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This whole thing started, as many trips down the rabbit hole of research do, with a random shared post on Facebook. This one shared a lot of cool things about horses, my passion, … buuuuuut there were just so many unsupported “facts” littered into this short essay that the nerd in me just could not let my finger hit the share button. It’s kind of an illness in itself, being a nerd, and it’s not the easy road. It’s kind of like the thug life, but with fewer bullets and less se...
A limited number of discounted pre-sale day-pass tickets for Midway West Amusements and parking passes for the Great Northern Fair are on sale until sold out at Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods, Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and North 40 Outfitters, Great Northern Fair Manager Frank English said. Each of the tickets is $20 a piece. The day-pass tickets are for youth to take in carnival rides all day and the parking tickets, new this year, provide parking for the entire fair. P...
I just spent a week on a tractor cleaning my corrals and doing some dirt work, which gave my brain far too much time to get lost in philosophical contemplation, and this week my brain settled in to ponder the Law of Unintended Consequences. I know, that sounds intriguing, right? Most of us are familiar with Murphy’s Law — Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong — but Unintended Consequences is like Murphy’s intellectually deeper and marginally more optimistic cousin....
Weed, bug and heat season is not the time to be made of soft, fleshy parts — and, yet, here I am. Again. There’s this one part of spring that I really look forward to each year. Not that there’s anything wrong with spring as a whole. It’s no autumn, and, as a whole, it beats the pants off of summer and winter, but there’s that sweet spot of spring when everything has turned green and it makes my eyes sigh. That sweet spot isn’t only about everything being green — it’s pret...
During a brunch at Havre City-County Airport Saturday, three Havre-area pilots were recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration, the North Central Hangar of the Montana Pilots' Association, and more than 135 family members, friends and fellow pilots for their longevity and success as pilots. Jack Norman, Everett Tyrrel and Tim Dwyer were each honored with a Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which is "the most prestigious award the FAA issues to pilots," the FAA website...
After the project stagnated for a few years, the disc golf course is complete and open for competition in Beaver Creek Park. "It's not that difficult of a course. It's definitely for all ages, elderly to young children," course designer and lead construction person Jake Rodgers said. Located on the east side of Rotary Pond, the nine-hole Normandy Coulee Disc Golf Course opened to the public June 14 thanks to the efforts of Jake Rodgers, a disc golf enthusiast for at least 20...
You know I love a good nature article, one that will amaze, amuse or confuse me, even startle, horrify or repulse a little bit. I look for these articles in the news, but I didn’t expect to live them this week. Who would, really. It started Monday with the call of a new bird and the sound of a strange cat among the chattering of birds in the jungle of our yard. I quickly spotted a little gray bird flitting among the chokecherry branches and grasses, blathering on with some s...
I’ll ease you into things with a light-hearted science story, but I’m wrapping it up with some serious monkey business, so you might want to sit down. Scientists have figured out that bees can tell time, but the results are not the most interesting thing about this research. A scientist put a container of sugar water outside a beehive every day at 4 p.m. and one day he didn’t put the sugar water out, but the bees showed up anyway. Ta-dah, the researcher said, they tell time....
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has begun its annual stocking of fisheries around the area with trout and walleye, and more is expected to be completed in the coming month. "They just yesterday started stocking a lot of the small ponds in Blaine County with catchables and fingerlings," FWP fisheries biologist Cody Nagel said Wednesday. "And I'm assuming there's still some more fish coming over because we stock Faber Reservoir every year, as well." Chouteau Reservoir, North...
Havre Police officers and Hill County Sheriff’s deputies were involved Monday evening in a vehicle and foot pursuit of a Havre man, after a vehicle was reported stolen from First Street business. Chad Wagner of Havre, 25, was arrested on charges from both the sheriff’s office and police department including motor vehicle theft, two counts of trespass to vehicle, driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license, driving under the influence, obstructing a peace officer or other public servant, careless driving, failure to c...
There is something about a barn that speaks to the soul, and I’m not just saying that because I have one — or rather I have both — a barn and a soul. I’ve been working on my barn recently, and it’s given me a lot of time to think on the topic. Barns are kind of the poster children of rural living, literally the image of rural living. I googled it. Actually, I did an image search for the term bucolic. The word means “relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside...
With one headline, Live Science promised me an epic tale of adventure, heroism and more than just a little absurdity: “After a Chinese zoo covered up a leopard escape, 100 chickens are searching for the big cat.” My gaaaawd! The chickens in China are forming a hunting party to track down an actual leopard? One hundred chickens, all focused on one objective against a fierce predator? Chickens? Hunting leopards? Imagine that if you will, if you can. Maybe they’re hunting in pa...
Despite the weather, ongoing system repair and maintenance projects affecting the waterway, and having to meet remotely, the Fresno Reservoir Fisheries Management Plan Advisory Committee is forging ahead with their task to create a five-year management plan for the popular lake. Steve Dalby, the Region 6 fisheries manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the department's coordinator with the advisory committee, said the nine-member committee should have a first draft...
We’ve all got answers to life’s problems, but they ain’t all interesting, so today I want to talk a little bit about innovative solutions. Remember the Suez Canal fiasco a few months ago when a ship captain accidentally grounded a cargo ship against the canal’s soft, sandy bank and the waterway was blocked for six days? (Side note: I thought the entire canal was lined with concrete but, obviously, I am not well-read or attentive to news from 2004 and 2006 when this happene...
I’ve never been good at training two horses at the same time, and yet here I am, on the verge of my rocking chair on the porch years, breaking two horses to ride, and they couldn’t be making it harder on my brain if they tried. It’s not whether they are well-behaved and or trainable, or if they’re difficult, tricky, obstinate, or otherwise constitutionally against being trained to interact with humans in a positive and productive manner which requires them to do what the human...
For more than a month large herds of antelope have been hanging around pastures and fields just outside of Havre, but Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Havre-area wildlife biologist Scott Hemmer said that he expects them to move on and disperse any day now. Hemmer said that it's normal in the fall and spring to see herds of antelope, as the North American pronghorn is commonly referred to, though it bears no genetic link to antelope. The animals travel in large herds to find ar...
Long-time, multi-generational Havre business Floren's Hill County Printing has been sold to new owners Stacy and Bob Mantle - but, in a sense, the business has stayed in the family. Former Havre Daily News publisher Stacy Mantle, who had worked at the newspaper for 20 years starting in graphics design for the advertising department, and her husband, Bob Mantle, who works for BNSF Railway, purchased the printing business April 1 and renamed it back to the original Hill County...
I got to pull stitches out of my husband’s face Wednesday and I was so excited about it I did a happy dance while he wasn’t looking. He never wants to let me play doctor on him. I get it — and by that I mean I get it, and I don’t get it all at the same time. John is, let’s say, sensitive. He lives with pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I get that. So a new pain, even — or maybe especially — little pains like from a sliver, cause a sort of excited nervous system respon...
Bearpaw Bowmen Archery Club is holding its Spring 3D Archery Shoot Sunday at Eagles Campground in Beaver Creek Park. The 25 3D targets - life-sized animal targets - will be a variety of sizes from the archery club's collection, which includes everything from small rabbits to big game and even a Sasquatch, club President Clyde R. Thomas Jr. said. And the shooting distances will be anywhere from 3 feet to 70 yards. "That's why they have these 3D shoots is to get people into...
We all have a voice, and for good, bad or weird animals do too. NPR’s Madeline Sofia talked March 25 to U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist Sammy Ramsey about cicadas because the annual cicada hatch is coming up soon, and this should be a big year — a big, noisy year, even for the notoriously noisy insect. Cicadas, Ramsey said, come in 23 different broods, or types, that hatch every 13 or 17 years, depending on the particular type of cicada. Brood X, which stands for...
It’s hard to pretty up a home when you have all the decorating instincts of an average sixth-grader. I have countered this lack of style savvy, though, with all the ambition and focus of that sixth-grader’s twin. Given the state of my character, and the fact that I am sitting here in the deteriorating wasteland of our old trailer house, while we whittle away at finishing building our new home – which is going slowly largely because “design decisions are haaaaaard,” as I like...
Non-profit dog rescue PAWS of Chinook is partnering with Spay Montana to offer the rescue’s first spay/neuter clinic and vaccination clinic set for Saturday and Sunday, May 8-9, at the Commercial Building on the Blaine County Fairgrounds. The clinic will provide free spay and neuter for both dogs and cats in the area. The vaccinations are offered at a very low cost for all dogs and cats with annual vaccination and rabies costing $10 each or $15 for both, as well as m...
Havre Police officers were involved Monday evening in a high-speed pursuit on First Street that ended in a rollover crash at the junction of U.S. highways 2 and 87, and with one arrest on multiple charges. Havre Police Capt. Aaron Wittmer said that Monday at 6:28 p.m. an officer saw Jalen Jaret Watson of Havre, 19, driving a vehicle on Third Avenue between First and Main streets, and recognized him as a person with outstanding warrants. The officer attempted to pull Watson...
I’ve been around animals enough in my life to know that they can sense when humans are vulnerable, and most of them are perfectly willing to capitalize on our weak moments — apparently they see our habit changes during the pandemic as a chance for an uprising. “No deaths have been reported,” an article on Huffington Post says, but in just one week we’re seeing a lot of activity. CBC News reported Tuesday that a moose “made its way” through a Sherbrooke, Quebec, neighborhood...
It's not too late this year to catch the annual spring migration of tens of thousands waterfowl at Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area along the Rocky Mountain Front. Freezout Lake WMA is a 12,000-acre area with a series of lakes, including Freezout and Priest Butte lakes, and ponds that every year from about the end of the first week in March to the end of the first week in April attracts swans by the thousands and white geese by the tens of thousands on their annual...
