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The responsibility for the death of 18-year-old A. J. Longsoldier shifted again, with a Sept. 20 report placing more blame on Hill and Blaine counties' law enforcement. A Montana Human Rights Bureau commission decided that Hill and Blaine county law enforcement should have done more to prevent Longsoldier's death. This overturned a prior finding by the Department of Labor and Industry's Hearings Bureau, that said the law enforcement officers did the best they could with the information and training they had. The days prior...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Community members gather Thursday evening to discuss the benefits and shortfalls of Havre. Vibrant Futures hosted the community planning event at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School. Vibrant Futures is a group of city, county and tribal governments from 11 counties in north-central Montana, as well as various non-profits. The Vibrant Futures staff got a snapshot of the thoughts and opinions of a few dozen area residents, both politicians and regular residents, that can help in forming a regional...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Lowell Miller and Shorty Stuart play pinochle Tuesday at the Gildford Mercantile. Rural areas have, in most elections over the past 40 years, sided with Republican candidates while major urban areas, such as New York, Chicago and Missoula, have sided with Democratic candidates. Talking to farmers and ranchers of Hill and Blaine counties, it seems that the tendency continues, though not as much for the Republican platform as for the general disdain for and mistrust of government that many...
One step was taken, and another created, in the ongoing lawsuit between the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Hi-Line farmers, ranchers and politicians who oppose recent bison relocations. The hearing in the Blaine County Courthouse Friday morning was scheduled to deal with a motion filed this spring by the rancher plaintiffs, represented by Helena-based attorney Cory Swanson, accusing FWP of contempt of court for knowingly moving bison as a temporary restraining order took effect. Many Native American groups,...
It's time to set the budget for the next year for public organizations everywhere. And the city of Havre wants to know what residents think of their newly proposed $17.3 million plan. Havre City Council received its budget rundown at Monday night's meeting and agreed to hold a public hearing at the next meeting, Sept. 4, with another meeting, final reading and vote the next day, Sept. 5. Residents interested in seeing the entire budget are encouraged to stop by City Hall to take a look at the nearly 40-page complete ledger...
Havre Daily News/Zach White The Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission's second historical building Christmas ornament features the Hill County Courthouse.? A group of people involved with the past, present and future of Havre and Hill County gathered today on the Hill County Courthouse steps to debut small pieces of history to raise funds this fall for a few area projects. The Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission presented County commissioners Mike Wendland and Jeff LaVoi with a limited-edition...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Kaylee Woll, a 19-year-old freshman at Montana State University-Northern, and Matt McKeen, a 19-year-old sophomore, discuss this year's election in the Student Union Building dining hall Thursday afternoon. Most of the increasingly loud voices in this election say that this is one of the biggest decisions the country has faced, but for one group it is even more important, because it is their first. This year will be the first time that 18- to 21-year-olds, born between 1991 and 1994, will be...
As the new school year gets going, parents who take their students to Highland Park Early Primary School or Havre Middle School may be concerned about navigating the labyrinth of Highland Park under construction. Well, Havre Public Schools are concerned as well. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson foresees the problems with road closures and redirection from the work on 11th Street getting much worse with parents dropping kids off for school. To avoid the headaches and congestion, Carlson recommends parents...
One step was taken, and another created, in the ongoing lawsuit between the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Hi-Line farmers, ranchers and politicians who oppose recent bison relocations. The hearing in the Blaine County Courthouse Friday morning was scheduled to deal with a motion filed this spring by the rancher plaintiffs, represented by Helena-based attorney Cory Swanson, accusing FWP of contempt of court for knowingly moving bison as a temporary restraining order took effect. Many Native American groups,...
This weekend the Hi-Line festival season returns to where it starts each year — Blaine County which has an early fair — for the season finale, the 8th Annual Sugarbeet Festival. Like last weekend's Havre Festival Days, the Sugarbeet Festival is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of its county. The festivities begin Friday afternoon, with the 1:30 p. m. Chinook High School Homecoming Parade downtown. Later that night the Homecoming game will see the 2010 state champion Sugarbeeters take on the Centerville Min...
A few months after District Court Judge John McKeon forbade the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks from moving bison from Yellowstone National Park to Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, the bison's fate is again heading to the Blaine County Courthouse. At 10 a. m. Friday, McKeon will hear arguments over whether FWP was in contempt of court in moving the bison at all. This hearing will be the latest development in a series extending back to the 1990s, when the state set up a program to study bison populations in Yellowstone...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Billy Ann Morsette cuts Plain Green's first anniversary cake during their celebration Friday at their Box Elder call center. After 20 years of outsourcing, a person calling a customer support line would not be surprised to end up talking to someone in India. But people calling for help with online lending businesses are starting to talk to a different kind of Indian. Plain Green, an online installment loan company owned by the Chippewa Cree Tribe, just celebrated the first anniversary of their...
During the Havre City Council meeting Monday night, the council covered a variety of terrain quickly. At the very end of the meeting, Mayor Tim Solomon said that the regional planning group Vibrant Futures needed a representative from the city to join and participate. Council member Rick Dow volunteered. Vibrant Futures was started recently using a three-year $1.5 million grant from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to Opportunity Link Inc. to form a group of area city, county and tribal governments from...
I've written a few columns about a recurring bond between the Internet and space exploration, as several Internet billionaires look to use their resources to explore the cosmos. And while there haven't been any new rockets launched or asteroids mined since those last columns I wrote on the subject, the Internet did just return one of the main reasons I have been so interested in space travel, and science in general. Zach White Last Thursday morning, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, hosted a live streaming science show at...
A fire in the middle of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation kept many local firefighters busy this weekend, but it should be extinguished by the end of the day today. Fort Belknap Fire Management Officer Rick Weasel said the fire started around 12:30 p. m. Friday afternoon and was quickly swept up by the hot, dry and windy conditions. "We initially attacked through Friday night and caught up with it Saturday night, " Weasel said. He also said his firefighters named it the Welder Fire. While tracking the damage by GPS,...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown A Havre High School fast pitch player hands out candy Saturday morning in the Festival Days parade. After three days of beautiful weather and activities all over Havre entertaining hundreds of guests, the 2012 Havre Festival Days was a success. As usual, the centerpiece of the event was Saturday morning's Festival Days Parade. Hundreds of people lined 5th Avenue, in some cases several hours in advance, to get a good seat for the procession of dozens of local organizations looking to honor home...
Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson interpreted the districts' recently released Adequate Yearly Progress results for the Board of Trustees at its Tuesday night meeting. The district failed to meet the rapidly increasing standards set up by the No Child Left Behind act of 2002, which will require 100 percent of students to be proficient or better in math and reading by 2014. Several parts of the school system did achieve "safe harbor" for their performance in other standards, like attendance and graduation...
During the first Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting of the 2012-2013 school year, the board got an idea of how the school year is starting, in enrollment, the budget and last year's assessments. Superintendent Andy Carlson explained how enrollment numbers have risen over the past few weeks to more comfortable levels. While still not the official fall count that happens next month, Tuesday night's figures were higher than the estimates Carlson shared on the schools' first day last month. Last year's 185...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Pierson Gallineaux, who is also known by his rap name Sir Majestik, poses for a portrait Tuesday in Havre. Majestik filmed the music video to his song "Hate On Me" Monday night. Hip hop doesn't often come to the Hi-Line, but a neighbor from the western edge of our northern plains is repping rez life in Havre. Sir Majestik, the stage name of 27-year-old Browning rapper Pierson Gallineaux, got his three-week stay in Havre started Monday night with a music video shoot at 1st Street and 5th Avenue,...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Leila Haigler, secretary, talks about the features of the new bus tracking software. As the number of student activities around the state increases and the temperature decreases, parents and school staff get a little nervous, but this year should be a little easier for them. The Havre Public Schools transportation system has just started using a new vehicle-tracking system with GPS devices in every school vehicle. Transportation Director Jim Donovan showed this system, which can be checked on...
The Hill County Museum Board not only had good news to share, but a new member to share it with. Joel Fladstol made his first appearance as member of the board at their meeting Monday night. Fladstol lives in Rudyard, where he farms and works as a mechanic. He said he's "always been interested in learning what happened way back. " He's been working at the museum in Rudyard, managed by his uncle Cliff Ulman, since he was about 12 years old. Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas told Fladstol that working with the board can be...
With many cellphone carriers, driving more than five miles out of Havre usually means you'll have fewer bars than a teetotaler's Friday night. At Thursday's Chinook City Council meeting, A Triangle Communications representative said the company wanted the city's help in doing something about that. Tim Nixdorf, Triangle's Wireless Operations Manager, told the council that Triangle wants to add nine cellphone and wireless Internet antennas to the water tower on the southeast side of Chinook. He explained what would be...
Students aren't the only ones getting new equipment this fall. Northern Montana Hospital is updating their imaging, with a new computed tomography scanner this month and a new magnetic resonance imaging machine next month. The CT scanner was wheeled into the hospital this week to replace the old machine that has been used for nine years. "It's a new state-of-the-art scanner," Steven Liston, a radiologist from Northern Montana Hospital said. "It's faster, which means less repeat scans." It's faster because it has got 10 times...
A woman on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation suffered a gunshot wound early today and was taken to Northern Montana Hospital. According to the Hill County Sheriff's Office call log, dispatch received a call from the hospital at 3:30 a. m. today that a woman had been brought in from Box Elder with a gunshot wound. A dispatcher at the sheriff's office said that, because the shooting occurred on the reservation, the local FBI office was notified. The FBI is handling the investigation. The location on that log entry lists the...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Democratic Secretary of State Linda McCulloch speaks Thursday morning on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The full line of statewide Democratic candidates began the final day of a week-long tour of every Montana Indian reservation, plus the Havre bowling alley, with a visit to the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation's Business Committee Chambers. Starting at 8 a. m., the candidates took turns telling the committee and the rest of the room how important it is to vote and how detrimental Republican...
