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WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring. The slowdown is a reminder that the job market's path back to full health will be uneven. AP Photo/Steve Helber A help wanted sign is shown in front of a restaurant in Richmond, Va. The U.S. economy has enjoyed a four-month stretch of robust job gains. Last month, 88,000 jobs were created. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 p...
Just a handful of days after the Cal Wearley track meet, the Havre High track teams are moving from one big meet to another. Local teams are taking full advantage of the mild spring, wasting almost no time in between meets. The Central A Blue Ponies are coming off of a great second outing on Wednesday, and will look to keep rolling with another solid meet on Saturday. This time around, the Ponies will return to the road. Traveling to Lewistown, the Ponies will take on 19 other teams with the hopes of a strong performance at t...
Just a little over a month ago, the Montana State University-Northern football team released its schedule for the upcoming 2013 Frontier Conference football season. But in light of a major change, the Lights re-released their schedule this week. Montana State University-Northern's Jordan Van Voast looks to make a play during a Frontier Conference football game last fall in Havre. The Lights will open the 2013 season on Thursday, Aug. 29 at Dickinson State and will play at...
Spring is in the air, the weather has been mild, and as far as football goes, the Montana State University-Northern Lights are in the midst of a successful spring season. The Lights began spring practice a little over two weeks ago, and are now on the verge of conducting their first of two full scrimmages. The Lights will scrimmage Saturday at 12 p.m. at the Havre High practice field. Montana State University-Northern quarterback Derek Lear looks to pass during a recent...
The Havre High boys and girls tennis teams are off to a great start. Not only on the court, but because of the fact the Blue Ponies haven't had a weather delay in their schedule yet. And the Ponies are hoping for at least one more good weather day as they prepare to host the annual Havre Invitational Saturday morning at the Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts in Havre. The Havre Invite features teams from Lewistown, Conrad and Cut Bank, as well as all of the HHS varsity and junior varsity performers. Havre High's Nick Rhines...
After listening to recommendations from a committee, the Hill County Park Board Monday approved creating a waiver process to let cabin owners in Beaver Creek Park who have outbuildings out of compliance with park regulations justify why their buildings should remain. The board created the committee in January to look at issues including whether any fees should be increased, how the park should handle dogs and leashes, and what to do about cabins where owners had erected more than the one-allowed outbuilding. In February the...
The Hill County Park Board Monday approved having the county assess garbage collection fees on the property taxes for cabins in Beaver Creek Park, but delayed any decision on other fees — other than for a waiver it also approved Monday — until a committee can take another look at the issue. After debating another of the committee's recommendations at Monday's meeting, the board also approved creating a special waiver to allow outbuildings that are not in compliance with park regulations to remain temporarily, with a $50 ann...
City Councilman Rick Dow will step down April 15. Dow is moving to Minnesota because his wife, Dr. Margaret Dow, has accepted a position at the Mayo Clinic. The councilman announced earlier he would resign, but left the date open. Dow, a Republican from Ward 3, has been a vocal opponent of big government, especially the city's law banning use of cellphones while driving and its support for Vibrant Futures, an organization he suspected of being involved in government-mandated, United Nations-inspired environmental controls. Ma...
The lengthy dispute over financing of operations at the community swimming pool is over. Havre City Council unanimously approved an agreement Monday night that will end the four-year lawsuit and 10-year dispute over how much the Hill County government should pay. The county will pay the city $20,000 a year under a three-year contract, according to the deal that Mayor Tim Solomon proposed to the council. The understanding is that unless the county faces serious economic problems, the contract will be automatically extended...
Nick Rhines, Havre High Swimming Havre High senior Nick Rhines wrapped up his final season of swimming in a fast fashion. At the Feb. 8-9 All-Class state swimming championships in Hardin, Rhines scored big points for the Havre High boys. The Ponies finished second in the Class A standings and 12th overall with 26 points, while Rhines qualified for the super- Rhines competitive 100-meter freestyle finals. Rhines wound up 11th overall in the 100 free, while also swimming on all three of HHS's relay teams. Rhines is also a...
The Frontier Conference wrapped up its women's basketball season on Monday night with Westminster College blasting Carroll College 63-48 in the championship game in Salt Lake City. The league also announced its All-Conference selections and postseason honors on Monday night, and unfortunately, no Montana State University-Northern players were honored. The Skylights certainly had players deserving, including 2012 honorees like Jordan Bruursema and Nikki Tresch. And Northern fin...
Before heading to the 2013 NAIA national wrestling tournament, former Havre Blue Pony and current Great Falls senior Myles Mazurkiewicz talked about not getting ahead of himself. The goal all season, a senior season in which Mazurkiewicz lost just three times, was to win a 141-pound NAIA national championship. But the goal entering last Friday-Saturday's national tournament was to take it one match at a time. And for three rounds in Des Moines, Iowa it worked. Mazurkiewicz...
The Montana State University-Northern football team is putting the finishing touches on its 2013 recruiting class. And on Monday, Northern head coach Mark Samson announced the signing of 11 more recruits. Havre High senior Zach Plum fields a punt during a Central A football game back in October at the Blue Pony Stadium. Plum is one of 11 new signees for the Montana State University-Northern football team. The Lights have now signed 32 new players for their 2013 recruiting...
Thomas A. Hanning Thomas A. Hanning, 76, passed away at Northern Montana Care Center on March 3, 2013 of natural causes. His memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 9, 2013, at St. Jude Thaddeus Church with Father Daniel Wathen officiating. Memorials in Tom's name can be made to Havre Girls Fastpitch or to Beaver Creek Park for repairs and maintenance at 17863 Beaver Creek Road, Havre, MT 59501. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Tom was born March 9, 1937, to James...
Gladys Aman Gladys Aman, 79, of Big Sandy died of natural causes Monday, March 4, 2013, at Great Falls Care Center. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 7, 2013, at Christ Lutheran Church in Big Sandy with burial of ashes to follow at the Big Sandy Cemetery. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Gladys Aman was born in Chinook, Mont., Nov. 5, 1933, to Carl and Hannah Bosch. She grew up on an irrigated farm near Chinook and attended grade school at a rural school house, then attended Chinook...
Nancy Kay Olson Nancy Kay Olson, 70, died Sunday at Benefis East in Great Falls. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, March 8, at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Joplin. A reception will follow in Kjos Hall. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester. Her ashes will be buried this spring in the Joplin Cemetery. Nancy was born Jan. 17, 1943, in Great Falls, the eldest of three to Lucille Poppler and Cliff Thorson. She grew up on the family farm north of Joplin. After graduating from Joplin High School in 1961...
Andrea 'MaryAnn' Messerly Andrea "MaryAnn" Messerly, 64, of Lodge Pole, went to Heaven on Sunday, March 3, 2013, of natural causes at her residence. Wake services will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at the Chief Nosey Recreation Center in Lodge Pole and will continue until her funeral service, which will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, also at the Chief Nosey Recreation Center. Burial will follow at Wolf Coulee Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and...
"If a(n insurance) mandate was the solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house." — Sen. Barack Obama, 2007. Growing up in a Montana family of 14, my parents taught us most important life lessons. One lesson driven home repeatedly: If a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Such is the Obamacare deal. Everybody will be forced to buy health insurance … and that will magically mean better health care. Obamacare's Medicaid component is particularly egregious for Montanans. The...
Bill Thackeray's recent view expressed in the Opinion Page of the Havre Daily News brought up some interesting points. The article inspired me to bring them to print. First of all I know every one of the farmers and ranchers who have closed their land to hunting over this issue. They are all good neighborly people who had views on this sale. They were not jealous of the price, and the ones I know just want to make a living doing what they love to do. They tried to exercise their rights as residents of this state in voicing...
Last week's story, "Windmills for Northern" was right on the mark and reinforces why the Montana Legislature should leave the Renewable Energy Standard alone. As Jay Reed, instructor in the Sustainable Energy Technology Program at Montana State University-Northern, points out, wind energy as no longer alternative energy. It is mainstream energy. That's why Northern, along with Missoula College, is preparing students for an ever-expanding field. About 20 students earn sustainable energy technician degrees each year through the...
Seldom does one have the opportunity to heap praise on any part of the government or, for that matter, see it actually fix a problem. Last Tuesday, the National Park Service was that happy exception. The service released the revised contract for the next concession in Glacier National Park that assures the preservation of the Red Buses, just as acting Superintendent Kym Hall promised Jan. 30. As the task of preparing the revisions seemed to drag on, many of the hundreds throughout North America who were closely following...
Congress is in the public eye a lot lately for its stalemate with President Barack Obama over the mandated cuts that resulted from last year's pre-election deal. But Havre has had its own version of political stalemate, the decade-long battle over who should pay how much for the operation of the community swimming pool. The debate gets into complicated technicalities, but the long and short of it is the city has wanted Hill County to pay more and the county has wanted to pay less to the city. The debate has been loud. It's...
A Hill County Park Board member, taking a suggestion from another board member, successfully moved Monday to delay further discussion of fees at Beaver Creek Park until the board's March 4 meeting. Board member Robbie Lucke said the committee tasked with suggesting fee rates should have another meeting to set multi-year fee rates, as board member and Hill County Commissioner Jeff Lavoi suggested. "It would be my recommendation, after hearing Jeff, that this committee goes back for one more meeting, and see if we can't come...
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...
