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Chinook's Sugarbeet Festival was once again a success and brought hundreds of people to partake in the weekend's festivities. The festival every year has a theme that celebrates local industry and business and this year it was the electrical industry. The theme for the 11th annual festival brought pole climbing for the public, speed climbing done by professionals in the industry, bucket truck rides, power pole framing, hurtman rescue demonstrations, power pole relays, and a...
The third Rocky Boy Health Clinic CEO to be indicted in federal court after the Guardians Project investigation swept through Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has waived his jury trial and will now change his plea. Darin Miller was set to be judged by a jury Oct. 13 at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls, but Monday, his lawyer filed to change that event to a hearing in which he will change his plea from not guilty to guilty. He is charged with three counts of federal income tax evasion. Miller is accused o...
A nursing program accreditation board visited Montana State University-Northern to review the program, which will decide next year whether it can be accredited through a national agency. Certain parts of the program are accredited through the university system, but the board that came in Wednesday accredits the program on a national level. The nursing program is accredited through three different avenues. Being accepted by this national accrediting agency would push the...
Five hospitals in Montana will be penalized for readmission rates, including Northern Montana Hospital. Readmission rates allude toward the number of patients who return to a hospital after being released from that hospital and more than half of the United States’ hospitals don’t stand up to the proposed rate set up by Medicare. That’s 2,592 hospitals penalized, or 54 percent of all hospitals. Specifically, rates for each hospital were figured through readmission rates of patients with one of five conditions: heart attac...
A horror film shot in Havre this year has been released on the Internet for everyone's viewing pleasure. Jorge Olivo directed "The Last Departure" mostly on and around the Havre City-County Airport and the Bear Paw Mountains. Olivo said the movie is a horror movie, inspired by his favorite - "The Shining." The movie is 48 minutes long and stars Alex Williams and Kelli Reynolds as the lead actors. The movie also stars Donald Mayer, Bill Dolph, Lucas Minnick, Jay Pyette, Tracie...
The 11th Annual Sugarbeet Festival in Chinook stayed true to its theme of celebrating the energy industry with a full schedule of events this past weekend. Power pole races, bucket lift rides and more, in addition to the regular events that are held during the festival every year. The parade is the highlight that brought hundreds of Hi-Liners to watch the procession. Many large equipment vehicles, horses and classic cars held waving community members. Floats were pulled...
Sampson Mayer was sentenced Monday to charges of assault on a peace officer and ordered to reimburse medical costs worth $19,984.92. In March 2015, someone called the police to report someone was trying to “get him” at the Rails Inn Hotel, according to court documents. Havre police found the man’s name was Sampson Mayer and the obtained Mayer’s father’s phone number. When his father was called, he told police his son was at his house. His father said he thought Mayer was “on something” because Mayer believed someone was o...
The 11th Annual Sugarbeet Festival kicked off today and will continue to entertain those who partake until Saturday night. The focus of this year's Sugarbeet Festival is the electrical industry, said organizer Heather DePriest. "Ultimately, each year we feature an industry in our area that's instrumental in creating jobs and sustaining the local economy," DePriest said. NorthWestern Energy, Hill County Electric, Red Rock Power are a few of the companies they're featuring...
Havre's Festival Days brought thousands of Havreites and Hi-Liners to the area to take part in a multitude of events throughout the weekend. The festivities began Thursday with the Havre-Hill County Library Book Sale, where bags of books, which have been donated to the library for the event throughout the year, are sold most of them for $1 for a bagful of books. Friday, the events were fully underway, with the Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, the Steve Heil...
Shad James Huston, who this year withdrew from a guilty plea to embezzling funds from Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of failure to file currency transaction reports. Huston, a Havre business operator and former chair of the Havre Public School Board reported that his former business, a pawn shop, engaged in an exchange of currency of more than $10,000. At that point, a pawn shop would file a currency transaction report. Huston told investigators he may had filed two or three of these r...
Laura Mayer works at Bear Paw Credit Union and has taken it upon herself to create the push for the community to show their support for the Havre police. She said that for “Thank a Police Officer Day,” which is this Saturday, she has sent out letters and emails to the community and business owners. “The community has really responded with donations of pizza, lens cleaner, sunblock — lots of really great things,” Mayer said. She said she hoped to be able to give to the Highway Patrol this year, but as of right now, it’s dire...
A woman who pleaded guilty to stealing money while managing the Lunch Box over the course of two to three years was sentenced to pay the owners almost $78,000 in restitution. Judge Robert Olson also sentenced Jean Grandberg to 10 days in the Hill County jail and 10 years probation. Grandberg, 52, was charged with theft by embezzlement by a common scheme, which is a felony. In 2011, Julie Davison, one of the owners of the Lunch Box Restaurant, reported to police an employee...
Hill County, along with 15 others, has been chosen to receive a grant that will allow Hill County Detention Center inmates to seek out mental health resources while incarcerated. Hill County will receive $70,350 from the state to continue its mental health program at the detention center. Michelle Hill, the rural director of services with the Center for Mental Health, said this is the second year the county has received the grant. “It basically gives them funding to contract mental health services in the community so that w...
The Great Northern Fair Board has entered into a partnership with the department of civil engineering at Montana State University-Northern to survey and make plans for desalinating the land at the fairgrounds. Bob Sivertsen presented the idea to the board meeting Tuesday at the fairgrounds during its monthly meeting. “We need to make sure (the fairground) is functional for the 21st century,” Sivertsen said, adding that landscaping the fairgrounds would ensure its proper use later on. “ … Salinity is a big issue around...
The Second Annual Healing our Community Through Wellness Conference is bringing a multitude of interactive events to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The conference began this morning at 8 with breakfast and registration before the first of the series of talks that will be given through the three-day event. Some of the topics covered today were public health, pharmacy, systems of care and medicaid. Each discussion, led by a presenter, is meant to aid the people of Rocky Boy and visitors in learning more about subjects that i...
The Seventh Annual Death by Chocolate show, "A Knight of Murder," will entertain and hold the audience in suspense Saturday. Montana Actors' Theatre is putting on the show and dinner a good turnout is expected per usual. Jay Pyette, the head director for MAT, said that this is going to be a great show and urges people interested in attending to buy their tickets ahead of time. "It's a murder-mystery and a full dinner and lots of fun stuff going on," Pyette said. The...
The Friends of Beaver Creek Park met Monday at 7 p.m. at Van Orsdel Methodist Church to solidify their plans for their upcoming fundraiser. The “Fall in Love with Beaver Creek Park” fundraiser and gala, which will be 6 p.m. Oct. 10, at the Eagles Aerie 166, will raise funds to revitalize Camp Kiwanis at Beaver Creek Park. “This will be the first year it will be going to a single project,” said Lesley Zellmer, the secretary for the nonprofit. The funds will be used to complete repairs needed at the camp and expand its lifespa...
Havre Trails met at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Elks Lodge to talk US Bank Park renovations and give updates on their autumn hike series. Havre Trails President Lindsey Bennett said the group should be receiving the funds fairly soon and they will start drawing up plans for the work they are going to do at the park. They hope to develop the walking path to make it more solidified, as well as install signage and other improvements. The grant the organization received was $15,000, which is $5,000 short of what they asked for. In...
At Montana State University-Northern Friday, American flags lined walkways walked on by veterans and citizens in remembrance of the 9-11 attacks in 2001. Chancellor Greg Kegel opened up the ceremonies at a podium in the courtyard in front of the Vande Bogart Library. Montana veterans hoisted an American flag and gave a gun salute before Professor Norton Pease shared his experience in New York City as the planes came down. "If the September 11th attacks did not happen, I can...
Deputies and dispatchers for the Hill County Sheriff’s Office are having their union representative discuss with the county and sheriff a possible pay increase. HCSO employees have salaries as decided through a matrix. The starting salary for a dispatcher is $24,955 and the starting salary for deputies is around $36,470. The union representative, Darcy Dahl, met with Sheriff Don Brostrom and County Commissioner Mark Peterson last week to talk about possibly giving the employees a raise in pay. “What’s in his budget is in hi...
A man was injured after being thrown from a vehicle during a rollover after leading Montana Highway Patrol and Havre Police officers on a pursuit. “He was traveling 60 miles per hour through town,” said Trooper Chris Baker. “I turned around to follow him and stop him. He failed to stop.” Frank Janshen, 45, of Athol, Idaho, reportedly stole a 1995 Chevrolet van from Havre Distributors and was traveling west on U.S. Highway 2 just before 10 p.m. Monday when Baker tried to stop him. “As we were traveling westbound through t...
The Bullhook Bombshells are bringing to Havre a sport the town has never seen before - women's flat track roller derby. Roller derby brings together a myriad of personalities to participate in an alternative sport that gains popularity every year. Anyone who can don skates can take part - this is unanimous consensus among the members of the Bullhook Bombshells. The sport's current form has been going strong since its rebirth in Austin in 2001. Since then, well over 1,000...
The Havre Police Department Citizens Academy took a group of interested community members through a crash course in what it's like to be an officer. The class met every Wednesday for around two months and topics were varied. Each class would explore one aspect of the officers' line of work. Classes covered topics including crime scene investigation, how to safely pull over a vehicle, gun safety, recognizing when lethal force is applicable and others. The first class covered...
The annual atlatl competition at Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump will test the hunting capabilities of novice and advanced hunters alike. The event is for all ages and is a great family event, said Wahkpa Chu'gn manager Anna Brumley. Starting Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and ending Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the atlatl competition is completely free and atlatls are provided for people to use. Participants walk through a course with their atlatls, which are hand held mounts on...
Amber Spring, the chair of the Local Advisory Council on Mental Health for Hill County, said this is the first year the LAC has put on a walk of this nature. The Out of the Darkness Walk is a nationwide event that aims to bring suicide awareness to communities. One of the issues with the suicide problem, Spring said, is that people don't talk about it when it needs to be talked about. A crowd of people gathered in front of the Vande Bogart Library at Montana State...
