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The man who held himself at gunpoint for 21 hours in April outside the U.S. Bank building was officially deemed to have committed suicide. A coroner's jury made the decision Friday on the cause of Robert Jay Thomas II's death. "The jury found he was killed by taking his own life with a pistol" said Hill County Attorney Ed Hirsch. "Basically, by shooting himself in the head." Every suspicious death in Montana is subject to a coroner's inquest. Richard J. "Dick" Brown, the...
The first official Havre Trails meeting will be held Dec. 8 at Property West LLC at 5:30 p.m. The group has been formed to push for the completion of trail projects in the area and promote walking and biking in the community. After the meeting Dec. 8, they will be meeting the second Monday of every month at 5:30 p.m. at the Elks Club. Property West LLC is located at 129 3rd Ave.. To receive updates from the group, visit the Facebook page “Havre Trails.” According to the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, there are 13 walking pat...
The Chippewa Cree Tribal Courts set Dec. 16 as the date for the hearing of Jonathan Windy Boy’s injunction. Windy Boy filed the injunction with the court after the election board for Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Business Committee rejected his objection to the results of the election Nov. 12. “Jonathon is requesting the Chippewa Cree Tribal Courts grant him an injunction until all legal remedies have been exhausted,” read court documents granting Windy Boy the hearing. “ … There are some questions that can only be answer...
The swearing in of four Business Committee members at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, scheduled for Monday, has been delayed because of a tribal court injunction. Wednesday, the election board announced its decision to uphold the election results after taking into consideration Windy Boy’s objection. Thursday, Windy Boy asked tribal court for an injunction to delay the swearing in of the four people elected in the Nov. 4 elections. This morning, he said the court granted it. Windy Boy filed the objection because one of the p...
Havre High School Student Congress installed a distilled water bottle fountain at their school to keep students hydrated. The EZ H2O Bottle Filling Station dispenses distilled water as an alternative to the public water fountains placed throughout the school. Lita Cammon, who is a part of Student Congress, said the fountain will eliminate some of the plastic that comes out of the school in garbage. "I think it's good, so we can eliminate some of the waste," Cammon said. She...
The ribbon-cutting ceremony at Havre High School showed the community how much work has been put into the athletic facilities at the school. Attendees were shown the now-complete locker rooms at the high school and got a chance to see the work that was being done with the wrestling room. "I thought it went really well," said Andy Carlson, superintendent of Havre Public School District. " ... We had a nice turnout from the community." The Havre Chamber Ambassadors came with...
"No Body Like Jimmy," a Havre High School production, will entertain attendees with a comedy of errors. The Havre High School production unfolds a bad situation at a party as the host of the party, Ralph, finds his friend with the classic problem of having a dead body in his car. The body of the unknown man is dragged into the house and into awkward and tense situations with the party-goers as the two main characters try to remedy the situation. The play is a comedy and, for s...
The Havre Public School District Board of Trustees met Tuesday to discuss allowing an anime club to be formed at the high school and talk about a policy that concerns conduct of staff and faculty on the Internet. “It’s exciting when students come forward to start new clubs at the high school,” said Craig Mueller, the principal at Havre High School. Vicki Proctor, who teaches business at the high school, will be the club adviser. Hope Proctor gave a presentation on what students would be doing. She said the purpose of the c...
As winter rears its head upon the Hi-Line, driving a vehicle becomes more dangerous with the iced roads and low visibility David Peterson, the director of Havre Public Works said one of the most important tips he has for people driving through wintry conditions is to be aware of which roads are being taken care of. He added that the beginning of the season is always tough because people forget the habits they picked up the winter before. "Just because you see sand and stuff...
The four new members of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Business Committee were voted upon Nov. 4, but had to wait until Monday to see if any objections were filed. Jonathan Windy Boy was one of the people on the eight-person list voters could choose from and said he filed his objection Friday afternoon. Only a candidate who was defeated in the election is eligible to contest the results of the election. Windy Boy said he filed his complaint because there was a voter who broke the rules of the tribal constitution. “To vot...
Bruce Harold Sunchild, who faces theft and tax evasion charges in a string of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation investigations, had a change-of-plea hearing Monday. Sunchild pleaded guilty to charges at the United States District Court in Great Falls Monday and is set to be sentenced Jan. 29. He pleaded guilty to two counts of theft. One was from an Indian Tribal Organization. He admitted that he knowingly converted monies, funds or property to his use or the use of another, that the property belonged to the Rocky Boy Health b...
Bruce Meyers, who was elected Tuesday to the Montana House from District 32, was convicted on an assault of a minor that took place Aug. 20, 2005. The political blog “Montana Cowgirl” posted an entry Thursday about Meyers’ conviction on a charge of assaulting a minor. It has been picked up by blogs around the country since. The conviction had not been reported before the election in which Meyers defeated incumbent Democrat Clarena Brockie in a major upset. Meyers said this morning that the whole situation is behind him....
The Hill County DUI Task Force conducted a sting Friday to see which businesses selling alcohol were checking IDs and which were not. At around 4 p.m. Friday, the Task Force conducted alcohol compliance checks on four businesses. Two of the businesses passed and two failed. The Emporium and the Zip Trip on 1st Street both passed the compliance checks. Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods and Stromberg's Sinclair failed the checks. A press release from the Havre Police Department suggests that the businesses should have their employees g...
Two Havre Daily News reporters John Paul Schmidt and Tori Thomas took part in Saturday's Sub-Zero Super-Hero Polar Plunge. Here is their account. Makeshift and classic superheroes, along with sadist onlookers and Montana Special Olympics athletes, gathered at Blue Pony Stadium to watch me and others make ourselves miserable for a cause. The Sub-Zero Super-Hero Polar Plunge had dozens of people "freezin' for a reason." People had been raising money for Montana Special Olympics...
With Ken St. Marks' recent offer of $1,000 for any information on the whereabouts of Robert Alexander, who went missing April 2013, interest in the old case has been rekindled. Ed Longknife, a criminal investigator for the Chippewa Cree Police Department who was in charge of the search for Alexander, said it all began April 29, 2013, at 12:10 p.m. That is the time of his wife's phone call to the police on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation to request a welfare check on her...
The KNMC lineup this year is diverse and more extensive than it has been in years. Everything from old school country, pop dance music, indie rock and classic rock can be heard over their airwaves on 90.1 This Montana State University-Northern station is the oldest college radio station in Montana, and it is still going strong and growing stronger. The college station allows both students and community members to host shows. The split of current deejays is about half students...
Andy Carlson, the superintendent of Havre Public Schools, said the locker room renovations at Havre High School are complete and the new facilities are being used. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, at the high school will give the public a chance to see the work that has been done at the school. “We really want people to see what’s been done,” he said. “Anybody who goes in there will be proud of what’s gone into it. … These buildings do belong to the community, and I think the final product is something they...
The Democrats at the Eagles Club reception room in Havre were gathered Tuesday around a television displaying the incoming results. People were checking computers and phones constantly for updates on local races. State Sen. Greg Jergeson and House District 28 candidate Janet Trethewey awaited the results of the elections along with their supporters. They were up against Republican state Senate candidate Rep. Kris Hansen and Stephanie Hess, the Republican House District 28...
Bruce Harold Sunchild has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing for Nov. 10 in the United States District Court in Great Falls after new theft and tax evasion charges against him were unsealed. The latest charges are part of a massive federal investigation into corruption at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Sunchild was chair of the Chippewa Cree Tribe's Business Committee in 2011, when he allegedly accepted bribes and embezzled from the tribe's funds. He was indicted in June on...
Stephanie Hess is the Republican candidate in House District 28 in Tuesday's election. Hess was born in Sterling, Illinois, in August 1972 and graduated from high school in 1990. She attended Olivet Nazarene University and received her bachelor's of science in social work in 1994. Her work experience includes Northern Montana Care Center as a social worker, which she is doing currently, Family Outreach as the adults with disabilities case manager, Frances House as the group...
Janet Trethe-wey is running for House District 28 as the Democratic candidate in Tuesday's election. Trethewey was born February 1963 in Chester and graduated from Hingham High School in 1981. She attended Montana State University and received a bachelor's degree in athletic training with a minor in health in 1985, a master's in sports medicine in 1988 and a doctorate of education in 1997. Her work experience includes working with the ambulance service in Bozeman, where she me...
Today, the town will be be infested with ghouls, goblins, monsters, probably a couple of guys dressed as hotdogs or condiments, and many other horrors as children go out trick-or-treating and taking part in the numerous activities of the day — and adult children visit the bar at night. One of the activities the kids could have or can take part in is the Highland Park Early Primary School Carnival, scheduled throughout their school day. At the carnival, they will be able to p...
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Sen. Jon Tester, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Amanda Curtis and John Lewis, who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives visited Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation this morning to urge residents to register and vote Democratic. The visit is part of the final push before Election Day, Nov. 4, and is part of a 17-community tour the Democratic group is taking in the next few days. Rocky Boy is their first stop, and they visited Havre this...
A man who went missing in April 2013 has still not been found, and a Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation leader is now offering $1,000 for information about his whereabouts. Ken Blatt St. Marks, the suspended chair of the Rocky Boy tribal council, said he will give the money to anyone who comes forward with information about Robert Grant Alexander, also known as Robbie Alexander. "I'm trying to find out where he's at," St. Marks said. "We searched all over and couldn't find him....
Box Elder Schools will buy iPads for every student as a result of a grant that was announced Monday. iPads and Macbooks will be made available for teachers. In addition, classrooms will have Apple televisions, which can communicate with the iPads. There will be educational software available to help the teachers educate students. “I think our students will be very excited,” said Darin Hannum, Box Elder school superintendent. “ … It will help each kid meet or exceed grade-level expectations.” He said if he had to guess at...
