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By MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA — Lawmakers in the Montana House endorsed a measure Monday to get rid of the independent office that regulates their election campaigns and investigates ethics complaints filed against them, with representatives splitting their votes on party lines. The Republican-led House voted 54-46 to eliminate the Office of the Commissioner of Political Practices after the bill’s sponsor said the commissioner had become too partisan. Instead, Rep. Derek Skees, R-Kalispell, proposes to split oversight...
Montana Actors’ Theatre will host a Valentine’s Day Cabaret — Burlesque — Martinis event Saturday in the Havre Historic Post Office building, including a performance by the Cigarette Girls Burlesque. “It’s entertainment that we don’t normally get here in Havre,” MAT Artistic Director Jay Pyette said. “The show is very much traditional cabaret-burlesque.” The evening is set to begin at 6 p.m. with a social hour, followed by dinner at 7 and the the show scheduled to start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $100 per couple, and that in...
Several homes on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation had to have access to drinking water restored again after they went without it for part of the weekend, Chippewa Cree Tribal Water Resources Director Dustin White said Monday. Seven or eight homes in upper Haystack, a residential area in the northeastern corner of the reservation were affected, but now have running water restored, White said. “We got it fixed, repaired and everybody is back with water again,” White said. He said Water Resources began receiving calls from resid...
The Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump had a record number of visitors in 2016, manager Anna Brumley said Monday in a report to the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board at their monthly meeting. “We’re thrilled, we’re actually thrilled,” said Brumley, who manages the buffalo jump with her husband, archaeologist John Brumley. “We’ve never had this many people.” The 2016 Wahkpa Chu’gn annual report says 3,352 people visited the bison kill site last year compared with 3,046 and 2,722 in 2014 and 2015 respectively. A total of 1,002 studen...
Press releae ASSE, International Student Exchange Programs, in cooperation with local high schools, is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of countries including Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy and Japan. ASSE students experience American culture while they practice their English. They also share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families often welcome these students into their family, not as a guest, but as a family member, giving everyone...
Press release The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold a brief teleconference meeting Feb. 15 at noon to make a decision on the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Future Fisheries improvement projects for the winter 2017 grant cycle. Public comment will be taken at the Helena FWP headquarters office at 1420 E. Sixth Street. No audio or video of the meeting will be available at the Regional Offices or online. FWP ensures its meetings are fully accessible to individuals with special needs. To request arrangements, call...
Press release Following the popular reading theater productions of “The Glass Menagerie” and “Love Letters,” Havre’s Pam Veis and Fort Peck Summer Theatre Artistic Director Andy Meyer, joined by Montana Actors’ Theatre veteran Mary Kaercher as well as Nick Dirkes and Jay Michael Roberts, the group will recreate “Sorry Wrong Number,” Lucille Fletcher’s classic mystery radio play, which originally aired in May of 1943. Orson Welles called “Sorry Wrong Number” the “greatest single radio script ever written.” The Academy A...
In 2014, a large majority of Montana voters cast their votes for Steve Daines to be our U.S. Senator. That was done primarily with the belief that he embodied and promised to protect the things that we in Montana held dear. This was mart of his message to the people of Montana as he marched around our great state asking for our vote. It worked and Sen. Daines won easily in all but a few of our large cities. In the two years he has served as our junior senator, he has served his conservative base in a fashion that one could ex...
The office of the Commissioner of Political Practices is a hot topic at the Montana Legislature. Montana has had 11 commissioners of political practices since 1975, when the current model for the office was created by a group charged with de-politicizing the COPP. Ask anyone who has run for office in Montana about the services they received from the office of Political Practices, and every one of them will say that the office and its staff are knowledgeable and helpful to an extreme. When legislative candidates call to ask...
Steve Daines was not elected to make Betsy DeVos’ life easier. He was elected to improve the lives of Montana’s children. He failed them with his vote for DeVos, a vote he made over the voice of Montanans protesting DeVos via phone, email, letter and visits to his offices. Now his constituents are asking Sen. Daines to meet with us and explain his stand on DeVos and his apparent willingness to blindly follow other Republicans. His response? Silence. Why won’t Daines speak with those he represents? We don’t know. And the only...
Week 6 has seen more House bills moving from the House to the Senate. Things, in general, seem to be moving a little bit faster as we move into the full swing of session. Elsie Arntzen, superintendent of the Office of Public Instruction, gave a presentation to the Senate this week. She stated that, in her opinion, more funds need to be assigned to education from the General Fund, even as her department currently uses around 40 percent of the general fund. Her budget calls for $3 million in cuts from education, while the...
Havre Police Department Gilbert Francis Werk of Hays, 36,was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant after a caller from a First Street Northeast address reported Monday at 11:32 a.m. that a man in a red vehicle appeared to be doing drugs. —— Officers investigated a vandalism report from a First Street Northeast address Monday at 12:59 p.m. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash after a caller near a Second Street business reported Monday at 3:11 p.m. needing to discuss an incident. Hill County Sheriff...
The Havre City-County Airport The Havre City-County Airport Board will meet Thursday in City Hall. The agenda is: Approval of Jan. 19 minutes. Correspondence. Reports: (A) Manager (B) Inspection (C) Finance (D) Engineer — DOWL a. Taxiway and Apron Area Project update Public comments Unfinished business (A) Big hangar repair status a. Siding (B) Northwestern Energy power bill New business (A) Consideration of purchase of Reitan property. (B) Cape Air lease renewal (C) Haying lease discussion Approval of February claims. H...
Havre Daily News staff A Havre Ice Hawk is looking for information about his entire set of hockey gear that disappeared off his porch after returning from games in Bozeman. Ice Hawk Nicholas Stump — who scored two goals in one of the games against Bozeman — said his hockey bag disappeared from his porch after returning home. The bag contained his gear including CCM skates and two Ice Hawks jerseys, one white and the other dark blue. Anyone with information or questions can call the Havre Police Department at 265-4361 or Ice...
Former state Sen. Greg Jergeson, D-Chinook, has been selected by Gov. Steve Bullock to serve on the Montana Transportation Commission, a press release from the governor’s office said Friday. Jergeson was listed on the release as one of eight appointments made by the governor to four commissions and one of three made to the Transportation Commission. Jergeson could not be reached for comment before print deadline this morning. The release said Jergeson will represent District 3 on the Commission. Coal Black Cattle and C...
Havre Daily News staff U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has invited his constituents to join him in an online town hall via Facebook Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. at facebook.com/events/190721801409118. “I will be taking your questions through Facebook Live, and if you have a questions ahead of time, please post them (on the Facebook page),” Tester said in an emailed announcement. “Now more than ever, we need to have open discussions about the policies that will impact our daily lives as well as the next generation of Monta...
Ronald Elton Hanson, 83, of Havre, Montana, died Feb. 10, 2017. Ron, son of Clifford and Mildred Hanson, loving husband of Sharlene Faye Hanson, passed away at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre after a battle with leukemia. He is survived by his wife, Sharlene; daughter, Jacquie (Neal) Bonser of Spokane, Washington; son, Scott (Jan Marie) Hanson of Havre; and son, Eric (Laurel) Hanson of Missoula, Montana. He is also survived by five grandchildren and two...
Parker Filius, Havre High Wrestling Parker Filius had one thing left to do this weekend in Billings. And the Havre High senior did with ease. Filius joined the elite, four-time state champion club with his pin of Columbia Falls’ Ben Windauer in the 145-pound Class A state championship match Saturday night at the Metra. Filius, who is headed to Purdue University to wrestle next fall, joined teammate Jase Stokes as a four-time champion and also helped the Ponies to a fifth s...
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team played their final two road games of the 2017 regular season this past weekend, and, they lost a pair of tough games to the Bozeman Ice Dogs. Saturday night, Bozeman defeated Havre 10-6. Offensively, Havre had 21 shots on goal, with Nic Stump scoring in the first period on an assist from Ethan Roberts. In the second, Jeffrey Ralph netted a goal on an assist from Cole Hanson and Stump scored on a pass from Donovan McLain. Havre added...
Believe it or not, tournament basketball is upon us as the District 9C invades the HHS gymnasium for a jam-packed week of high school hoops. The 9C girls tournament will get underway Wednesday, and the boys will take the floor Thursday as Hays-Lodge Pole, the regular-season champs, take on Chester-Joplin-Inverness. That is followed by North Star and Fort Benton at 12:30 p.m., Chinook and Big Sandy at 4 p.m. and Box Elder against Turner at 5:30 p.m. The Bears, who come in as th...
Dear Parker Filius and Jase Stokes: First, congratulations on your incredible accomplishment Saturday night in Billings. Four-time state champions. What an amazing and incredible feat. I am writing this column not only to honor the both of you for, not only being four-time state champions, but to tell you how much respect and admiration I have for the both of you. I have watched the both of you wrestle, play football, become great students in the classroom and become great...
While there were a number of statewide sports events this past weekend, one took place right here in Havre with the Montana Amateur Hockey Association holding its girls 14U state championship in Havre inside the Ice Dome. There were seven teams that took part in the competition and when it was all said and done, the Flathead Lady Fusion earned the title of state champions. They knocked off the Idaho Polar Bears in the championship game. The Missoula Lady Bruins finished third...
District girls basketball tournaments all over the Class C ranks will be played out this week. But none will be tougher and more challenging than the one that will be played inside the HHS gymnasium over the next three days and nights. The District 9C girls tournament, which starts Wednesday in Havre, is undoubtedly the toughest of all the Class C district tournaments, and that’s going to make the next three days in the Pony Corral a whole lot of fun. The 9C field features d...
