses favoring stronger or more lenient punishment were being heard. The results of the hearing will be posted on www.havredailynews.com as soon as the hearing is completed. Gardipee pleaded guilty in May in an agreement with prosecutors to shaking the child for about 90 seconds in the early morni... Full story
Sheryl Dee Jones, 52, of Box Elder, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, at her residence of natural causes. A visitation will be from 11 a.m. until 6:30 p.m., and a rosary will be recited at 7 p.m., all on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Box Elder. The funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, also at St. Anthony Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Sheryl Dee’s online m... Full story
Cecilia Rose Gardipee will spend the next 13 years and four months in prison for her role in the death of Kaidynce Small on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Oct. 21, days before his first birthday. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris imposed the same sentence as he did on Small’s father, Garrett “Kirby” Lafromboise. Kaidynce’s mother, her father and her her aunt all asked Morris to impose a life sentence, with his mother, Jasmine Small, saying she wanted to see both come out of prison in a body bag. Gardipee and Lafromboi... Full story
Editor: A heartfelt thank-you to Paul and Randy for helping Trikers from Iowa. On July 14, we were traveling through Havre on our way to Glacier National Park. We had serious wheel-bearing troubles on our trike and were just glad that we made it into town by 7 p.m. Paul Nugent was driving by and saw our distress and offered to help and meet us as the motel we were trying to get in. He pulled up in his truck and right behind was Randy Rude whom he had called to help out. They lent us tools, dug right in to find the problem,...
Actually, there is no “we.” I am the one wondering if I lost my last wing nut. I’m down in the dumps, crawling along the bottom of the pit, rolling in slime and garbage. Well, it sort of feels like that. After a month of visiting friends and relatives, being part of their everyday “normal” life, I cannot help but make comparisons. Of course, I compare my insides (see above) with your outsides. You, of course, come out looking beautiful in my assessment, happy, joyous an... Full story
Joyce L. Mikulecky, 78, passed away Aug. 10, 2014. Services will be held August 23rd, 10 a.m., at the Elk's Lodge in McMinnville, Oregon, with a reception to follow. Memorial donations can be made at joycecelebratinglife.weebly.com. To leave online condolences, visit www.macyandson.com.... Full story
Havre Police Department Officers investigated an 11:02 a.m. Wednesday complaint at the police station about the possible theft of clothing. ——— A two-vehicle noninjury motor vehicle accident was investigated after officers responded to a 12:59 p.m. Wednesday call from Saddle Butte Drive. ——— Officers investigated a 3:49 p.m. Wednesday call from 3rd Avenue about license plates that were stolen off a trailer. ——— Officers investigated a 5:50 p.m. Wednesday call from Northern Montana Hospital about a dog bite. ——— Officers inve... Full story
Students of Havre High School hiked up the side of Saddle Butte to make their mark on the history of Havre Wednesday. Lindsey Kudrna said she invited the entire Havre High School Class of 2015 to help paint the "H" on Saddle Butte, but only a handful of students showed up to help. Serendipitously, 15 students arrived to show their school spirit in a tradition that has not been performed since the class of 2011. "We as a class want to be remembered," Kudrna said. "Our senior... Full story
A man facing his third revocation of his release on a suspended sentence — the second in five months — was ordered to spend the rest of his sentence with the state Department of Corrections. Andrew Ketchum of Box Elder, born in 1988, admitted earlier this month to violating conditions of his suspended sentence for an attempted burglary in 2008. State District Judge Dan Boucher revoked his suspended sentence and resentenced him to custody, with the recommendation he be placed in a treatment program. The sentence will run at th...
A new nursing director at Montana State University-Northern has been hired. Janice Starr will begin her role as director for the nursing program Sept. 8. Starr is finishing her employment at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo as director of nursing and allied health. “We are very pleased Dr. Starr has agreed to join the team of nursing professionals at MSU-Northern,” Provost William Rug said in a press release from the university. “She brings all of the right skills and experiences needed to advance Northern’s nursing...
BNSF Railway Co. has been trying to clean the groundwater pollution caused by decades of spills from its business. On Havre's north side, between the Milk River and the viaduct, the problem of pollution was especially acute. BNSF purchased several homes as part of a settlement with North Havre residents who owned property with diesel pollution. Many have been torn down and others await demolition. But people live in the others, and some of those people are quite content with t... Full story
At all levels of his athletic career, Myles Mazurkiewicz has been successful. He was a two-time state wrestling champion for the Havre Blue Ponies and a four-time NAIA All-American for the University of Great Falls Argos. Now, he's making a name for himself in the world of Mixed Martial Arts, and with a win over Spokane's Ryan Mulvihill Friday night at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, he will establish himself as a force to be reckoned with. Mazurkiewicz has two... Full story
Three swimmers from The Havre Lions Swim Team qualified and competed in the 2014 Summer Long Course State Championship, which was held in Bozeman from July 25-27. Those competing for Havre were, Stephanie Padgett, age 10, Natalie Padgett, age 9 and Kyla Burchard, age 8. They all did an awesome job with the help from their Coach Jill Cammon. Below are the results of the meet for each of the Havre swimmers. Stephanie Padgett competed in the 10&U age group and earned: 11th place...
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The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team has had unparalleled success over the last two seasons, including winning a Frontier Conference regular season championship, and reaching the Frontier tournament finale two years running. Today in Spokane though, Northern will put all that success in its rearview mirror, and instead focus on 2014 and the future. MSU-N opens its season today as the Skylights play the first of five matches this weekend at the Sports Travel... Full story
