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Ahhh, the third week in April, the days are noticeably longer, the birds of summer are returning and their primarily nocturnal enemy, the cat, is spending more nighttime hours outside. Spring is in the air. But I’m pre-obsessing over the coming sleep deprivation. The longer daylight days are my only unhealthy relationship. I love that the sunlight burns away the cold and dark of winter, but so do the birds. They sing songs about it … all the time. That combination of light and...
I hate to make sweeping pronouncements about “This is what’s wrong with society … ,” but I see a deeply rooted problem with what I’ll call a modern language disconnect — people not using language others understand, people not putting in the effort to understand the words they are hearing and that old flimflam classic of using words in ways they weren’t intended in order to create confusion, perhaps act in malice. As an example of the first of these, I give you the Eurasian...
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...
Welcome to the latest edition of “Wait … what?” the feature in which we here at Pamville News highlight all the “News to Confuse” — the everyday stories that make us cock our heads to the side and say that catchy phrase, “Wait … what?” For this edition we’re jumping right into the deep end with a May 13 story out of the United Kingdom published online at CNBC.com — and, if I’m honest here, I don’t know why this news wasn’t splashed all over mainstream media. A British...
A person’s life has its defining moments, some large and understandably life-changing like an illness or a loss or a great kindness from another person, but others are small, intimate, personal moments that can completely change a person’s mindset and the trajectory of their life, like kneeling down and being unable to get up again without groaning and the use of a prop. One of my favorite activities in the whole world is sitting. Have a seat, take a seat, pull up a chair and...
This weekend will see many celebrations as a nod to the start of summer and to honor members of the military who died while serving their country. The weekend starts tonight with the All American Memorial Day Kick-off Party at Great Northern Fairgrounds. The event runs 5 p.m. to midnight and is free an open to the public. The evening will feature and Honor Guard posting of colors, a car and motorcycle show-and-shine, food vendors and a pet parade. For those people open to a...
“4 New Body Parts Discovered in the Last 10 Years,” it’s the kind of headline you’d expect to read connected to an ongoing serial killer case or maybe it’s an episode name on “Criminal Minds” — but, no, that right there is science. What that SciShow YouTube video headline means is that doctors, scientists, researchers, they’re all still discovering new parts in the human body, our human bodies. Like humans don’t have an identity crisis already. A couple weeks ago I learned...
The 42nd Annual Memorial Day Weekend Blackpowder Shoot will be Saturday through Monday at Fort Assinniboine, off U.S. Highway 87 south of Havre. This annual shoot is put on by the Bullhook Bottoms Blackpowder Club. Long-time club member and shoot co-organizer Jim Griggs said the club is expecting about 90 participants from around the Havre area, as well as Glasgow, Helena, Missoula and more areas. This is the oldest black powder shoot in the state, he added, and he attributes...
A tic is a frequent unconscious quirk of behavior, and a tick is a hard-to-kill, blood-sucking, parasitic arachnid that causes you to unconsciously and repeatedly scratch your head and body. Tic and tick sound exactly alike. Coincidence? I think not. I wasn’t going to write about ticks. I swear. I’m pretty sure I wrote a column about them last year. I had this whole thing about body part discoveries planned out for today. Brand new body parts. Imagine that. Then the ticks star...
Havre Pride Community Cleanup is set for Monday through Saturday, May 16-21, and after a hiatus due to the pandemic, organizers would like to see lots of help from the public to clean up the community — taking advantage of the garbage bags and trash bins available for the week and the Saturday push that will include a free lunch for participants. “We’re hoping for a major, major cleanup,” said Pride Chair Kim Cripps, who is organizing the event along with the Havre Area Ch...
Here’s the thing about Vladamir Putin, he’s a fun-suck, a joy-killer, a joke-hole, the place warmhearted laughter has labeled on its maps as “Here there be dragons,” and like all narcissists, he especially does not like to be on the laughed-at side of a funny situation, so it’s highly unlikely that he’ll be amused that a German wildlife park renamed its Russian wild boar from Putin, in the Russian leader’s honor, to Eberhofer, because almost anything is better than Putin at th...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the comparative income of women versus men. As a woman and a graduate of Montana State University-Northern, then Northern Montana College, I am taking this opportunity to address a few off points made during Northern’s commencement ceremony Saturday. I was highly disappointed state Sen. Brian Hoven used his opportunity of his commencement speech to Northern graduates to promote investment companies and to put voice to the political farce that the United States is threatened by soc...
Some things in life just make sense - maybe not at first, but eventually you know enough or you stumble into some information or you just get lucky, like the half-finished puzzle, which you've been struggling to assemble without the picture, and all its loose pieces fall onto the floor in such a manner that the puzzle is completely assembled. Ta-dah! And you look at the assembled puzzle image like, "Oh, yeah. Huh. That makes sense." (As a side note, yes, I understand that...
In the wake of a surge in popularity of outdoors vacationing across the nation, the U.S. Forest Service offices nationwide will be addressing the issue starting this summer of non-livestock users occupying campgrounds and campsites developed for people camping with horses, mules and other packing livestock. After being approached by Back Country Horsemen of America and allied organizations, such as American Horse Council, USFS released a memo Nov. 15, 2021, outlining the need...
I just didn’t imagine myself saying this, but some lines in the sand might be worth drawing. Mind you, I’m not talking about breaking laws, or bucking society, or compromising principles, or shirking responsibilities, or bending the rules — or even throwing myself on a sword or dyin’ on a hill. Sure you could do those things with your little line in the sand. The line represents a border between either and or, this and that, one or the other. Maybe the line is one you won’t c...
One of the benefits of the modern foodie fascination for people like me is that we can just keep throwing ingredients together with abandon, but now we can attach professional-sounding terms to it and all of a sudden our haphazard cooking process is legit. When you make chicken something out of whatever you found in the fridge, it’s more eater-friendly to say the meal is “based on a traditional dish from the Oaxaca region of Mexico,” rather than “It’s kind of Mexican ....
The 2022 Extreme Bares and Broncs PRCA Rodeo, hosted by Montana State University-Northern rodeo teams and booster club, is in the books, and head coach Doug Kallenberger is pleased about the event and the support for his team, especially for the help given one team member injured over the weekend. The event, which was Friday and Saturday at the Bigger Better Barn, is one of the teams' major fundraisers for the year, coming just before they start the spring half of their rodeo...
With the peer review process complete as of last month, the scientific community has officially announced that they have now completely mapped human DNA, and winging it without any review or guidance whatsoever, I am here to tell you to keep the champagne corked because that doesn’t mean as much as it should. Reuters ran an article Thursday covering a statement from Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute about the March announcement of the a...
After missing a year due to the pandemic, the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited is back for its 37th Annual Banquet Saturday, April 23, at Havre Ice Dome. The doors at the Ice Dome south of town at 2585 Fifth Ave. open for the event at 4:30 p.m., with early bird prize drawings 5 to 5:30 p.m. The event also includes a gun raffle and silent auction, but the main draw of the evening, the all-you-can-eat meal of walleye and baron of beef, starts serving at 6:30 p.m. The dinner...
Archers only have a month to get practiced up for the Bearpaw Bowmen Archery Club's Spring 3D Archery Shoot, which is set for Sunday, May 1, at Eagles Campground in Beaver Creek Park. Registration opens at 8 a.m., but archers can sign up at any point in the day as long as they make it through the course and turn in their score cards by 3 p.m. The competition is open to everyone, with all types of bows allowed, though rangefinders are prohibited. People are also advised to...
I don’t know if this is an east side of the Mississippi vs. west side thing, or urban vs. rural, or maybe this modern generation of deer just lost its will to be wild, but I do know that I got the raw end of the deal when it comes to deer wrangling. A March 18 article in United Press International reported that a deer in South Bend, Indiana, got trapped in an empty backyard pool, so animal control and police officers responded to rescue the animal. The article says that the o...
I cheated death one day this week. Not in a dramatic or heroic fashion, naturally, but in that way in which you do something sketchy that the Universe normally tries to capitalize on. You walk out of the house wearing a pair of underwear of the likes your mother warned you about and you’re just asking to get into a car wreck. Or maybe that’s just me. Not that the unders in question were dirty, or ratty, or otherwise unsavory or even illicit, it’s just that, OK, they were...
Friends of the Havre Animal Shelter - a non-profit organization that helps meet some of the city shelter's needs not provided for in its budget - is selling raffle tickets in a special fundraiser to purchase air-filtration units that will help keep animals at the shelter healthy, and it's happening thanks to the generous last wishes of a long-time Havre business woman. Last year, the shelter had to deal with four rounds of an upper respiratory disease, Animal Control Officer...
Hi-Line Curling Club is hosting its 12th Annual Hammers and Hacks Bonspiel this weekend starting tonight and running through Sunday at Havre Ice Dome, 2585 Fifth Ave. The teams, 22 in total, are coming from North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Whitefish, Bozeman and Havre this year, member Andy Herdina said. "Definitely the biggest that we've had," he added, even though the large contingent of Canadian teams that normally attend didn't want to risk the border crossing with COVID...
A 29-year-old Havre man who is facing charges of assault on two detention officers has been transported to Gallatin County where he is being held on charges of probation violation. Thane Gray, who was being held in Hill County Detention Center on charges of assault and probation violation, had additional charges brought against him Sunday from two separate incidents. Gray was charged with vandalism Sunday in an 11:42 a.m. incident, but Hill County Sheriff’s deputies and H...
