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While some ice fishing fans prepared to head out to Fresno this weekend, it was the Tri-Agency Task Force that made a big catch on Friday, on a train. According to a task force press release, agents had heard about two passengers, Chaidon Kang and Sitha Puth, riding the Friday afternoon Amtrak train from Tacoma, Wash., to Minneapolis, where Puth had an outstanding warrant. The task force met with the two while the train was stopped in Havre and arrested Puth on a charge of violating probation. Then the arrest got...
In the last week before Montanans choose their government, the statewide Democratic candidates are coming to the Hi-Line to connect with local voters and ask for their support. Coming in from the west, the candidates — U. S. Sen. Jon Tester, Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Steve Bullock, U.S. representative candidate Kim Gillan, Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, Attorney General Candidate Pam Bucy, Secretary of State Linda McCulloch and State Auditor Monica Lindeen — are touring Montana's Ind...
After years of Cottonwood Elementary School sending a bus to pick up students inside Havre, the district now has an agreement that gives them permission. The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees voted unanimously at their meeting Tuesday afternoon to approve an annual inter-district agreement that allows a Cottonwood bus to stop at the First Lutheran Church on 6th Avenue. Hill County Superintendent of Schools Diane McLean thanked the board for having "graciously allowed us to stop there. " McLean said the Lutheran church...
As students once again fill the halls of Havre Public Schools, the administration is keeping an eye on the number of enrolled students to get an idea of what October's official count will look like. While some of the district's concerns a few weeks ago about the relatively small incoming kindergarten class have been eased, the high school numbers still worry Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson. Last year's unexpectedly large kindergarten class has now moved on to form a 181-student first-grade class, still about...
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, moved the world a second time this weekend with his death at the age of 82. Like his history-shaping step more than 43 years ago, Armstrong's death was felt around the world, including north-central Montana. Spike Magelssen, Montana State University-Northern professor and the space enthusiast behind Havre's recent Yuri's night celebrations, said he remembered watching the moon landing when he was 11 years old. "It was just phenomenal that we could leave the bonds of Earth and make...
It's not often a music fan on the Hi-Line can see country, rock and hip hop acts share one stage. A.J. Briere wanted to fix that with the Bear Pawlooza music festival. Saturday and Sunday Briere, with his music promoting company Dine and Ditch Entertainment, held the second annual Bear Pawlooza festival, this year at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. While most of the bill was local Hi-Line or Montana bookings, a few out-of-state acts were on the bill, too. Stevie Stone, a Missouri-based rapper from Kansas City's rap king Tech...
One of the only things it appears both parties in this year's election agree on is that the media has done an awful job of tackling the issues that really matter. And Alex Ohanian is in that same boat. Ohanian is the 29-year-old Internet entrepreneur behind what is probably my favorite website, Reddit.com, which he sold to magazine-giant Conde Nast straight out of college. Zach White Since then he has started several new websites and has been a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet as free and open as possible. Ohanian and...
Havre Daily News/Zach White Sidney native Falon Laroche shows off the baby rattlesnake she almost stepped on in the Dollar Super Center in the Holiday Village Mall Wednesday afternoon. An employee said it was the first time she had heard of a snake in the mall in her 19 years working there. It can be easy to forget that Havre lies in the middle of a high desert surrounded by wildlife, but one visitor met a small rattling reminder earlier this week. Falon Laroche was shopping at the Dollar Super Center at the Holiday Village...
There is a lot of chatter on the web. In fact that's pretty much the point, to have as many people sharing as much information as they want. A lot of that info is, or can be, posted without requiring a name be attached, which upsets many people, while others find it freeing and necessary. Anonymity is baked into the structure and culture of the web. While many websites now allow the linking of accounts across websites and identity verification through cellphones or email, the web began with nothing more than usernames for...
The Montana Department of Transportation approached the city about buying a small strip of land along the eastern edge of U. S. Highway 2. At Monday night's Havre City Council meeting, the council donated the land to them. The state wants to use the. 06-acre strip of land along the side of the highway, as a part of work to join the widened road in Havre with the more recent widened parts between Havre and Chinook. The lot, just past the old Kmart, is needed to add a drainage pipe. MDT offered the city $2,450 for the piece of...
Havre City Council moved to the halfway point in its latest annexation process in a hearing at 6:30 p. m. Monday, just before the regular council meeting. The council waited for about 15 minutes for anyone to show up and ask a question or share a concern, before closing the meeting and moving on. The next step for the 26 properties being brought into the city is another hearing and then a final resolution for the council to approve. Most of the properties are small residential lots on the peripheries to the south and west...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown City Councilman Rick Dow listens to testimony duirng Tuesday's trail. At right, Lindsay Lorang, Dow's attorney. Havre City Council member Rick Dow was cleared of a traffic ticket Tuesday by a jury of his peers. Dow spent the day in a jury trial he requested over a citation that he used an electronic communication device while driving, which came from a traffic stop on May 1. The long-time vocal opponent of the cellphone ban was in high spirits following the verdict. "I'm very pleased, " Dow...
For two months, 18-year-old David Gonzales has enjoyed living on his own for the first time, right next door to his therapist at the Center for Mental Health, but that's ending soon. David Gonzales is one of a half-dozen people, mostly fellow Center clients, who have to leave their homes in the Masonic building at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street at the order of the Mason's board of directors. Over the past year, the building supervisor Mike Conley has allowed Center patients to stay in rooms on the third floor of the building for...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Children run out of the new Rocky Boy High School entrance during a volleyball game Saturday. Students of Rocky Boy Public Schools, at close to expected numbers, appear to be enjoying the space provided by the expansion of Rocky Boy High School this summer. Rocky Boy Public Schools' Superintendent Voyd St. Pierre updated the Chippewa Cree Business Committee on how the schools, from infrastructure to enrollment, were faring so far this year at their monthly meeting last Thursday. The enrollment f...
While discussing an expansion of course offerings for Havre High School students to also get college credit through Montana State University-Northern, Trustee Norm Proctor had a few questions. During Tuesday's night's Board of Trustees meeting, Proctor wondered whether it was legal for one of the new courses offered, Introduction to Sociology, to be taught by fellow Trustee Curtis Smeby. "I know the concept is great, " Proctor said. "I just wanted to avoid ending up in deep water. " Proctor said he remembered when Judy...
Havre High School students looking to get a leg up on college courses could have a few more options soon. At Tuesday night's Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting, Havre High School Principal Craig Mueller and Montana State University-Northern's Dean of Extended University Randy Bachmeier explained a plan to more than double the Northern courses available to students, from three to seven. The new courses would include Theatre Workshop 105, Fundamentals of Speech, Introduction to Psychology and Introduction to...
Most of the students on the Hi-Line got a day off of school, courtesy of Winter Storm Brutus. By 7:45 a. m. today, Havre Public Schools announced that classes were canceled. Havre Superintendent Andy Carlson said that he was sure the students could get to schools safely today if there was class, but he was concerned about the ability to get children home at the end of the day, assuming the snow continues to pile up, so he decided not to risk it. At Montana State University-Northern, Chancellor Jim Limbaugh felt similarly....
Big changes are occurring to St. Jude Thaddeus, from the demolition of the old rectory building to the city of Havre's possible upcoming relinquishment of the alley that bisects the campus, but one of the big personal changes facing the students and faculty returning this month is one of leadership. Carol Ortman, a 21-year St. Jude veteran, has ended her six-year tenure as the principal of St. Jude Thaddeus School. Ortman said she was considering taking a sabbatical when the decision to retire came as a surprise. "I like to...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Wendy Warburton, R-Chinook, center, embraces her sister Julie after winning re-election for House District 34. A legislator who started a Republican inroad in traditionally union-heavy Democratic Blaine and Hill counties continued her dominance in Tuesday's general election, with a strong showing in her home Blaine County more than overcoming a closer Hill County race generated by her Democratic opponent. Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Chinook, defeated licensed practicing nurse practitioner and...
Havre City Council, in a whirlwind of approval Tuesday night, heard no complaints or comments on the $17 million preliminary city budget for next year during the first public hearing at the end of their regular council meeting. The council will reconvene tonight at 6 p.m. for one more hearing and a final reading of the budget. Tonight's hearing will also hear votes on annual renewal of local taxes to pay for municipal maintenance on streets, street lights, the sewer system and maintaining the dike that keeps Bull Hook Creek...
Havre City Council jumped right into the new year's new business, with new council members. After swearing in the officials elected last November and the new Havre Police Chief Kirk Fitch, the council voted on a couple of resolutions adopting budgets for the city's Community Transportation Enhancement Program projects and lending support for another grant process for Havre Day Activity Center. Resolutions 3609 and 3610 were passed unanimously, accepting budgets for two of the three CTEP projects the city approved last year, t...
Havre Daily News/Zach White Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, left, breaks a tie Tuesday between council Republicans and Democrats in choosing the next City Council president during a City Council meeting. Solomon chose Republican Andrew Brekke. While the rest of Havre deals with the first week of keeping up new year's resolutions, Havre City Council made a few big changes of their own at Tuesday night's meeting. And these are going to stick. The first, and biggest, in an evening of swearing in new and existing officeholders was the...
The Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation held a primary on Tuesday for this year's Chippewa Cree Business Committee election, and with 57 candidates pursuing four seats on the committee and the chairmanship, it's not too surprising that the results are still being counted. The tribal office said this morning that the results of the 10 winners of the primary, eight for the four committee seats and two for the chairmanship still being pursued by incumbent Bruce Sunchild Sr. — will be on the ballot this November, will not be available...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Construction finishes up on 11th Street near Montana State University-Northern.? Drivers of 11th Street rejoice! The paving portion of the road upgrade is nearing its completion, and only about a week past deadline. The repaving of 11th Street, from in front of Montana State University-Northern past Havre Middle School to 16th Avenue West, began in June and was scheduled to be complete on Sept. 28. A few days past that point, Montana Department of Transportation Project Manager Beth Doran said...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Havre High School senior Aaron Gales is a semi-finalist for the National Achievement Scholarship Program. The National Achievement Scholarship Program announced last week that one of Havre High School's Blue Ponies is on his way toward winning nationwide scholarship prizes. Aaron Gales, a Havre High School senior, is one of 1,600 semi-finalists in the contest, attempting to be one of 1,300 finalists announced in January. Of those, 700 will earn "one-time NAS National Achievement $2500 Scholarshi...
