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Montana State University-Northern senior Orin Johnson catches a pass during Lights' spring practice Monday afternoon at the MSU-N practice fields. The Lights have begun spring drills and will hold their first scrimmage this Friday. Members of the MSU-Northern offensive line work on blocking during Monday's practice at the MSU-Northern practice fields. The Lights have several key newcomers in spring camp. The Montana State University-Northern football team has begun spring practice and will hold its first scrimmage on Friday...
Irene M. Solum Irene M. Solum, 81, of Havre, passed away on Sunday, March 24, 2013, at her residence of natural causes. Cremation has taken place, and private family memorial services will be held at a later date. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Irene was born on March 28, 1932, in Rattlesnake, Mont., to Edward and Letha (Sparks) Cuerth. Irene helped her mother and father ranching and working in the family store. She attended Hays Mission School until high school, when her...
Robert Molina A new newsman arrived in Havre this week, with Robert Molina traveling across most of the country to take a job as a reporter for the Havre Daily News. "I'm excited to be here, and I hope to let Havre work it's magic on me," Molina, 28, said this morning, adding, "And I hope I can make it my home." He takes the place of Zach White, who left the Havre Daily to go to work as an editor for a technology news website in New York City. Havre Daily News Publisher Stacy Mantle said she is pleased that Molina has joined...
The Hi-Line is well known for its community spirit, and no one can top the residents of Chinook for their loyalty to their community. Chinook folks have shown their community spirit far beyond expectations in recent days. USA Today is conducting a nationwide survey to see which high school has the best mascot. For the last 80 years or so, Chinook High School has been the Sugarbeeters, and that name has raised interest and sometimes smirks from all parts of the nation, including late-night TV hosts. So school officials...
For a small north-central Montana town to receive a million votes in a national contest may be an impressive total, but with one day to go, it looks like that won't be enough to lift the Chinook Sugarbeeters to a national championship. This morning, the Sugarbeeters had received just less than a million votes in USA Today High School Sports' Best Mascot Contest, putting them in a distant third in the contest, with about 27 million votes cast. The Sugarbeeters trailed the Orphans of Centralia, Ill., which had almost 16...
The Chippewa Cree Business Committee Monday unanimously voted to remove its chair from his position, with the chair himself refusing to attend the Monday meeting and vowing to continue to fight the action. The tribal council voted to remove Ken Blatt St. Marks as the chair, saying in a press release it did so because of "neglect of duty and gross misconduct." "It is unfortunate the Business Committee had to take this action, but it was necessary and appropriate given the actions by the chairman and his refusal to answer the...
The Montana Legislature is cruising along at a nice pace, however I'm not convinced that Montana's business is being conducted in a prudent and responsible manner. On Wednesday, March 19, the House of Representatives passed HB 2, the appropriations bill totaling $4,546,622,698, out of the general assembly on second reading by a unanimous vote. That is unheard of in Montana history and even more surprising, they only deliberated for about 70 minutes. At issue, from my perspective, is that there is no way for some legislators...
HELENA— Tavern owners faced off against craft brewers at the Capitol Tuesday, arguing the upstart competition has been allowed to unfairly flourish with too few restrictions. Both sides packed a state House Business and Labor Committee hearing looking at two bills. One brought by the tavern owners, House Bill 616, would put new licensing requirements on the brewing industry. The tavern owners argue some breweries have grown into full-scale retail establishments not envisioned by the original law that allows tasting rooms. A...
HELENA (AP) — Two Montana parents are suing the state schools superintendent over the agency's refusal to provide tuition assistance for their daughter to attend a Christian preschool. Eric and Kelsi Wilson filed their lawsuit in U.S. District Court Thursday after an administrative hearing officer dismissed their complaint with the Office of Public Instruction. Agency officials have cited federal regulations and a Montana Constitution clause that say education funds can't be used for religious instruction or to aid c...
HELENA (AP) — Tavern owners faced off against craft brewers at the Capitol Tuesday, arguing the upstart competition has been allowed to unfairly flourish with too few restrictions. Both sides packed a state House Business and Labor Committee hearing looking at two bills. AP Photo/Matt Gouras Rep. Roger Hagan introduces his bill to place limitations on the expanding retail craft brewing industry on Tuesday in Helena. One brought by the tavern owners, House Bill 616, would put new licensing requirements on the brewing i...
Brandy Lambourne, Havre Girls Basketball Havre High junior Brandy Lambourne played a key role in the Blue Ponies' 2012 Central A divisional championship. Lambourne This weekend in Great Falls, she did it again. Lambourne and the Blue Ponies beat Livingston and Browning at the CMR Fieldhouse to repeat as Central A champions. Lambourne scored 15 points and racked up 10 assists in the title game win over Browning, while adding 11 Friday night against the Rangers as the Ponies advanced to the state tournament. Lambourne is also a...
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team is headed to the NAIA national tournament this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa. And the Lights will go into the big dance as one of the favorites. Northern is ranked No. 4 in the final NAIA Coaches Poll, with only Grand View, Southern Oregon and Dickinson State ranked higher. The Great Falls Argos are ranked seventh in the final poll. Individually, the Lights are taking nine grapplers to Iowa this weekend, with eight of them...
The Frontier Conference playoff format is new this season, with only six teams qualifying for the postseason. And that makes what the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team did over the course of the regular season so remarkable. Not only did the Skylights battle their way to an 8-8 record in league play, including winning four tough road games, but they secured a fourth-place finish, and not just a playoff berth, but a home game in the first round as well....
After all the Big Sandy Pioneers have gone through this postseason, there is something fitting and almost fulfilling about the 9C Pioneers making it to the 2013 Class C state basketball tournament. It is safe to say that this isn't the Pioneers most dominating team in the last decade. But they know how to survive when their backs are up against the wall, and they are seemingly impossible to get rid of. Photo by Larry Beckner/Great Falls Tribune Big Sandy's Trevor Lackner tries to keep the ball away from Highwood's Darren...
With the 2013 Legislature about to hit halfway and a major deadline hitting at the same time, two local groups are offering residents a chance to hear from, and question, their legislators. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and Bear Paw Development Corp. are sponsoring a mid-session meeting with local lawmakers Thursday evening, the same day as the transmittal deadline for the Legislature. Debbie Vandeberg, executive director of the Havre Chamber, invited anyone interested to attend. "We're lucky in Montana to have easy acce...
Staff members of a program designed to help people earn their General Education Development diploma — the GED high school equivalency diploma — are gearing up to help enrollees finish before the program changes the first of next year and they have to start over. Andi Daniel, director of employment and training at District 4 Human Resources Development Council, said people who have started to get their high school equivalency degree through the GED program will have to start over if they have not completed the program by Dec...
Throughout my tenure as state executive director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Montana Farm Service Agency, I have met a number of small and beginning farmers and ranchers, military veterans and Montana agricultural producers interested in making a living in production agriculture. For many, the high cost of purchasing land and equipment can be prohibitive, compelling newcomers and those struggling against odds to take risks to finance their dreams by relying on credit cards and personal loans with high interest...
The Legislature is nearing the halfway point of the 90-day session. Some really big bills are being debated now. The biggest news is that the tax cuts have started. Two tax reform bills had hearings this week. One of them reduces the business equipment tax. You may have heard of this tax, especially if you're a businessperson. When any Montana business buys equipment to help them with their business — like a combine for a farm, or a backhoe or a motor grader for a contractor — the state taxes them. The problem with that is...
The Montana Legislature is reaching its halfway mark. While things started quietly, the action is slowly reaching a climax. Issues as diverse as abortion restrictions, business incentives, tax cuts, gay rights, school aid and much more remain to be decided. Lawmakers are being inundated with emails, form letters and telephone calls urging them to vote this way or that way. But all the lawmakers say that nothing is as effective as personal contact with lawmakers. They like talking face-to-face with their constituents. Here's...
The House Business and Labor Committee fired the Hire Montanans First Act without cause. The committee "no" voters on House Bill 490 claim that not enough Montana contractors came forward as proponents. I'll bet my paycheck the real reason was too much opposition from out of state interests that may have sweetened the naysayers' campaign coffers in the past. Not enough support. That's a lame excuse. Guess Montana's unemployed or underemployed raising a family on $8 an hour don't count in the eyes of lawmakers who tabled the...
I have been following the communications in the news media about charter schools for some time now and have developed some concern about an element of disinformation about their purpose, character and impact on a school district that might have to deal with the issue. Although not involved in education during my professional years, I do happen to read a very well-designed quarterly educational journal, "Education Next," at educationnext.org, as a matter of personal interest that is sponsored by the Hoover Institution at...
Boy Scout Troop 1438 would like to thank everyone who has supported our troop over the past several years and especially those who have supported our troop this past year. Troop 1438 is one of the longest continuously running Boy Scout Troops in Montana as it began Oct. 1, 1947. This past fall, Troop 1438's Eagle Scout Tyler Palmer was able to fulfill his Eagle Scout Project through the generosity of multiple businesses and many people in and around Havre. This project of renovating the exterior of the Feed My Sheep Soup...
BOZEMAN (AP) — Montana State University's athletic department is facing a budget crunch that has it raising ticket prices, asking for higher donations from boosters and asking the school for another $1.1 million to buy new equipment, hire trainers and stabilize the department's budget. Athletic Director Peter Fields said even though athletics is bringing in more money than ever, in part because of an expansion of the football stadium, other costs such as travel, medical insurance and scholarships have risen rapidly. In r...
HELENA (AP) — The Montana Senate has backed a measure that would repeal some of the powers of eminent domain granted by the 2011 Legislature. Senate Bill 180 would roll back the law that gave both public utility companies and other energy development companies the right to purchase private property for public use. The bill's sponsor, Republican Sen. Debby Barrett of Dillon, says the 2011 Legislature made a mistake in passing HB 198. She says more than 40 states have laws limiting the seizure of private property for e...
WASHINGTON — The Senate has voted to confirm Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary. The vote Tuesday was 58-41, with four Republicans joining Democrats in backing President Barack Obama's nominee. The vote ended a contentious fight over the president's choice for his second-term national security team. Republicans opposed the former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska, casting him as out of the mainstream and overly critical of Israel. But Democrats stood together for Hagel, a twice-wounded Vietnam c...
