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Nearly a year to the day after Havre High School's roof collapse, "Hill County High School District No. A" filed a complaint against the groups responsible for the destruction. A complaint was filed Dec. 29 against Dick Anderson Construction, which built the roof; Springer Group Architects, the Bozeman-based firm that designed the roof; and a list of 25 "John Does, " or "currently unidentified persons or entities potentially liable. " According to a spring-time report by TD&H Engineering from Great Falls, which formed the rec...
Through the past year I have learned to largely ignore a majority of the emails that have clogged my inbox. There's only so many ways I can read that Jon Tester cares about farmers and veterans and Montanans and Rehberg doesn't, and vice versa, before the gray TV static that we have lost to digital televisions resurrects itself in my mind. But I received an interesting email recently, in my junk box no less, about a website, the non-profit ProCon.org, and its debate over the merits of traditional textbooks over the new...
Most people took a break over the Thanksgiving week, but not the Hays-Lodge Pole School's Board of Trustees. Tuesday evening, the remaining board members — George Horse Capture Jr., Wes Main and Brenda Essert — held an emergency meeting in the Hays-Lodge Pole High School parking lot to fill board leadership vacancies. Horse Capture was chosen as the acting chair. An acting vice chair was not appointed without a second to any nominating motions. The board also heard back from the air quality testers who were checking the bui...
Gunfire was exchanged in Box Elder Monday afternoon, ending with an arrest, pending charges, and a continuing investigation. According to a press release from the Hill County Sheriff's Office this morning, a call came in at 2:57 p. m. Monday reporting "two males were exchanging gunfire outside a Box Elder business. " Sheriff's deputies worked with Chippewa Cree Tribal Police and the Montana Highway Patrol to secure the area. Box Elder school "was locked down until the situation was resolved. " No one was injured. After...
Move over Paris. On Friday Chinook, Mont. was the "city of lights, " filled with music and food and people during the 27th Annual Parade of Lights and Christmas Stroll. Downtown Chinook was filled Friday night by hundreds of community members to enjoy some strolling, some shopping, some sights and sounds. The Parade of Lights featured more than a dozen vehicles decked out in holiday garb and lighting up the chilled night. Chinook's Second Annual Festival of Trees raised nearly $2,000 for the 13 trees that were auctioned,...
"Winter In The Blood, " the movie adaptation of the James Welch novel, has been finished, the trailer has been posted online and a release date announcement is around the corner. Alex Smith, who co-wrote and directed the film with his brother Andrew, posted on his Twitter profile last month, "Ladies & Gentlemen — we have officially completed Winter in the Blood! We can't wait to share it with the world. More on that very soon—" Earlier this month, a four-minute trailer was posted on vimeo.com, and the film's website, htt...
Not only have the Havre public schools district recently learned it has the third-most high school students earning college credit, but it has more than doubled the available dual-credit courses. Schools superintendent Andy Carlson heard this week from Regent Paul Tuss, who came across the dual- credit figure in his discussions with the rest of the Board of Regents. During the spring 2012 semester, Havre Public Schools had 57 students earning college credit in at least one of the three classes offered: College writing,...
As most of us gather with loved ones today and tomorrow, there are many in the community who are not able to, for many reasons. The staff at Northern Montana Care Center spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day making sure their residents have the best Christmas possible. Ila McClenahan, director of pastoral care and activities, said Christmas Eve festivities begin at 10 a. m., when the residents gather to open the gifts they've received from the Adopt-A-Resident program, and eat cookies. "We want every resident to feel like...
There was a large crowd at the Holiday Village Mall Saturday afternoon, aside from the last-minute Christmas shoppers. Dozens of Native Americans from reservations and Montana and Canada gathered around the central fountain at noon, for a flash mob, protesting a Canadian budget bill, C-45, that passed through parliament earlier this year. Brad Lavallee, from the Piapot nation in Saskatchewan, explained at the rally that Canadian tribes fear how the bill will change land and water rights and provisions they say are in...
Community planning consortium Vibrant Futures wants to hear from the communities it represents Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School in Havre. According to a press release from Vibrant Futures, the community roundtable meetings are a collaborative effort between Bear Paw Development Corp. and Opportunity Link Inc. to help residents voice their community goals and become the driving force behind shaping the future of Havre and north-central Montana. "Listening to our neighbors throughout northern...
A lot of attention has been given during this election to the difficulty the Republican Party has faced in attracting minority voters, and the Hi-Line is no different. Though only a few residents of the Rocky Boy's and Fort Belknap Indian reservations wanted to discuss their thoughts on the candidates running for office this year, the one's who did all seemed to agree — Indian country is Democrat country. "Last year, one person voted Republican, and everyone wondered who it was, " said the attendee of a yoga class at Stone Ch...
A coalition of Hill County landowners, upset with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, have decided they are done with the department and are closing their property to the hunters they have always allowed on their land. About 17 property owners with land totaling 50,000 acres have joined the few farmers and ranchers who said at the FWP Commission meeting last week that they were going to cut access, after the commission voted 4 to 1 to buy the Milk River Ranch, against the wishes of more than 100 attendees. At the meeting Dan...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown A sign on the Sweetheart Bakery Outlet reads "Tuesday 20th will be the last day our store will be open." The fallout from the great Twinkie Wars of 2012 is reaching to the Hi-Line this week. Sweetheart Bakery Outlet, known as Eddy's Bakery or the Bread Store, on 2nd Street is the largest casualty, closing its doors at the end of business Tuesday. The store employs three people. Employees of the store said they couldn't comment and referred all requests to the Interstate Brands headquarters in Bi...
The Tri-Agency Task Force, fighting illegal drugs in Hill County, delivered early Christmas gifts to three local drug makers and takers in the form of warrants for their arrests. The task force kicked off the week with the bust of a marijuana growing operation in North Havre. Monday, 32-year-old Russell Williams Jr. and 28-year-old Danielle Williams were arrested on charges of manufacturing drugs, possession of drugs and endangering the welfare of children. The couple were found with 23 marijuana plants in their northside...
The long-discussed Havre wastewater system improvement project took another step forward Monday night, as the Havre City Council approved applications for a few different funding sources to cover the nearly $9 million project. The whole $8,966,411 will be split, the city hopes, between federal, state and local funds, some granted and some loaned, but almost all dependent on approval by the respective bodies. The proposal approved last night relies mostly on $7,841,411 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Rural...
Vacancies will be opening in the next six months, both on the Havre City Council and in Northern Montana Hospital's maternity ward, as the Dow family plans a move to Minnesota. Republican Ward 3 council member Rick Dow will step down sometime this spring, less than halfway through his first term, when his wife, obstetrician Margaret Dow, takes a job at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "That would be a pretty tough one to turn down, " Rick Dow said this morning. "I'm just so proud. "We still care quite a bit...
After Friday's tragedy in Newtown, Conn., education leaders across the country have been shocked, saddened sympathetic and thinking about such an event in their schools. In Havre, District Superintendent Andy Carlson spent the morning visiting the schools, sitting in on staff meetings and discussing district safety procedures as well as discussing how teachers are supposed to handle talking to or taking care of students. "I think the most difficult thing is those one-to-one conversations with students, " Carlson said. "I'm...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Kaile, Jaleigh, Jara and Kaiden Wilson take a photo with Santa during Wednesday evening's Christmas event in downtown Harlem. Santa Claus, tiny reindeer and a few Whos from Whoville visited downtown Harlem Wednesday night. The Christmas spirit continued its sweep of the Hi-Line, as Harlem's downtown businesses welcomed strollers invited by the city's civic group. Civic group member Helen Schroeder, collecting ballots for the evening's costume and ugly Christmas sweater contests, said that the...
Next week a fundamental piece of Montana State University-Northern's biodiesel program will emerge from months of renovation to help propel the program further. On Oct. 16, starting around noon, Northern will be celebrating the reopening of its Bio-Energy Advanced Fuels Lab, in the former garage just east of the Applied Technology Center. Until earlier this year, the garage was the main bio-diesel production facility for the school's research, crushing up oilseeds and refining them to work in regular diesel engines. Some of...
Hamilton's school system could soon choose to hire Havre's assistant superintendent for its head position. Tom Korst is one of the school board's final four candidates in the search for a new Hamilton superintendent to replace retiring Duby Santee, the Ravalli Republic reported this morning. Korst, with other candidates from St. Ignatius, Stevensville and C'oeur D'Alene, Idaho, will be interviewed late next week, including a public meeting on Friday Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. Korst was hired as assistant superintendent, a position...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Chinook, speaks Monday morning in opposition to the Milk River Ranch acquisition during the statewide phone conference held at the Havre's Best Western Great Northern Inn. Sen. John Brenden, R-Scobey, in the middle in red, listens to his political ally. Many people were disappointed with the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission's meeting Monday, but none more vocal than the state Senate Fish and Game Committee Chair John Brenden, R-Scobey. Brenden spoke against...
The year 2012 may be the end of history for the Mayans, but in Hill County, history is going strong, as the Hill County Museum Board comes off a strong year and into what looks to be an interesting one already. The first big news at Monday night's board meetings was when board Chair Judi Dritshulas announced that Toni Hagener, a former Hill County commissioner and local history buff, had recently donated $7,500 to the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump. As work continues to update the site, Elaine Morse, Museum Foundation president,...
A storm is brewing in northern Hill County, as farmers and ranchers from all over the state have grown increasingly vocal in their opposition to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks buying up nearly 3,000 acres of Canada-bordering land owned by David and Verges Aageson. The thunderhead is expected to roll through Havre Monday at 9 a. m. in the Great Northern Inn's Empire Builder conference room, where FWP will be setting up an additional way for the public to listen and contribute to the FWP Commissioners meeting that morning,...
The Havre Police Department got a call of support during the public comment section of the Havre City Council meeting Monday night from Doris Halverson, one of the jurors on council member Rick Dow's traffic ticket trial last month. Halverson told the council that local law enforcement needed better tools in the investigation of Dow's charge of using a cellphone while driving. "I would like to ask that the law be enforced, " Halverson said. "When they try to do it; sometimes it doesn't work. I would like to see them have...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown John F. Doney, chair of the Hays-Lodge Pole Board of Trustees, sits Oct. 22 in a classroom at Hays-Lodge Pole High School which would, the following Monday, be filled with students relocated from the recently closed Lodge Pole Elementary School. Blaine County Attorney Don Ranstrom has begun the process of charging Hays-Lodge Pole School Board Chair John F. Doney with several counts of official misconduct. His actions come just a few weeks after the board shut down Lodge Pole Elementary School...
