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For Roger Heil, the problem went from living next door to a disheveled house to living next door to a disheveled house that now had wild inhabitants slithering and hopping into his yard. In an otherwise tidy neighborhood, the vacant house next door with walls of cinder blocks was so unkempt that snakes and very large rabbits started taking over the yard and spilling into his. Heil is a jolly retiree who smiles even when talking about unpleasant things like snakes and messy...
Helen Denny Bacon "Squasis" 75, our aunt, grandmother, friend and relative joined her father, Sam, and mother, Ann (Swinging Girl Sandy), Denny in the Creator's gardens on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, at Missouri River Manor in Great Falls. Helen was born on May 28, 1940 in Fort Belknap, Montana. She was raised in the Parker School area of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. She was a fluent Cree speaker, and Cree was her primary language at home and in public. Helen was raised in the t...
Havre High School began interviewing candidates for the principal position Monday in the school library, where a collection of Havre public school staff gathered to ask the three candidates four questions. The candidates are: • Ken Larson, a Conrad high school principal • Mike Haugen, who teaches and performs administrative tasks at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington • Tim Tharp, the superintendent of Sunburst and grades 7-12 principal. All three men said they...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe has accepted an offer by Chouteau County to open a satellite voting office on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation once a week on a trial basis during the 27 days leading up to the state’s primary election. Chouteau County Clerk and Recorder Lana Classen said Thursday that she received a message from the tribe last Tuesday agreeing to the offer made in a Feb. 10 letter from the county to Chippewa Cree Tribal Chair Ken St. Marks. Under the arrangement the satellite office will provide early voting and in-...
Box Elder principal and basketball head coach Jeremy MacDonald was put on administrative leave for using foul language toward a student, this following a self-imposed suspension from Saturday's boys basketball District 9C title game. Due to the suspension, MacDonald was not available for comment at the school. Box Elder Superintendent Tom Peck said he put MacDonald on administrative leave Monday and today for an angry outburst toward a 14-year-old student. Peck said the 14-year-old was “screwing around with a belt” and hit...
Ted Solomon, who ranches south of Havre, will be running for the Hill County Commission this year as an independent. Solomon made the announcement Sunday night during the Blaine and Hill County Republicans Lincoln-Reagan dinner at the Havre Best Western Inn Plus. Records from the Hill County Clerk and Recorder's show Solomon officially filed his paperwork to run Feb. 12. "I've been on these roads for many years, and I am going to do my best to do what we can with the money tha...
Montana is looking for a new Indian Health director whose job it will be to close the gap in life expectancy between Natives and whites in the state. A study showed that Native men live 19 years less than whites in the state, which is surpassed by a 20-year gap for Native women. The figures are alarming, and it is up to every Montanan to work on a solution to the problem. Crow Tribal Health Director Todd Wilson said the problems are many and complicated and, thus, won’t be easy to solve. But difficutly should not be an e...
Havre Police Department Officers made an arrest at the police station Monday at 12:07 p.m. after someone came to “the lobby to turn himself in.” Further details about the arrest were not provided. —— Officers investigated a report made from Washington Avenue Monday at 6:03 p.m. of suspicious activity. —— Officers were called to Northern Montana Hospital at 5:17 this morning for a disturbance with a combative man in the emergency room. An arrest was made, but no further details were provided. Hill County Sheriff’s O...
Gregory Jensen, 59, of Missoula, formerly of Conrad, Montana, passed away Feb. 19, 2016, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. Cremation is planned and a memorial service is pending. Garden City Funeral Home and Crematory is assisting the family with these arrangements....
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team is nearing the end of their regular season. And this past weekend, the Ice Hawks lost a pair of games in Whitefish. Taking on the Flathead Fusion Saturday, Havre fell 5-1. The Fusion scored early in the first period at 15:56 and again late in the firstwith 34 seconds left. Havre held off the Fusion the entire second period then three more goals snuck by in the third period, the final one being at 35 seconds left in the game. The...
Brandon The Boy, Box Elder Basketball Winning 9C championships is nothing new to Box Elder senior Brandon The Boy. But, in his last 9C tournament, he was simply spectacular. The Boy averaged 24 points and five assists over three games at the 9C tournament this past weekend. Included in that was a 31-point gem in the Friday night's championship game win over Chester/J-I. The Boy, a two-time Class A All-State selection already, and the quarterback of Box Elder's football team,...
District tournaments weren’t just confined to Havre this past weekend. The Hi-Line’s two Class B schools were also getting their postseason underway in Shelby and Glasgow. At the District 1B tournament in Shelby, the Rocky Boy Morning Stars had a great weekend, finishing third, and advancing to the Northern B divisional in two weeks. Rocky Boy beat Shelby 47-31 in the third-place game Saturday afternoon, as the Morning Stars used a 15-5 run in the second quarter to pull awa...
The Glacier Nationals had another good chance to find the winner’s circle last week against the Bozeman Ice Dogs, but in back-to-back home games Thursday and Friday they fell twice by the scores of 3-2 and 7-2. With those losses, the Nationals, who have not won since October, had their winless streak extended to beyond 30 games. They have just five games left in the 2015-16 campaign. The first of the two games took place last Thursday inside the Havre Ice Dome and early on, t...
The last time the Box Elder girls basketball team lost a game, it was inside the Four Seasons Arena last February, in the consolation semifinals of the 2015 Northern C girls divisional tournament. Fast forward one year, and the Bears (21-0) return to the Four Seasons sporting a perfect record and a District 9C championship. And this time around, the Bears have no intentions of the Four Seasons being the site of their last loss of the season. Box Elder, along with fellow 9C sta...
When it comes to divisional basketball tournaments in Montana, there may be none better than the Northern C. This week, the teams of that conference will once again get a chance to show why. While things are equally strong on the girls side, the boys version of the tournament has been as tough as they come. In each of the past three seasons, the winner of the Northern C has also gone on to win the Class C state title. Three teams from the District 9C will make the trip to Grea...
The Havre Ice Dome was home to the Montana Squirt State B Hockey Tournament this past weekend, where teams from across the Treasure State battled it out over three days and nights. In the end, a pair of Hi-Line teams went at it in the championship game, as the Havre Ice Hawks 2 took on Glasgow Sunday for the right to be crowned state champions. And, while Glasgow edged Havre 5-4 in an exciting game, it was still a spectacular weekend for the Ice Hawks, who won a crossover...
