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A public hearing to get ideas on what form of government the city of Havre should have will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at city hall. For more than a year, the Havre City Government Study Commission has has been reviewing various options, discussing the matter with city department heads, the city judge, previous city officials and members of City Council. Though no final decisions have been made, some of the proposals under consideration include a city manager form of government and changing the method under which council...
Pam Hillery noticed soreness for the first time three years ago last month when she was attending Gov. Steve Bullock's inaugural ball. She thought maybe it was just because she'd been dancing so much. Doctors went through a list eliminating the possibilities. Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, one by one the possibilities were scratched off the list. Finally, doctors got to the last thing they check in such cases - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease. It...
An Amber Alert has been issued for Maci Maelyn Lilley, 4-year old Native American female from Wolf Point. The child was last seen playing in a park in Wolf Point at approximately 9 p.m. on Friday when friends saw a male take her and flee on foot. Maci is three feet tall, weighs 60 pounds, has brown eyes, brown hair and was last seen wearing a pink coat, blue jeans, pink and white shoes, short hair with bangs and zigzag teeth. Suspect is possibly John Lieba. No further information is available on him. Anyone with information...
On the wall at the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum is a new display of collectible dolls from all over the world. These are expensive dolls of Native Americans, African-Americans, working people, Betsy Ross sewing an American flag and dozens of others. They are mostly fine, handmade dolls, representing a bygone era. The dolls were originally collected by Margaret Turner Clack, wife of the early 20th century businessman H. Earl Clack for whom the museum was named. The dolls were...
About 70 low-income families in the Havre area will be getting a free Easter dinner through Salvation Army and Havre Food Bank. The dinner will consist of turkey or ham, potatoes, vegetables and a pie, said Trina Crawford, director of the Salvation Army’s Havre Service Center. People are asked to call the Salvation Army at 265-6411 to set up an appointment to come to the office and be interviewed. The special program will help people “who might now have the fine dinner that the rest of us have all the time,” she said. Peopl...
Mike Haugen, a teacher who performs administrative tasks at Gonzaga preparatory School in Spokane, Washington, will be the next principal at Havre High School. School Superintendent Andy Carlson said he offered Haugen the position Thursday afternoon, and he accepted. Haugen is a Chinook native and his wife hails from Havre. Carlson said Haugen was an assistant football and basketball coach for the Blue Ponies in the 1980s while he was teaching at St. Jude Thaddeus School. “I think we were impressed with his teaching and i...
The United Way of Hill County has reached its $80,000 goal. This is the first time in eight years the nonprofit has met its annual goal. The money will be used to provide food, shelter, protection and health care to Hill County residents who need it most, said Jessica Nebel, the local United Way's executive director. Nebel said the organization is grateful for the generosity of Hill County businesses and community members, whose donations made it possible for United Way to...
One thing has been missed in the discussions about Montana's economy that abound this time of the year: The state is at full employment. Those are the thoughts of Patrick Barkey, the director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. He was the keynote speaker at the annual luncheon meeting of Bear Paw Development Corp. at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Thursday. The state has shown a recovery from the recession, he said. The recovery...
“Men Who Cook for Women Who Wine” will be no more. The annual fundraiser was originally started to help pay for construction of the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center and has since helped families throughout the Hi-Line in recent years. It will be replaced by a variety of other volunteer programs that will aid families in need said representatives of Serving of Hope, the group of Hi-Line residents which has sponsored Men Who Cook for Women Who Wine. New federal regulations involving food handling would put a burden on vol...
The proposal to establish a city manager form of government has gained more support inside Havre City Hall. Newly elected city council members Caleb Hutchins and Ed Matter told the Havre Study Commission Tuesday night that they back the proposed city manager as the most effective way to run the city. And both were open to the idea of a hybrid method of electing city council members. The commission is looking at the idea of electing four council members by ward — one from each ward — and four at large. Under the present sys...
The annual Hi-Line Film Festival at Atrium Mall is being expanded into a New Idea Expo. This year’s program will include a variety of speakers, presentations and films, information booths and food vendors, as well as documentary films. “We have been doing the film festival for about 10 years,” said Kris Shaw, co-founder of Yellow Bus Creations, the organization that sponsors the film festival. “We haven’t seen participation increase that much, so we thought we would try something new.” This year’s program, which will be...
Havre School Superintendent Andy Carlson said Tuesday the district needs to ask voters to increase its taxing authority. Carlson told the school board he will recommend an increase in the mill levy for the elementary school district, but he's not certain how much he will ask for. The district can ask for authority to raise up to $270,000, but Carlson said he's not sure that much is needed. The school board will later make the final decision on whether to submit the increase...
The Friends of the Havre-Hill County Library will hold their annual Valentine's Day Pie Sale noon to 4 p.m. Friday at the library. It is one of two fundraisers the Friends have each year. Friends and other volunteers make pies and bring them in Friday morning, said Jean Scofield, president of the Friends. Slices of pie with ice cream will be sold throughout the four hour event, she said. If it looks like there will be pies left over, whole pies will be sold starting at 3 p.m. Pumpkin and apple are usually the most donated...
Hal Stearns is enamoured with his home state of Montana, especially its small towns. He grew up in Harlowton and has visited many of the state's tiny communities. Each of them, he said, have interesting, historic and quirky facts that should be recorded. "There are stories in each of these towns that should be preserved," he said. "More of these small towns should have museums." Stearns was a guest speaker Friday at the North Central Senior Center in the Havre Hometown...
More than $36,000 for student scholarships was raised at the We Love Northern Ball Saturday night. "We had 180 people at the ball, and that's a good number to have," said Jim Bennett, executive director of the MSU-Northern Alumni Foundation. "It's kind of a formal affair, and we don't want to pack people in." "I think people have a good time and enjoyed themselves," he said. A new format was tried this year, Bennett said, and it appeared to be successful. There were no...
Patrick Barkey, the director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana, will be the keynote speaker at the annual luncheon meeting of Bear Paw Development Corp. The luncheon is at noon, Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line at 500 1st Ave. Bear Paw is the non-profit organization that administers programs to help improve the Hi-Line’s economy. Barkey will speak on the economic outlook for the Hi-Line, northern Montana and beyond, said Paul Tuss, Bear Paws’ executive dir...
Two tribal college libraries will be receiving special kits aimed at getting more students interested in STEM activities — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The educational materials will come from Montana State University’s Extended University and are headed to the Aaniiih Nakoda College library at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and Stone Child College Library at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The materials are designed to spur interest in the science field and to attract young people into scien...
Havre residents will soon have a chance to express their opinions on the form of city government the community should have. The Havre Study Commission, which is reviewing the city’s form of government, will hold a hearing at 7 p.m. March 8 at city hall. The commission wants to gather ideas from the public on what course of action the commission should take. Commission Chair Dave Brewer said the three-person panel has so far heard three general ideas. The members hope to get the public’s input on these and solicit ideas on...
Scout leader Dave McLeod stood in the center court of Holiday Village Mall Saturday at the annual Pinewood Derby. Scouts had made their own miniature wooden cars and took part in the annual competition whereby the cars race in heats down a ramp as crowds cheer. McLeod was a part-time master of ceremonies, part-time cheerleader. He got the crowd worked up, inciting them to cheer for their favorites. "If you stand behind the yellow tape, you can blow really hard and make them...
A proposal to use a mixture of funding sources for the reconstruction of city streets was presented to Havre City Council’s Streets and Sidewalks Committee Wednesday night. Council member Andrew Brekke presented a detailed plan that calls for raising some of the money for the project through a mill levy increase that would have to be approved by voters. Some would have to be paid for by residents of the neighborhood where the street repairs are planned. The remainder would come from city revenues. For instance on a $...
Former State Sen. Alan Olson, R-Roundup, a Havre native, has been named executive director of the Montana Petroleum Association. Olson has been in the petroleum industry for 38 years and served for 12 years in the Montana Legislature - eight in the House and four in the Senate. Olson is a 1975 graduate of Havre High School. His brother, Kevin Olson, is a former Havre police chief, and his sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Dale Nabor, still live in Havre. He started his...
On the third Saturday of each month, regardless of the weather, you can expect to see a large crowd at Pacific Steel and Recycling on Havre's east side as people take part in the monthly recycling drive. While many materials can be dropped off at Pacific any time, a full-fledged recycling drive is conducted the third Saturday where residents can bring cardboard, paper, glass, e-waste, aluminum, tin and numbers 1, 2, 4 and 5 plastic products. Recycle Hi-Line, a completely...
"Big things are happening in small towns." That's the encouraging message Sarah Calhoun had for Havre Area Chamber of Commerce members. Calhoun spoke at the Chamber's annual luncheon at the Duck Inn Wednesday. Calhoun is the founder of Red Ants Pants, the Red Aunts Summer Festival and the Red Ants Pants Foundation. She told the audience of how she moved from Connecticut to Montana settling temporarily in Bozeman. But she said she never felt at home in Bozeman, it was just too...
After years of worrying about the jobless rate on the Hi-Line, there may be a problem of an extreme shortage of workers in the not too distant future. Participants at a Havre Job Service program, "Where Have All the Workers Gone," Tuesday were told that employers will have to come up with a whole new way of attracting millennials to work for them. The jobless rate in Hill County is 4.5 percent, slightly higher than Montana as a whole, but lower than the national rate, said...
The Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line will get a $28,500 Community Development block grant to have a study performed on its facilities. The study will take a look at the building and grounds and determine what the club should plan for the future. Krista Solomon, executive director HELP Committee and the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, said the study will plan out the proposed fitness park that is going to be built behind the club and consider the possibility of having some parking in the back to alleviate pressure in front o...
