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Local complaints failed to hold up the state Land Board during their Nov. 19 meeting, where board members unanimously approved the state's purchase of the Milk River Ranch, though they hold out hope for the final step in the purchase, the Dec. 10 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission conference call. The 4,500 acre ranch is being split, with nearly 3,000 acres being sold to FWP for $4.7 million and the other 1,500 acres being sold to the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for about $1 million. Local landow...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Cindy Erickson, Havre Public Schools trustee, joins in with a sixth-grade social studies class Thursday afternoon at Havre Middle School. The Havre Public Schools' Board of Trustees like to see what's happening in the schools, and this year they're getting a better view than usual, from the students' desks. In place of an annual bus tour, called the Yellow Bus Tour, the trustees have begun a new program, Big for a Day, in which each board members follows a student's schedule at a particular...
Garrison Henderson, the alleged shooter arrested in Box Elder Monday, went to Justice Court Wednesday, where he heard his rights and had a preliminary hearing set for Dec. 13. The 19-year-old Box Elder resident is facing a pending felony charge of attempted deliberate homicide and is being held on $500,000 bond. Hill County Sheriff's Deputy Peter Federspiel's description of the event, in both the initial incident report and the Justice Court charging document, explains that the initial report was of gunfire exchange, but...
Many local organizations will taking the day off next Tuesday, to allow people time to recover from staying up late to greet 2013. Though emergency services will of course remain available, other offices in the city and county governments will be closed on New Year's Day, after remaining open for regular business hours on New Year's Eve. North Central Montana Transit will also stop running for New Year's Day, though bus service will run as usual through the rest of the week. The Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line has been... Full story
A police pursuit on U. S. Highway 87 ended with a wreck that knocked out power for homes southwest of Havre Thursday night. At 5:37 p. m. the Hill County Sheriff's Office dispatch received a call from the Rocky Boy Police Department, requesting assistance with a pursuit northbound on Highway 87. The pursuit began as an officer attempted to stop a black Chevy pickup, driven by 39-year-old Box Elder woman, Susan Raining Bird, on a suspected driving under the influence charge. The pursuit ended about a half mile south of the...
After a bookkeeping mix-up earlier this semester, Montana State University-Northern's Student Senate is holding a town hall meeting next week — in the second-floor Crowley Conference Room at 4 p. m. Monday — to clear up what happened and how it affects Northern students. Northern's head of business services, Sue Ost, said that a tuition hike passed by the Board of Regents last spring was not applied to this semester. "About two months ago we discovered an error with the assessment, where some students got charged last yea...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Toni Hagener discusses politics with a group of ladies at lunchtime Tuesday at the North Central Senior Center. While candidates may say that they care about all of the voters, they know that they can't win without those likeliest of voters, the senior citizens. That's why, even though only 13 percent of the population is over 65, every candidate in every race is claiming that their opponents are a threat to Medicare and Social Security. But the seniors eating lunch at the North Central Senior...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Shawn Cole talks Tuesday at the Job Service office about the upcoming elections. Unemployment has been a central issue in national political races. Though it hasn't been as bad on the Hi-Line, with Hill County's unemployment rate falling to 4.8 percent last month, there are still hundreds of people in the area who wish they could find work. Many local job-seekers head to the the Job Service office on 2nd Street to get access to resources and help in their search for work. Shawn Cole was using Jo...
Newsweek announced last week that this year will be their last printing physical magazines, moving entirely to their website and apps. "We have reached a tipping point in the industry at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach ... readers in an all-digital format," Newsweek spokesman Andrew Kirk said. There has been a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacking on the announcement, with many "industry" folks using the announcement to insult Newsweek and predict it's imminent demise. Even the commenters on a Yahoo news... Full story
After Thanksgiving officially begins the holidays, Chinook will welcome the season for most of Friday. The 27th Annual Parade of Lights and Christmas Stroll will be joined for a second year by Chinook's Festival of Trees in lighting up downtown Chinook, to bring the community together, celebrate the holidays and raise some money for local organizations. Activities begin at 1 p. m. Friday, with holiday music being played downtown as the Chinook Chamber of Commerce encourages people to stroll downtown and maybe do some...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown A worker inspects a derailed and damanged BNSF grain car near Lohman this morning. A derailed grain train in western Blaine County has shut down the busiest rail line in Montana, with the company operating the train saying the derailment is likely to shut down traffic — including Amtrak — through at least midnight tonight. At the site this morning, the ditch along the tracks was filled with deep thick mud that a BNSF Railway official said was causing some difficulty, but added that the BNSF wor...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown George HorseCapture Jr speaks at a special county commissioners meeting Monday afternoon at the Blaine County Courthouse. The Hays-Lodge Pole school board's chairman John Doney is suspended until criminal charges against him are settled. Blaine County Commissioners held a hearing Monday to discuss what to do after County Attorney Don Ranstrom filed seven misdemeanor misconduct charges against Doney. Doney did not attend the hearing. The commissioners heard from a few of the dozen community...
Photos by Lindsay Brown Children all over the world are getting excited this month about what toys they'll be getting. Terry Grant, however, thinks it might be time to get rid of his. Grant, a retired teacher and school administrator — he was superintendent of Blue Sky Public Schools when it merged with Kremlin-Gildford schools — was busy this week cataloging his 5,000 Hot Wheels cars, organizing them by rarity in hundreds of boxes across a dozen tables in the Masonic Temple. He's been collecting the miniature cars since 2000...
The mystery of what will replace the former Wendy's on 1st Street has been solved, 10 months after the fast food store closed. Town Pump bought the property in October, and plans to use it in a larger project to update its gas station, like they did in Chinook last year. "We did this so we that can remodel and upgrade the Town Pump to a modern facility, " said Maureen Kenneally, spokesperson from Town Pump's corporate office in Butte. "So what we're going to do with our current location is move the casino into what was the We... Full story
A few months ago I wrote about the MyFitnessPal.com app that I had started using "to preserve my orangutan-like figure." I've been happy with the results. I'm down to chimpanzee-like, and appear on track to hit lemur-like sometime in the spring. Seeing how well having a plan, and empirically and simply following that plan, worked for physical problems, I wanted to see how the approach might work with another problem of mine, finances. Zach White When I first started working here, my college-student mind was blown by the idea...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Nearly a hundred people gather Monday morning in conference room in Havre's Best Western Great Northern Inn to participate in the Fish, Wildlife and Parks statewide phone conference on the proposed Milk River land acquisition. More than 100 people filled the Great Northern Inn's Empire Builder conference room this morning, lining the walls and overflowing out the door, listening to and commenting on the controversial Milk River Ranch proposal before the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks... Full story
After two hours of public comment, predominantly in opposition , the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission voted 4-1 this morning to approve the purchase of the 3,000-acre Milk River Ranch near the Canadian border with Hill County. The vote sealed the deal, following the state Land Board's approval last month. FWP will manage nearly 3,000 acres, while the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation will take the remaining 1,500 acres, purchased for just over $1 million. Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown State Rep. Wendy...
Following Tuesday's election, changes are coming to the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Chippewa Cree Business Committee. In the race for the committee's chair position, to replace outgoing chair Bruce Sunchild Sr., Ken Blatt St. Marks defeated committee member Ted Whitford, 729 to 614. Sunchild was also running to keep his position, but he did not get enough votes in the primary to compete against St. Marks and Whitford. St. Marks served on the committee from 1996 to 1998. The board race was a full and difficult one, as...
Just days after Americans across the country exercised their electoral freedom, people are preparing to honor those who fought to protect those freedoms. Since Veterans Day, which is usually celebrated on Nov. 11, falls on a Sunday this year, most local events are being held this Friday. Montana State University-Northern is holding its event on the campus' south lawn, near the Student Union Building. The celebration will start at 11:11 a. m., in honor of the origin of Veterans Day, when the peace treaty that ended World War I...
NorthWestern Energy will be shutting down the electricity to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation Tuesday morning for maintenance. According to a press release from the company, the power will be out from 9 to 11 a. m., while they change out a transformer. "This outage is part of area upgrades in electrical service where we will be changing out a portable transformer in the Fort Belknap substation for a new transformer that needs to be connected to the system, " the release says. "We are sorry for any inconvenience this may...
Information is still sparse about the shooting on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation that put one woman in Northern Montana Hospital last week. The only official information on the case was released Friday by Debbie Bertram, an FBI public relations specialist from the agency's Salt Lake City office, with no updates this morning. "One adult male is in custody after a shooting this morning on the Rocky (Boy's) Indian Reservation in Montana. One female was shot during the incident, " Bertram said Friday afternoon. "She survived the... Full story
One of the most divisive debates at the center of this year's election is the role and value of government. How much regulation is too much? Have we crossed the line? Would our economy benefit from a few cuts? You could probably find someone for every possible answer to those questions who would insist that they are right and everyone else is trying to ruin the world. And I would say that all of them are probably right, except for the last part. Zach White It's like our entire nation is caught up in an argument over whether...
UPDATE 12:50 p.m.: Republican Wendy Warburton is projected to win in the race for House District 34 over Democrat Karen Sloan. Watch an interview with Hill County Republican Chair Andrew Brekke. Also, watch an interview with Hill County Democratic Chair John Musgrove. Vote counts and election results will be posted here as they become available. Refresh this page periodically for the latest numbers. View the raw data here, updated live as results come in. HD 33: 3 of 10 precincts reporting. HD 34: 7 of 9 precincts reporting....
The family of the late Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette received some closure Friday afternoon, the the county attorney said Friday, following the end of the trial for the woman who struck and killed him on U.S. Highway 2 in December. Mary Louise Stewart, the 62-year-old former Hays resident on trial, entered a plea agreement today, having her charge amended to a high misdemeanor criminal negligence charge from what was a felony. She was sentenced to a one-year deferred imposition of sentence. Blaine County Attorney Don...
A few bar patrons decided to start the new year with a gamble that may have paid off initially, but might end up making the rest of 2012 very difficult for them. According to Tammy Schmidt, owner of the Golden Spike, a group of people worked together to cheat several bars across town out of $400 each, stealing more than $6,000 in the process. Schmidt said the scam started with one person putting $200 on a machine then going outside to pretend to smoke or talk on a cellphone. Then they cashed out, made copies of their cash...
