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Editor's note: This version corrects that Big Sandy Organics is taking new orders but Montana Hammer Knives has stopped taking new orders at the moment due to a backlog of orders. A locally owned and operated business that started five years ago is nearly doubling its workforce and looking to start selling products all across the world. "Should be a hopefully busy year," Big Sandy Organics General Manager Thomas Dilworth said. "(It's) been about two years getting to this...
The second weekend of February has always been a fruitful one for Havre High winter sports teams. And the second weekend of February 2019 was no different. Saturday in Bozeman, the Havre High boys swim team captured its first Class A-B state championship since 2010. The Blue Ponies scored 63 points to tie Billings Central for the Class A-C team championship. Havre, of head coach Bill Kilgore, also had plenty of outstanding individual performances on both the boys and girls sid...
There was a time when Havre High couldn’t be beat at the Montana State Swimming Championships. Then came Billings Central, and for nearly a decade, it’s the Rams who wouldn’t let go of the Class A state trophy. But Saturday afternoon in Bozeman, the Havre High boys got their hands on that very trophy, inside the Bozeman Swim Center. The Blue Ponies scored 63 points, which tied Billings Central for tops in the Class A boys race, and in the process Havre captured its first...
In the past month, seven people have been arrested relating to the burglaries of the local John Deere dealership, E-1 Towing and numerous other thefts in the area. Friday, a 17-year-old who deputies were searching for in relation to a string of burglaries and thefts was arrested on a state District Court warrant and a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held in Cascade County Juvenile Detention Center and is a suspect in the John Deere dealership burglary in addition to a number of other burglaries and...
A Holiday Village Mall anchor store may be moving to a new location. North 40 Outfitters spokesperson Drew Steinberger said in a press release this morning that North 40, headquartered in Great Falls, is in negotiations to purchase the former Kmart building in Havre for the purpose of relocating its Havre store. The release said that upon closing, North 40 will begin a remodeling process and start moving to the new location. No timeline is set at this time, it added. The new space will be almost twice the size of its Holiday...
Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, said from Helena during a teleconference in Havre that negotiations on the future of Montana's Medicaid expansion will not be a compromise but rather an unavoidable choice between two alternatives, and he expects the bill he likes to be tabled. Windy Boy said that he prefers the bill written by Rep. Mary Caferro, D-Helena, to extend the sunset for Medicaid, but after speaking with Rep. Edward Buttrey, R-Great Falls, about the bill he will...
Havre Police Department A caller at a First Street business asked Friday at 10:40 a.m. to speak with an officer about bounced checks. -- Someone stopped at the police station Friday at 12:37 p.m. to speak to an officer about a parenting plan issue. -- A Second Street caller asked Friday at 12:57 p.m. to have an officer perform a building check on his house and asked for some extra patrols. -- Donte Simpkins of Havre, 27, was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended or...
Arlen Lee Russell was lost to us on February 7, 2019. His presence was anxiously anticipated, and he will be deeply missed. Wake services began at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 8, 2019, and continued until his funeral service at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2019, all at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Burial followed in the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Arlen's online memorial page and leave a message... Full story
The Havre Community Pool will be closed Monday, Feb. 18, for Presidents’ Day. For more information, people can call 265-5781....
Press release Havre High School speech and debate competed over the weekend at the National Speech and Debate Association national qualifier tournament in Billings, and while no Blue Ponies qualified for a trip to nationals in Dallas, head coach Tim Leeds said he was pleased. “This is, in many ways, the toughest tournament of the year,” Leeds said. “Some of the best in all classes, AA, A, B and C, come to try to earn a spot at nationals. Only the top two or three, sometimes four, in each event make it to nationals, so just...
North Central Montana Transit buses will not run Monday, Feb. 18, in observance of Presidents’ Day....
BILLINGS - When it comes to high school sports in Montana, few things compare to finals night inside the Metra at the All-Class state wrestling tournament. In a showcase of the best wrestlers the state has to offer, the Rimrock Auto Arena was at capacity Saturday evening in Billings and the thousands that showed up, including plenty from Havre, were treated to a special night that saw three wrestlers, including Havre's own Martin Wilkie join the exclusive club of four-time...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights have had a really good homestand. And they weren't about to let their most recent four-game stretch inside the Armory Gymnasium not end on a high note. Even if the Montana Tech Orediggers had other ideas. Friday night in the Armory, the Lights erased a late second-half deficit to beat the Orediggers 69-65, capping a three-game winning streak at home dating back to last Saturday night's win over No. 2 Carroll College. And while it wa...
Comebacks and close calls are what the Montana State University-Northern Skylights are used to this winter. And for the second straight game in the Armory Gymnasium, the Skylights pulled off a thrilling comeback in Frontier Conference play. On a frosty Friday night in Havre, Northern erased a 10-point deficit against Montana Tech, including trailing by five with under a minute left, with a 3-point play by sophomore Sydney Hovde with :15 left lifting the Skylights to a 52-51...
The Havre High girls basketball team came into Saturday’s game at Fairfield one win away from another undefeated regular season and while it wasn’t easy, the Blue Ponies scored their second win over the Eagles this season. Much like the first meeting between the two teams, the Eagles hung around in the first half, thanks mostly to their defense. Yet, in the second half, the Ponies pulled away and notched a 47-32 road win to finish the regular season 18-0 for the second str...
BILLINGS - The Havre High wrestling team came into the 2019 All-Class state wrestling tournament hoping to push Sidney for the Class A state championship. However, in the team competition at least, things didn't go quite as Havre hoped. For two days inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra in Billings, Sidney dominated and set a new Class A record with 310.5 points to win a second consecutive state championship. While the Blue Ponies had to settle for second in the team...
BILLINGS - Over the years, teams from along the Hi-Line have performed pretty well at the All-Class state wrestling tournament in Billings and while the Havre High wrestling team had another solid showing, a number of other local teams found out they have some work to do. While there were a total of four local teams in addition to Havre that had wrestlers competing at Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra this past Friday and Saturday, by the time the placement rounds were taking...
BILLINGS - From the moment that Havre High wrestler Martin Wilkie won his first individual state championship, he seemed destined to become a four-timer and Saturday night at the Metra, Wilkie fulfilled that destiny. Wilkie's run of four consecutive state titles started back in 2016 when he pinned Caleb Birdwell of Lewistown on finals night as a freshman. And Saturday night, inside the Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Wilkie completed his historic career in fitting fashion,...
