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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown An empty shelf in the bread isle at Gary and Leo's Fresh Foods Saturday afternoon. The collateral damage of last year's Hostess implosion is still afflicting some Havre businesses. Between the closure of the Sweetheart store on 2nd Street and the Billings-based vendor who further provided baked goods to the Hi-Line, it's become harder to buy a loaf of bread. At Walmart, Dennis Pearson, manager of the grocery department, said the store lost almost all of its bread offerings. "Most of our bread,...
With the legislative session kicking off this week, it is time for the public sector "Hunger Games" to begin. Team Havre Public Schools talked about their strategy at Tuesday night's school board meeting. The board's information packet for the meeting contained a list of 102 bills proposed in the past year for this session that pertain to Montana public education. Havre Superintendent Andy Carlson gave trustees a rundown of some of the highlights, mostly focusing on a proposal from Sen. Llew Jones to revise school funding....
The holidays are over and the waters are frozen. That means it's time again for the annual Fresno Ice Derby. The two-day ice-fishing contest kicks off Saturday, Jan. 26, at 7 a. m., then again at 7 a. m. Sunday, Jan 27. Every entrant pays $25 per day to fish, if registered before noon Friday, Jan 25, otherwise there is an additional $15 late fee. When all of the entry fees are collected, about 20 percent goes to a scholarship fund for students pursuing an agriculture-related degree at Montana State University-Northern. And...
Just because you're not enrolled in one of Havre's public schools doesn't mean the districts have nothing to teach you. Tomorrow will be the last day to register for this year's Community Education classes, with a catalog of 39 classes being taught by community experts over the next several weeks. The classes run between two hours and eleven weeks long and cost anything from $3, for a class on managing retirement funds, up to $50, for a couple's curling lesson. There are classes on CPR, fly-tying, knitting, computer...
Havre Public Schools trustees know that technology is playing an increasingly important role in students' lives. And Tuesday they heard some numbers to prove it. Havre Superintendent Andy Carlson told the trustees at their meeting Tuesday night about the results of a survey taken by Havre students of every grade. The six-question survey was created to give the administration an idea of what they're working with, as they start looking at how to update the district's technology policy. The first question asked if students had...
After an intense discussion on an idea to charge cabin owners in Beaver Creek Park the fees to pay for garbage removal, the Hill County Park Board set a committee to look at that idea along with other items on the board agenda including regulations on dogs, outbuildings at cabins and using hanging park permits. "These are all kind of contentious items, " said board member Robbie Lucke. It was Lucke who suggested at the board's December meeting that board members talk to cabin owners about charging a garbage fee. He requested...
People arrested on drug or alcohol-related crimes in Hill County have a new option, with Havre's branch of the 24/7 Sobriety Program which officially started this morning. The program requires participants to come to the Havre Police Department twice a day, between 7 and 8 a. m. and again between 7 and 8 p. m., to take a breathalyzer test every day. They can be assigned to the program as a condition of release, while they wait for trial, or as a corrective action in a final sentencing. This method first appeared in Montana...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Laurie Hulburt serves mashed potatoes during dinner at Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Friday evening. For many of the children at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, membership can be about more than having a place to go or activities to join. It can be about having food to eat. As more kids have spent more time at the club, the club has spent more time taking care of them, with nutritional offerings growing from snacks to dinner. The club started providing snacks to children in the...
Like the thousands of children who have enjoyed the facility for more than a decade, the Boy & Girls Club of the Hi-Line has to grow. After celebrating its 10th anniversary, representatives of the club announced a plan to add onto and rearrange their Devlin School building on 1st Avenue, to accommodate the hundreds of Havre children who need their services, plans they hope to get started in about a year. The plan is to consolidate all of the administrative offices in one area, while using the old main office as one end of a...
A 50-year-old Havre man was killed near Browning early Friday. Brandy Salway, a 22-year-old Santa Fe, N.M., woman, was driving a 2002 Buick westbound on College Row Road at 1:39 a.m. Friday, when she hit Rendell Redeagle, a 50-year-old Havre man. Redeagle was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a Montana Highway Patrol crash report. The Glacier County Sheriff's Office did not have any further information this morning. The department plans on releasing a press release on the situation, including any charges, this...
With the past few days of thaw reminding the city of spring waiting around the corner, Kay Nessland came to talk to Havre City Council about an idea to encourage people to enjoy the coming warmth. At Monday night's meeting, Nessland, speaking on behalf of OPEN GYM — Obesity Prevention Education Nutrition Getting You Moving — wanted to know how to move forward in setting up a system of community bicycles to be borrowed from and returned to pre-designated locations around town. OPEN GYM, a subcommittee of the Hill County Hea...
The new year brought the Chinook City Council to take a look at its appointees, boards and committees at Thursday night's meeting, and city officials are looking for a few civic-minded Chinook residents to volunteer. The biggest need right now is to fill an all-new Ordinance Committee that will re-examine all of the Chinook city ordinances to find which are good, which need to be updated and which need to go away altogether. The head of the streamlining committee, council member Keith Hanson, is looking to have a five-member...
As the nation rolls into tax season, it's common to wonder where all that money even goes. Gov. Steve Bullock's office announced this week a new website to answer that question. Transparency.mt.gov is "the new online version of Montana's checkbook, " according to a press release from Bullock's office. The site allows anyone to see what the state government spends money on including every state employee's hourly wage, except those on the separate Montana University System payroll system. Last year Bullock, as attorney...
Lorna Stremcha, will conduct a book-signing for her book, "Lose the Baggage, Lose the Weight, " from noon to 4 p. m. on Saturday in the Book Exchange in the Atrium Mall. The book is about Stremcha's thoughts on achieving "physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual well-being. " She calls this the P. I.E. S. way of life. "If individuals' emotions have cast a cloud over their mind, there are several exercises in the book that can help them gain clarity. " A press release for her book signing says. "Stremcha also...
Wrapping up the first, and eventful, month in another election year, Sen. Jon Tester spent Thursday morning on the horn with reporters back in Big Sky Country, to talk about Keystone XL Pipeline, recent Citizens United-related talks, the State of the Union address, and many other topics on his mind and voters' minds back home. Keystone XL Pipeline Tester expressed once again his disappointment in President Barack Obama's decision to reject the most recent bid to construct a 2,000-mile oil pipe from Canada to Texas. "I've...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson, file photos People line up for bread and bite-sized pronto pups at the fourth Annual Men Who Cook for Women Who "Wine" event in the Hingham Community Center in March 2010. It's been five years since local men first cooked for the women who "wine, " but cancer still exists and families still need help dealing with medical problems, so the men are again preparing to raise their knives, ladels and spatulas for a good cause. The fifth annual Men Who Cook for Women Who "Wine" event will be raising...
Just past the school year's halfway mark, students and teachers are excited to show off what they've been doing since August. They will start demonstrating their work with a family activity night from 5:30 to 6:30 p. m. Monday at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School. The week wraps up Friday, Jan. 27, with an afternoon event, from 2:10 to 3:20 p. m., at Sunnyside Intermediate School. Marilyn Granell, a third-grade teacher, said the Lincoln-McKinley event will be called "Chilling Out With Math, " referring to both the fun game-play...
Many of the laws and policies in the city of Havre begin their lives in various specialized committees. With three new council members sworn in this month, those committees are seeing changes and beginning new lives of their own. At Tuesday night's Havre City Council meeting, Mayor Tim Solomon announced the new committee lineups for the next two years, crafted by his appointment. There is one committee that has met for the past two years, but is no longer on the list, the Planning and Development Committee. Planning and...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre High School special education teacher Shaylee Lewis, center, shares her favorite childhood memories with her English class to help them come up with their own favorite childhood memories to write about in their journals Thursday afternoon. Lewis will be featured on KRTV Monday at 5:30 and 10 p.m. after winning the TV news station's One Class At A Time grant. TV crews don't make a lot of appearances on the Hi-Line, but Havre High School special education instructor Shaylee Lewis recently...
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 of Havre...
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...
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,...
According to a Montana Highway Patrol crash report, Brandon Brostrom flipped his truck at 5 a. m. Thursday. The report says the 18-year-old was driving on Warrick Road, south of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation between the mountains and Big Sandy, early in the morning when he hit an icy patch and lost control. "Vehicle began to fishtail and the vehicle entered a clockwise rotation, " the report by Trooper Joel Knutsen says. "Vehicle went into the ditch on the south side of the roadway and rolled one half times coming to rest...
Chinook had its City Council meeting Thursday night, as it does on the first Thursday of every month, but something was missing: 20-year council veteran Freda Bryson, who was replaced by freshman councilman Keith Hanson. Bryson joined the Chinook City Council in 1991, 30 years after moving to Chinook with her husband who worked for the railroad. They moved from Warland, which is now at the bottom of Lake Koocanusa, after the construction of the Libby Dam in 1975. "It was kind of different, " Bryson said. "People were kind of...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Montana State University-Northern's new Chancellor James Limbaugh answers questions from the local press in his office in Cowan Hall this morning. Limbaugh's first day on the job was Sunday. Montana State University-Northern's new Chancellor James Limbaugh hit the ground running, and driving, this week, spending more time around campus or in a car to and from Bozeman than behind his desk in Cowan Hall. Limbaugh, in a press conference this morning, gave a summary of his first few days of work as...
