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Several local school districts with uncontested races are not holding elections, while others have listed the final candidates in their board races. Box Elder, Chinook, Harlem, Hays-Lodge Pole, Rocky Boy and Cottonwood Elementary school districts will hold elections May 8. Big Sandy, Chester-Joplin-Inverness, Havre, North Star, Turner and Davey school districts do not have any mill levies or contested trustee races, and their trustees will be elected by acclamation without a vote being held. In North Star, no one filed to...
Joshua Kassmier talked about jobs, the state budget and guns when he spoke Friday to the North Central Pachyderm Club at the Duck Inn. Kassmier is a Republican candidate for the Montana House of Representatives in House District 27 that stretches from the Canadian border to just outside of Great Falls. He said he decided to run for the state legislature to ensure his three children have a good future. "I have three kids and I want to make sure that they have the same great...
Dale Hansonl of North Havre will appear on the ballot as an independent this November in the District 3 race for Hill County Commissioner. Hansonl said a lack of communication exists between the commissioners and the public, and this is something he hopes to address if elected. "I had to go around and collect signatures to get on the ballot and that was one of the things I kept hearing over and over again from people is there doesn't seem to be very good communication between...
The Hill County Community Foundation is holding its first major fundraising event this year with Spring for the Arts set for April 21. Foundation Chair Pam Veis said the event is meant to educate people about the foundation’s work and raise money to increase the size of the foundation’s endowment. The gala at the Havre Historic Post Office will include dinner, live music and auctions. Veis said the foundation’s endowment provides grants for projects that promote local arts and culture, beautify the community or provide basic...
A vendor event at the Atrium Mall this Saturday will allow people to win prizes and buy items, while simultaneously raising money for and learning about programs for people on the autism spectrum. Cole Horinek, the event’s organizer whose son Donald is on the spectrum, said about 20 to 25 vendors are expected to show up Saturday and be set up at least throughout the main floor of the Atrium. “We are going to be spread out all around the main floor, there is going to be things going on possibly on all three floors as well,” he...
After more than a decade living in Japan, Kristen Takeuchi began her new job Tuesday as a news reporter with the Havre Daily News. Takeuchi, 34, said she has always had a passion for writing and is excited about her job. "I want to help to provide the news that people are reading, keep them informed and help build relationships," she said. Takeuchi, the daughter of Havre High School Principal Mike Haugen, said that she and her son Len, 3, moved to Havre to be closer to family....
Two Democrats running to be the next Hill County Attorney disagree on whether a plan to eliminate two vacant positions in the office and use the savings to hire a third deputy county attorney would be good for the office. Deputy County Attorney Karen Alley and local attorney Randy Randolph are running in the June 5 Democratic primary. County Attorney Cole-Hodgkinson opted not to run in the election. No other candidates filed in the race. The plan approved Thursday by the Hill...
Havre City Council voted 6-0 at their Monday meeting to forward a grievance filed against the Havre Fire Department by a former engineer, whose employment was terminated, to the council’s Labor Relations Committee. Council members Caleb Hutchins and Karen Swenson, who sit on that committee, were excused from the meeting. Council President Andrew Brekke, who sits on the committee, said after the meeting that he thinks Dustin “D.J.” Olson’s employment with the department was likely terminated in January but could not say for...
This weekend's 42nd annual Sweetgrass Society Powwow at Montana State University-Northern had added meaning this year for Aiyanna Armajo Goggles and her family. Goggles, 9, of the Blackfeet and Northern Arpacho, was about to be in her last grand entry as 2017 Junior Miss Sweetgrass Society Princess. Sweetgrass Society's Amy Murdock said the title is one of three that the Sweetgrass Society gives each year, the other two being Senior Miss Sweetgrass Society and Lil Miss...
The Hill County Commission Thursday voted to allow County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson to eliminate two vacant positions in her office and replace them with a third deputy county attorney, a move she has said. will save the county money and help her office handle cases faster. Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said the commissioners voted 2 to 1 to make the change. Commission Vice Chair Diane McLean said that the vote took place during the commission’s weekly business meeting. The commission’s public agenda sai...
The Havre Middle School auditorium teemed with seventh- and eighth-grade choir students Monday, as students from middle school choirs throughout the area gathered to take part in the Invitational Choral Festival. By 8:30 a.m. members of the Havre Middle School choir were in the auditorium standing in clusters engaged in conversation, while students from Chinook. Shelby and Turner arrived. A cart with bottled water was wheeled in and students flocked over to it, each grabbing...
Charges were dismissed without prejudice — meaning prosecutors could refile them — Tuesday in the case against former Chippewa Cree Tribal Chairman Kenneth Blatt St. Marks for allegedly violating an order of protection filed by his ex-wife. A motion to dismiss and vacate trial made in Hill County Justice Court by Deputy Hill County Attorney Karen Alley was granted, a day before St. Marks was set to appear in court for a hearing. The motion says the reason for the request for dismissal “was in the interest of justi...
Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Jared Pettinato talked with voters at Triple Dog Brewing Co Tuesday, part of a six-stop whistle stop tour he is making across northern Montana. Pettinato said in an interview that he has already visited Wolf Point and Glasgow, and will round out his tour with stops in Cut Bank, Browning and Libby. A former U.S. Justice Dept. attorney from Whitefish Pettinato is vying to be the Democratic candidate to take on Rep. Greg...
Montana State University-Northern’s Sweetgrass Society will kickoff the powwow season this weekend with their 42nd annual powwow in the campus Armory Gymnasium. The first grand entry will be 7 p.m. Friday, Sweetgrass Society President Amy Murdock said. Subsequent grand entries are Saturday at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Missing and murdered indigenous women will be honored Friday night with an honor song and dance, Murdock said. People are encouraged to wear red to show solidarity with the victims. “We want women of all ages to com...
Editor’s note: This has been revised to more accurately reflect Mark Meyer’s guest editorial. Although a former Hi-Line resident has warned people that the Passenger Rail Association is “pulling the alarm bell” regarding the future of Amtrak long-distance passenger trains, the members of Montana's Congressional delegation said they will support keeping Amtrak's Empire Builder running along the Hi-Line in its route from Chicago to the West Coast. Cut Bank native Mark Meyer,...
Former H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Manager Emily Mayer returned to her job Tuesday at the museum. Mayer, who was museum manager from 2002 to 2004 when it was in the Heritage Center, the former Havre post office on third Avenue now restored as the Havre Historic Post Office, will manage the museum now housed in the Holiday Village Mall. She said that Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas called her last week to offer her the part-time position. "And I said, 'Yes, yes. I will be...
After a winter marked by frigid temperatures and record-breaking snowfall, the weather has taken its toll on Havre's streets, and Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said it will likely have long-term effects. The city has received more than 80 inches of snow since July. All the more overwhelming, Peterson said, is the fact that the snow has not melted away. "Usually you have warm spells and the snow melts out, you get rid of it and then you get more snow," Peterson...
Montana's senior senator Wednesday defended statements he made about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In a telephone press conference, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., responded to a story by the Associated Press that said past statements he made about Dodd-Frank's effect on smaller community banks were only "mostly true." The 2010 Dodd-Frank bill was passed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 Great Recession in an attempt to regulate financial institutions...
Great Northern Fair board Chair Paul McCann resigned from the board Tuesday at its regular monthly meeting, while board members elected new officers and talked about charging for parking at this year's fair during the board's monthly meeting Tuesday. The Hill County Commission has not yet received McCann's formal resignation. A larger crowd was present as the board voted unanimously to make Tyler Smith the new chair and Scott Doney the board's new vice-chair. The board,...
The Hill County attorney told the Hill County Commission Tuesday she wants to eliminate two positions and hire a third deputy county attorney, part of an effort to trim expenses and cut down on a heavy case load in Justice Court. County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson presented the county commissioners with a written proposal during a meeting also attended by District Court staff and several attorneys from law firms within the county. She said in the proposal that she first asked the commissioners last May about hiring a...
A resolution recognizing the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce as the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau was passed 7-0 by the City Council at their Monday night meeting, making the Chamber eligible to receive state funds to promote the city as a tourist destination. Council member Sarah McKinney was excused. Passage of the resolution recognizes the Chamber as the local nonprofit that will receive and spend money from the state’s 4 percent accommodation tax on hotel, motel and campground occupancy. The funding will be use...
The Snowdance Ski Association, the nonprofit that operates Bear Paw Ski Bowl, will host it’s 2018 Hi-Line Winter Brewfest Saturday at the Havre Ice Dome 4 to 9 p.m. Dave Martens Jr., one of the event’s organizers, said representatives from nine Montana breweries, including Havre’s Triple Dog Brewing Co. and Old Station Brewing Co., which is close to opening in Havre, will be serving beer. Other breweries that will be at the brewfest will include Red Lodge Ales from Red Lodge; Bozeman Brewing of Bozeman and Busted Knuck...
Republican state Senate candidate Brad Lotton told the North Central Pachyderm Club Friday that his primary opponent, state Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, does not have a conservative enough voting record from the last Legislative session. Lotton said while he knows Tempel and thinks he is "a heck of a nice guy," Tempel's voting record is too liberal. Lotton said he thinks he can be a more conservative alternative. "I got into this race because I think I can do better," Lotton...
The past few months have been a big change for Sandi Boardman, who after 23 years as Blaine County Clerk and Recorder/Assessor and 44 years working in the office, retired in December. Instead of spending her weekdays at the Blaine County Courthouse, she now spends them in her living room greeting her grandson Jacob, 10, when he comes home from school and watching her other grandson 4-month-old Jaxton at her home. She also visits and takes care of her parents who are in their...
Hill County is expected to see job growth close to historical averages of about 1.5 percent in 2018, but then see a slowdown in the years ahead, Patrick Barkey, director of the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research said Wednesday during the bureau's 43rd Economic Outlook Seminar at Montana State University-Northern. Barkey presented the data about Hill County in Hensler Auditorium in Northern's Applied Technology Center. He said that in 2017, the...
