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I tried to read the news this week but, honestly, outside of work where we are treated like a prison work gang, without the snappy uniforms, and forced to read news, I was too tired and rundown (and more than a little, as the British say, couldn’t be arsed) to read much past the headlines. So without further ado, I give you all the news I could make up about my favorite weird headline of August: “Turkish scorpion farmer milks arachnids for their expensive venom,” by Umit...
Havre's National Night Out is set for Tuesday, Aug. 30, 6-8 p.m. at Montana State University-Northern's SUB Drive, with a free barbecue, live music and plenty of activities for youth and families interacting with law enforcement, other first responders and their community partners. Across the country, National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign to enhance the relationship between community members and law enforcement as well as the agencies, organizations and...
As part of its ongoing program of informational events, North Central Senior Citizens Center is hosting a presentation from Montana Legal Services on “Legalities Involved in Aging” Monday, Aug. 29, 1-2:30 p.m. at the senior center. Heather Winter, activities coordinator at the senior center, said COVID-19 shut down a lot of activities at the center that they are now starting up again, and this free presentation is to meant to address a lot of wide-ranging questions she...
Hill County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the victim in a fatal motorcycle crash that occurred Thursday on Montana Highway 234. Undersheriff Stan Martin said Kelly Benson, a 63-year-old Havre resident, died at the scene of the crash that was called in at 8:12 p.m. Trooper Christopher Baker said Benson was northbound in Beaver Creek Park and failed to negotiate a turn near mile marker 16. The motorcycle rolled, throwing the Benson, who was not wearing a helmet, B...
Montana Highway Patrol reported a traffic fatality that occurred Thursday evening on Montana Highway 234 near mile marker 16 inside Beaver Creek Park. The crash was called in at 8:12 p.m., and Trooper Christopher Baker said an adult male, driving a motorcycle northbound, failed to negotiate a turn and the motorcycle rolled, throwing the driver who was not wearing a helmet. The driver, Baker said, died at the scene. The victim’s name has not been released pending n...
We all have our little quirks, right. They’re nothing to be ashamed of because they are, in fact, one of the components of what makes each of us unique — quite probably weird, too — but unique for sure. In her Aug. 26, 2020, Pyschology Today article about quirks Sheila Robinson-Kiss says one of the keys to good mental health is recognizing that just because a behavior seems outside the norm, doesn’t make it bad. If it’s not hurting anybody, we should just figure out a way to h...
The Chouteau County Fair is running Thursday through Sunday this week in Fort Benton. The fair, located on the Chouteau County Fairgrounds, 205 Fair Grounds Loop at the southwest end of town, is open noon to midnight daily, with a carnival, free entertainment, 4-H showing, vendors and evening entertainment. The carnival, with Midway Amusements, is expected to have 10 rides — six bigger rides and four smaller ones, and will have all-day passes available for kids. People can c...
I successfully built and hung a gate this week. It bears pointing out that I conquered my nemesis, the hanging of a gate, by getting the thing hung level and plumb. It swings freely and quietly both to and fro. It looks good doing it. I should be giddy, overjoyed, brimming with pride and other degrees of over-the-moonness, and yet no. At best I feel a sort of grim satisfaction. I was raised well before the era of participation ribbons, nobody cared about bolstering our...
What were you doing June 29, 2022? Whatever is was, you did less of it than you think you did because that day was not a full 24 hours. That’s right, we were all bilked out of our precious time together by 1.59 milliseconds. The website Timanddate.com which is a go-to site for things atomic clock-related said that this was the shortest day recorded since the atomic clock got fired up in the 1960s. The atomic clock tracks actual length of days through the modern magic of s...
Liberty County Sheriff’s Office released the name of a Havre man killed in a motorcycle crash on Montana Highway 223 in the south end of Liberty County. Charles “Chuck” Lowen, born in 1947, was declared dead at the scene early Saturday afternoon after his motorcycle crashed into a ditch. The motorcycle drifted to the edge of the highway, causing him to lose control of the motorcycle, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Matt Erickson said. Erickson, who was called to the crash...
The annual Chippewa Cree Celebration is back in full swing for 2022 on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation this week. After the events were canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 and limited community events last year - including a powwow that was very popular with the Havre public, hosted by Northern Winz Casino in conjunction with the 2021 Great Northern Fair - 2022 will finally see a full slate of events on Rocky Boy, including a youth conference and powwow, the Rocky Boy Powwow, a...
The Third Annual Youth Fun Day is set for Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Havre Trap Club 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for area youths and their families. The event, which is hosted by Milk River Gobblers, is free and gives youth 8 to 16 years old, and their family members, an opportunity to participate in activities that will teach them more about the outdoors, hunting, hunting safety and more. Representatives from different organizations will be on hand to give presentations, talk with the...
I don’t know about you, but I never can tell when I’m going to have a revelation. Like last weekend, I went with a friend to a quiet gem of a lake in central Montana and — boom — there it was a profound moment. I know what you’re thinking, water tends to inspire such things, and this water was clear, warm, glass smooth in a mountain setting, blah, blah, blah. It couldn’t have been more picturesque, but, no. I didn’t even touch the water. I was in a long-sleeved shirt, jeans...
The name of the Friday victim of a utility terrain vehicle crash was released Monday by the coroner. Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said that Jon Molitor of Havre, 46, died from injuries sustained when his side-by-side flipped on a hillside east of Bear Paw Lake in Beaver Creek Park. The crash was reported Friday 7 p.m. and Ross said sheriff’s deputies, Havre Fire Department emergency medical technicians and Fish, Wildlife and Parks personnel all responded. First responders r...
Local photographer and book author Peggy Ray has published her third coffee table book of photography featuring life in the Bear Paw Mountains, this time focusing the many homestead shacks still hidden away on modern day ranches. "Homesteads of the Bear Paw Mountains" has photos from several homestead shacks in various states of preservation and decay, along with some old family photos of the original homesteaders when they could be provided. The "Homestead" book came about or...
I don’t think I’ve been a particular target of the Fates or anything specifically paranoid like that, I’m just saying that they’ve been busy this month testing my human endurance, with casualties and costs still rising. In no particular order, we have had bloodshed, breakage, wastefulness, unprovoked attacks, decay, disarray and pestilence. I sharpened my kitchen knives, which means — contrary to that old adage that you cut yourself worse with a dull knife — I’ve cut my...
Havre Fire Department responded with an engine and an ambulance with eight total personnel to a trailer house fire on the 1400 Block of 33rd Avenue Northeast at 10:31 p.m. Saturday, Fire Chief Nathan Courtnage said. The fire was caused by an electrical short at a outlet where an air conditioner unit was plugged in, he said. Heavy damage to the home included fire damage to the living room and smoke and water damage throughout the house and it won’t be livable, he said, until i...
OK, I tried to stay out of it, I had a whole column planned about the pitfalls of the most adult activity of my life, then a political candidate from Missoula threw out the right bait at the right time and now I’ve been lured into the Roe v. Wade free-for-all debate. A bear can resist only so many garbage cans, and I could not resist the lure of this anti-abortion regulation argument: Rep. Brad Tschida, R-Missoula, who is running for Senate District 49, said in an email to m...
A bomb scare at Montana State University-Northern was reported at 2:45 p.m. Friday Assistant Police Chief Aaron Wittmer said, but investigation found no sign of an explosive device. The unnamed caller, speaking in what Wittmer described as a heavy Middle Eastern accent, told police dispatch that a bomb with a timer set to go off in one hour and 15 minutes was in a classroom at Northern. Investigation by law enforcement found no evidence of a bomb or other device. The call...
Man oh man, has the Supreme Court of the United States of America, land of the free, really taken it on the chin, from mostly liberals, over some of their home-of-the-brave decisions they’ve made lately. But all this angst is clouding people’s thinking. The most recent SCOTUS decisions have fallen like a one-two punch bellow the belt for separation of church and state, or at least church and state-funded schools. June 27 the justices ruled, 6-3, that a Bremerton, Was...
I have been on tenterhooks for a month now, not just about the excitement of having a practical use for a juicy, old-timey word like tenterhooks, but also, and mostly, about science and specifically whether a salt crystal will prove to be Pandora’s box, Spiderman’s arachnid or, like, a dud firecracker where you’re anticipating drama and excitement but get pffft. NPR reported May 24 that large crystals of salt were found in central Australia, and the crystals show signs they...
I don’t know why I’m the one who always has to come up with the solutions to society’s big problems, but here I am shouldering the responsibility again. This time, though, I’m looking to get paid for my genius. After nearly a year of work, just under $300,000 of donor funding spent on creating a new logo for the Montana State Library and an hour-and-a-half of discussion, the library’s commission is now at an impasse over whether the logo aptly portrays the state library’s...
Joplin’s Art in the Park and Car Show starts with a few events tonight, but is in full swing all day Saturday starting at 8 a.m. in the park and ending at closing time at Nancy’s Bar. Breakfast will be served at the park at 8 a.m. for all the people setting up for the day and getting registered for events. Along with the vendor show, with homemade and commercial goods, the car show will see around 60 cars from antique to new on display. And the day will include food boo...
As we all know, or should know, or kind of remember but the exact details escape us, Sweden and Finland applied May 18 to join NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in the wake of Russia’s invasion and ruthless efforts to pummel into submission their fellow European country of Ukraine. No word is out on their application status, but it looks like Finland is winning the popularity contest. Remember, after Sweden and Finland started talking about how they might be, m...
Local law enforcement is looking for a Havre woman who escaped Monday afternoon from custody after her sentencing hearing at Hill County Courthouse. Maria Rose Oppelt, aka Maria Rose Newton, was in the custody of a Probation and Parole officer at District Court and waiting for a law enforcement officer to take her to Hill County Detention Center after her sentencing hearing when she made her escape shortly before 4 p.m., Police Capt. Aaron Wittmer said. District Court Judge...
