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Divisional championships are nothing new to Dustin Kraske and the Havre High girls basketball team. In fact, the Blue Ponies have won quite a few over the years. Yet they had never won the Eastern A Divisional championship, until this past weekend, that is. Inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra in Billings, the Ponies got revenge for a 2017 title game loss to Hardin by defeated the Bulldogs 42-34 Saturday to win their first super divisional title, and capturing their...
Press release MISSOULA — The Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana will present its 43rd Annual Economic Outlook Series in Havre Wednesday, March 14, in the Hensler Auditorium of Montana State University-Northern’s Applied Technology Center. This year’s keynote address, “The Future of Higher Education in Montana,” will be presented by Montana University System Regent Vice-Chair and Glacier Bank Market President Robert “Bob” Nystuen. He will discuss the five primary challenges impacting hig...
Havre Public Schools has issued a revised agenda for its Board of Trustees planning workshop scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Robins School Administration Building along with a special meeting of the board which will address personnel issues. The revised agenda of items for discussion is: 1. Board Evaluation Instruments 2. Trauma 3. High School Bathrooms/Activity Venues 4. Community Listening Sessions 5. Budget Projections 6. Other At this workshop the board takes no official action on agenda items. Items of information...
CHESTER - Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., attended a meet-n-greet at Stricks Ag Friday, where he discussed a recent tax cut package as well as trade, rural broadband and forest management, and toured the company's processing facilities. The stop, Daines said, marked the 15th of a tour across the state he is taking to hear from business owners and other Montanans about how they are being impacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The legislation was passed by Congress and...
Havre City Council’s Vacant Properties Ad Hoc Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss how next to move forward with addressing the issue of blight caused by vacant derelict properties within the city. City Council Member Caleb Hutchins, who also sits on the five-member committee, said in a Facebook instant message conversation Sunday that the meeting will take place Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Havre Hill-County Library. The committee was established by Mayor Tim Solomon at the urging of City Council President Andrew Brekke l...
Crystal Estell died of a meth overdose Jan 7. She was 37. She left behind three children, two parents and a long trail of wounded loved ones. The ravage of drugs, Crystal's parents Ron and Debe VandenBoom said Tuesday, slither beyond the life of the user. Drugs shake the lives of everyone connected to the user. "Life is full of choices. You make the wrong choice, you pay the price and other people pay it as well. Your actions are not alone," Ron said. Crystal grew up in Havre...
Clayton Codden, 88, formerly of Havre, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, at the Billings Clinic Hospital. A Vigil will be held Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. and a funeral Mass will be held Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, at 1 p.m. all at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church; burial to follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorials may be made in Clayton's name to The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater Northwest Chapter, 2047 Broadwater, Suite 2, Billings, MT 59102; St. Jude...
A front-page story in Friday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misreported the name of local resident Robert Williams, who commented during the meeting....
Havre Police Department Officers investigated after a caller reported Friday at 9:07 a.m. a noninjury motor vehicle crash near 12th Avenue and Sixth Street. —— Officers investigated after a caller reported Friday at 9:15 a.m. a motor vehicle crash near Ninth Avenue and Second Street. —— Officers issued summonses to two people Friday at 12:25 p.m. in relation to a compliance monitoring system violation. Cole Phillip Wakefield of Havre, 31, and Danielle Jo Ostwalt of Havre, 25, were each issued summonses on criminal contemp...
Editor, It’s easy to take for granted that someone will always show up when we have an emergency. We dial 911 and, within minutes, help is on the way. This doesn’t happen magically. It is possible because of dedicated people who take turns keeping constant vigil over our town. It requires commitment and preparation for a team to be ready at a moment’s notice to handle life-threatening or gruesome situations with a clear head. Many of us can think of a time in our own lives that we have depended on such a team. As our local...
Ha midaguyabi (Hello my relatives) We are writing this letter to inform the people and communities that the Tribal Government Class at Hays-Lodge Pole High School feels there should be a name change for the Fort Belknap Reservation. We did research on the name “Fort Belknap” and came up with these documented facts: • “Fort Belknap was established on the south side of the Milk River in 1869, one mile southwest from the present town site Chinook. The Fort was named for William W. Belknap, who was secretary of war at the tim...
The Havre Ice Hawks 10U squirts team took third place at the Class B state tournament this past weekend inside the Havre Ice Dome. The Ice Hawks went 2-2 in the group stages of the tournament, before rebounding to beat Bozeman 8-6 to capture third place. The tournament started last Thursday and ran through Sunday. Havre opened things up with Helena and earned a 6-2 victory thanks to two goals each from Callen Stoner and Gray Toldness. David Emge also scored a goal, as did...
GREAT FALLS — The Chinook Sugarbeeters were just a few plays from playing for the Northern C championship, but after losing to Heart Butte Thursday night in the semifinals, Chinook still had a chance to get third place and possibly challenge for a berth at the state tournament. That was the goal Friday in Great Falls at the Four Seasons Arena, but before taking part in the consolation game, the Beeters had to beat the North Star Knights for a fourth time this season. And t...
After last season's heartbreak at the Northern B, the last thing the Rocky Boy Stars wanted to feel is the same pain. Tonight, the Stars have one last chance to avoid it. After falling to Shelby in the Northern B championship game in Glasgow Saturday night, the Stars will play a challenge game against Fairfield tonight at 7 in the CMR Fieldhouse in Great Falls. The winner advances to the state tournament in two weeks in Missoula, while the loser's season is over. And the Stars...
In three final homes games, the Montana State University-Northern Skylights were so close. Yet, in all three games, against three of the top four teams in the Frontier Conference, the Skylights couldn’t find victory. But, in all three losses, the Skylights knew they played well enough to win, and, in the final game of the regular season, they took all that frustration out on the Montana Tech Orediggers. Friday night in Butte, Northern closed out Frontier play with a dazzling 7...
GREAT FALLS - The Box Elder girls basketball team achieved one objective this past weekend at the Northern C Divisional, but also fell short of another, as the Bears got past Belt in the semifinals, but came up short of a divisional championship. After losing to Belt in the championship and semifinals at the Northern C in 2016 and 2017, the Bears finally knocked of their nemesis Friday night at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, defeating the Huskies 57-52. Yet Box Elder c...
MISSOULA (AP) - The Montana Grizzly football team has lost its last to games in the Brawl of the Wild Series. This winter, the Grizzly basketball team has certainly got some payback. Sayeed Pridgett and Timmy Falls scored 14 points apiece and Montana rolled to a 90-63 victory over Montana State on Saturday night to clinch at least a share of the Big Sky Conference title. The victory in front of sellout crowd at Dahlberg Arena was Montana's second double-digit win over the...
