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Correction: The print version of this story incorrectly states the only grocery store in town of Climax, Saskatchewan, in Canada, is closed. This is incorrect; King Arthur’s Fine Foods is still operational. The small town of Turner, situated north of Harlem near the Canadian border, found itself without a grocery store for almost a year until community residents came together to form a cooperative. The co-op, Big Flat Market Cooperative, was organized by a planning c...
BUTTE (AP) — A crackdown involving a 1977 law prohibiting the selling of mice and rats has taken a bite out of the bottom line of a Butte pet shop that sells rodents as snacks for snakes. Fish Bowl pet store owner Mark Dawson said he's sold rodents for 17 years and they account for about a third of his sales. He tells the Montana Standard (http://bit.ly/LBX1va) in a story on Sunday that he's not selling snakes now either because he's no longer allowed to sell their best meals. "My shop has gone dead," said Dawson, a Butte n...
The first meeting between the Havre Blue Ponies and the Rocky Boy Stars in boys basketball in more than two decades went to Rocky Boy. The Class B Stars defeated the Class A Ponies 66-50 Saturday night at the HHS gymnasium. In the girls game, the Ponies overwhelmed the Morning Stars, 69-44. Brandy Lambourne scored 20 points, leading the HHS girls to their fourth straight win. In the boys game, Dane Warp poured in 28 points for Havre, while Cecil Lafromboise scored 21 for the S...
Both the Montana State University-Northern men and women's basketball teams found life on the road very difficult Saturday night at the Carroll P.E. Center in Helena. The No. 15 Skylights dropped just their second Frontier Conference game of the season, falling to the Fighting Saints 66-60. The MSU-N men also struggled mightily in a 56-47 loss to the Saints. The Northern women, which dropped to 5-2 in the Frontier and 15-4 overall, got a game-high 21 points and nine rebounds from A'Jha Edwards, but it wasn't enough. The...
HELENA, Mont — A former Montana judge who was investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his federal email account, according to the findings of a judicial review panel released Friday. Former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sent emails to personal and professional contacts that showed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religious faiths, liberal political leaders, and some emails contained inappropriate jokes about s...
The Havre High boys basketball team picked its best time to play its best game. Friday night at the Havre High gymnasium, the Blue Ponies raced out to a 46-18 halftime lead, and never looked back in a 76-50 Central A win over the Browning Indians. Dane Warp poured in a game-high 30 points for the Ponies, but Kade Rismon was right behind him with 27 points and 16 rebounds. Havre stays at home to host Rocky Boy Saturday night. Meanwhile, the HHS girls remained unbeaten in Central A play Friday night. Behind 19 points from Brand...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team was on the ropes Friday night in Butte. But the Lights had some magic up their sleeve. It took two overtimes, but Northern defeated the host Orediggers 83-82. Trailing 82-81 with :04 left in the second overtime, MSU-N senior Roshawn West nailed a game-winning shot for the Lights. Tech was left with just :01 after West's shot and the Lights (4-2, 16-4) escaped Butte with a much-needed win. Meanwhile, the 15th-ranked Skylights were in command against the Diggers' the...
HELENA (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock is reasserting his opposition to stringent federal driver's license rules, saying Montana already has increased the security of its licenses and identification cards. The Democratic governor said in a letter Friday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson that the Legislature voted unanimously against implementing the REAL ID Act. Bullock says he has full confidence in the security measures the state has taken outside the 2005 anti-terrorism law. Bullock is responding to a D...
A Rocky Boy man has offered to plead guilty to a lesser charge stemming from the death of a child on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. Thursday, a change of plea hearing for Garrett “Kirby” Lafromboise was scheduled for Tuesday before Magistrate Judge Keith Strong in federal District Court in Great Falls. Second-degree murder charges remain against Lafromboise’s co-defendant, Cecilia Rose Gardipee. Federal District Judge Brian Morris, who is presiding over the case, vacated the Feb. 11 trial scheduled for Lafromboise and Gar...
BILLINGS (AP) — An FBI spokesman says the agency is considering permanent agents in the Bakken oil patch of Montana and North Dakota as the drilling boom drives crime rates higher. That's sparked a dispute between the states' U.S. senators over where the agents should be located. Crime on both sides of the border has spiked as thousands of new workers arrive with drug traffickers following in their wake. Since July, two agents and an intelligence specialist have been stationed in Sidney, Mont. North Dakota Sens. Heidi H...
Home duals have been few and far between for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. In fact, the MSU-N grapplers haven’t wrestled on their home mat since late November. Now however, the No. 2 Lights have three home duals in the final month of the regular season, and the first one will take place Saturday night when the Lights come home to face Western Wyoming. The action starts at 7 p.m. in the Armory Gymnasium. MSU-N and head coach Tyson Thivierge are certainly in d...
Laurel — Laramie Pursley has been crowned Miss Rodeo Montana. Pursley, a Chinook resident and Montana State University-Northern student, will embark on an exciting year of visiting rodeos throughout the state and some outside Montana. Rodeo is an important part of life in rural Montana, and we are glad that Pursley, who has ties to both Hill and Blaine counties, will represent the Hi-Line throughout the state. Laurel — 130,000 Montanans have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare. That is on...
On Jan. 9, Montana State University Northern Agricultural Research Center's cow herd made the annual trek from the Research Center's pasture in the Bear Paw Mountains to Fort Assinniboine. The herd of about 300 bred cows and heifers travelled the 16-mile route from the Thackeray Research Ranch south of Havre on Bullhook Road, through a portion of Beaver Creek Park, across Beaver Creek Dam and north down Assinniboine Road to pasture at the Research Center. The cows and heifers...
We can all rest easy, now. The latest reports from the those in the know, say that 2014 will most likely be a better year for the porn industry. Oh, yeah, NBCNews.com had a whole write up on it Tuesday in its business section, so it’s legit. Very legit, according to one source who said that porn is a $97 billion industry globally and $10 to $12 billion of that is generated in the U.S. alone. Who knew? It seems like a wildly outrageous number, but I’m inclined to believe it...
Gary A. Wilson Havre-Hill County Preservation Commission (This is the fifth and last in a series of stories on the history of Montana State University-Northern.) New Northern Montana College President Lou Brockmann continued the building expansion that G.H. Vande Bogart had started over the first 22 years, through the Depression and the war years. Under Brockmann, Cowan Hall was finished in 1953, and the building expansion continued all the way through the construction of the...
The Havre Promoter's Jan. 16, 1914, issue is where the following entries were found for this second installment of the series celebrating the year 1914. Among the stories in this issue were that "Gilhooly's Troubles Was a Good Show", the Jennie Russell Co. was coming for five nights at The Orpheum Theatre, a free band concert was going to be held at the McIntyre Opera House, two marriages and two deaths. Two criminal cases were also reported. A lengthy article regarding the...
A sewer problem led to the closing of the Havre library Thursday, but it mostly re-opened today with plans being made to replace damaged carpet. Library director Rachel Rawn said this morning that sewage backed up into the basement of the library, creating a health hazard and closing the institution shortly after noon Thursday. Overcast Restoration removed the sections of damaged carpets, and Brandon’s Drapery and Floor Covering already has taken measurements to provide a replacement estimate, which will be covered under the...
Havre Police Department Officers responded to a 9:08 a.m. Thursday call from 5th Street about dogs that appear to have been poisoned. ——— Officers responded to a 12:44 p.m. Thursday call from 1st Street Northeast about the calling party wanting to speak to an officer about a man that is entering women’s apartments in the middle of the night. ——— Officers responded to a 12:56 p.m. Thursday call from east of Bergrens Transmission about the south side of a warehouse that was run into. ——— A report of vandalism was inves...
The Hill County undersheriff said this morning that a search still is underway for a man accused of leaving the state the day after a trial was set for charges accusing him of receiving marijuana to sell in Havre. Undersheriff Jamieson Ross said California law enforcement officers sought Joe C. Simpson II, a former standout Montana State University-Northern athlete and a Northern admissions specialist at the time he was charged, at his last known address in Pittsburg, Calif., but were unable to locate him. The Hill County...
Momentum is a big thing this time of year. And even with a loss to Westminster College last Saturday night, the Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team has plenty of momentum right now. The Skylights are 4-1 in the Frontier and 14-3 overall. They’ve won five of their last six games and have risen to No. 15 in the latest NAIA Coaches Poll. Northern possesses the top-ranked defense in the NAIA, allowing just 49 points per game, and the Skylights are sho...
The Montana State University-Northern men’s basketball team picked up a huge Frontier Conference home win last Thursday night when the Lights beat the UM-Western Bulldogs. Unfortunately, the Lights suffered a setback just two nights later. Now Northern (3-2, 15-4) will look to rebound from a bitter home loss to the Westminster Griffins, but rebounding won’t be easy. MSU-N visits high-scoring Montana Tech tonight in Butte, then travels to arch rival Carroll College Sat...
Prep Wrestling Polls Class A Teams -- Havre, Sidney, Columbia Falls, Corvallis, Belgrade, Frenchtown, Hardin, Hamilton, Dillon, Polson 98 -- Sawyer Degan, Belgrade; Travis Kinn, Glendive; Caleb Bagnell, Frenchtown; Manny Guzman, Columbia Falls; Tim Anderson, Dillon; Eric Lafontaine, Hardin. 106 -- Keegan Kennelly, Havre; Cody Warner, Frenchtown; Kohlten Starkel, Dillon; Philip Vasko, Sidney; Carson Meyer, Anaconda; Winfield West, Columbia Falls. 113 -- Clay Stillwagon, Butte Central; Trace Jones, Sidney; Logan Pleninger,...
Friday High School Basketball Havre boys vs Browning, 7 p.m. Havre girls at Browning, 7 p.m. Rocky Boy girls vs Conrad, 7 p.m. Rocky Boy boys at Conrad, 7 p.m. Big Sandy girls vs R-Winifred, 6 p.m. Big Sandy boys vs R-Winifred, 7:30 Chinook girls vs North Star, 6 p.m. Chinook boys vs North Star, 7:30 C/J-I girls at Heart Butte, 6 p.m. C/J-I boys at Heart Butte, 7:30 Halrem girls at Wolf Point, 6 p.m. Harlem boys at Wolf Points, 7:30 Box Elder girls at Sunburst, 6 p.m. Box Elder boys at Sunburst, 7:30 High School Wrestling Hav...
The good news for the Havre High boys basketball team is that the Blue Ponies get to play their next two games at home. The not so good news for the Ponies is that the next two games will also be a challenge. Riding a two-game winning streak, the Central A Ponies (2-1, 4-4) will need to continue to play well over the next two nights. Last weekend, the offense was the most balanced it has been all season. That trend may pay dividends as the Ponies face the conference rival...
The tough games keep coming for the Havre High girls basketball team, but so should the wins. Last weekend, the Central A Blue Ponies seemed to hit full stride with wins over Conrad and Lewistown. Now headed into another regular season weekend, the Ponies (3-0,5-3) will face two more talented programs. Conference games on the road make a tough matchup even tougher in the Central A. But the Ponies will look to continue their dominance over conference opponents tonight in Browni...
