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HOUSTON — Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can fly to Florida this week to watch her astronaut husband rocket into space as commander of the space shuttle Endeavour, but she will return shortly after the launch to resume rehabilitation, her doctors in Houston confirmed Monday. The doctors at TIRR Memorial Hermann said Giffords is "medically able" to travel and that they view the trip to Cape Canaveral as part of her rehabilitation from a gunshot wound to the head. AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File This unda...
AP Photo/The Independent Record, Dylan Brown Gov. Brian Schweitzer announces that he and Sen. Jim Peterson, left, and Rep. Mike Milburn have agreed on a compromise on the main budget bill, HB 2, Friday in the Governor's conference room in Helena. AP Photo/The Independent Record, Dylan Brown Gov. Brian Schweitzer announces that he and Sen. Jim Peterson, left, and Rep. Mike Milburn have agreed on a compromise on the main budget bill, HB 2, Friday in the Governor's conference room in Helena. HELENA — Deadlines make deals come e...
Agnes Jochim Agnes Kathrine (Zeltinger) Jochim, 93, a former teacher and Inverness area farm wife, who enjoyed gardening, cooking, reading and crafting, died of natural causes on Good Friday, at the Liberty Medical Center in Chester. Vigil prayers will be 7 p. m. Tuesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Inverness. Her funeral Mass will be 11 a. m. Wednesday, at Sacred Heart. Following burial at the Inverness Cemetery, a reception will be held at the church. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester....
Delores Clara LaFrombois, 74, died Thursday, April 21, 2011, at her home in Rocky Boy. Her wake service will begin Friday afternoon at the family residence, House H Bunty Blvd., in Rocky Boy. Her funeral service will be 10 a. m. Saturday, April 23, 2011, at Rocky Boy Catholic Church. Burial will follow at the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Delores was born April 10, 1937, in Rocky Boy, Mont., to Charles I. and Beatrice (Pepin) LaFrombois. She was raised and...
The up-and-down chance of severe flooding in Blaine County continued over the weekend, with a flash flood warning issued Friday after a reservoir was breached, and flood advisories for the county continuing today. The National Weather Service this morning had flood advisories in place for the county through 10 a. m., reporting that streams continued to run high in their banks, including Lodge and Battle creeks. Those creeks were within their banks, but minor flooding was possible, the report said. Blaine County Commissioner...
A group working to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water in the Milk River every year will hold its April meeting in Havre Tuesday. The St. Mary Working Group monthly meeting will start at 10 a. m. in the Havre City Hall Conference Room in the lower level of Havre City Hall. The agenda for this month's meeting includes discusion of an engineering study for work planned on the diversion dam and the headworks of the St. Mary Diversion system, an update and review of agreement processes, and a presentation...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson While dressed in their Easter best, a couple of girls run to get dyed hard-boiled eggs at the annual Optimist Club Easter Egg Hunt Sunday afternoon at Optimist Park. Dyeing more than 3,000 eggs and scattering them across Optimist Park took Optimist Club members nearly two hours. It only took the children two minutes to gather them back together in their pastel Easter baskets. This Easter Sunday, with weather finally befitting of spring, nearly 200 kids gathered at Optimist Park to participate...
Havre Daily News/Zach White Jason Gutzmer, University of Montana adjunct instructor, helps build garden boxes on the Stone Child College campus on Rocky Boy Saturday afternoon. Agencies from across Montana worked this weekend to improve the quality of life for local diabetics. University of Montana researchers partnered with members of the Rocky Boy Health Board, Chippewa-Cree Diabetes Clinic and Stone Child College Friday and Saturday to build a community garden behind Stone Child College on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation....
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour isn't running for president in 2012. The Republican issued a statement Monday saying he "will not be a candidate for president next year." Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour speaks in Jackson, Miss. Thursday night Barbour says he won't be a presidential candidate for 2012. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File Barbour says it was a difficult, personal decision. But he said that it would have been an all-consuming effort to the exclusion of all else. He says he cannot offer "absolute f...
Radio Shack satellite TV promotion a blast HAMILTON, Mont.— A southwestern Montana Radio Shack is offering would-be satellite television customers a bit more bang for their buck. Customers who sign up for some Dish Network packages at Radio Shack in Hamilton will be rewarded with a pistol or shotgun. Pacifists can pick a $50 Pizza Hut gift card. "I think it really, really fits the Bitterroot Valley," store owner Steve Strand told the Ravalli Republic for a story published Friday. Strand said it took some haggling to get D...
Obama to address nation on Monday about Libya ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will give a speech to the nation Monday explaining his decision-making on the Libyan war. The timing comes as some lawmakers of both major parties have complained that Obama has not sought their input about the U.S. role in the war or explained with enough clarity about the U.S. goals and exit strategy. U.S.-led forces began launching missile strikes March 19 against embattled L...
All Hi-Line state lawmakers receive fully paid state insurance or a subsidy for their private insurance, according to documents released Friday. State Reps. Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, Kris Hansen, R-Havre, Tony Belcourt, D-Box Elder, and State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, all receive their health benefits under the state legislature plan. State Sen. Rowlie Hutton, R-Havre, receives a state subsidy for the insurance plan provided by his employer. The documents were released by the Montana Legislative Services Division...
Qatar becomes 1st Arab country to fly over Libya HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya — Fellow Arab and African nations raised the international pressure Friday on Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, with tiny Qatar flying the Arab world's first combat missions over his country and the African Union imploring him to move toward democratic elections. The military operation against Gadhafi, which on Friday included airstrikes by British and French jets, remains a U.S.-led operation, though NATO was preparing to a...
GOP plans abortion parental notification ballot measure The Associated Press HELENA — Abortion opponents are putting forward a proposed ballot measure that would require parental notification for abortions being considered by girls under the age of 18 who are not legally emancipated minors. The measure would allow lawmakers to put the question to voters in 2012, should the governor veto another measure advancing through the Republican-controlled Legislature that would simply make the change in law. Supporters say the n...
SEATTLE — Clarita Vargas was sent to an Indian boarding school some four decades ago to study her ABCs and learn to blend in with majority culture. She says she instead learned a nightmarish lesson — that children sometimes have no one to protect them from pedophiles. On Friday, the 51-year-old had her "day of reckoning and justice," when an order of Jesuit priests agreed to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives who were abused at its schools around the Pacific Northwest. Settlement one of...
A group promoting health and human service issues in the state is planning to hold a rally in Helena on April Fool's Day: a "No Fooling with our Future!" rally. Molly Moody, director of the Montana Organizing Project, was in Havre and on the Hi-Line this week collecting information and urging people to get on a sponsored bus in Havre next Friday morning to go to Helena and participate in the rally. "It does make a difference to have real people there, instead of just legislators and lobbyists," she said. Moody was in Havre...
Increasing efficiency in waste management is not the sexiest of concepts. So one local girl is giving recycling a makeover. Lauren Scofield, a junior at Havre High School, has spent months organizing Runway to Recycle, a fashion show of clothing made from recycled materials 2 p. m. Saturday at Holiday Village Mall. "I really wanted to promote a green initiative in the community, " Scofield said. "And to have a good time." Scofield and her mother Kim have been working since the beginning of the year with Recycle Hi-Line and...
For the second straight year, Montana State University-Northern's Samm Scheremele has received the NAIA's highest honor. On Tuesday night, the NAIA realeased it All-American Team for the 2010-11 season, and Schermele, a senior at Northern was named NAIA Honorable Mention All-American. The senior from Great Falls High also received the honor last season. Schermele just recently wrapped up one of the most prolific careers in Northern women's history. She led the Frontier Conference and was eighth in the NAIA in scoring this...
HIT Thursday Class A girls 97, Class AA girls 92 Class A – Quinn Peoples 42, Kacie Mckeon 15, Alex Brammer 13, Janae Moore 12 Class AA – Diondra Dent 26, Monica Grimsrud 23, Genna Banks 20, Sara Weir 18 Class AA Boys 107, Class A Boys 100 Class AA – Santino Williams 23, Matt Schmitz 18, Cesar Bonilla 16, Danny Robinson 15, Danny Little 11 Class A – David Swecker 23, Nick Emerson 14, Bobby Anderson 8, Anfernee Standing Rock 8 Class C Girls 102, Class B Girls 68 Class C – Peyton Ferris 25, Mariah Gondeiro 23, Bailey Snelling...
It may not look like it or feel like it outside, but spring has sprung, and that means a brand new Havre High boys and girls track and field season. A late and unwelcome winter storm may have put a damper on the new spring sports season, but the Blue Ponies are still hard at work. And while the track may still be somewhat of a soggy mess at ties, HHS participants and new head coach Trever VanCampen are eager to get a new season underway. VanCampen has been a part of the track and field team in the past as the sprinters...
U. S. Rep. Denny Rehberg was at Montana State University-Northen's biofuel research center Thursday, taking a tour of the facilities and talking about federal funding prospects with the center's staff members and the dean of the College of Technical Sciences. "Of course, money is our problem, " Rehberg said after a tour of the Bio-Energy Center at Northern. "I hope we will not always be in this place, in this position. We're in the position of spending more money than we're taking in." He told a group including Dean Greg...
For over a decade, the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams have been the epitome of consistent. The HHS boys have brought a trophy home from the Class A state tournament for 14 straight years, while the Pony girls have captured a trophy in seven of the last eight seasons, and have won two state championships in the last four years. But as is always the case in high school sports, the names change as kids come and go. However, HHS ninth-year head coach George Ferguson says the goals never change at Havre High as the Ponies...
There may not be a new sheriff in town, but the lawyers have got a new posse going. As a part of his tour of the Hi-Line over the past few days, Sen. Jon Tester stopped by Stone Child College, on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, Thursday, to see what had come out of a meeting of the tribal prosecutors from Montana's seven Indian reservations. This meeting was the first time that the Tribal Prosecutors Association, with members from Rocky Boy, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, Blackfeet, Flathead, Crow and Northern Cheyenne...
Montana's U. S. Rep. Denny Rehberg saw first-hand the work Havre's university is conducting in finding alternative energy sources when he toured the Bio-Energy Center at Montana State University-Northern Thursday. Greg Kegel, dean of Northern's College of Technical Sciences, said he has been told that nothing else covers all the areas of testing and research of fuels, lubricants and additives like Northern's center. "This is probably the most complete testing center in the United States, if not in the world," Kegel said. Kege...
Dennis E. Helmbrecht, 64, died peacefully March 24, 2011, at the Care and Comfort Home in Havre. His Vigil will be held on Sunday, March 27, at 7 p. m. at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home, with a funeral Mass at 11 a. m. on Monday, March 28., at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Havre. Due to the Lenten season, flowers should not be in the church. Memorials in Dennis' honor may be made to St. Jude Thaddeus School, 634 6th St., Havre. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Dennis was...
