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Local police officers have been spread to all Havre public schools today to watch and guard after a threat was found Thursday in a Havre High bathroom. Despite the threat, and the seriousness with which the school administration and local law enforcement is taking it, school is in session today. “Obviously, there was a threat,” School District Superintendent Andy Carlson said this morning, adding, “We would not hold school if we had a more credible threat.” Carlson would not say why the threat is not credible enough to canc...
Crystal Estell died of a meth overdose Jan 7. She was 37. She left behind three children, two parents and a long trail of wounded loved ones. The ravage of drugs, Crystal's parents Ron and Debe VandenBoom said Tuesday, slither beyond the life of the user. Drugs shake the lives of everyone connected to the user. "Life is full of choices. You make the wrong choice, you pay the price and other people pay it as well. Your actions are not alone," Ron said. Crystal grew up in Havre...
Before Montana became a state, before the name Havre had ever been emblazoned on, or staked in, any part of the Hi-Line, there was a Fort Assinniboine. "If it weren't for Fort Assinniboine, there might have not been a Havre," said Candi Zion, a historian and former chair of the Havre/Hill County Preservation Commission. At the time of its establishment, the fort stretched 220,000 acres. That large swath of territory covered a portion of present-day Havre, as well as Rocky...
The Havre Police Department is looking for a man who allegedly led them on a short-lived pursuit and escaped on foot after the vehicle got stuck in the snow. Matthew Allen Bell of Havre, 35, fled and eluded officers after he was spotted in a vehicle that was reported stolen, Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said this morning. The police report says a blue Dodge without license plates was spotted Wednesday night at 9:08 p.m. going northbound on Fifth Avenue. Although the pursuit didn’t last long, Bell did reach high speeds, w...
A local preservation group officially announced Wednesday afternoon the first of a series of murals celebrating local heritage has been hung on a First Street business building. Members of the Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission gathered at Holden's Hot Wheels to celebrate a mural that depicts a family of German immigrants, a father and his five sons. "The reason I love this mural project is that the photograph has a story," said Becki Miller, historic preservat...
The finance committee arm of the Great Northern Fair Board will hold a special meeting soon to discuss ways to keep open or shut down the Great Northern Fairgrounds. A time and place for the special meeting had not been set at the end of discussing the future of the fair during the fair board’s monthly meeting Tuesday in the Hill County Courthouse. During the meeting, board members frustratedly talked about the financial state of the fairgrounds and as it relates to the annual fair. “We’re in an emergency condition,” board m...
The season’s local record-setting weather has struck again, this time working against people who allegedly broke the law. Havre city police officers arrested three people from Friday through Sunday after receiving calls about vehicles that were stuck in snow. Two people were arrested on four total drug-related charges and for allegedly violating parole. An additional two suspects were on the loose as of Monday afternoon, Lt. Aaron Wittmer of the department said. A 10th Avenue caller reported Friday at 6:57 a.m. that a car g...
Medication-assisted treatment doctor advocates visited Havre Monday to put on multiple presentations praising the benefits of opioid antagonists to treat people with opioid addiction. Twenty medical professionals in all of Montana are legally allowed to use opiates like Methadone, Naltrexone or Buprenorphine to treat people with opioid addiction, said Dr. Bruce G. Trigg. Bullhook Community Health Center, said a clinic representative, has two employees wavered to administer...
Havre city police are looking for whoever has been spraying images of swastikas and human genitalia on the garages of local residents. Officers are investigating two similar incidents — one that was reported Sunday morning, the other reported Monday late afternoon — of swastikas, male genitalia and the words “Leroy 12.” Lt. Aaron Wittmer said this morning there are some “names floating around,” but there are no official suspects. It could be a hate crime, he said, but it could also be pranksters being obnoxious. “It’s serio...
When she was a nurse at a local hospital, Cindy Smith had a vision to start a health facility. She nurtured that feeble concept from the womb of her imagination to its infant years, while it bounced around to various buildings in town, until it grew to the 70-plus employee facility it has become. Now Smith, CEO, is leaving what she started. People are being interviewed for her position but no one has been chosen. Bullhook Community Health Center was a labor of love for Smith a...
A Havre man received five years probation for failing to register as a violent offender. Gregory S. Henry, born in 1977, received five years, all suspended, with the Department of Corrections for the offense of failure to register as violent offender. Henry has an aggravated assault conviction from 1999. A federal probation and parole officer called the Havre Police Department July 14, 2016, to notify local officers that Henry, a registered violent offender, has not been living at the address he said he would be at. The...
People will have three opportunities Monday to attend a presentation intended to shed light on controversial medication-assisted opioid treatment. Bullhook Community Health Center will present Dr. Bruce G. Trigg, MD, Dr. Greg Holzman and the state Addictive and Mental Disorders Division team to talk about the method of using medication to help patients break the chains of addiction. Opioid abuse is a serious public health issue. Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, according to the...
The Montana Public Service Commission has reduced NorthWestern Energy customers’ rates by $3.5 million, which comes to a 14-cent monthly reduction over this next year. Representatives of each party say no one has done anything wrong. The PSC “resolved an error in the way NorthWestern Energy allocates property tax expense among its customers,” a Jan. 30 PSC press release said. NorthWestern spokesperson Butch Larcombe said Monday the company hasn’t erred in any way. “We don’t think there has been an error. We have been using...
Last year’s drought, compounded by 1,200 acres burned by the East Fork Fire, dealt a significant blow to Beaver Creek Park cattle revenue, the park superintendent said Monday. Superintendent Chad Edgar presented to the Hill County Park Board Monday night during its monthly meeting cattle grazing revenue numbers for last year and previous years dating back to 2008. The park made $66,592 in 2017, the lowest amount since 2011. In 2016, the park generated $84,275, and before that $85,562 off cattle grazing. “The fire had a big...
Heavy snowfall in the area led to schools being closed or delayed today, but other than some road closures - including some people being shut in - the record-setting snowstorm does not seem to have caused any major disasters. The Havre area was covered in more than 10.5 inches of snow during the weekend and into today, including a record-setting day for Feb. 3 The snow began Friday, "with a trace," Great Falls National Weather Service meteorologist Keith Jaszka said this...
A small group of local residents have been working hard for the last four years to have Fort Assinniboine upgraded in national recognition, and last week they got a monumental breakthrough. Fort Assinniboine is one step from being recognized in the National Register of Historic Places on a level it has never before. The most recent nomination - the 19th century fort was first nominated for national recognition in 1984 - was approved Jan. 26 by the Montana State Historic Preser...
Havre native Kendall Quinnell's body was found Sept. 8, 2013, in Mullan, Idaho, and more than four years later police are still investigating his death while family members remain mystified as to what is taking so long. Kendall Quinnell's brother, Clayton Quinnell of Havre, said he wants to know why police still haven't arrested or charged anyone. Quinnell said he is privy to information that suggests police know who killed his brother. Lt. Aaron Wittmer of the Havre Police De...
Box Elder woman sentenced for fourth DUI A Box Elder woman received 13 months with the Department of Corrections and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for driving drunk for a fourth time. In addition to the 13 months, Crystal D. Moreno, born in 1980, received Monday in District Court in Havre three years probation for felony driving under the influence, fourth or subsequent offense. Moreno’s sentence is part of a plea deal. An officer approached Moreno Jan. 14, 2017, after she came to a hard stop by Second Street, partially b...
Hockey in Havre makes sense. It doesn't take much straining to see why one of the coldest places in Montana - in the U.S. - would embrace a sport that started in another winter town, Nova Scotia, Canada, at a time before indoor ice rinks. Before the Havre Ice Dome was built in the mid-1990s, people played hockey on the outdoor rink on Fifth Avenue. Once the Ice Dome was built, hockey fever exploded, local experts say. Hockey enthusiasm on the Hi-Line encompasses a wide age...
Aug. 11, 2017, 17-year-old Steven Mulonet became dizzy and light headed. Several hours later, he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome while at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre. Steven didn't think much of the dizziness at first. "I got really dizzy. I laid down, but it didn't work," he said. Despite not feeling well, Steven tried to carry on that day. He stopped by the store on his way to swim practice. "The cashiers noticed something wrong and told him to sit...
Officers arrested a local woman who led them on a chase early today that ended after she allegedly rammed her vehicle into a police cruiser and had to be forcefully removed from the vehicle. Rebecca Sharon Denson of Havre, 53, was arrested this morning and being held on 17 pending charges, including assault on a peace officer, criminal endangerment, resisting arrest, driving under the influence, seat belt violation, as well as multiple warrants. She was being held in the Hill County Detention Center this morning on a $75,000...
Organizers are holding a Pizza Hut event Thursday to raise prize money for the Lathine Windyboy Memorial Basketball Tournament, dedicated to a 22-year-old Rocky Boy man who died in a crash in 2014. Windyboy liked basketball a lot. His favorite team was the Los Angeles Lakers, fundraising organizer Vina Sunchild said Monday. She, along with Windyboy’s family members, have been putting on a memorial tournament for the last three years. The tournament was prompted by Windyboy’s father, Kenny Parisian, Windyboy said. The first tw...
A Havre woman was ordered to pay $45,000 in restitution to two local casinos she had stolen from as an employee. Kyra Lynne Gerber, born in 1988, was ordered Monday in state District Court in Havre to pay $45,530 restitution for two felony counts of theft by embezzlement she pleaded guilty to in September. She will pay $38,890 to Crystal City Casino and $6,640 to Hi-Line Gold Casino. Gerber also received a five-year deferred imposition of sentence for each embezzlement count. If she abides by the conditions of her sentence...
For the last year, leaders have been discussing options for reconfiguring the Havre Public School district, as years of declining student population has not ended costly infrastructure needs. "Reality says enrollment is dropping. And right now it does not make a lot of sense to invest that kind of money in one of our buildings," Superintendent Andy Carlson said Thursday. The last time the district started out with more students than in the year before was six years ago, record...
A local man received a one-year sentence with the Department of Corrections for stealing a tracking bracelet he had been assigned as part of his probation. Gary C. Standingchief Jr., born in 1985, was sentenced to three years with the DOC, with two suspended, for felony theft and also ordered to pay $1,740 in restitution. Standingchief is in the Hill County Detention Center. A Probation and Parole officer contacted the Havre Police Department March 16, 2017, to notify officers that a GPS tracker had been stolen. The GPS...
