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Staff and wire report A Box Elder High School student was the featured speaker this week at the kickoff of an event to promote drug prevention. Box Elder student Juliet MacDonald spoke in Helena at the launch of The Montana Meth Project's Paint the State 2023, a statewide public art contest that engages Montana teens and adults in on-the-ground drug prevention. The contest invites Montana residents 13 years of age and older to create monument-sized original public works of...
Editor’s note: This version corrects that Marci Bergren, Val Clikeman and Heather Winter are employees at North Central Senior Citizens Center. Hill County Council on Aging has a new director in Bill Lanier, who took the position late last year, and he said he has some possible improvements he'd like to make in its services. Lanier, originally from Great Falls, has lived on the Hi-Line for decades, working for Montana State University-Northern and Blaine County in various role...
Havre Police Department Lincoln Gregory Yarama of Havre, 21, was issued a summons Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. on a criminal contempt charge related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation and was arrested on the charge at 9:34 a.m. -- A written or verbal warning about an aggressive dog on Washington Avenue was issued Tuesday at 8:49 a.m. -- A caller reported Tuesday at 9:05 a.m. that a vehicle had slid into a tree on Third Avenue. -- Alpheus Edwin The Boy III of Rocky Boy, 35, was arres...
Byron Ophus A good crowd braved the cold temperatures Saturday. They enjoyed the best snow conditions of the year on this fourth weekend of the season. More than a foot of new powder had fallen since the prior weekend. It wasn’t champagne powder that floats up in a cloud with each passing skier. Rather, the snow had more substance, and was very skiable. As the day went on, the snow became a wonderful, packed powder that added to the bullet-proof base of 14 to 24 inches. Temperatures hovered in the single digits below zero. Th...
Press release Black History Month and Valentine's Day are guiding the February free public programs for the Montana Historical Society in a couple of unusual ways. Feb. 9, people can join Kate Hampton, the director of the MTHS's Montana African American Heritage Resources Project, for a discussion on the history of several Montana laws that affected how Black residents were able to participate in society. Since the establishment of Montana Territory in 1864 through the...
On Tuesday night at Armory Gymnasium, it looked like the Havre High boys basketball team had the undefeated Lewistown Golden Eagles on the ropes. The Blue Ponies got off to a strong start as they had a 35-28 lead late in the first half. However, the Eagles showed why they were undefeated this season as they came back in the third quarter to take a 51-45 lead. Then in the fourth quarter, they pulled away to defeat the Ponies 70-50. While the Ponies could not win the game, HHS...
The Havre High girls basketball team has been dominant in the Northeast A this season and Tuesday night's game against the Lewistown Golden Eagles was no different. At Armory Gymnasium on the Montana State University-Northern campus, the Blue Ponies took care of business with a 48-30 win over Lewistown. "I thought defensively we played really well. We forced them to use their off hand and made them a little bit uncomfortable," HHS head coach Dustin Kraske said. "I'm pleased...
Sports are often a family affair, and for Harlem wrestler Kaitlyn Johnson, that is no different. Following in the footsteps of her father and brother, Johnson had big shoes to fill. But with their guidance, she learned to push through the adversity early in her career and become a successful wrestler for the Wildcats. "They taught me to stick with it," Johnson said. "(They said) junior year it'll start clicking. And this year, I realized what they were saying was true."...
Brenden Fetter There were plenty of high scorers in Hi-Line basketball last week, but none more than Chinook's Brenden Fetter, who poured in a season-high 39 points in the Sugarbeeter's thrilling 79-77 win over Hays-Lodge Pole last Saturday night. Fetter also had eight rebounds against the Thunderbirds, while he had previously scored 10 points and grabbed 10 rebounds against CJI. Sydney Hawks Chester-Joplin-Inverness' Sydney Hawks went off in CJI's win over Sunburst last...
Prep Basketball Standings BOYS Northeast A Conf. All Lewistown 4-0 10-0 Miles City 4-1 10-3 Havre 4-2 9-4 Glendive 1-5 4-9 Sidney 0-5 1-11 Southeast A Conf. All Billings Central 4-1 8-4 Lockwood 3-1 6-4 Hardin 2-3 2-9 Livingston 0-5 1-10 District 1B Conf. All Fairfield 7-0 12-1 Shelby 5-3 7-7 Rocky Boy 4-3 9-4 Cut Bank 4-4 9-5 Conrad 2-6 2-12 Chateau 0-6 3-10 District 2B Conf. All Wolf Point 7-0 13-0 Malta 5-2 9-5 Poplar 2-4 7-6 Glasgow 1-5 5-9 Harlem 1-5 1-12 District 9C...
Press release WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its pilot Cattle Contracts Library tuesday at 10 a.m. on the Agricultural Marketing Service Cattle Contract Library webpage. The webpage is at https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/livestock-poultry-grain/cattle-contracts-library . “USDA is committed to creating a more level playing field for cattle producers and a more balanced, equitable economy for everyone working in food and agriculture,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. “The Cattle Contrac...
