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Editor’s note: This version corrects the deadline date for filing as a candidate and adds that Matt Rosendale has filed as a candidate in the U.S. House race. With the deadline to file as a candidate creeping up in Montana, more names have been added to the list of official candidates, with one declared Republican candidate filing for the U.S. House race. Republican state Auditor Matt Rosendale filed today as a candidate in that race, but a prominent declared candidates is still absent from the list to take the seat being v...
Local groups that were losing specialty license plates, which are sold as fundraising resources for non-profit groups, are getting an extension to try to sell enough to continue the funding source. State Sen. Mary Cohenour, D-East Helena, who sponsored a bill last session requiring the state to cancel specialty plates that had not been purchased by at least 400 people, asked the state Department of Justice, which oversees the sales of license plates, to give groups until July...
Elizabeth A. “Bisser” Stiffarm, 47, passed away at her residence. Wake services began at 5:00 p.m. Friday, February 21, 2020, and her funeral service was 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 22, 2020, all at the Fort Belknap Agency Community Center with burial follow in the Stiffarm Family Cemetery....
Glenn Scott Patterson of Havre passed at age 59 February 13, 2020, due to injuries sustained by a motor vehicle accident while visiting in Florida. Scott was born March 24, 1960, in Ormond Beach. Scott served in the U.S. Marine Corps from February 1978 to September 1980. Scott traveled the U.S. building highways and roads, that took him from coast to coast. In 1993, Scott meet the love of his life, Midge Strike, while living in Fort Myers, Fl. Although Scott will be missed by...
Daniel R. “Dan” Carpenter, 76, passed away due to natural causes Friday, February 21, 2020, at Northern Montana Care Center. Cremation has taken place, and memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 27, 2020, at First Lutheran Church with Pastor Megan Hoewisch officiating....
Havre Police Department A 12th Avenue caller reported Friday at 3:44 p.m. possible public drug activity. -- Tex Remon Eagleman of Box Elder, 37, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant during a vehicle stop on Fifth Avenue Friday at 8:38 p.m. -- Lynnell Leigh Boldt of Harlem, 36, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant and a state District Court warrant, and charges of possession of dangerous drugs, two counts; possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing a...
Press release A local 10-year-old boy recently received "VIP Experience" at a University of Montana basketball game courtesy of Grizzly Athletics and Trail West Bank. Karter Scheele was diagnosed at age 6 with Perthes Disease. In Perthes, the blood stops flowing to the hip and causes the ball to disintegrate in the socket. The leg length becomes less and the disease causes considerable pain. Karter is the second child and oldest son of Tim and Laura Scheele. He joins sister...
The Fort Benton Longhorns have been on a rampage all season long. And after the championship game against the Chinook Sugarbeeters, the Longhorns not only were crowned kings of the Distrcit 9C, but are still undefeated, as well. Fort Benton's 49-38 win over Chinook in the 9C boys championship game Friday night inside the Havre High Gymnasium capped off a stellar undefeated season. In fact, the win over the Beeters was some sweet revenge, too, as Chinook had beaten the Longhorn...
Fort Benton and winning seem to go hand-in-hand inside the Havre High Gymnasium, where the top-seeded Longhorns were looking for a District 9C 3-peat title Saturday night against the No. 3 Turner Tornadoes, who were making magic of their own. In the end, Fort Benton weathered the storm to beat the Tornadoes 58-41 in the 9C girls championship game, and to maintain their undefeated record in both the regular season and at the district tournament. Longhorn's head coach Cassie...
It has been a grind of a season for the Big Sandy Pioneers, who have faced adversity and injuries all season long. And After a semifinal loss to Chinook Thursday night in the 9C tournament, the Pioneers aimed to get to the consolation game, and beyond. Big Sandy did just that, meeting and beating the Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hawks 45-30 in the Havre High Gymnasium Friday night to earn third place and a spot in the Northern C Divisionals this week. After all the misfortune...
It has been a long time since the Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds have made it out of the District 9C girls tournament. The T-Birds had not been to divisionals since 1987. In other words, it had been 33 years since HLP made the trip to the next level. Which was a big reason why HLP was fighting Saturday night in the Havre High Gymnasium. Up against the defending state champs, the Box Elder Bears, the Thunderbirds had a lot of work ahead of them in the girls District 9C girls cons...
After their senor night victories, the Havre High basketball teams aimed to close off the regular season with a win against a former Central A, now Northeast A rival, the Lewistown Golden Eagles. The Blue Ponies took the trip down to Lewistown to play the Eagles in the Fergus High Gymnasium Friday night, with two different outcomes. First, the HHS girls beat Lewistown 65-24, but the Pony boys fell 74-66 afterwards. In the end, HHS split the weekend on the road. The boys starte...
The Cascade Conference Championships are tough. And the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team knows just how tough. Last weekend in California, the No. 20 Lights got a champion, placed seven and automatically qualified three grapplers for the NAIA national tournament next month in Wichita, Kansas. Northern junior Isaac Bartel won yet another conference title Saturday at 197 pounds to lead the way for the Lights, who scored 75 points to finish fifth. Bartel beat...
The Montana State University-Northern Skylights were hoping to start off their senior weekend in the Armory Gymnasium with a win. But more untimely injuries, and a surging Rocky Mountain College team had other ideas. Friday night in the Armory, the Skylights fell to the No. 24 Battlin' Bears 56-49, in a game that saw them lose starting point guard McKenzie Gunter to injury for the third time this season, while double-digit scorers Tiara Gilham and Hailey Nicholson were also...
Over the years, the 3-point-line has been good to the Montana State University-Northern Lights. And in their last home game of the regular season, it was really kind. On senior night, the Lights made 17 triples, including 11 in the first half on their way to a 92-64 blowout of Montana Western. The victory was Northern's eighth in its last 10 games in the Frontier, as the Lights improved to 8-8 in the league, and are in fourth place. It was also a special win for the MSU-N...
