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Most people took a break over the Thanksgiving week, but not the Hays-Lodge Pole School's Board of Trustees. Tuesday evening, the remaining board members — George Horse Capture Jr., Wes Main and Brenda Essert — held an emergency meeting in the Hays-Lodge Pole High School parking lot to fill board leadership vacancies. Horse Capture was chosen as the acting chair. An acting vice chair was not appointed without a second to any nominating motions. The board also heard back from the air quality testers who were checking the bui...
The director of the regional economic development organization based in Havre said this morning that he doesn't expect to be packing to move to Helena, despite reports he is being considered for a position in the next governor's cabinet — for which being listed he considers an honor. "I don't see myself going anywhere, " Paul Tuss said. "I don't see myself leaving Bear Paw Development. " Lee Newspapers published an article Sunday listing names it says are being considered, including Tuss as director of the state Department o...
Gunfire was exchanged in Box Elder Monday afternoon, ending with an arrest, pending charges, and a continuing investigation. According to a press release from the Hill County Sheriff's Office this morning, a call came in at 2:57 p. m. Monday reporting "two males were exchanging gunfire outside a Box Elder business. " Sheriff's deputies worked with Chippewa Cree Tribal Police and the Montana Highway Patrol to secure the area. Box Elder school "was locked down until the situation was resolved. " No one was injured. After...
BILLINGS — State schools superintendent runner-up Sandy Welch is likely to wait until next week to request a recount in a race she narrowly lost but has pledged to challenge, her campaign manager said Tuesday. The Republican education consultant from Martin City trailed incumbent Denise Juneau by 2,231 votes in results certified Tuesday by state elections officials. State elections officials say she has until Monday to request a recount. Welch plans to use that time to line up observers to oversee ballot counting in each o...
BILLINGS — State schools superintendent runner-up Sandy Welch is likely to wait until next week to request a recount in a race she narrowly lost but has pledged to challenge, her campaign manager said Tuesday. The Republican education consultant from Martin City trailed incumbent Denise Juneau by 2,231 votes in results certified Tuesday by state elections officials. State elections officials say she has until Monday to request a recount. Welch plans to use that time to line up observers to oversee ballot counting in each o...
BEIJING (AP) — The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" — not realizing it is satire. The People's Daily on Tuesday ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012." AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife Ri...
Five Hi-Line football players earned Class C Six-Man Northern C honors for the 2012 football season, with four of them coming from the Big Sandy Pioneers. The Pioneers, which finished runner-up to Hot Springs in the Six-Man state championship game two weeks ago, saw seniors Trevor Lackner, Kaden Beck, Jessey Bailey and Lane Martin all honored. Lackner and Beck made the list for the third straight season, while Bailey and Martin are also repeat performers. The North Star...
There was plenty of excitement during the 2012 Frontier Conference football season, and plenty of great individual performances to boot. And that's why voting for this year's All-Conference Team was likely pretty fierce. The Frontier released its posts Montana State University-Northern junior wide receiver Brandon O'Brien was named First-Team All-Conference after an outstanding season for the Lights. eason honors late last week, with Southern Oregon and Montana Tech players...
Montana State University-Northern wrestler Ethan Hinebauch, top, is ranked No. 1 in the NAIA at 165 pounds. A pair of former Havre High state champion wrestlers now sit atop the NAIA ranks, while the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team is moving up itself. The Lights are ranked No. 7 in the first NAIA regular season coaches poll. MSU-N moved up from No. 10 in the preseason poll. Northern is right behind arch rival UGF, which sits at No. 6. Grand View of Iowa is ra...
WASHINGTON — Three Republican senators who met Tuesday with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice say they are more troubled now over her initial explanations about the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, center, arrives for a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who could find her name in contention as early as this week to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. Rice met behind closed doors Tuesday with Sens...
E.B. Pearson On Election Day, Montana voters strongly endorsed I-166, the Prohibition on Corporate Contributions and Expenditures in Montana Elections Act, giving the citizen initiative a vote of 75 percent. Montanans of all stripes — independents, Libertarians, Republicans and Democrats — want fair elections, free of the corrupting influence of big money and campaign money from corporations. Unfortunately, the 2012 election was marked by unprecedented amounts of big money and secret money. Montanans, and our country, nee...
C,B. PEARSON On Election Day, Montana voters strongly endorsed I-166, the Prohibition on Corporate Contributions and Expenditures in Montana Elections Act, giving the citizen initiative a vote of 75 percent. Montanans of all stripes — independents, Libertarians, Republicans and Democrats — want fair elections, free of the corrupting influence of big money and campaign money from corporations. Unfortunately, the 2012 election was marked by unprecedented amounts of big money and secret money. Montanans, and our country, nee...
Governor candidates meet in debate in Great Falls GREAT FALLS — All three candidates for governor met for the first time Friday in a debate that focused on agricultural issues but skirted the one topic that has come to dominate the race's final days — a disputed $500,000 donation to Republican Rick Hill. The debate held at the Montana Farmers Union's annual convention in Great Falls was the sixth meeting between Republican Rick Hill and Democrat Steve Bullock. But it's the first time Libertarian candidate Ron Vandevender has...
WASHINGTON — Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not. Those views could cost President Barack Obama votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some people's more favorable views of blacks. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Barack Obama speaks to s...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights had a chance to come all the way back from a 21-point deficit against nationally-ranked Montana Tech Saturday afternoon in Butte. But it wasn't to be. With under a minute left and the Lights down by eight points, Northern's Derek lear was intercepted in Tech territory, sealing a 21-13 win for the Orediggers. MSU-N trailed 21-3 in the first half, and 21-6 at halftime. From there, the Northern defense held Tech scoreless the entire second half, but Tech's defense was also up to the...
Chinook's Zach Molyneaux scores a touchdown during Saturday's Class C playoff game in Chinook. The Chinook Sugarbeeters survived a second-half charge from the Victor Pirates Saturday afternoon in Chinook. But the Beeters managed to hang on for a 36-24 win over the Pirates in the first round of the Class C playoffs. Chinook (9-1) advanced to the quarterfinals where the Beeters will face top-ranked Fairview in Fairview next Saturday. The Warriors ended Chinook's season in the Class C semifinals last year. Meanwhile, a dream...
For the second time in three years, the Laurel Locomotives proved to be too powerful for the Havre Blue Ponies in the Class A playoffs. On Saturday in Laurel, the Locomotives ran past the Ponies 48-13 in the first round of the 2012 playoffs. Havre got two touchdowns on connections between Dane Warp and Zach Plum, but the Laurel running game was solid all day long. The Locomotives (9-1) advanced to the quarterfinals next Saturday, while the Ponies end the year with a 4-6 overall record. For more details, see Monday's Havre...
MSU-Northern senior Hillary Isleifson serves during Saturday afternoon's Senior Day match at the Armory Gymnasium. It would be hard to find a team playing better volleyball than the Montana State University-Northern Skylights are right now. And in dominating fashion, the Skylights closed out their home schedule with a three-game sweep of Westminster College Saturday afternoon at the Armory Gymnasium. Northern beat the Griffins by scores of 25-14, 25-18 and 25-12 and the Skylights never trailed at any point in the match. MSU-N...
Montana's Democratic U. S. Sen. Jon Tester said Wednesday he is pleased the Senate approved debating one of his bill's on the floor in its last action before recessing before the Nov. 6 election, and commented on criticism of the bill and that the action was intended to highlight the senator in his closely watched race for re-election. The Senate voted 84-7 in the wee hours Saturday morning — which Tester pointed out was National Hunting and Fishing Day — to debate Tester's Sportsmen's Act before going into recess. See rel...
In a surprising twist in the race for Montana's superintendent of public instruction, the Republican candidate announced Wednesday night that a local Democratic senator is endorsing her over the Democratic incumbent. Sandy Welch, a consultant from Martin City, is challenging Superintendent Denise Juneau, the first Native American woman elected to state office. State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, who is unopposed in his bid for re-election, endorsed Welch, saying Juneau has created regulations that have added an...
The responsibility for the death of 18-year-old A. J. Longsoldier shifted again, with a Sept. 20 report placing more blame on Hill and Blaine counties' law enforcement. A Montana Human Rights Bureau commission decided that Hill and Blaine county law enforcement should have done more to prevent Longsoldier's death. This overturned a prior finding by the Department of Labor and Industry's Hearings Bureau, that said the law enforcement officers did the best they could with the information and training they had. The days prior...
When the Havre Blue Ponies step on the first tee at Old Works Golf Course this weekend in Anaconda, they'll see o Old Works Golf Course ne of the most unique golf courses not just in Montana, but in the world. And that's going to make for a special Class A state tournament indeed. Old Works, built on an old smelter site in Anaconda, is famous for its black "slag" bunkers, it's use of the existing mine and its equipment and its beautiful surrounding mountains and vistas. But...
The leaves are changing colors, the air is a bit cooler each day and the sun sets earlier and earlier. Those are all signs that pretty soon the golf clubs must be out away. But for six Havre High golfers, there's still 36 holes left in the season, and they are the biggest 36 holes of the year. The Blue Pony boys golf team, along wit Havre High freshman Jerod Boles strikes a ball during the 2012 Havre Invitational golf tournament at BCGC. The Blue Ponies compete at the Class A...
With another tough go last weekend, the Havre High volleyball team does not have any time to dwell on the two losses. The Central A Blue Ponies are ready to take the floor again this weekend, this time with two more matches against tough competition. Tonight the Ponies will host the Class AA CMR Rustlers are 5:30 p.m. at the Havre High gymnasium, and will then travel to Conrad to take on the Class C Cowgirls on Saturday. The Ponies are 3-5 overall, and would love to grab two more wins to move to .500 on the season. Playing...
A split on the road in Frontier Conference volleyball is always a good thing. And now that the Montana State University-Northern Skylights have that, they are looking to validate it on their home floor. Tonight at 7, the Skylights begin a two-match home stand by taking on Montana Tech in a pivotal Frontier showdown. On Friday night, Northern will battle first-place Lewis-Clark State at the Armory Gymnasium. The Skylights (4-1,10-9) return home from a split with UM-Western and...
