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More than 2,000 NorthWestern Energy Havre customers lost power this morning around 9 a.m., a spokesperson for the energy company said. NorthWestern Energy spokesman Butch Larcombe said this morning there is no word yet on what has caused the outage, but crews are at the substation east of Havre looking into the problem. “Looks like we have lost power in out eastside substation. Still reporting 1,724 customers without power on city’s east side and stretching into rural area towards Lohman,” Larcombe wrote in an email to the H...
County and city officials met Tuesday to rank the likelihood of specific disasters hitting the region for the first of a series of multi-mitigation meetings. Severe weather, like the Oct. 2-3 record-setting snowstorm, topped the list as the most likely and first priority disaster to be prepared for. Counties are required every five years to update their pre-disaster mitigation plans, the purpose being to make communities more resilient and resistant to the damages caused by...
Havre Boy Scout Ammon Lines is a few packed duffel bags away from having an Eagle Scout badge. For his Eagle Scout project, Ammon says he has decided to assemble duffel bags for foster teenagers on their way to their new foster home. The bags, he said, will be stuffed with toiletries, necessities and add-ons such as blankets and maybe some clothes. The idea is personal, he said. "We have friends who had foster kids and when they came into their homes they had nothing but a...
With the deadline moved back, people now have until Friday to donate to the Havre Elks Blanket Drive. Blankets can be dropped off at the Elks Club at 321 Second St. or at Western Trailer and Marine Sales at 1865 U.S. Highway 2 East, where Elks Lodge Secretary Brandy Kurtz works. Kurtz, who is helping coordinate the drive, said she even has blankets in her pickup truck. The blankets will be given just in time for the holidays and peak cold season to people in need, Kurtz said. Priority will go first to people and...
Thanks to a concerned Havre citizen, Havre High School Key Club members organized and took to cleaning trash Sunday afternoon from under the viaduct and Milk River Bridge. The north side Havre citizen, Key Club advisor John Ita said, had contacted several other groups about cleaning the mess from under the bridges and nobody had done so until the Key Club agreed to do so. Key Club International is the oldest and one of the largest service programs for high school students. Key...
The Fort Belknap tribal council has condemned the November death in Billings of former Fort Belknap Indian Reservation resident Myron Wesley Knight, saying it will continue to do all that it can to protect the safety of members of its community on and off the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. “We as a council condemn the recent actions that led up to the November 15 discovery of the brutal homicide in Billings, MT,” a letter from Fort Belknap Indian Communtity Council President Andrew Werk Jr. says. The letter says the tri...
Box Elder third-grade teacher Joyce Donoven had no idea one student would single-handedly carry the Bobcats to victory when she initiated a Cat-Griz canned food gathering contest. "I call her the little cat that could," Donoven said of 9-year-old Aarianna Henry. This was the first year Donoven had her third-graders partake in the canned-food charity contest. The main purpose was for students to learn about and apply themselves to community service, Donoven said. The canned...
Havre Police officers are looking for the driver who hit a woman with a car this morning on Sixth Avenue. A caller reported to Havre Police Department dispatch this morning at 2:11 that a woman had been hit with a car. Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said the woman has refused medical attention. The investigation is on going and the parties involved, including the woman who was hit, are being very uncooperative, Matosich said. “Alcohol is definitely suspected,” he added. Police are looking for the people involved, and try...
A state district judge sentenced a man who was caught stealing frozen meat and jewelry from someone’s home to seven years probation. Carmello Valenzuela received a seven-year suspended sentence for felony burglary Monday in District Court in Havre. Valenzuela’s sentence is part of a plea deal that dismissed misdemeanor charges of theft and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia. A man called the Hill County Sheriff’s Office Aug. 8 to report he found someone, later identified as Valenzuela, rummaging in his house. Two deput...
Montana Actors' Theatre is continuing its annual holiday tradition of putting on silly, interactive panto plays, this year with "Robin Hood." "It's just ridiculous fun," MAT Artistic Director Jay Pyette said Wednesday. "You got Martin Holt in a dress. What else do you need?" A modern panto, or pantomime, considered a British creation, takes a well-known story, often a fable or children's story, and puts it on the stage with dancing, singing, jokes and other twists on the...
Tribal police have arrested a 28-year-old woman in connection to a Nov. 29 shooting on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. Rocky Boy criminal investigator Ed Longknife said Wednesday the woman is being held on tribal charges. He and FBI spokesperson Sandra Barker said the investigation is ongoing. The alleged victim in the shooting is a 41-year-old man who was transported to the hospital as a result of his injuries right afterwards. Longknife said the man has since been released from the hospital. Longknife and Barker said t...
Forestry specialists armed attending landowners, residents and various county and reservation employees, during a two-part workshop Tuesday, with hours of information on best grazing, logging and tree-care practices. The idea for workshops - sponsored by the Montana State University Extension, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Hill County Conservation District - was sparked by the damage caused and the trail of questions raised after this year's East Fork Fire and the Oct. 2-...
A state district judge sentenced a Havre man to five years with The state Department of Corrections for leading officers on a reckless pursuit that reached 100 miles per hour and almost ran someone over. Gene Allen Swick, born in 1976, was sentenced to 10 years with the DOC with five years suspended for felony criminal endangerment Monday in District Court in Havre. The sentence was part of a plea deal that dismissed misdemeanor counts of obstructing a peace officer, reckless...
The Beaver Creek Park superintendent is still searching for loggers to rid the park of burnt lumber, money to repair five miles of fencing razed by the East Fork Fire and a high-definition monitor to complement the park's new surveillance cameras. The first logger he had spoken to over a month ago didn't pan out, Superintendent Chad Edgar told Hill County Park Board members during Monday night's monthly meeting. Edgar said he had spoken to a second logger, Pat Marvel of...
A man high on meth led police on a pursuit that risked many lives, and after fleeing on foot, was found hiding under a home in which its occupants had a houseful of drugs, court documents say, leading to charges against a woman in the residence. Darrell David Gardipee III is charged with seven counts — felony criminal endangerment, misdemeanor criminal mischief, misdemeanor obstructing a peace officer, misdemeanor driving under the influence of drugs, misdemeanor fleeing or eluding a police officer, misdemeanor driving w...
Mary McKenzie is a local children's book author who finds time for her passion somewhere in between her full-time job at the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Institute and her family, which includes five children and her husband, Chad. Mary has already self-published three books this year and plans to release a few more within the next few months. Although she published it this year, Mary said she wrote her first children's book, "Andrew's Kernel of Truth," - a tale about a wheat...
Tribal law enforcement officials are investigating a shooting on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, a representative of Rocky Boy Police said this morning. The investigation is ongoing and the person who was shot is in fair condition, Larry Bernard said. Bernard could not provide and further information about the shooting and referred further questions to the lead investigator, who was not available for comment by printing deadline this morning....
The FBI and Tribal law enforcement officials are investigating the shooting of a man on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, a representative of Rocky Boy Police said this morning. The investigation is ongoing and the man who was shot Wednesday is in fair condition, Larry Bernard, a tribal officer said. He might even have even been released from the hospital, Bernard added, though he was not entirely sure. The man who was shot is in his 30s or 40s, Bernard said, adding law enforcement do have suspects they are i...
Hill County employees and board members packed the Timmons Room in the Hill County Courthouse Thursday to take in a two-part workshop aimed at teaching how to improve relationships among people working together and the best procedures for public boards. “This is about good governance and democracy promotion,” Community Development Specialist and board instructor Paul Lachapelle said. Lachapelle is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Montana State University and said he has been a board ins...
A Havre man received three years probation for illegally having Oxycodone pills. Thomas Craig Flesche, born 1997, received Monday in District Court in Havre a three year deferred imposition of sentence for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs. The sentence is part of a plea deal and Flesche can have the offense struck from his record if he abides by its conditions. Flesche’s offense happened May 10, when a Hill County deputy was notified by a Hill County Detention Center officer that he found a baggie with six p...
A Havre man received five years probation for stealing nearly $10,000 while working at Kmart and ordered to pay as much in restitution. James Christopher Dahl, Jr., born in 1986, in District Court in Havre Monday received a five year deferred-imposition of sentence for felony theft and was ordered to pay $9,960 in restitution. The sentence is part of a plea deal and Dahl can have the offense struck from his record if he abides by its conditions. Dahl’s offense stems from theft that was discovered back in March. A Kmart a...
A Havre woman received three years probation after being caught with dangerous drugs and paraphernalia around children. Terri A. Ackerman, born in 1982, received a three year deferred imposition of sentence for two counts of felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs. The sentence is part of a plea deal that dismissed a misdemeanor criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children. Ackerman can have the offense struck from her record if she abides by its conditions. Acke...
Ignited by damage from the East Fork Fire and the record-setting October snowstorm left this year, forestry specialists will be putting on workshops in Havre Tuesday on the best tree-care and logging-related practices. The dual-focus workshops are aimed at teaching people how best to deal with the burned lumber left by the fire in the Bear Paw Mountains as well as what to do about the extensive tree damage caused by the record-setting Oct. 2-3 snow storm. The all-day...
A Havre thief and methamphetamine dealer received five years with the Department of Corrections for stealing a pickup truck and breaking into a home to get into the owner’s safes and lockboxes. Zachariah Lee Ambler, born in 1995, was sentenced Monday in state District Court in Havre to 15 years with 10 suspended for felony burglary; five years for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs; and five years for felony theft Monday in District Court in Havre. The sentences will run at the same time. Ambler committed his offen...
A Harlem man received three years probation for his part in a large meth-selling operation about which he also divulged operational information to investigators. Chaska N. Earthboy, born in 1987, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for the offenses of felony criminal possession with intent to distribute and felony use or possession of property subject to criminal forfeiture. He was also ordered to pay a $1,176 drug storage fine and waive any interest in the $5,351 seized as a result of a July 2, 2016 bust. T...
