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Members of the Hill County Fair Board heard this week about possible activities at next year's Great Northern Fair, ranging from a mural being painted to alligators and a small child's simulated rodeo. Board members and the fairgrounds manager attended a convention last week to hear what attractions are available and what is new in the world of fair activities and support. Fairgrounds manager Tim Solomon said one caught their attention. "One thing that was a really cheap and kind of neat idea was a spraycan painter, artist, "...
HELENA — Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet woman who led a 15-year legal fight to force the U.S. government to account for more than a century of mismanaged Indian land royalties, died Sunday. She was 65. Cobell died at a Great Falls hospital of complications from cancer, spokesman Bill McAllister said. Cobell was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in 1996 claiming the Interior Department had misspent, lost or stolen billions of dollars meant for Native American land trust account holders dating back to the 1880s. After y...
Havre Daily News reporter Tim Leeds has won a first-place award from Inland Press Association. Leeds won the top prize in the investigative journalism category for newspapers with a daily circulation of 10,000 or less. His award was for the story "National media focuses on Montana Legislature," which was about how national news programs, newspapers and late-night talk shows were discussing the activities of the 2011 legislative session. Leeds' award was announced at the IPA's annual meeting in Chicago this morning. "It was...
Many people say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Havre Public Schools, the Hill County Health Department and the District IV Human Resources Development Council hope to save the people of Havre a couple of those pounds of cure, with a program called the Health Care Institute. The Health Care Institute started 10 years ago in a collaboration between UCLA's Anderson School of Management and medical supply company Johnson and Johnson. The goal of the program is to increase health literacy by training...
The local economic development corporation is teaming up with a state agency to find out what local residents have — and what they want — for broadband Internet access. Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., said this morning that the meetings being held around the state are to find out what people need from the Internet, and what they already have. "Part of it is getting a better understanding of what is already here, but also having a conversation about what people are using it for and what they thi...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Auctioneer Dave Greenwood, back, gets out of the way as the wicked stepsisters — Oriah Pratt, left, and Mindy Smith, in the upcoming Montana Actors' Theatre and Havre High School's production of "Cinderella" — fight with each other during MAT's Death by Chocolate event Saturday evening in the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building. "Cinderella" will be featured in the HHS auditorium Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19. The third time was a charm — again — for the local acting troupe,...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson, file photo Montana State University-Northern agriculture technology professor Tom Welch, left, talks with Torgerson's LLC corporate sales manager and MSU-N alum Jed Bengston Sept. 29 near the Applied Technology Center about a new Case Patriot 4420 sprayer that Torgerson's temporarily donated to MSU-N for students to learn about the newest automotive and agriculture technology. A Hi-Line business was cited by U. S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., as a prime job creator, with the lawmaker applauding...
Dorean Emma Lackner, 83, died Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, at the Big Sandy Nursing Home of natural causes. Cremation has taken place and her burial will be in the Missoula City Cemetery at a later date. Memorials in Dorean's honor may be made to a memorial of one's choice. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home....
Kathleen Olszeski, 93, of Hogeland, a housewife, passed away Oct. 12, 2011, due to natural causes. Funeral services will be on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, at 10 a. m. at St. Thomas Big Flat Catholic Church. Burial immediately follow in the Wing Cemetery. Arrangements are made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
George 'Shane' Brodeur George "Shane" Brodeur, 53, of Havre, died Oct. 16, 2011, at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre from complications due to liver failure. Shane was born Nov. 19, 1957, in Havre, to George and Margie (Orr) Brodeur. He attended school in Havre, then began a lifetime of work in the construction industry as a heavy equipment operator in Montana and throughout the United States. He met Kathleen Ceynar, and they later married at the chapel in the Bear Paws. To this union where born Nicole and Leslie. They...
Dee Ann Taylor Dee Ann Taylor, 61, of Havre, died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 from cancer. She requested that no funeral be held, but for everyone to enjoy a "Dee Ann story" with friends. A private service for close family members will be held in Thermopolis, Wyo. She was a little blue-eyed blond who went wide-open with everything she did whether it was working or playing. She dearly loved her family, friends and animals. She loved to work on her flower gardens, yard work and remodel projects. She also loved snowmobiling,...
Ten years ago I sponsored Senate Bill 510 in the Montana Senate, a bill which encouraged the vast amount of money from Otter Creek coal development in southeastern Montana to help pay for our K-12 and higher education schools. Yet not a piece of state-owned Otter Creek coal has been mined, and billions of dollars that will benefit Montana schools sit in the ground. Montana union leaders have supported lawsuits for more education funding and pension bailouts, but they turn silent when environmentalists obstruct school revenue...
To meet the challenges of reducing budget deficits, paying off debt, and getting our citizens back to work, all responsible solutions should be considered. As our state works hard to boost economic recovery and prosperity, we would be wise to utilize all resources available to us. One such resource is national service. Corporation for National and Community Service programs — AmeriCorps and Volunteers in Service to America — help our communities address some of our most pressing challenges like teacher and nursing sho...
A new government investigation has uncovered a deadly bureaucratic turf war between Border Patrol and federal land managers that has been delaying and even denying critical access to the border along federal lands. In one case, Border Patrol had to pay millions of dollars for access to federal lands managed by the National Park Service. That's right. Border Patrol had to expend taxpayer dollars to compensate a federal agency in order to get access to federal land. That's not only bad fiscal policy — it's downright d...
A new government investigation has uncovered a deadly bureaucratic turf war between Border Patrol and federal land managers that has been delaying and even denying critical access to the border along federal lands. In one case, Border Patrol had to pay millions of dollars for access to federal lands managed by the National Park Service. That's right. Border Patrol had to expend taxpayer dollars to compensate a federal agency in order to get access to federal land. That's not only bad fiscal policy — it's downright d...
OMAHA, Neb. — A meeting of Missouri River governors Monday revealed significant disagreement between Montana and states further downstream over flood control, even as federal officials warned the group that damage from this year's high water may make their states even more vulnerable next year. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer fought against a developing notion that flood control for states further down the river should dominate how reservoirs are managed upstream. He told governors of the downstream states that such a plan w...
HELENA (AP) — Remembrances of Elouise Cobell are coming in from across the nation as news spread of the Native American leader's death. Cobell, who had cancer, died Sunday in Great Falls. She was 65. The Blackfeet woman from Browning was best known for leading a long legal fight over misspent Native American land royalties that resulted in a $3.4 billion settlement with the U.S. government. President Barack Obama says Cobell helped hundreds of thousands of Native Americans and strengthened the government's relationship w...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mother of a missing Kansas City baby said Monday that she was drunk when her daughter disappeared, may have blacked out and actually last saw the child hours before the time she originally told police she checked on her. The revelations came hours before a New York attorney best known for defending Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, said he had been hired to represent parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin. AP Photo/Family Photo v...
RENO, Nev. — As thousands watched in horror, a World War II-era fighter plane competing in a Nevada event described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled and did a nose-dive toward the crowded grandstand. The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, then slammed into the tarmac in front of VIP box seats and blew to pieces in front the pilot's family and a tight-knit group of friends who attend the annual event in Reno. AP Photo/Ward Howes A P-51 Mustang airplane crashes into the edge o...
WASHINGTON — Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died at a Washington-area health club, her brother said Saturday. She was 51. Patrick Kennedy, a former congressman from Rhode Island, said his sister died Friday. AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File In this Dec. 1, 1982 photo, the children of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., from left, Patrick, Edward M. Jr., and Kara, listen to their father speak during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Kara, the oldest child of the late Sen. Kennedy, died F...
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — A grizzly bear wounded by a hunter later attacked and killed the hunter's partner Friday after the two men tracked the animal in a remote area along the Idaho-Montana boarder, authorities said. Steve Stevenson, 39, and Ty Bell, 21, members of a hunting party from Winnemucca, Nev., were going after black bears when the attacked occurred about 10 a.m. PDT in a mountainous, heavily forested region in Lincoln County, Mont., near the Canadian border. AP Photo/The Bonner Daily Bee, Julie Golder Boundary C...
RENO, Nev. — Reno police say a total of nine people have died in a crash of a World War II-era plane at an air race. AP Photo/Ward Howes A P-51 Mustang airplane is shown right before crashing at the Reno Air show on Friday in Reno, Nev. A World War II-era fighter plane flown by a veteran Hollywood stunt pilot plunged Friday into the edge of the grandstands during a popular air race, killing three people, injuring more than 50 spectators and creating a horrific scene strewn with smoking debris. The deaths include seven who w...
Did you watch the Festival Days Parade on Saturday morning? The Havre Daily News' Caleb Hutchins was on one of the floats and snapped pictures of people along the parade route. Check out our photo-map at www.hiline.us to see if you can find yourself and see how others were enjoying the parade. Another successful Havre Festival Days Parade brought hundreds of people to sit, stand and jump up and down along the parade's route, up 5th Avenue from Havre High School and into downtown Havre. Havre Daily News/Caleb Hutchins Crowds...
Northern's Kyle Johnston makes a diving touchdown catch in Saturday's Frontier Conference game between the Lights and Eastern Oregon at Blue Pony Stadium. It wasn't the homecoming the 23rd-ranked Montana State University-Northern Lights were hoping for. Saturday afternoon at Blue Pony Stadium, the 12th-ranked Eastern Oregon Mountaineers steamrolled to a 48-29 Frontier Conference win over Northern. And with the win, the Mounties (3-0) are now in sole possession of first place...
Steve and Wanda McIntosh were named the recipients of the Ag Leader Award and Mike Tileman was honored as the Outstanding Ag Advocate Recipients at the Havre Chamber Agri-Busienss Committee dinner Saturday night. The Havre Ice Dome was packed for the dinner, which salutes area farmers, ranchers and those who work in behalf for the agriculture community. Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's Agri-Business Committee Chair Joe Von Stein says a few words about Mike Tilleman, the 2011 Ag Advocate Award...
