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Havre Daily News / Stacy Mantle Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods won Best Commercial Float. Three floats won top honors at the Havre Festival Days competition on Saturday. The winners this year are: Havre Daily News / Stacy Mantle The Bullock Blossoms Garden Club won the Mayor's Choice Award. Havre Daily News / Stacy Mantle Cub Scouts won Best Non-commercial Award...
Editor: One of the by-products of the debt ceiling debate (debacle) was the formation of a "Super Committee" to present proposals to Congress on how to deal with our deficit. I am not optimistic this committee will succeed. First, two other committees, Bowles/Simpson and the "Gang of Six" were formed to come up with similar recommendations. What happened with their recommendations? Nothing! Second, the six Republicans on this Super Committee have signed the Americans for Tax Reform's pledge not to raise taxes. This pledge...
Editor: On Thursday, you'll each have the opportunity to step in the voter's booth and choose one candidate for the Chippewa Cree Business Committee. You'll choose one person with one vote and one voice for the people, but mostly importantly one with the heart, mind and guts to speak for you, the voter. We've all hit a wall time and time again, trying to find fairness and equality within the current dictatorship. I'm not afraid to speak of these things because we all know it's true. It's so easy for some of their devotees to...
Editor: On March 5, 1923, Gov. Jospeh M. Dixon, a Republican, signed into law Montana's Old-Age Pension Act. That was 12 years before the national Social Security Act of 1935. This Montana law was the first state social security law in the nation to withstand constitutional challenge. Montana set the precedent for the nation. For Montana, and later for the nation, economic depression prompted action. Montana's drought of 1917 to 1921 dried up more than the land in eastern Montana. Farmers fled the state. By 1923 Montana was...
NEW YORK — The Situation doesn't usually require a lot of motivation to lose the shirt. But Abercrombie & Fitch wants him to go one further — the company has offered to pay "Jersey Shore" cast members to stop wearing clothes carrying their brand. The preppy teen retailer said Tuesday it would pay a "substantial payment" to Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino or any cast member who stops wearing its clothing on the popular MTV reality show because the series is "contrary to the aspirational nature of the brand." AP Pho...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is two days away from its season-opening tournament in Great Falls. And the Skylights used Tuesday night as one last chance to get in some live match experience before they start playing for real. The enthusiasm was high and there was an air of excitement as Northern conducted its annual Maroon/Gold Scrimmage Tuesday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The scrimmage was a three-game match with players switching teams thro...
The Fall season has just begun, but jumping out of the gate, the Havre High boys and girls golf teams are already set to compete. Thursday at 9:30 a.m. the Central A Blue Ponies will open their season. The Ponies will host Great Falls, Browning and Lewistown at the Prairie Farms Golf Course in Havre. "We are still looking pretty green this early," Second-year Blue Pony head coach Mckinsey Rodriquez said. "But I definitely think we will be able to compete with the teams we are facing. Great Falls will bring some challenging...
Havre High's Ramsey Drew watches a putt go during the Havre Invitational golf tournament last fall. The Blue Ponies are back this season with good numbers and several key returning players. Both the Havre High boys and girls golf programs have gone through a roller coaster of ups and downs over the last several seasons. But as a solid returning core and good group of newcomers hit the links this season, things are once again looking up. Thursday the Central A Blue Ponies will get their season started at 9:30 a.m. at Prairie...
HELENA — The state Department of Transportation's chief human resources officer has resigned just days after the agency's former director stepped down amid revelations that his daughter was given a DOT job. The department's new director tells Lee Newspapers of Montana (http://bit.ly/nEbjvA ) that Jennifer Jensen quit Monday afternoon. Jensen was the chief human resources officer when former director Jim Lynch's daughter, Emily Rask, was hired in 2008 to work in the department's human resources office. Lynch resigned T...
A representative of Havre Youth Baseball Association told the Hill County Fair Board Tuesday that the association hopes to move forward this fall with tearing down and rebuilding the fence at the beer garden it runs every year during the Great Northern Fair. "We'd like to do it this fall, " Kelly Compton of the association said. "Come spring, it's too crazy. That's when our season starts, and we'd like to get it done now. " Board member Andy Owens said the fair committee handling the beer garden met with the baseball...
A Hill County 4-H representative said the youth development program is happy with how things operate at the annual Great Northern Fair, but is willing to talk to the fair board to see if any changes should be made. "We're pretty much happy the way things are right now, " 4-H member Scott Chagnon said during the monthly Hill County Fair Board meeting, although he added that some changes could be made if desired. "There are all kinds of different ideas floating around, " he said. "We have to get together and see what you guys...
The final numbers are just being counted, but the manager of the Great Northern Fairgrounds said the 2011 fair in Hill County looks like it came just short of a record. "We're close to a thousand dollars less" than the record year, manager Tim Solomon said after the Hill County Fair Board monthly meeting Tuesday. Solomon said the dollars spent at the carnival look to be down for this year, but other activities almost made up the entire difference. He said he believes the high numbers are likely a result of concern about the...
The proposed $11.4 million city of Havre 2012 budget is about $500,000 lower than last year's, but some of the more significant cuts have made room for increases in other areas. Comparing the differences between the current preliminary budget and the preliminary budget from the same time last year — which City Clerk and Finance Director Lowell Swenson said was virtually unchanged from what was implemented — a few fairly large differences are obvious, particularly in the city's largest departments. Mayor Tim Solomon and Swenso...
Ivan D. 'Sie' Houser Ivan D. "Sie" Houser, 94, died Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, at Northern Montana Care Center, of natural causes. At his request cremation will take place and his memorial service will be held 3 p. m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011, at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church with Pastor Cleve McSwain officiating. Burial with military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorial contributions in Ivan's honor may be made to the Havre Senior Center, 2 W. 2nd St., Havre, MT 59501 or to Van Orsdel United Methodist Church....
Catherine Emelia Otto Chamberlain Catherine Emelia Otto Chamberlain, 71, died at home surrounded by family after battling cancer for more than 30 years. A public viewing will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 5 to 7 p. m., at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home in Havre, Mont. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, Aug. 18, at 11 a. m., at Big Sandy Cemetery with the Rev. Natalie Chamberlain officiating. A fellowship luncheon will follow at Saint Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Big Sandy. Memorial contributions in...
Deanna Lee Maney Deanna Lee Maney, 71, of Kent, Wash., a Havre native, died of natural causes on Sunday, Aug. 7, at University of Washington Medical Center. At her side were her loving daughter and son-in-law, Leanna and Scott Frazier. She was born July 4, 1940, in Havre, Mont., to William and Mary Sission. She was raised in Havre along with three sisters, Clo, Shirley and Judy. She, along with her loving husband of 44 years, Richard Maney, raised three great children, Leanna and Randy McLeslie and Sharla Maney. During their...
WASHINGTON — Seeking to jolt the economy, President Barack Obama will propose new ideas to create jobs and help the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech after Labor Day. And then he will try to seize political advantage by spending the fall pressuring Congress to act on his plan. Obama's plan is likely to contain a mix of tax cuts, jobs-boosting construction projects and steps to help the long-term unemployed, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The official emphasized that Obama's p...
LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT, Mont. (AP) — — On a hot, nearly windless day in early August, Edwin C. Bearss is looking across the Little Bighorn River as he describes an early scene in the battle that would come to be known as Custer's Last Stand. He is dressed in a ball cap, two T-shirts and a pair of stained khaki pants held up by an ancient leather belt. His hiking boots, by contrast, are sturdy and relatively new. He looks like a man who can't be bothered by superfluities. AP Photo/The Billings Gaz...
HELENA — A battle in the Montana Supreme Court over a century-old ban on corporate political spending could determine the fate of some third-party attack ads in the 2012 elections. A conservative group called Western Tradition Partnership — which does not file campaign finance reports — has riled Democrats and even some Republicans with its hard-hitting attack mailers. The ads generally slam Republicans in primaries that the group considers too moderate or liberal, and then take aim at Democrats in the general elect...
ORLANDO, Fla. — This is what freedom looks like for Casey Anthony: $537.68 from her jail account, no job, estranged parents, a criminal record, lawsuits pending against her and the scorn of multitudes who think she got away with murder. She quickly gave reporters the slip after walking out of jail Sunday, but whatever life she manages to build for herself will be lived under a media microscope and the shadow of countless threats. Experts who have helped other notorious defendants through rough times say she will have o...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson, file photo Susan Anderson, left, and Will Anderson, center, of Rudyard help a customer at their Anderson Orchards stand at the Saturday Market at Town Square in August. Havre's Saturday Market provides an opportunity for people to buy and sell foods that vendors grow, but what about the growth of the market itself? At the Hill County Health Consortium meeting on Thursday, the members talked about the possibility that the market either has outgrown, or could soon outgrow, its current location...
Courtesy photo The United Methodist Church of Kremlin, as it appeared in 1916. Past and present residents of Kremlin are gathering in town Saturday and Sunday to commemorate the people and history of the town and the 100-year anniversary of the Kremlin Lutheran Church and the United Methodist Church. The town will celebrate with a parade at 11:30 a. m. on Saturday followed by music in the park. Historical family storyboards and historical cars and machinery will be on display after the parade for people to meander through. Fe...
Florence Elizabeth (O'Connell) Murphree passed away peacefully on May 19, 2011, in Oak View, Calif., from complications of pulmonary obstructive disease after a lengthy illness. She was 83. Mrs. Murphree was born in Havre, Mont., on May 28, 1927, the second child of Morgan and Kathryn Anderson O'Connell. She graduated from St. Jude Thaddeus School and Havre High School in 1945 and spent one year each at Northern Montana and Montana State before marrying the late Harold Murphree in Havre in December 1947. The couple subsequent...
Debra "Debbie" Norine Keller Morley, 57, a homemaker and daycare provider from Sunburst, died June 15, 2011, at Benefis Peace Hospice in Great Falls, due to natural causes. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 18, 2011, at the Sunburst Lutheran Church, with a reception to follow at the Sunburst Lutheran Parish Hall. Debra Morley Whitted Funeral Chapel of Shelby is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family at P.O. Box 541 Sunburst, MT 59482. Contributions or memorials can be made to...
Here on the northern border of the heartland, it's hard to imagine having a U.S. congressman embroiled in a Weiner-esque social media scandal. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., who just announced his resignation, started the month claiming that he can't say "with certitude" whether or not a lewd below-the-belt photograph, viewed now by millions on the Internet, depicted his underwear-clad erector set. He did know for certain that he didn't tweet the picture to a 21-year-old female...
