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Just like the headline says, friends do not let friends get hooked on Quordle. “What is Quordle?” you might be asking. If you have a good life, a happy and fulfilled life you are definitely asking yourself that. The naive and sympathetic are lamenting, I’m certain. “Have you gone and got yourself hooked on some new gateway drug that the nefarious street dealers are calling Quordle?” And thank you for caring, but no, you have it all wrong. The gateway drug is Wordle a 5-lette...
Feb. 14, four days after President Joe Biden warned U.S. citizens in Ukraine to leave because a Russian invasion was imminent, Hudson, Ohio, Mayor Craig Shubert resigned over the kerfuffle he caused by arguing, with straight-faced sincerity, that ice shanties, aka ice houses, should not be allowed on the pond at Hudson Spring Park because they attract prostitutes and combating that issue will burn up too many law enforcement and judicial resources. Apparently the heckling...
It’s no secret that I love the English language, despite all its frustrating faults. You can really do some magical things with it. The versatility of English by sound alone is a real asset for the language. Compare the sounds of “The drip pooled in the sink, then trickled into the pipes” to “Water gushed from the faucet, showering the walls and flooding onto the floor.” Yeah, yeah, it’s not magic, but listen to the words, how sound adds meaning. In the first sentence th...
It happens on a weirdly frequent occasion that I write on a topic one week and the next week that topic becomes quite relevant to my everyday life. So it is that — in relation to last week’s column about everything in life being a matter of perspective — I am bewildered to announce this week that due to an alteration in perspective I now know what it’s like to live life as a short person. It’s hard work being short. I didn’t expect that much challenge and, yet, here I am t...
A man was arrested on several charges and warrants Friday including for fleeing Havre police in a vehicle reported as stolen on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. Officers on the 100 Block of 12th Avenue attempted at 2:24 p.m. to pull over a vehicle that matched the description of a missing Ford Escape and was being driven by Jerome Lane Bigknife of Rocky Boy, 29, who was wanted on six Justice or City court warrants, Police Chief Gabe Matosich said. Bigknife, with one passenger i...
The reintroduction of swift foxes to this part of north-central Montana appears to be a success in it's early stages. Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, working in a cooperative effort with multiple state, educational and conservation entities, is reintroducing the swift fox to grassland areas of the reservation. The diminutive, gray and gold fox is native to the area but its numbers sharply declined in the early 1900s and it was declared extinct in Montana in 1967. In addition...
Havre Fire Department firefighters responded to two calls in the past five days, said Fire Chief Mel Paulson, who was unavailable to provide details for the report until after print deadline Tuesday. Saturday at 2:10 p.m., five firefighters responded to a mobile home fire on the 700 Block of Second Street West. The fire started under the home, likely from a heater, Paulson said, but was quickly extinguished, with only minor damage to the structure. A fire crew responded with...
“Everything in life is a matter of perspective,” that’s one of my favorite quotes from myself — though, to be fair to humans of the world, I hardly think the phrase is unique to me. Still, it is one of my few, and simple, guiding principles for life. You just have to look at things the right way to see and understand them more clearly, or even just to feel better. Sometimes that act of seeing, that just-right perspective, is both literal and figurative. Like a horse I saw in...
Havre Fire Department responded Tuesday afternoon to a house fire on the 6200 Block of Second Street Northwest in Rural Fire 1 area near Beaver Creek Golf Course. Fire Chief Mel Paulson said the department responded with five rigs and two ambulances, as well as three engines, though the number of engines was in part due to one engine breaking down en route. The fire, which was called in at 4:30 p.m., caused extensive damage to the home and one person was treated on site but...
The groundhog known as Milltown Mel died just days before this year’s Groundhog Day. The first sentence of the death notice on his official Facebook page reads: “We Wranglers are sad to report that Milltown Mel recently crossed over the rainbow bridge.” I did not know the Milltown, New Jersey, weather prognosticator personally or professionally, but I should probably be sad and just let things go out of respect for the dead, even if he is a rodent. I just can’t let the opportu...
The Third Annual Brewfest fundraiser for Blaine County Fair Foundation will be held at the Commercial Building on the Blaine County Fairgrounds Saturday, starting at 4 p.m. Cost is $15 at the door and includes a glass and two drink chips, additional chips are $2 each or six for $10. Breweries from Wibaux, Lewistown and Havre, another 18 brews on tap from other breweries, and more offerings are expected. People can buy traveling tacos and super nachos and bid on silent auction...
North Star School students are raising money for this year’s senior trip to the East Coast, and an enterprising senior at the School is holding a raffle for more than $2,300 of large items, merchandise and gift certificates to help pay for her expenses. Senior Makaila Horinek, who is an honors student on track to be valedictorian of the Class of 2022, has been working along with other North Star seniors to raise money as a group to help pay for the weeklong trip, said her m...
Chinook Rod and Gun Club is hosting its third annual Ice Fishing Derby on Dry Fork Reservoir Saturday. Anglers will be competing at the reservoir north of Chinook for the largest fish by length of walleye, northern pike, bass and perch. The tournament, which is limited to the first 50 anglers, begins 7 a.m. Saturday with registration, but preregistration and the $25 entry fee can be taken care of Friday 6 - 8 p.m. at either the Shanty Bar in Havre or the Chinook Eagles....
Horses are psychic — if you don’t believe it, just watch them be jerks about it. I just spent three days researching, reading, interviewing and writing about livestock predation due to grizzlies, wolves, mountain lions and coyotes — which is the technical way of saying I was drowning in the details about large, wild meat-eaters making a meal out of livestock. The day I finished with the project, my horses spent the entire time I was out feeding them, in the dark, spook...
The Fresno Ice Fishing Tournament will be Saturday at Fresno Reservoir. Registration for the tournament starts at 7 a.m. and the mandatory rules meeting will be 7:30 a.m. at Fresno Tavern, 37980 U.S. Highway 2 west of Havre. Cost is $25 for the tournament, and the cash payout is 100 percent of the entry fees paid, so prizes will be based on the number of participants. Payout is for the largest by length of each species: walleye, northern pike, crappie and perch. Members of...
After a two-year hiatus, the Big Sandy Gun Show is returning Friday through Sunday, organizer Keith Hanson said, and they are expecting a large turnout for the 15 vendors selling, buying and trading at the event. Hanson, who is spearheading the Big Sandy show after nine years co-organizing the Chinook Gun & Antique Show, said the Chinook event had very high visitor numbers this year and after talking with people about the Big Sandy event he’s expecting 300 to 500 people to c...
Friends of the Havre-Hill County Library are holding a silent auction for bundles of books covering an assortment of authors and interests. People can see the auction items at the library. Bidding has already begun and will continue until Thursday, Feb. 17, at noon. The group is also having a whole pie sale on Valentine’s Day rather than its customary pie social which is still on hiatus due to COVID-19. The pie sale will be from noon to 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at the l...
Representatives of IND HEMP were in Havre Wednesday to talk to producers about contracting acres to grow hemp for either fiber or oil production in the company's processing plant in Fort Benton. Presenters Morgan Tweet, chief operating officer and co-founder of the family-owned company, and Ben Brimlow, lead agronomist, said they had more than 30 producers contracted in 2021 with 6,000 acres in production, and they are looking to expand to 8,000 acres for 2022. "We really...
It is a strange biological condition that air is the most crucial element for sustaining life, but wind — a form of air — is an agent of nature whose primary purpose is to wreak havoc and, if at all possible, to kill us. Wind is, of course, just air in motion, but it is the moment that air gains movement which changes everything, like feeding a gremlin after midnight. At 30 below zero my insulated outer layers and my hood pulled snug around my face hold my body heat aro...
Experts say that completing tasks inspires feelings like pride, satisfaction and confidence. I am the exception that disproves the rule. I just finished tiling the bathroom floor in the house-to-be and I couldn’t be more, eh, whatever about the whole thing. Seriously. It took days of planning, hours of labor and untold gallons of sweat equity. … And I gotta be totally and brutally honest here: all this and I didn’t even have to tile the entire floor, just a 3-by-4 foot alcov...
The Fifth Annual Big Sandy American Legion Coyote Derby held last weekend in Big Sandy brought in just fewer than 100 coyote hunters, raised $8,000 for the local organization's charitable efforts and helped with predator control for area livestock producers. The local post's Secretary/Treasurer Lindsay Boyce, who served in the U.S. Navy and ranches on the south side of the Bear Paw Mountains with husband Stephen Boyce, said the turnout of hunters was about average but the...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran, intended to help the state’s popularity soar with a new state license plate, but it quickly hit turbulence and had to make an immediate course correction, which was a bit difficult with all that egg on their face. The Associated Press reported back in October that Ohio debuted its new license plate. It’s a beautiful illustration with an art deco flair depicting the essential elements of Ohio’s self-identity — a glorius sun emanati...
From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 game wardens are seeking any information regarding five white-tailed deer that were shot and left near Cleveland, 30 miles south of Chinook. Dec. 29, Game Warden Haden Hussey received a call concerning a dead deer on the Nick Faber Ranch, two miles southwest of the Cleveland Road and Peoples Creek Road intersection. While speaking with the landowner and upon further investigation, Hussey found...
Not since the Renaissance has Italy led the world so clearly in the culture wars, but this time we’re not talking about arts, and certainly not sciences, we’re talking about the great COVID vaccine resistance of 2021. Those Italians put some skin in the game. Even with a pretty high 73% full-vaccination rate in the country, on Dec. 6 Italy started requiring a health pass to prove vaccination for some professions and for entrance into many venues. The Thursday before the law...
Hill County sheriff’s deputies and Havre police officers were involved in a short, low-speed car chase that ended with two arrests, including the driver who was also tasered while resisting arrest. A driver on 19th Avenue West reported to 911 that his vehicle had been hit but the other driver did not stop at the scene of the crash. The driver followed the other vehicle, a 2005 white Ford Focus, toward town and sheriff’s deputies picked up the pursuit on the 1000 Block of 16t...
