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Editor’s note: The Havre Daily News wanted to talk to local officials and see what they thought would be major issues, good or bad, to look at in the coming year. Several county, tribal and college officials were contacted but did not respond with interviews or information by the printing deadline for this article. Responses from officials who did talk to the Havre Daily follow. Economics Havre Area Chamber The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has a new executive director, a...
The Tuesday deadline for all remaining College Park Plaza tenants to leave the now defunct apartment complex passed without incident, local officials said. The Hill County Health Board voted Nov. 2 to close the College Park Plaza apartment complex after years of accruing various code violations and safety infractions. During a Jan. 17 meeting, members of the Health Board said five tenants had still not moved out and there was reason to believe some of them would not. "There's...
A local woman is accused of giving birth to a baby who tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine and THC, court documents say. Kirsten Genereux is charged with two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and scheduled to appear for her arraignment March 12 in District Court in Havre, where she will plead guilty or not guilty. Court charging documents say Genereux delivered a baby Oct. 15 via caesarean section at Northern Montana Hospital. Genereux tested positive for amphetamines and THC when she was...
RUDYARD - Gildford native Hali Wei Kapperud is about five weeks away from shaking hands with Montana's U.S. senators, other legislators and the president of the United States. Kapperud, a 17-year-old North Star High School senior, is one of two Montanans representing the state in the nation's capital during the 56th annual United States Senate Youth Program Washington Week, held March 3 to 10. She's excited, she said, to meet the Montana senators and the president. She said sh...
A drug bust Tuesday by Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation police that yielded 66 grams of methamphetamine could have ramifications beyond the reservation and beyond Montana, the criminal investigator said. Ed Longknife, who is investigating Tuesday’s bust, said this morning the ongoing investigation could lead beyond the bounds of Montana. “It’s a big investigation,” he said. “We’re reaching out to different states.” A firearm and cash were found along with the suspected meth, a Tuesday post on Chippewa Cree Law Enforcement’s F...
Shodair's Children's Hospital is not a hospital for children to get stitches or operations. It's a place where children and adolescents with deep trauma scars go to heal. A reception was held Tuesday afternoon at Northern Montana Hospital where representatives from the Helena-based treatment center spoke to visitors about the facility and the type of work the center has been doing for more than 100 years. "A lot of people know the name Shodair but don't know what we do," said...
A nonprofit foundation established to help people who were impacted by the East Fork Fire plans to start distributing in two months approximately $30,000 in donated money. The Hill-Blaine County Fire Foundation was started as a response to public skepticism to government, said Arleeen Rice, the foundation’s president. The foundation’s predecessor was an account opened by the Hill County commissioners through Independence Bank while the fire still raged last fall. It was one of the many options for people to give, and, typical...
The three businesses at 109 First St. W. incurred water damage when a water pipe burst Sunday afternoon. None were more damaged than Bearly Square Quilting. "Devastation" is how quilt shop owner, Wendy Gerky, described what happened to her business the day the pipe burst and flooded "everything beneath the knee." Gerky estimated Thursday her losses range anywhere between $100,000 to $200,000 in merchandise and equipment. Multiple sewing machines - one in particular costs...
For one day, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival screens in Havre’s Cottonwood Cinema 4 Wednesday, giving locals a chance to view 13 independent short films that focus on environmental concerns. Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument have partnered with the California-based South Yuba River Citizens League, the watershed group that started the festival, to bring the global film festival to Havre. “Films featured at ‘Wild & Scenic’ give people a sense of place,” the tour’s Associate Director Amelia Workman says in a press relea...
The decision to open Bear Paw Ski Bowl will be made later today, and people will need to visit Facebook for updates. The weather, volunteer Dave Martens said this morning, has made it difficult to determine if the ski bowl is ready for skiing. The decision will be made later today, Martens said. People can also email bearpawskibowl@yahoo.com with questions or comments. Their website says adults can ski for $20, $15 for a half day; students for $18 and children under 8 ski for free....
Since the Hill County Health Board voted Nov. 2 to close the College Park Plaza apartment complex, after years of compiling code violations and becoming increasingly unsafe, 12 of 17 tenants have moved out. The last five tenants have until Tuesday to move out or they may be removed by law enforcement. Deputy County Attorney Karen Alley told members of the Hill County Health Board Wednesday the next step to remove the last tenants, should they still be there by Tuesday, will include filing eviction notices through Justice...
Montanans will soon have more reason to be proud as the USS Montana, the first nuclear attack submarine to bear the name of the Treasure State, is scheduled to join the U.S. Navy fleet in 2020. The sub is scheduled for completion in 2019, said Bill Whitsitt, the chairman of the USS Montana Committee, who spoke in Havre Wednesday in a statewide tour that aims to tell people about the sub and gather support for it. After a year of sea trials, the USS Montana will be commissioned...
The North Star Elementary School playground was vandalized last summer and a Hingham woman has helped initiate a $50,000 fundraiser to not only repair but upgrade the playground. Jessica Myers, mother of three, said she hopes to raise the money to build the ideal playground - to get everything on their wish list. Northwest Farm Credit Services helped put a dent on that "lofty goal" Tuesday with a $1,000 check. Havre Branch Manager Shaud Schwarzbach presented the check at 11...
January brings attention to a national issue Havre is not isolated from — stalking. National Stalking Awareness Month is a chance for people to brush up on their definition of what constitutes a stalker and perhaps acquire information that may help those being stalked. Stalking is definitely an issue in Havre, said Kara Fox, the Domestic Abuse Program Director at District 4 Human Resources Development Council in Havre. Because victims don’t always report stalkers, Fox said, HRDC employees do encourage them to do so. Sta...
A Box Elder man is accused of beating his girlfriend repeatedly and keeping her from leaving their hotel room. Nelson Travis Alexander, born in 1965, is charged in District Court in Havre with felony aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault, as well as misdemeanor partner or family member assault and obstructing a peace officer. Alexander’s arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 29. Court charging documents say police and an ambulance responded Dec. 25 to the El Toro Inn where a caller reported that someone was bleeding f...
A 17-year-old Harlem boy who died of hypothermia was found in a field along U.S. Highway 2 near mile marker 426 Thursday morning, the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. Jeremy Tincher was last seen alive walking along the highway between Harlem and Fort Belknap Wednesday night, Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer said in a press release. “He was not appropriately dressed for the extremely cold temperatures and he succumbed to hypothermia and exposure,” the press release says. Tincher’s body was transpo...
A pickup truck burned entirely Thursday on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and tribal police are digging into the cause and looking for possible suspects. A woman reported early Thursday around 3 a.m. that a pickup was on fire on Laredo Road, tribal Police Chief Larry Bernard said this morning. By the time the Rocky Boy volunteer fire department arrived on the scene, the vehicle was completely engulfed, Bernard added. The woman first called the Havre Police Department, Bernard said, before being transferred to tribal p...
A Havre man was ordered to pay restitution to Walmart for hundreds of dollars in theft as an employee. Tyler Stefan Larsen, born in 1985, received a sentence of six months in the county jail, all suspended, and was ordered to pay $900 in restitution. After a trial, a jury convicted Larsen Nov. 17 of theft by embezzlement. A Walmart loss prevention associate reported Dec. 22, 2016, that an employee admitted to stealing money from the retailer. The associate provided a statement in which Larsen admitted to taking “about $...
A state District Court judge sentenced a Rocky Boy man to five years probation for failing to register as a violent offender. District Judge Daniel Boucher sentenced Makray Lane Demontiney, 29, for failing to register as violent offender, a felony, to a five-year commitment to the Department of Corrections, all suspended. A Hill County Sheriff’s Department deputy was notified July 11, 2014, that Demontiney was 82 days past the deadline to register in the violent offender registry. Demontiney was convicted January 2010 in D...
A Box Elder man received two years probation for trying to cash a fake $2,000 check. Phillip Sutherland, born in 1973, received a two-year commitment to the Department of Corrections, all suspended, for felony forgery. A man called police March 10, 2012, to report a man was trying to use a fake check. Officers responded to the scene and determined the check was fake. “The paper was not the usual kind of paper used for checks,” court charging documents say. “The paper was very thin, and the edges clearly uneven, as it appea...
U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Morris in Great Falls sentenced Jacob Ryan Murie of Rocky Boy, 38, to 115 months in prison for beating and kidnapping a woman for selling him fake methamphetamine. Morris sentenced Murie Tuesday on a charge for felony kidnapping, including three years supervised release following the prison sentence. The sentence was part of a plea deal that dismissed aggravated sexual abuse and sexual abuse felony charges. A press release about the sentencing said the Bureau of Prisons will decide where...
Havre school board members approved district policy changes during Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting, one of which specifies the meaning of cultural-appropriate clothing. “The language (in the policy) gave us more guidance on what’s appropriate,” District Superintendent Andy Carlson told trustees before they voted. The cultural-dress policy, largely aimed at accommodating Native American students, allows students to wear items like beads, or other similar culturally relevant items, on graduation caps, while also includi...
Predisaster mitigation planning continued Tuesday in the Hill County Justice Center, as county and city leaders discussed critical facilities and the various hazard areas. Hill County has about 90 critical facilities - such as fire stations, sewer lagoons, schools, medical facilities - and multiple hazard areas like the wildfire, flood, dam inundation, landslide and hazmat incident areas, the officials said. During the meeting, critical facility sites were added, including...
With time increasing as a factor, Hill County Park Board members during their monthly meeting Monday stressed urgency in deciding what to do with burned timber that was charred by the East Fork Fire. If nothing is done, there is risk some of the burned trees may, at some point, fall, Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said during the meeting. Logger Pat Marvel may log on local rancher Dave Molitor’s property, Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said. So it is possible it might be worth the potential logger’s tim...
After 10 years as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Havre and a lifetime of pastoring throughout the country before that, the Rev. John Bruington has hung up his cassock at the church. His last day was Dec. 31, and Sunday was the first time since he started that someone else - Sherry Edwards from Chinook - preached at First Presbyterian in Havre. Naturally, he said, he will miss the people most, the same ones who threw him a big party Dec. 17 in the dining hall of the...
