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The annual Halloween Carnival at Highland Park Early Primary School continued Tuesday as parents and teachers joined forces so costume-donned students could have an educational, fun-filled day. One major distinction to the school's ninth annual celebration - one that staff, parents and Principal Mark Irvin pointed out - was the lack of sugar the kids consumed. "Rather than getting bogged down with all these candy bars and snacks, they get a cookie, but they frost it...
A Hill County courthouse official says jury dodgers have progressively increased in the last few years. The trend of people not responding to jury duty summonses, as far as she's seen, started around 2014 and has "continuously gotten worse," Hill County District Clerk of Court Kathie Vigliotti said. Like other clerks in Montana, Vigliotti said she pulls an extra 10 to 20 jurors to make up for the anticipated number who will not respond. The most common excuses people give for...
Department heads will hold a special meeting Thursday to discuss safety and health concerns that have been plaguing the College Park Plaza Building for years. Representatives from the Hill County Commission, the county health department, city fire, Havre city public works department and county attorney, possibly among others, will meet Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Hill County Courthouse Annex meeting room to discuss if the living conditions in the building can be improved, or if something else needs to be done. “There are c...
A man is accused of crashing a vehicle after leading officers on a pursuit in Hill County and having over 17 grams of methamphetamine hidden in the car. Makray L. Demontiney is charged with felony criminal possession with intent to distribute, criminal possession of dangerous drugs, marijuana, and fleeing a peace officer, both misdemeanors. Demontiney has a 2010 assault with a weapon conviction, and he pleaded guilty Oct. 16 for failing to register as a violent offender. Court charging documents say a Hill County sheriff’s d...
The Havre Art Association will host its 47th annual Art Show and Sale Saturday and Sunday at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church, where 19 Havre artists will display their artwork. The featured artist will be Mary Fablgren from Glasgow, who will give a talk about her artwork. Art gazers and appreciators can expect a new feature this year. Ginnie Streeper, co-chair of the Art Association, said panels will have prompts, different questions to spark conversation and a deeper look at the art. The idea for the prompts, Streeper...
A pursuit that started in Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Saturday afternoon and reached speeds of more than 100 mph on U.S. Highway 87 before skewing back onto reservation land ended after the driver crashed in a residential area. The pursuit started on Rocky Boy when tribal police tried to pull over a car that was suspected of carrying a woman with a tribal warrant, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Lewis Johnson said this morning. The male driver refused to pull over the four-door Toyota Camry. Two MHP troopers got involved af...
Hard work and excellence in athletics and academics propelled two North Star High School students onto the state finalist list of a national scholarship program. Seniors Peytan King and Devon Miller, each 17, made it in the top 20 Montana finalists in the Wendy's High School Heisman scholarship program. Students from Charlo and Forsyth ultimately won the state finals. King and Miller each said they found out about the scholarship opportunity from their guidance counselor. The...
Box Elder man sentenced for having liquid form meth A Box Elder man who was found with a liquid form of methamphetamine received three years probation Monday in District Court in Havre. Marvin Cure, born in 1997, received three years, all suspended, for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs with credit for four days previously served. Cure’s sentence was part of a plea deal. A deputy went to Cure’s home Jan. 4, 2016, to investigate a theft. Cure had warrants through Havre City Court for theft, with a $1,083 bond, and...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspections have judged the Milk River Levee unacceptable, a status that means the chance of flood in areas it's meant to protect is elevated and many could be forced to buy expensive flood insurance policies. The Havre-Milk River Flood Protection Project was completed in 1957 after major floods including in 1938 and 1952 devastated the region. No floods of those proportions have hit the city since. The levee system comprises the city-operated...
The Havre Jaycees annual haunted house above the Eagles Club on First Street opens today, and goers can expect new rooms and new routes. "It's going in a whole new direction," Kyle Gooch, a Jaycees member, said Wednesday. The Jaycees host the haunted house as a fundraiser for their Community Toy Chest holiday charity campaign. The entry cost is $3 per person or $2 for those who bring perishable food items. The food will be donated to the Havre Food Bank. Quite a bit of...
Federal, state and county representatives at a meeting Friday at the Northern Agriculture Research Center discussed Hill County's problems with the Milk River levee system. Screenings by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May 2014 and January 2015 revealed the Milk River levee system is not up to standards, leaving the Havre downtown area susceptible to flooding. Representatives from the Army Corps and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation gave informational...
It took less than 10 years of persistent drawing for Havre pencil sketch artist Dale Shulund's artwork to find its way in the nation's capital. Shulund, who said he began seriously drawing and framing his sketches in 2009 after his wife, Marlene, insisted on it, recently caught a big break when Sen. Steve Daines borrowed one of his pieces, "Montana Memories," to hang in his Washington, D.C. office. The drawing depicts two boys with their backs to the viewer, gazing beyond...
Man gets probation for selling meth A Box Elder man received three years probation Monday in District Court for selling methamphetamine to a law enforcement informant. Mark A. Sutherland, born in 1988, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for the felony offense of criminal possession of dangerous drugs. The sentence was part of a plea deal and Sutherland can have the offense struck from his record if he abides by its conditions. An informant called a Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force agent May 21, 2014, to...
A Havre man was awarded a rare award from the National Weather Service for his consistent and critical work during times of severe climate as a regional weather spotter, including the record-setting blizzard this month. Josh Miller, who was trained as a weather spotter in 2011, received a Spotter Appreciation Award from two NWS employees Thursday afternoon in Montana State University's Northern Agriculture Research Center conference room. "I've always been a weather nerd...
Blaine County volunteer firefighting crews spent late Tuesday putting out at least two fires that ignited earlier in the day, one of which was wind-related, the other injuring a fire chief who was battling it. Fire Chief of the Harlem Fire Department, Robert Scheffelmaer, was injured while battling a fire near Harlem, said Kraig Hansen, fire chief of the Chinook volunteer fire department. Hansen had no further details about how Scheffelmaer was injured or his condition. Julianne LaSmith from Northern Montana Hospital said...
Tuesday night’s Great Northern Fair Board meeting included talk about replacing a Bigger Better Barn door that had been broken during a rodeo, more than $400,000 received in insurance claim money and ideas for how the fairgrounds can generate revenue. A Bigger Better Barn door was broken during the Montana State University-Northern rodeo when a horse got hung up on it by the saddle horn. Its getting caught up caused the horse to “blow up,” Scott Doney said. The door was shattered and brought off the hinges during the melee...
Debbie Swanson of Havre, who was diagnosed with liver cancer in December and has been plagued with endless challenges since, said she hopes a recently approved treatment may be the break she badly needs. A fundraiser is set for Thursday at Pizza Hut to help her and her husband with the costs of the treatment and other ongoing expenses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in September the antibody Opdivo, a type of immunotherapy, to treat liver cancer. Opdivo,...
Coming off a major upgrade to their park in Highland Park, the Havre Optimists Club is continuing to work to support young people in the community. Echoing the motto of Optimist International, Havre club treasurer Byron Ophus said Friday, "Our focus is supporting youth." Optimist International has 2,900 service clubs comprising almost 87,000 members in more than 35 countries throughout the world, and a small number, about 15 of those members, are in Havre's chapter. Among the...
A Havre woman pleaded guilty Monday in District Court to embezzling more than $45,000 from a local casino while she was as an employee. Kyra Lynne Gerber, born in 1988, will be sentenced Nov. 27 at 9 a.m. for two felony counts of theft by embezzlement by a common scheme. One of the operators of Crystal City Casino and Hi-Line Gold Casino, Lacey Farmer, reported Sept. 19, 2016, to the Havre Police Department that an employee who worked at both casinos was stealing money. Farmer said Gerber had been working for the casinos for...
A man was arrested Thursday morning after driving his pickup truck into a train cargo car, a Montana Highway Patrol trooper said this morning. Alcohol was involved, Trooper Zach Freeman said. The man walked away from the crash uninjured and nobody else was injured, either. The incident is under investigation and the man’s name has not been released. The crash, which was reported Thursday at 6:27 a.m., happened at the east crossing, of 22nd Avenue North off U.S. Highway 2 East. The impact damaged the front end of the m...
People will come together Saturday morning to be part of the fourth annual Walk for Awareness in Havre, a domestic abuse awareness event part of national Domestic Violence Awareness month. Signups will begin at 9 a.m. and people will began walking at 10 a.m. The route will begin at the intersection of First Street and Fifth Avenue. From there, participants will walk south on Fifth Avenue and take a right toward Northern Montana Hospital. Once at the hospital, the group will...
Despite a summer plagued by heat and drought that contributed to low water levels, a local biologist said the fish population of Fresno Reservoir, Bear Paw Lake and Beaver Creek Reservoir are on track to recovery, if the drought does not continue. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologist Cody Nagel said Thursday that recent surveys showed this summer's low pool levels hurt the population of younger forage fish - young perch, crappie and shiner - in Fresno. The brig...
A major motion picture filmed in Montana and directed by Montana directors will debut in theaters including in Havre Oct. 20. “Walking Out,” directed by Alex and Andrew Smith — directors of “The Slaughter Rule” and “Winter in the Blood” — is based on David Quammen’s short story by the same title and is filmed around Livingston. Quammen was born in Ohio and lives in Montana. “Winter in the Blood,” based on the novel by James Welch which describes growing up on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, was filmed on location in...
The 66-year-old Havre woman who died Oct. 6 after hitting a deer on U.S. Highway 87 Friday evening has been identified as Annette Vander Ven. Vander Ven died of blunt force trauma, Hill County coroner Jamie Ross said Wednesday. Vander Ven was driving a Toyota Rav4 northbound on U.S. 87 when she hit a deer, Montana Highway Patrol said in a statement. The deer she crashed into went through the windshield and hit her. She was transported to Northern Montana Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Highway Patrol received a call...
When I was in my 20s I never thought about getting old. When you are young you will never be old. It’s not that I thought my edgy, action-packed, high-risk life would lead to early death. Although I had some close calls in my youth, I knew I couldn’t be killed. When you are young you will never die. These days, my life may be a few things, but risky is not one of them. The most perilous thing I can do is trip on the cracked sidewalks of Havre when I run, or choke on one of Dottie’s maple bacon donuts. I have learned a few t...
