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Lindsey Manuel-McInerney, a history teacher at Havre High School, said that she has nine juniors who are trying to raise funds for their trip to Washington, D.C., in April. The students are taking the trip as a part of the Close Up program, which invites students from around the country to tour the nation's capital. "It's a nonprofit organization that helps inspire students to become active in the democratic process, learning about our history and learning about how the...
Hill County officials met Wednesday morning to discuss a pressing issue: the Hill County Detention Center's critical state. "We scheduled this meeting this morning to discuss the issues and concerns of the detention center," Commission Chair Mike Wendland said. " ... The biggest issue we have is probably the staffing shortage." He added that in visiting with other counties, he does not think that Hill County is the only one experiencing these problems. He said they met with...
Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is getting more than $3 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the department’s allocations to American tribes every year. The Fort Belknap Indian Community is receiving $1,624,233 from the department for their housing projects. Montana tribes are receiving a collective $27 million and, nationwide, $651 million is being given to 636 Native American tribes in 34 states, according to a press release from the department. The funds are distributed every yea...
The embezzlement trial of former Stone Child College President Melody Billy Henry and her husband Frank Henry began Tuesday morning. and it is continuing today. The pretrial conference at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls was held Tuesday morning and 13 trial jurors were chosen before the lunch break. After the break, the opening statements began. The first day of the hearing commenced at 8:45 a.m. and ended just before 5 p.m. Tuesday. Proceedings began at 8:30 this morning. Government witnesses sworn in Tu...
The Hill County Detention Center has been experiencing some staffing issues and must now turn away Blaine County inmates. Blaine County Sheriff Glenn Huestis said he and his office will have to move their inmates out of the Hill County Detention Center March 1. "We're working on taking them to Valley County," Huestis said. Transporting inmates to and from Blaine to Valley County is going to cause some logistical problems for the Blaine County Sheriff's Office. Huestis said...
After the Havre Fire Department received a 12:45 p.m. Sunday call about a dog stuck in the river, firefighters responded with cold water suits to the area. The German shepherd was seen holding onto a piece of ice in the river, half in, half out. Fire Chief Tim Hedges said the dog looked like it had been in the water for quite some time and, once they retrieved it from the river, it was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. He said they could not figure out who owned the dog....
Friday morning, Ken Blatt St. Marks was sworn in again to his position as chair of the Chippewa Cree Business Committee. St. Marks and Ted Whitford were sworn in at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation tribal offices after winning the special election for chair and committee member Feb. 3. "I guess it's time to get to work," St. Marks said as he took his seat at the committee table and suggested that he and everyone on the board go somewhere for lunch so they can work out their...
Correction: An earlier version of this story said Hunter Burns has pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges. He admitted filing false documents. He spent two months in federal prison and four months of home confinement, He is free now. Melody Billy Henry, the former president of Stone Child College, pleaded not guilty at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls Tuesday and is scheduled to have her trial next Tuesday. Henry and her husband, Frank Gregory Henry. both entered pleas of not guilty for charges of...
Sen. Steve Daines is pushing for legislation that would bring funds to many Indian irrigation projects, including on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The bill would allocate almost $8.4 million to Fort Belknap to help the reservation fund projects. Also included in the bill are is Blackfeet Indian Irrigation Project, which would receive around $25.6 million, Fort Peck with $12.7 million, Crow with $16.9 million and Flathead with $82.2 million. “The bill would authorize $35 million each year from (fiscal year) 2015 to 2...
Montana Actors’ Theatre is holding its Valentine’s dinner and cabaret at the Historic Post Office Saturday. The event will feature The Electric City Cabaret, a martini bar and dinner. Tickets are $35 per person or $50 for a couple. Cocktails will be served at 5:30, dinner at 6:30 and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. Jay Pyette, the main director of MAT, said his group has worked with the cabaret before and thought this would be a fun event to hold in Havre. “We’ve worked with them on and off and thought it would be interes...
A man charged with involuntary manslaughter pleaded not guilty Monday after being arrested Friday and is now scheduled to go to trial. Sean Milo Stiffarm, 24, is accused of reckless driving that resulted in the death of Janika Louise Doney, 19, on or around May 10 near Harlem in Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Stiffarm and his federal public defender, Evangelo Arvanetes, are scheduled to go to a jury trial April 13 at 9 a.m. at the Missouri Federal Courthouse in Great Falls. Stiffarm’s maximum penalty is eight years i...
Havre High School's athletic director, who recently won the Montana Athletic Director of the Year Award, has been nominated for awards from the national level. Dennis Murphy, who received his award in Kalispell in January, is among eight Montana coaches who have been selected as finalists for National High School Coaches Association awards. Each of the eight people have been nominated for eight different categories. The Coach of the Year Award winners will be announced at the...
At the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday at Havre High School, the board voted in favor of working with My Neighbor in Need. The school’s faction of My Neighbor in Need will be called Student in Need and aims for the same goal: to provide people a way to anonymously give to those in need. The difference between Student in Need and My Neighbor in Need is that more of an emphasis is made on keeping those who need help anonymous. My Neighbor in Need is a program in which people who need a little help with s...
Auditions for the upcoming production of “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” are tonight and Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Little Theatre in Cowan Hall on Montana State University-Northern. The auditions call for seven men ranging from ages 18 to 50 and one woman aged 18 to 25. Those interested in auditioning are encouraged to have a two-minute comedic monologue prepared, though it isn’t required. The play is about an Irish terrorist who, upon returning home, attempts to find whoever killed his cat and left it dead on the road. “Huma...
The Havre Trails meeting Monday moved forward to join the Hill County Health Consortium and talk about other plans. Lindsey Bennett, the president of the group, said that she had received an invitation for Havre Trails to work with the Hill County Health Consortium under the “Open Gym” project. Open Gym is in initiative by multiple community groups and members to increase use of the outdoors in the area for the health and well-being of the community. Working with the other groups like Building Active Communities, would joi...
Around $21,000 for scholarships was raised to bring and keep students to Montana State University-Northern at the We Love Northern Ball Saturday. Jim Bennett, director of Northern's Alumni Association, said the ball was a success. "We were hoping to break $20,000 for scholarships, so we did pretty good there," Bennett said. "I think it was a big success, and I think a lot of that is because we got great support from folks on the ball committee, faculty and staff and people in...
A man indicted for theft of funds from a tribal organization has been through his arraignment and now awaits his jury trial. Timothy Warren Rosette pleaded not guilty at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse Tuesday and was scheduled Thursday to have his jury trial April 8 at 9 a.m. Rosette is the former director of the Chippewa Cree Tribe Roads Branch and the Rocky Boy Health Clinic’s Environmental Health Division He is alleged to have accepted bribes from James Howard Eastlick, Jr. and the Hunter Burns Construction C...
Aaniiih Nakoda College at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is looking to kick-start its nursing program and seeks help from area residents. The plans for the program are in their first phase, in which the college needs to document the need and support for the program. “If this phase is completed the second phase would be to formulate a curriculum, hire faculty and determine clinical sites and admit students,” a press release from the college reads. The nursing program would follow Montana regulations and once the fou...
A bill that has funded language programs in Montana is going through Legislature again this year. The Montana Indian Language Pilot Program seeks to use state funds to help preserve some of the original languages of the tribes in the state and has gathered much support from the reservations. Terry Brockie, the superintendent of Blaine County schools, said around eight to 10 students from Fort Belknap and Harlem visited Helena to lobby in favor of passing a bill that would continue to fund this program. “Basically what that b...
The Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line gives students a safe, fun and educational place to go after they finish up their days at school, as well as an opportunity for parents to feel their children are being taken care of while they are still at work. Tim Brurud, the director of the Boys & Girls Club in Havre, said Monday that the club has multiple activities for the kids who come in to do. The children may come into the club whenever they like and parents are able to pick them...
A bill that would allow concealed weapons to be carried on Montana university campuses is going through the motions in the Montana State Legislature. Wednesday, a second reading of the bill passed, 25-24, and the third reading by the Montana Senate will be scheduled soon. If senators pass it, the bill will be sent to the Montana House. If the House approves it, the legislation will go to Gov. Steve Bullock. Montana would not be alone in allowing guns on its campuses: Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and...
The winners of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation special election are Ken Blatt St. Marks for chairman and Ted Whitford Sr. for the committee seat. St. Marks won with 300 votes with a 100-vote lead over Dustin Whitford, the runner-up for the Chippewa Cree Business Committee chair position. St. Marks was unavailable for comment this morning. "The Chippewa Cree people spoke again and, if this is what they want, I hope he can work with and, as far as I'm concerned, I will do my...
The Big Sandy School District will be switching to a four-day school week next school year after administrators weighed the pros and cons of the change. Big Sandy Superintendent Brad Moore said the district will start the 2015-2016 school year with the change in scheduling and thinks it will be easier for all parties. “In a Class C school, you have so many interruptions on Fridays,” he said. Sports and extracurricular activities take many students out of their classrooms at the end of the week. He added that it is not a tru...
The Gildford Mercantile, after a long and varied history, closed its doors Friday, just before its 100-year birthday. Laura Hauser has owned the store for seven years, and said she is forced to close the doors of the business for multiple reasons, mostly rising bills and a declining number of customers. "There's a lot of fun history with this," Hauser said. Many customers came to say good-bye Friday. Shane Hanson left Gildford in 1957 and has recently come back to her old stom...
The Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation elections for a new chairman and to fill one business committee member seat begins and ends today. Polls open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the old Stone Child College gym. The candidates for business committee chairman are: Jonathan Windy Boy Ken Blatt St. Marks Bert Corcoran Dustin J. Whitford The candidates for business committee chairman are: Ted E. Whitford, Sr. “Jazz” Raymond W. Parker Duane Gopher Leon “Blackie” Sutherland Ellis Ken Swift Hawk, aka Ken Standing Rock Brian “Kelly” E...
