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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Montana State University-Northern chancellor James Limbaugh talks Dec. 21 in his office about his plans for the university. New Year's Eve will not only mark the end of 2012, but also the end of Jim Limbaugh's first year as Montana State University-Northern's chancellor. In the year since Limbaugh made the trek north from Texas with his wife Trish, Northern has made some visible improvements, while the gears of more fundamental change have started turning beneath the surface. "I think it has bee...
Though it would probably be preferable to enjoy a smaller, longer-lasting and quieter fire, the city of Havre has approved the loud, explosive and celebratory variety for a few hours on New Year's Eve. When the Havre City Council created a new fireworks law last year, the main focus was on the Fourth of July and regulating the sale, possession and use of fireworks in the noisy days surrounding the nation's birthday. But a two-sentence provision allowed for a limited window of fiery festivities deep in the winter. "Fireworks m...
Another new year brings another tax season, but filing taxes can be less painful with a little planning and help, which Opportunity Link Inc. is providing across the Hi-Line. Opportunity Link announced this week that they are helping connect local taxpayers with "trained, IRS-certified volunteers" who "can help prepare and e-file your basic income tax returns. " "Anyone with a household income of less than $50,000 is eligible for this free service, " the press release says. "This year, you can also opt to prepare your own tax...
Havre Daily News/Zach White New Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian, left, shakes hands with Montana State University-Northern professor Fred Smiley after a public forum Tuesday evening in Hensler Auditorium. Montana's got a new commissioner of higher education, but before he gets to work he wants to know what Montana wants that work to be. Clayton Christian started as the new commissioner on Jan. 1, though he is sharing duties with outgoing Commissioner Sheila Stearns through the end of next month. Less than...
According to Michele Holden, chair of the Local Advisory Council, one in four people have been affected by a mental health crisis either first or second hand, and the council hopes to draw on that experience. The council is hoping to use a recently awarded $20,000 grant to get a peer support group going in Havre, where people suffering from mental health issues can turn for advice from others who have been there. "I think mental health issues in our community are really important, " Holden said. "It costs money at the...
Courtesy photo/Jim Potter Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., answers a question this morning about an Economic Development Agency grant headed to MSU-Northern. To his right are Tony Preite, director of university outreach and economic development; Greg Kegel, dean of the College of Technical Science; and Jim Limbaugh, Northern's new Chancellor. As more details about the U. S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration's recent grant heading to Montana State University-Northern are...
Black Friday ain't what it used to be. For a few Havre businesses, this year was all about the Black Thursday deals. In response to customers who enjoy the sales but don't want to adjust their sleep schedules around them, Walmart and Kmart both started their deals at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. At Walmart, the 8 p.m. sales were followed by other new deals at 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. today. Manager Jamie McDaniel said the customers still packed the store, despite concerns over Thursday's unexpected flurries. "We were a little worried...
Box Elder Public Schools announced this week that it is going to need a new high school principal by the summer. The current principal, Darrin Hannum, will be moving up to the district superintendent position as of July 1. The current superintendent, Robert Heppner, is drawing his half-century career, including 17 years in Box Elder, to another end. He had already come out of his first retirement to work at Box Elder. "He's kind of feeling it's time to enjoy life a little bit, " Hannum said. "I was feeling like it's a...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Betty Villet has been making hand-crafted Christmas stockings for 20 years. During the holidays, it can be a challenge to find the perfect gift, but one Havre crafter has been helping people put something special on their Christmas mantles. Betty Villett has been making Christmas stockings for 20 years, specializing in custom requests for interests from football team logos to pink zebras. "They are themed ones, sports, animals, Christmas, character ones like Batman, Spiderman. Those kinds of...
Montana State University-Northern is continuing to take steps ensuring its place among top national biodiesel researchers and producers. The U. S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration announced on Thursday a grant sending $647,748 to Northern "to support the North Central Montana Renewable Industry Initiative to commercialize green technology and create new high-skill, living-wage jobs. " The release says that the "project is expected to create 26 jobs and generate $90 million in private investment,...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Vicke Schend, right, cries while holding the North Star Award honoring her late husband, Terry Schend, while Havre Area Chamber of Commerce second Vice President Debbie Callahan reacts at the Chamber's 103rd Annual Meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Duck Inn's Olympic Room. Former Chamber board officers Terry Schend and Kevin Keim were both honored with the North Star Award during the meeting for being instrumental in the creation of Town Square. Terry Schend died in January 2011 of pancreatic...
The price of the premature death of A. J. Longsoldier will be paid by the sheriff's offices of Hill and Blaine counties, and the Department of Labor and Industry's Hearing Bureau will decide in the next few months how much it will be. In September, the Montana Human Rights Bureau Commission overturned the labor department's prior decision, that Hill and Blaine counties were not liable for his death. The commission sent its decision back to the Hearing Bureau to decide what the cost of their responsibility would be. Last...
The Hays-Lodge Pole School Board's controversial chairman John Doney is suspended until criminal charges against him are settled. Blaine County Commissioners held a hearing at 1:30 p.m. Monday to discuss what to do after County Attorney Don Ranstrom filed seven misdemeanor misconduct charges against Doney. The commissioners heard from a few of the dozen community members, parents and school staff who attended the hearing. Doney, nor any of his board except George Horse Capture Jr., came to the hearing and no one spoke in...
Havre Daily News This map, using data taken from state records, shows in red the three properties the City of Havre intends to annex. As the city of Havre's annexation battle with Hill County enters its second year of waiting to get into a courtroom, Havre City Council continues to make slow, small progress in expanding city limits. At Tuesday night's council meeting, members unanimously decided to take the first steps in annexing three more properties on the south end of town, at the owners' request. The resolution announced...
Things are changing fast, and in the newspaper world doubly so. In the past year-and-a-half the Havre Daily News has started using new tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, in addition to our website, havredailynews.com to give you, the readers, news and a place to talk back, to let Havre Daily News know what the community thinks about what's going on. The level of engagement has been tremendous. With nearly 1,100 Facebook followers and a small but growing Twitter following, it is obvious you want the news and you want...
Most people celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during their day off on Monday, but Montana State University-Northern's Campus Corps is offering an opportunity for more active reflection on the civil rights icon and his message Wednesday. From noon to 1 p. m. Wednesday in the Student Union Building's Ballroom, the group is hosting an art show, featuring the work of local artists and students on the subject of diversity, as well as a recitation of King's most remembered words, the "I Have A Dream" speech from the s...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson This morning, a pink battery-operated Barbie car sits next to two blackened trailers in Clear Creek Trailer Court, along 14th Avenue, that caught on fire Sunday evening. A local family spent the end of their Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend dealing with the loss of their home. The Havre Police Department received a call about the Iron Bear family's connected mobile homes, in the Clear Creek Trailer Court, glowing and smoking at 8:20 p. m. Sunday night. According to Havre Fire Chief Dave...
When Victoria's Secret shows off their next year's line of lingerie, it's more what's in them than on them that draws attention. But this year, a group of feminists hijacked the social media buzz around the event to change that, and Victoria's Secret was not happy. The artist collective, Force, launched a sweep of blogs and social networks like Twitter and Facebook with photos of underwear that were supposedly a part of the new Victoria's Secret line being released that day. Zach White In opposition to real items in the...
Local AmeriCorps workers are hoping members of the community will help them commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by emulating his dedication to community service and enhancing their own community in Havre. AmeriCorps is taking part in a national Day of Service on Monday, which in Havre will consist of helping, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., in cleaning up, weatherizing and restoring the former post office building at 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue. Volunteers will get a tour of the building at noon. Lisa Smith, Havre's AmeriCorps...
As the 63rd session of the Montana state Legislature nears, all of the groups that rely on that body to function are getting ready to make their case. And the state's smaller school districts are doing more preparation than usual. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson supported a request from the recently formed Class A Caucus to the school board at their meeting Tuesday night. Mike Longbottom, chair of the Class A Caucus board and vice chair of the Laurel School Board, explained in a letter that all of the school...
The AP Government class at Havre High School always offers students a more in-depth view of the government, but next month it will give some of the students a front-row, in-person look. At Tuesday night's Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting, the board voted to allow John Ita, the AP Government teacher, to take 18 people to Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 21. Ita said the group — which will include four parents and 14 students, including two recent graduates — would be traveling down...
Havre High School's Interim Principal Dennis Murphy is heading to Billings next week for the Montana High School Association annual meeting, where members will discuss changes to activity policies. Murphy explained to the Board of Trustees five proposals the group will vote on, and what votes he recommends the Havre districts make. He began by explaining that he has been to meetings with as many 67 proposals, "so I think we are getting to where we want to be. " The proposals this time around include: - A proposal to create...
Kids can be vicious, especially-so while separated from consequences by computers and the Internet, but the Havre Public Schools Board gave a preliminary nod of approval to a policy change to protect against such situations. The board voted unanimously in favor of the first reading of a change to their bullying and hazing rules at Tuesday's meeting that would the actions and consequences of cyber-bullies closer together. Karla Wohlwend, director of personnel and special services for the district, presented the changes, based...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre Police Department Chief Kirk Fitch poses for a photograph on his first day on the job Wednesday afternoon. Fitch was sworn in as the new police chief Tuesday during a Havre City Council meeting. There's a new law man in town, Havre's new Police Chief Kirk Fitch, who may have brought some weather with him from his last post in Maricopa, Ariz. Fitch was sworn in at Tuesday night's City Council meeting, ending a six-month search for the new chief. But how did he get here? What will he bring...
According to a Montana Highway Patrol crash report, Brandon Brostrom flipped his truck at 5 a.m. today. 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, 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 upside down on its top."...
