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Editor: We serve on the President's Council of Intermountain, formerly Intermountain Children's Home. Intermountain works with children suffering from emotional trauma, mainly from abuse and neglect, and does a fantastic job serving children, families and professionals across the state through a wide range of services. We have observed first-hand the work of the passionate, dedicated staff of Intermountain and have seen the success of their program. We recently learned that Intermountain was granted a substantial award from t...
Few things are more important to a community than well-run and locally controlled schools. Virtually all school districts, along with teachers, parents, and community leaders, strive to provide the education and training our children deserve with less money than in times past. While local communities band together, however, State Superintendent Denise Juneau and the Office of Public Instruction have proven themselves to be unreliable partners. Sandy Welch Building a new school is no small decision. Responsible and engaged com...
Road wins are always hard to come by in prep boys basketball. And unfortunately for the Havre High boys basketball team, they played well, but still couldn't find the win column away from home. Thursday night in Great Falls, the Central A Blue Ponies took on the Class AA Great Falls High bison. But it was the Bison who grabbed the 56-46 win. The Bison also won the first meeting just a couple of weeks ago in Havre, 38-37. "I thought our kids played really hard tonight, they battled all game long," Havre High head coach Andy Sm...
The county has set a function for Friday to celebrate 22 years of public service as a county commissioner and to wish Commissioner Kathy Bessette well as she moves into retirement next year. Bessette was appointed in December 1990 to finish out the term of Commissioner Dan Morris, who died while in office, and has won every election since. Bessette decided to retire this year rather than run for re-election, saying, "It's time for new blood, new ideas. " The celebration will run from 2 to 4 p. m. in the Timmons Meeting Room...
Havre Daily News /File photo U.S. Army veteran Blaine County Commissioner Vic Miller salutes the casket of U.S. Air Force veteran Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette during Pyette's funeral in December 2011. Miller died from complications of diabetes Aug. 18 while campaigning for his third term as commissioner, the third public official to die in the county in just more than a year. It was an active year in politics on the Hi-Line, with the local state and national campaigns blanketing the newspapers, Internet and...
What better way to spend the last evening before the end of the world than with friends at the North Harlem Colony for their children's Christmas musical program. And a musical extravaganza it was, topped off with good food, hugs and fellowship. Had the world ended the next day, as feared, it would have been a good way to go, filled with love and joy. In the days prior to the projected end of the world, I heard stories about people preparing for the dastardly event, stories th...
On Monday, Hill County concludes its celebration of its 100th anniversary year. The year was set aside to look at the county's interesting past and to contemplate what will happen in its next 100 years. The first part was interesting and fun. The second part was more difficult. It's highly doubtful that Havre residents of 100 years ago could have predicted what would happen in the county's first century. Given the pace of change in technology, it is hard to figure out what Hill County will be like in six months, let alone in...
What better way to spend the last evening before the end of the world than with friends at the North Harlem Colony for their children's Christmas musical program. And a musical extravaganza it was, topped off with good food, hugs and fellowship. Had the world ended the next day, as feared, it would have been a good way to go, filled with love and joy. In the days prior to the projected end of the world, I heard stories about people preparing for the dastardly event, stories that baffled me. What part of "end of the world" did...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Thursday from a vacation shortened by government gridlock while Democrats and Republicans snarled across a partisan divide and showed no sign of compromise to avoid year-end tax increases and spending cuts. Adding to the woes confronting the middle class was a pending spike of $2-per-gallon or more in milk prices if lawmakers failed to pass farm legislation by year's end. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he steps off t...
HELENA (AP) — Gov.-elect Steve Bullock has named the state's current environmental quality chief as the next leader of the Department Public of Health and Human Services. Richard Opper has served in Gov. Brian Schweitzer's administration for eight years. He will now run the state's largest agency under Bullock. Bullock had previously named Tracy Stone-Manning to succeed Opper at the Department of Environmental Quality. Bullock on Thursday also picked Sheila Hogan of Helena to run the Department of Administration. She has b...
WASHINGTON — Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78. Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived in retirement, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. AP Photo/David L...
Parts of Havre were without power today after a vehicle ran into a power pole Thursday night. Northwestern Energy spokesman Butch Larkinc said it was his understanding was the vehicle was being pursued by police at the time of the crash. He was it wasn't certain how many people were without power. He said the company had received 17 calls. Most of the calls seemed to be on Old Post Road or adjacent streets. He said when a pole is sheered, it may take a while to get power restored. He said updates will be provided as soon as...
Lewis-Clark State and the University of Great Falls saw basketball standouts earn Frontier Conference Player of the week honors this past week. LC State's Jacob Champoux was named Frontier Men's Player of the Wee. Champoux is a 5-11 junior guard from Seattle, Wash. The Warriors stayed unbeaten with a thrilling, last-second 65-63 Frontier Conference victory over Montana Tech. Champoux scored 23 points. He was 9-of-13 from the field, made 3-of-6, 3-point field goals and 2-of-2...
The holiday break is over, and a break from tough competition for the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team is over too. The Skylights (7-4) will be on the road for two tough games this weekend, starting with a Friday afternoon affair against 14th-ranke Montana State University-Northern's Jordan Bruursema, left, fires up a shot during a Frontier Conference women's basketball game against Carroll College last month in Havre. The Skylights close out...
One thing is for certain this time of year — women's basketball in the Frontier Conference is very, very good. For years, the league has been one of the premier conferences in all of NAIA basketball, and the 2013 season will be no different. Some of the same story lines will become headlines this winter, including the Westminster Griffins, who are poised to keep their strong of Frontier titles alive. But there are also new stories to be told too, including the rise of the G...
Maureen Dolan, 78, passed away in Billings of natural causes. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p. m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at First Lutheran Church. A full obituary will follow. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements....
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Montana State University-Northern chancellor James Limbaugh talks Dec. 21 in his office about his plans for the university. New Year's Eve will not only mark the end of 2012, but also the end of Jim Limbaugh's first year as Montana State University-Northern's chancellor. In the year since Limbaugh made the trek north from Texas with his wife Trish, Northern has made some visible improvements, while the gears of more fundamental change have started turning beneath the surface. "I think it has bee...
Though it would probably be preferable to enjoy a smaller, longer-lasting and quieter fire, the city of Havre has approved the loud, explosive and celebratory variety for a few hours on New Year's Eve. When the Havre City Council created a new fireworks law last year, the main focus was on the Fourth of July and regulating the sale, possession and use of fireworks in the noisy days surrounding the nation's birthday. But a two-sentence provision allowed for a limited window of fiery festivities deep in the winter. "Fireworks m...
Through the past year I have learned to largely ignore a majority of the emails that have clogged my inbox. There's only so many ways I can read that Jon Tester cares about farmers and veterans and Montanans and Rehberg doesn't, and vice versa, before the gray TV static that we have lost to digital televisions resurrects itself in my mind. But I received an interesting email recently, in my junk box no less, about a website, the non-profit ProCon.org, and its debate over the merits of traditional textbooks over the new...
Lee Newspapers reported Sunday that Paul Tuss, the executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., is a leading contender for commerce commissioner in the Gov. Steve Bullock administration. The governor is compiling his team for when he takes office in January. For those of us on the Hi-Line, it's a win-win situation. If Tuss is appointed, Montana will get a high quality servant who has the talent and the dedication to move the state forward. If not, we get to keep his talents here on the Hi-Line. At Bear Paw, Tuss has...
Joseph "Joe" Folk, 80, of Havre, passed away in Missoula, Mont. on November 26, of natural causes. A full obituary will follow....
Vernon Larson, 87, of Havre, died in Branson. Mo., on Nov. 20, 2012. Services are pending....
BIG SANDY — Clara Ann Cooke, 91, a homemaker, passed away Thursday, Nov. 22, at Big Sandy Medical Center of natural causes. A celebration of life will be Thursday, Nov 29, at 2 p. m. at the Big Sandy Historical Museum. Benton Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Survivors include daughter, Carol A. Cooke of Bozeman; sons, Duane A. Cooke of Big Sandy and James B. Cooke of Kennewick, Wash. ; brothers, Clifford Ulmen of Rudyard and Penny Ulmen of Havre; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and one great-great g...
Joan M. Milam, 83, died Friday Nov. 23, 2012, at Edgewood Vista in Kalispell following an extended illness. She was surrounded by her loving family. Her memorial service will be at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Kalispell on Friday, Nov. 30, at 11 a. m. A private burial at Glacier Memorial Gardens will precede the service. Joan was born July 28, 1929, at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park, Mont., to Henry and Esther Peterson. She grew up in Bozeman, Mont., and graduated from Bozeman High School. She met Donald B. Milam, a...
A wide ranging bill Montana's junior senator says will help sportsmen and the federal budget stalled in the U. S. Senate Monday in what Democratic Sen. Jon Tester called a party-line vote. "Along with 90 million sportsmen and women, I'm disappointed that Republicans and Democrats couldn't work together today to pass this bipartisan bill, " Tester said in a statement Monday. "Protecting our outdoor traditions and strengthening our outdoor economy shouldn't be a partisan issue. This bill will create jobs and strengthen our smal...
