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  • Saturday's Prep Basketball: Pony girls bounce back in a big way

    Updated Feb 8, 2015

    Saturday's Scores The Associated Press BOYS BASKETBALL Absarokee 48, Custer-Hysham 43 Arlee 69, Noxon 34 Big Timber 60, Jefferson (Boulder) 57 Billings Skyview 69, Butte 56 Billings West 61, Great Falls Russell 50 Box Elder 78, Big Sandy 22 Bozeman 70, Missoula Sentinel 43 Broadview-Lavina 61, Park City 47 Centerville 54, Roy-Winifred 37 Choteau 64, Rocky Boy 47 Columbia Falls 62, Polson 59 Columbus 61, Joliet 47 Dillon 61, Butte Central 57 Drummond 59, Alberton 8 Fairview...

  • Friday activities at Legislature

    Updated Feb 7, 2015

    Community News Service reporter Michael Wright takes a look at activities at the state Capitol on Friday. https://storify.com/MichaelJWright/today-feb-6-at-mtleg...

  • College seeking nursing program

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Feb 7, 2015

    Aaniiih Nakoda College at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is looking to kick-start its nursing program and seeks help from area residents. The plans for the program are in their first phase, in which the college needs to document the need and support for the program. “If this phase is completed the second phase would be to formulate a curriculum, hire faculty and determine clinical sites and admit students,” a press release from the college reads. The nursing program would follow Montana regulations and once the fou...

  • Friday's Prep Basketball: HHS girls so close at Fairfield

    George Ferguson|Updated Feb 7, 2015

    FAIRFIELD - The Havre High girls basketball team gave the Fairfield Eagles, and their 119-game winning streak their best shot on Friday night in Fairfield. But, it was the Eagles, who scored with 3.5 seconds left in the game who had the last best shot. Fairfield won its 120th consecutive game by beating the defending Class A champion Blue Ponies 49-47 in a great game. Havre, which saw its own eight-game winning streak snapped against the Eagles, who continue to make history wi...

  • Rocky Boy Stars must forfeit nine wins

    Chris Peterson|Updated Feb 6, 2015

    Voyd St. Pierre, the superintendent of Rocky Boy schools, has confirmed to the Havre Daily News that the Rocky Boy high school boys basketball team will have to forfeit all nine wins it has earned in the 2014-15 season due to the participation of an ineligible player. St. Pierre made the following statement in a press release sent to the Havre Daily News on Friday: "During an internal review of students participating in our boy's basketball program, Rocky Boy High School's athletic department discovered an eligibility...

  • Quick pick: Legos at the library

    Updated Feb 6, 2015

  • Aaniiih Nakoda College hosts Career Fair

    Updated Feb 6, 2015

    Press release Aaniiih Nakoda College hosted the 2015 Career Fair. Local high school and college students attended and visited with a variety of college and businesses. There were several universities from Montana and North Dakota, MTC Job Corps, and different branches of the military. Local businesses such as Big Flat Electric, Triangle Communications and Hill County Electric Cooperative, and Rural Employment Opportunities were on hand to speak to students about the employment possibilities with their companies. This yearly...

  • The gift of love - Buckle up

    Updated Feb 6, 2015

    Buckle Up Montana Keeping yourself and your loved ones safe is the best gift you could give to anyone. As a driver, it is your responsibility to make sure your loved ones and yourself are buckled up. Using your seat belt is one of the easiest most useful ways to stay safe in a vehicle. If one person is not buckled, then everyone in the vehicle is at risk. In all, 73 percent of the motor vehicle fatalities in Montana, in 2012, were not wearing seat belts. Montana Department of Transportation’s new campaign motto is ...

  • Viewing the newest in railway technology

    Updated Feb 6, 2015

  • Celebrating history: Fort Assinniboine to be homesteaded

    Updated Feb 6, 2015

    Emily Mayer In the Feb. 6, 1915 issue of The Hill County Democrat and The Havre Plaindealer, there were announcements that Fort Assinniboine land was to be opened for homesteading. Here is the smaller of the two, from the Democrat, compete with misspellings: FORT ASSINABOINE TO BE OPENED Those were surely glad tidings that came to Havre on Wednesday. The news created no little amount of optimism in Havre. Fort Assinaboine was to be opened to settlement and the bill had passed...