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  • THURSDAY'S PREP BASKETBALL: Ponies roll into title game

    Updated Mar 4, 2021

    State A Girls Wednesday Havre 54, Hamilton 37 Columbia Falls 37, Glendive 21 Hardin 66, Ronan 38 Billings Central 57, Whitefish 35 Thursday Hamilton 47, Glendive 34 Whitefish 56, Ronan 49 Havre 59, Columbia Falls 38 Billings Central 50, Hardin 37 Friday Game 9: Whitefish vs. Columbia Falls, 1 p.m. Game 10: Hamilton vs. Hardin, 3:30 p.m. Saturday Game 11: Game 9 winner vs. Game Game 10 winner, 1 p.m., consolation Game 12: Havre vs. Billings Central, 5 p.m., championship...

  • Rocky Boy hosts second vaccination clinic

    Patrick Johnston|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    Rocky Boy Health Center held its second mass-vaccination clinic Wednesday at Stone Child College, where 400 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were administered. Rocky Boy Health Center Chief Clinical Officer Lauren Corcoran said about one-third of people living on the reservation have been fully immunized and the vaccine rollout is in its fifth and final stage, serving all people 18 and older living on the reservation or employed by tribal entities. "We've rolled out prett...

  • State and local COVID-19 update, March 4, 2021

    Updated Mar 4, 2021

    The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today’s update was 100,531 with 181 new cases, 1,657 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 73. The number of deaths was 1,375. Blaine County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified Tuesday and Wednesday of 5 new cases, 727 total, 8 active, 24 deaths Hill County Health Department reported Wednesday evening being notified of 9 new cases, 1,914 total, 22 active, 3 active hospitalizations, 40 deaths Rocky Boy — current dat...

  • For the Record, March 4, 2021

    Updated Mar 4, 2021

    Havre Police Department Officers assisted with a medical call on Second Street Wednesday at 9:46 a.m. -- JuanJose Decker of Havre, 30, was arrested on charges of partner or family member assault and tampering with a communication device after a domestic disturbance was reported on First Avenue at 1:39 p.m. Wednesday. -- A Fifth Street caller asked Wednesday at 5:05 p.m. to have an officer speak with a juvenile neighbor. -- Garren Boyd Todoroff of Havre, 20, was issued a...

  • Havre Elks Lodge donates dictionaries to local students

    Updated Mar 4, 2021

    Press release The Havre Elks Lodge #1201 recently donated to dictionaries to third grade school children in Hill and Blaine Counties. Lodge Exalted Ruler Matt Kretchmer said the lodge was leased to present a total of 368 dictionaries to the following to Hill and Blaine County Schools, 34 dictionaries to Box Elder Schools, 48 dictionaries to Rocky Schools, six dictionaries to Turner Schools, 115 dictionaries to Havre Public Schools, 15 dictionaries to North Star Schools, 11 dictionaries to St. Jude’s Schools, 19 d...

  • New books available at the Havre-Hill County Library

    Updated Mar 4, 2021

    Havre-Hill County Library Staff While our stacks are currently closed to the public, you can still check out books. Here are some of our newest titles. New fiction “The Burning Girls” by C.J. Tudor. Remote village Chapel Croft is rife with conspiracies and dark secrets, haunted by death and disappearances. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed — then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church. Will...

  • Looking out my Backdoor: The day my mimeograph machine broke

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    Back in the olden days, in grade school, teachers used low-tech machines which made copies for all manner of school work, from pictures to color (don’t color out of the lines) to test questions. Teacher, most of whom we called Miss: Miss Brown, Miss Naomi, Miss Mary, would snap a stencil onto the drum of the machine. The slick paper, the stencil, and the ink combined to make an unforgettable sensory memory scent, sort of chemical alcohol. If you were Miss Brown, Miss Naomi o...

  • Ponies Rise and Shine

    Kason Clark|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    GREAT FALLS - An earlier than normal start to the state tournament was no problem for the Havre Blue Ponies. Playing at 9 a.m. in the first game of the 2021 Class A state tournament, the Ponies began their quest for a fourth state championship in the city of Great Falls with a 54-37 victory over Hamilton Wednesday in the Four Seasons Arena. "They were ready to go, very focused. I thought they did a wonderful job defensively," Havre head coach Dustin Kraske said. "I thought...

  • MSU-N's McCadney, Harris earn Frontier accolades

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    Following the conclusion of the 2020-21 Frontier Conference men's basketball season, which saw the University of Providence beat Carroll College for the championship Tuesday night, the league released its men's postseason awards. And three Montana State University-Northern Lights were honored. Northern senior Mascio McCadney averaged 18 points per game and was one of the top 3-point shooters in the league on his way to First-Team All-Conference honors. McCadney is now also a t...

  • State Wrestling 2021: Pony Power heads to state

    Kason Clark|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    After finishing fifth in the Eastern A Divisional this past weekend, the Havre High wrestling team will finish its season at the State A Tournament this Friday and Saturday in Miles City. More than 200 wrestlers from over 20 schools from across the state will compete in the tournament. And while the Blue Ponies did not get the best results at divisionals, Havre head coach Beau LaSalle believes his wrestlers are ready to compete at state. "We weren't quite where we need to be...

  • State Wrestling 2021: Different month, different venue, same tough Class A state wrestling tournament

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    It won't be the First Interstate Bank Arena. It won't even be in Billings. But the Class A state wrestling tournament will still be a barn-burner, and eight Havre Blue Ponies are excited to be a part of it. The eight Ponies who qualified all have a chance to reach the podium this weekend in a tournament that will be wrestled in shifts, and in front of very limited fans in Miles City because of the COVID-19 crisis. It's also a tournament that will be dominated by Sidney, who...

  • Lights ready to shine in Wichita

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    There was a time when there were doubts as to whether a college wrestling season would even happen in 2021. But not only did a season happen, now, the Montana State University-Northern Lights and the rest of the NAIA are headed to a national tournament that, at one time, seemed like it would never come. And yet, that time has come, as the Lights battle the rest of the field at the national tournament Friday and Saturday in Wichita, Kansas. And while there were plenty of...

  • State Wrestling 2021: Area grapplers gather in Shelby for State B-C

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 4, 2021

    It's a different venue, but it will still be the same excitement. For one year, the Class B-C state wrestling tournament will have a stage all to itself as the tournament moves to the Shelby High Gymnasium Friday and Saturday. The All-Class State Tournament was canceled this season due to coronavirus, and all of the tournaments are being held at separate sites, but it won't dampen the enthusiasm this weekend as the B-C wrestling season draws to a close. And that stage will...