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Three years after a 9-year-old Havre boy died when he was hit by a truck while walking his bike across the street, his family, friends and their supporters are hoping to prevent such accidents from happening again. The Third Annual Kellen Lund Memorial Bike Ride will gather hundreds of cyclists and supporters this Saturday in Pepin Park "to promote driver awareness, " as Kellen's mother, Jeri Zorn, said this morning. "They share the road and intersections with pedestrians and bike riders too, " Zorn said. The event begins at...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre City Judge Margaret Hencz listens as Blaine County attorney Don Ranstrom reads the plea agreement for Ashlie Nystrom this morning during an arraignment via teleconference for Ashlie Nystrom and her husband, former Havre Police Department Police Chief Jerry Nystrom. More than 14 months after a scuffle at PJ's Restaurant Casino Lounge involving then recently resigned Havre Police Chief Jerry Nystrom and his wife Ashlie, the case ended this morning when both pleaded guilty. City Judge...
The Montana Board of Regents must be excited about their meeting at Montana State University-Northern in a few weeks. They held a conference call meeting on Friday, just to talk about the university. During the conference call, the regents agreed to lease the athletic complex to the MSU-Northern Foundation, so they can make several upgrades this summer. "This is pretty exciting, " Shauna Albrecht, the foundation's executive director, said. "And this is just the first phase of the gym projects. " The first phase will bring a...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Thirteen-year-olds Jazzamyn Benson, from left, Claire Worm and Clifford Lenhardt make tie-dies T-shirts for Havre Special Olympics athletes during the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line's HELP Camp in the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building Wednesday afternoon. This year's theme for HELP Camp is the Olympics. For a community service project, campers wrote inspirational messages and decorated cards and gift bags, and made shoelaces and friendship bracelets that will be given...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre Middle School music and math teacher Darla Cook listens during class Thursday afternoon to sixth-grader Vander Swensen rehearse his musical part in the school's upcoming "The Wizard of Oz" concert, in which Swensen is playing the Scarecrow. The concert will be Cook's final production due to her retirement at the end of this academic school year. Cook has been a math and music teacher for 36 years. "The Wizard of Oz" concert will feature music from the musicals "The Sound of Music," "Mamma...
A new program, years in the making, has overcome the last obstacle and will soon be offered at Montana State University-Northern. Northern announced this week that a new four-year Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice will be offered by the school "on-line or in a hybrid on-line/weekend format so students can continue their employment while pursuing their academic goals. " The final test to pass was that of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, an accreditation organization. According to Katherine...
Charges have been filed and the suspect has been arraigned in the death late last year of 54-year-old Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette. Mary Louise Stewart, the 61-year-old Hays woman who struck Pyette on U. S. Highway 2 on Dec. 14, pleaded not guilty Monday morning to a felony charge of negligent homicide. Blaine County Attorney Don Ranstrom said this morning that a few factors were behind the charge. According to Ranstrom, Stewart was driving "in a fairly excessive speed" of 45 mph in an emergency area, while...
Many of Havre's civic organizations are preparing to join together Monday to honor America and the Hi-Line's fallen soldiers for Memorial Day. Starting at 11 a. m. Monday, members of groups including the American Legion, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will gather outside the Hill County Courthouse with the National Guard Color Guard to remember those who have given their lives in America's wars. Jed Damson, local commander of the American Legion, said they will begin by reading the names of...
Spring cleaning can frequently lead to piles of plants best disposed of by burning, but burning requires a permit. Havre Fire Chief Dave Sheppard is reminding people of the requirement and the ease of acquiring a burn permit before starting any fires. "We've had sort of a rash of open burning lately, which we always get this time of year, " Sheppard said. "The problem is that it is required by the county to get a burn permit. " Sheppard said that doesn't always happen. Then a neighbor or someone passing by calls the fire...
Punishment has been delayed for Merrill Gray who pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and theft after a casino robbery in October 2010. Judge E Wayne Phillips of Lewistown granted a delay of Monday afternoon's sentencing after Hill County Attorney Gina Dahl's questioning of Probation Officer Katie Kuhr caused Kuhr to rethink her recommendation. Going into the sentencing, Kuhr was recommending a deferred imposition of sentence for Gray and the defense was ready to accept it. Dahl was not as willing to accept the...
TV/movie studios and record labels are fighting for their survival against an army of cyber-pirates. This is nothing new. The same acts and feelings of desperation have always popped up when new technologies were developed, from when VCRs and audio cassettes first allowed people to copy tapes to when radio and television beamed media into people's home so they didn't have to buy records or movie tickets any more. Zach White And with every advance in technology the companies eventually have realized that people like the new,...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson After getting her diploma, North Star High School graduate Katelyn Springer's hassle is moved to the left during Commencement at the school's gym Saturday afternoon in Rudyard. The annual wave of graduations has once again swept across higher education and, this weekend, into the halls of Hi-Line high schools. On Saturday, to cover the most ground, we sent a reporter south to Box Elder High School and a photographer west to North Star High School. On Sunday, it was the photographer's turn to...
Having heard City Council member Rick Dow's not guilty plea last week, City Judge Margaret Hencz has stepped aside for all remaining court activity on the case. Hencz decided to have that case handled by Justice of the Peace Audrey Barger to avoid possible conflicts associated with presiding over a case involving another city employee. "The City Council is the fiscal oversight for the court, and I just thought that would have the appearance of impropriety," Hencz said. Dow has an omnibus hearing scheduled one month from...
During the first few months of Chancellor James Limbaugh's time at Montana State University-Northern, he has talked with a lot of people with a lot of ideas about what Northern is, should be or needs. Everyone he talked to, regardless of their thoughts on the present or future of Northern, just wanted the university to be as good as possible. In an attempt to live up to this tremendous faith and community support for the university, Limbaugh wanted to hold an event that most other colleges get to celebrate that Northern has...
After months of planning, evaluation and hearings, Havre City Council decided Monday night to move forward with an $8 million overhaul of the city's wastewater treatment system. This last hearing on the upgrade, which started at 6 p. m., lasted four times as long as the regular council meeting that followed it. Nate Weisenburger, from Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services in Great Falls, and Pam Lemer, from Bear Paw Development Corp., answered questions about the project from the council members at the hearing....
In less than a week, a prolific of Havre community figure is coming home, professionally. On May 21, Doug Kaercher will begin working as Havre's city clerk and finance director, replacing Lowell Swenson, whose 22-year tenure comes to a close at the end of the month. "I was extremely happy to have the opportunity to come back, " Kaercher said. "Local government is basically where my heart is. I think local government is the heart of any community, and you need well-managed local government for a community to grow and survive....
Among changing educational standards and increased kindergarten enrollment, teachers at Highland Park Early Primary School have noticed some students need a little more preparation. Because of action by the Board of Trustees, those students will have a new option this fall. The board approved a new program that will give some young kindergarten students another year to get ready, mentally and emotionally, for the new demands of school "It's something that we've been looking at pretty seriously, " Havre Public Schools...
The Havre Public School Districts Board of Trustees made a few big decisions at its meeting Tuesday night, including voting in a new member to join the ranks. Theresa Miller was interviewed by the board during the meeting and then approved unanimously. Miller talked about her experience in and service to the school already, volunteering at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School and Sunnyside Intermediate School over the past three years, while her 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter have attended them. "I always have had an...
Among the upcoming changes to the Havre High School student handbook, two of the biggest are attempts to reward students for positive behavior. At Tuesday night's Board of Trustees meeting, Havre High's Assistant Principal Kipp Lewis explained some of these changes that had passed through year-long discussions in a committee of faculty, administrators and students. The first change is to reward students who are not tardy with an extended lunch once a week. The idea came from Corvallis High School, where every Tuesday...
Early Saturday morning, a Ford F150 went off the road, killing the driver and injuring the only passenger. Francine Standingrock, 56-year-old Havre woman, was driving south on Laredo Road, onto Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation with 77-year-old Duncan Standingrock on Saturday. Around 5:30 a. m., the Montana Highway Patrol reports that the "driver appeared to have fallen asleep and drifted off the road to the right. " "Vehicle went through a mailbox, a delineator post, and a fence. Vehicle went up a hill and vaulted over the...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson A Thursday afternoon view of Donaldson Hall at the Montana State University-Northern campus. Since Higher Education Commissioner Clayton Christian announced he would recommend the Board of Regents reject a plan to lease Donaldson Hall to the Bullhook Community Health Center, questions about the rejection have been circulating and some faculty are unsatisfied by the answers they've received. No matter how unsatisfied people are, Commissioner Christian and Montana State University-Northern...
Someone around Havre got a lucky break last night. Wednesday night's lottery drawing won somebody in the area $110,000. Having just happened, no one has yet stepped forward to claim the prize. The ticket was sold at the Holiday Stationstore on 1st Street. Holiday employee Cheryl Lazier said it's the biggest prize she remembers being sold at the store, at least in the six years she has worked there. Whoever won now has until Dec. 6 to claim the prize, before it heads back into the state coffers. Are you the lucky winner, or...
Another summer semester at Montana State University-Northern brings another list of summer classes being cancelled, and some of the faculty are not happy. However, there appears to be some miscommunication between the faculty and the administration as to the extent of the cancellations. Northern faculty union President John Snider is upset this week about the cancellations he has seen, claiming that 43 classes being cancelled will adversely affect more than 170 students, including some in the Upward Bound program and others...
For most people it feels like winter is finally over, but as a few Hill County residents have discovered recently, flu season is still going. According to the Hill County Health Department, influenza is making an appearance, three confirmed cases as of Wednesday, unexpectedly late in the season. "Typically it is kind of awkward to see it come back at this time, but it can come back any time, " Kim Larson from the health department, said. While it's not too late to get the flu, the health department wants to remind people...
??Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Members of the Veterans Association raise the Chippewa Cree Tribe, the state and American flag for the first time at the new Justice Center during a grand opening ceremony of the finished building Tuesday afternoon at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Strong spring Hi-Line winds could do little to snuff the excitement on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Tuesday afternoon. Tribal, federal, county and local leaders gathered Tuesday to cut the ribbon on the new Rocky Boy Justice Center, about...
