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The interim chancellor of Montana State University-Northern spoke to community members, university faculty and staff about the current status of some of the bigger issues the institution is facing, as well as some of the positive changes. Montana State University-Northern Interim Chancellor Greg Kegel spoke Thursday night of the State of the University at Hensler Auditorium in the Applied Technology Building. Kegel spoke both of the successes and tribulations of the...
Dallas Lawrence, 32, of Box Elder, was convicted Wednesday of two rapes, two strangulations, two assaults with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Lawrence, in September of 2013, stabbed a woman in the calf. He was in a relationship with her at the time, and when the woman was taken to Northern Montana Hospital, she told doctors that she was in an abusive relationship, and Lawrence tried to break her arms and legs to keep her from leaving him. According to a press release from United States Attorney...
Another embezzler of the funds given to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, who had an indictment filed against him in October, is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 3. Timothy Warren Rosette has been indicted for a charge of bribery of an official of an Indian tribal government receiving federal funds, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment, with three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. The indictment reads that Rosette, who was the director of the Chippewa Cree Tribe Roads Branch and the Rocky B...
The 114th Congress passed the Keystone Pipestone XL Pipeline bill by a vote of 62 to 36 Thursday. The largely Republican Congress is in its legislative session and green lit the project, but President Barack Obama has the bill next. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., supported the bill in Washington, D.C., and said Congress was doing great work. “I urge President Obama to sign the bill into law,” Tester said in a press release. “But Keystone is not the only solution for our energy future. We must step up our work to make clean...
A fire 6 miles east of Havre Tuesday on Clear Creek Road had both the Havre and Bear Paw Fire Department fighting to extinguish it. About 20 acres and a cabin were engulfed in the flames and it was a total loss, said Josh Bebee, fire chief of Bear Paw Fire Department. “We were probably on it — from when we got the call to when we left — for probably two hours,” Bebee said. From what the firefighters could determine, it appeared a wood stove started the fire, but how it happened is unknown. The Bear Paw Fire Departm...
Theodora Ann Morsette, one of the people indicted in the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation corruption sweep, was found guilty by a jury Wednesday. The jury found her guilty of theft from an Indian tribal government receiving federal grants, theft from an Indian organization and theft from a health care facility. Morsette was the finance manager for the Rocky Boy Health Board Clinic of the Chippewa Cree Tribe in Box Elder and embezzled money from it from 2010 to 2013. She faces 10 years imprisonment with three years of s...
Bruce Harold Sunchild, one of the former Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation officials caught in the corruption investigations, was scheduled to receive his sentence today, but that has been moved to March 12. Sunchild pleaded guilty Nov. 10 to a charge of income tax evasion, two counts of theft from an Indian tribal organization and bribery. He and his lawyers filed a motion to continue to push back the date of the sentencing and their request was accepted. He faces five years imprisonment with three years of supervised r...
Melissa Kapperud is now a partner with Duchscher Insurance of Havre and heads the Gildford office. "I have always had an interest for insurance," Kapperud said. "I love helping people and I find the insurance industry interesting." She became co-owner of the business in September after working for the company since November 2011. "My plans are to continue to grow as an insurance agent and invest into the community and into the business," she said. Her office specializes in...
The auditions for “Over the River and Through the Woods” tonight and Wednesday call for older people to play Italian grandparents. Audrey Barger is directing the play and she said that it is a great opportunity for older people who want to try acting. She said she thinks that older people are often uncomfortable with trying out for plays if they have never done it before. The play calls for two men and two women to be cast as maternal and paternal Italian grandparents. Parts for two younger people in their 20s or 30s are als...
A Hi-Line native who has taken on the task of skiing every ski mountain in North America recently stopped at Bear Paw Ski Bowl to finish his Montana list. John Andrews lives in the Seattle area now, and since he retired 18 years ago, he has skied 526 ski areas in North America. Over the weekend, he knocked Bear Paw Ski Bowl and Cypress Hills in Alberta off his list. He usually travels with his wife, but she did not come with him on this trip back to his stomping grounds. "We t...
Firefighters were called to Ike Avenue Monday afternoon to put out a fire that took the lives of two dogs. The call about a fire in a kitchen came to the Havre Fire Department at 12:15 p.m. Monday. Eight firefighters in two engines, along with emergency medical personnel and Havre police, raced to the 1300 Block of Ike Avenue to put out the fire that was contained in the kitchen. The family’s two dogs died from smoke inhalation, and no people were injured. The house experienced smoke and fire damages of an estimated $...
The athletic director at Havre High School was recently named one of the best in the state. Dennis Murphy was awarded the 2015 Overall Athletic Director of the Year Award Jan. 18 in Kalispell at the Montana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association meeting. The board of directors for the association takes on the process of selecting athletic directors for multiple categories every year. The categories are split into sizes of schools and then an overall best director...
Montana State University-Northern received a donation from NorthWest Farm Credit Services to add to their funds to build the new Automotive/Diesel Technology Building. Friday, Montana President of NorthWest Farm Credit Services Bill Perry and Shaud Schwarzbach, the branch manager of the company’s Havre office, met with university officials to symbolically give them a check for the donation at the Student Union Building’s Fireside Room. “Something like MSU-Northern and particularly the auto-diesel program is something we reali...
Early this morning, several windows were broken out of vehicles parked in downtown Havre. The first incident of vandalism the Havre Police Department responded to, according to a call log from the station, was at 12:29 a.m. this morning. An officer stopped on 3rd Avenue and 2nd Street to help someone with busted windows. A call was then made from an establishment on 1st Street and 2nd Avenue at 2:22 a.m. about someone breaking out a window in the caller's car while it was...
The new Havre fire chief, Tim Hedges, was sworn in at the Havre City Council meeting Tuesday, officially replacing outgoing chief Dave Sheppard. Tim Hedges, 53, said he is extremely excited to take his new position. He has been a part of the Havre Fire Department for 28 years and has worked at every level, including being a emergency medical technician, a firefighter and, most recently, assistant fire chief. Before he began work at the fire station, he had just graduated from...
St. Jude Thaddeus School is slated to get an upgrade after its boiler called it quits. The Rev. Daniel J. Wathen, the pastor of St. Jude Thaddeus Church and superintendent of the school, said the boiler crashed Wednesday and they expect to begin repairs in the next few days. He said they have been asking local donors and alumni for assistance with the costs of the project. Recently, they raised $15,000, which the alumni matched. “That will help us with some of the repair work,” Wathen said. Until then, the school is get...
Opening day for the Bear Paw Ski Bowl was last weekend and it brought more than 100 skiers and snowboarders to Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation to participate in Havre's yearly tradition. Dave Martens, the mountain manager for Bear Paw Ski Bowl, said that the opening day this year was very good. They had three inches of old snow, three inches of new snow and about an 18- to 36-inch base. It was sunny and calm on opening day Saturday, Jan. 16, until they had to close the lift...
The numerous construction projects in the city of Havre and the surrounding area may show hope for forward progress for an area that has experienced some weakening population numbers. The construction of Timber Creek Village, the soon-to-be-started new Montana State University-Northern Auto-Diesel Technology building, the renovations of Havre High School and Sunnyside Intermediate School, and many others may be testaments Paul Tuss, the director of Bear Paw Development Corp.,...
At Montana State University-Northern, community members gathered to remember the man who helped America achieve the level of civil justice it has today. Cristina Estrada-Underwood, the director of diversity awareness and multicultural programs at the university, spoke to those gathered in the Student Union Building Ballroom Monday. "Why should we remember the legacy of Martin Luther King? Why is this day so important," Estrada-Underwood asked. " ... Dr. Martin Luther King...
Bear Paw Ski Bowl had its opening day Saturday and more than 100 skiers and snowboarders visited it to test the new snow. "Opening day's been really good," said Dave Martens, the mountain manager. "We had three inches of old snow and three and a half inches of new snow with an 18- to probably 36-inch base." The lift has two stops, Martens said. The halfway stop allows skiers to take the more intermediate and beginner-level courses, while the last stop at the top of the...
The Bear Paw Ski Bowl’s opening day is Saturday, after last week’s final snow showers and some quick grooming of the slopes were completed. The ski bowl sits south of Havre in the Bear Paw Mountains just south of Beaver Creek Park on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. It is about 29 miles south on Beaver Creek Road. The ski bowl is owned by the Chippewa Cree Business Committee and managed by a nonprofit organization called Snow Dance Ski Association. The organization runs the mountain through volunteer work. Last season, Dave...
Students were evacuated from Havre High School after a bomb threat was called in Wednesday morning. "Around the 11 o'clock hour, the school received a call that the school was going to blow up," said acting Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich. "That's pretty much all they said." The high school went into code yellow and school buses were driven to the high school to take the students to the Fifth Avenue Christian Church. Once there they were told to call their parents to come...
Montana Actors' Theatre's latest production, "9 Circles," will have its opening night Friday. "9 Circles" is based on true events and tells the story of Pvt. Daniel Reeves, who has been honorably discharged from the military and, in coming home, finds himself prosecuted for war crimes. "Maybe he did or maybe he didn't commit some atrocities in Iraq," said Jay Pyette, the director of the production. "Really, it's his story - his journey through the trial and the people he...
At a press conference yesterday, officials from Montana State University-Northern and NorthWestern Energy gathered at Chancellor Greg Kegel's house to talk about the company's donation to the Automotive/Diesel Technology Center. NorthWestern awarded the university $125,000 to put toward their new building, the construction of which slated to start in the spring. Bob Rowe, the CEO of NorthWestern Energy, said Tuesday that the donation was part of their Community Works project,...
At Tuesday’s Havre Public School Board of Trustees meeting at Havre Middle School, concerns over how to deal with possible future situations involving a transgender student playing for a school sports team were voiced. Dennis Murphy, the activities director at Havre High School, presented four proposals, one addressing the transgender topic, and a budget that will be presented to the Montana High School Association at their annual meeting. The first proposal would partner the Havre Public School District with the MHSA in t...
