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  • For the Record, March 12, 2019

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Havre Police Department A caller asked officers Monday at 1:57 p.m. for a well-being check on someone on Ninth Avenue Northwest. -- Monday at 3:26 p.m., a caller asked officers for a well-being check on someone on Third Street. -- An arrest was made after an officer initiated investigation of a man and woman in the alley between Second and Third streets Monday at 4:22 p.m. The jail roster lists Kaleb Freyholtz, an involved party named on the dispatch log, as being held on...

  • East tank water leak shuts down streets

    Derek Hann|Updated Mar 12, 2019

    A major water leak detected yesterday at 3 p.m. in the water tank located on the east end of Havre and has shut down streets and rerouted Havre Public Schools buses. Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said the water is leaking from a new manway, a metal access port. Public Works recently finished Phase Two of the city water tank maintenance plan, recoating the east water tank last year and recoating the west in 2017. Peterson said his department does not yet know what c...

  • Museum board seeks restitution from suspected attempted burglar

    Larry Lease|Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Security was an issue discussed Monday during the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board meeting, as board Chair Lela Patera said that Sunday an unidentified man attempted to break into the museum. The suspect failed to successfully break into the museum and only ended up damaging the door lock mechanism, she said, adding that the board is filing charges and asking for restitution. The museum is working with Havre Police Department, which has charged the suspect. The board is now considering adding security cameras to the new...

  • FWP gives update on CWD during meeting

    Derek Hann|Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 wildlife biologist Scott Hemmer said Monday that during the upcoming hunting season, FWP will once again be testing Region 6 for chronic wasting disease and will have transportation restrictions from Liberty County to the North Dakota border. Hemmer spoke Monday during a public meeting in The Great Northern Inn to discuss CWD and steps the public and FWP are taking to manage the disease. Last hunting season, FWP discovered CWD in deer across t...

  • Obituary - Donald Lee Conley

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Donald Lee Conley, 85, passed away at Northern Montana Hospital on Sunday morning, March 10, 2019, due to natural causes after many years of ups and downs with his health. Cremation has taken place, and memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at Fifth Avenue Christian Church in Havre with Pastor Rick Hodshire officiating. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Donald's online memorial...

  • CBP cutting border station hours in Montana

    Tim Leeds|Updated Mar 12, 2019

    After nearly two decades of an international committee comprising members from Montana and Alberta trying to get the hours and status ugraded at the Port of Wildhorse north of Havre on the Canadian border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it is going the other direction on other ports. CBP said in a release Friday that the agency will adjust the hours of operation at the Ports of Raymond, Opheim, Scobey, and Morgan beginning April 14. “Very low traffic volumes during these proposed reduced hours along with f...

  • Obituary - Dianna Fay Johnson

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Dianna Fay Johnson, daughter of Orville Powell and Doris Fisher, passed away March 7, 2019 at the Sweet memorial nursing home of natural causes at the age of 73. Dianna was born February 17, 1946 in Havre, Mt. She grew up in Cow Creek south of Chinook, MT. and was primarily raised by her grandmother, Lucille Powell. Dianna met James A. Halseth at the age of 16 and they were married shortly after. They had three children together, Jimmy Jay, Sandra, and Vickii, also, a stepdaug...

  • Planned work tracking a bureaucratic train wreck that will derail Medicaid expansion

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    It’s helpful to be at the same line of work long enough to be able to be proven wrong. I’ve been working with NAMI Montana to improve Montana’s mental illness treatment system for the past 10 years. We’ve been really active on the local, state and national levels. That amount of work has brought plenty of opportunities to be wrong and we haven’t been able to avoid them all. One of the biggest times that I was wrong was on Medicaid Expansion during the 2015 legislative session. NAMI Montana fully supported Medicaid Expansion...

  • Back to work after legislative transmittal break

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    This past week was transmittal week for the Legislature, which is kind of like spring break for Senators. Judy and I spent a couple days enjoying home in Chester and then came back down to Helena, as the Montana State Senate was back in Friday and Saturday. The House was out until Monday, Feb. 11. I attended a learning session in my tax committee regarding the Senate Bill 239. Sen. Jason Ellsworth’s bill would put a five-year moratorium on new taxes for companies installing new fiber optics cable in the ground. The bill c...

  • MCA scholarship applications available; April 15 deadline

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Press release Montana’s future workforce is important to the Montana Contractors’ Association — whether that workforce is building infrastructure, teaching youth, or nursing the elderly. That’s why the MCA — through its Associates’ and Concrete divisions, and education foundation — offer scholarships to help pay for education that helps Montana students pursue their career paths of choice. Available scholarships include: • MCA Associates’ Division Presidential Scholarships (High School, Undergraduate) — $1,500 each • MCA C...

  • Health in the Hi-Line Event set March 28

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    From Montana State University Extension Often it is difficult to pinpoint health care services in our area. As a rural state, Montana is limited with resources available to us, yet we have more in our community than we might be aware of. Health in the Hi-Line is an event funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region. The goal of the event is to expose the Hill County community to different health care services and health care fields. Health in the Hi-Line is scheduled for Thursday, March...

  • Sports Photos: Havre teams win at Helena Swish Fest

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

  • Hi-Line Athletes of the Week

    Updated Mar 12, 2019

    Kyndall Keller, HHS Girls Basketball The Havre High girls basketball team was nothing short of spectacular last weekend at the Class A state tournament in Great Falls. And so was Blue Pony junior Kyndall Keller, who scored 17 points in Havre’s state championship game win over Hardin. Keller, who also scored 19 points in Havre’s semifinal win over Laurel, hit two huge 3-pointers in the second half against the Bulldogs, and made several key free throws to close out HHS sec...

  • HWC grapplers shine at State AAU

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 12, 2019

    The Havre Wrestling Club took part in the Montana State AAU tournament last Friday and Saturday in Great Falls. Below are the results. Jack Werk - Tot 40 - DNP Rayden Cowan - Tot 45 - DNP Brady Boucher - Bantam 45 - 4th Place John Caven - Bantam 45 - DNP Triptyn Chapman - Bantam 55 - DNP Isabella Cowen - Bantam 55 - DNP Girls Bantam 55 - 3rd Place Blayke Fuzesy - Bantam 55 - 5th Place Beckett Squires - Bantam 55 - DNP Ivan Whiteman-Grant - Bantam 55 - DNP Emmory Fox - Bantam...

  • George Ferguson Column: We are some very lucky high school basketball fans around these parts

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 12, 2019

    There's an old saying in sports that goes something like "You can't win them all." And while that's absolutely true, it sure seems like basketball teams on the Hi-Line just about do. It seems that way because, right now, if you're a fan of high school hoops, and a fan in our coverage area, then you know, the area is having a pretty good time of it lately. In fact, given how good hoops has been on the Hi-Line in recent years, when the 2018-19 season started back in December,...