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Eastlick enters plea deal in Rocky Boy embezzlement charges by Tim Leeds A Havre man has agreed to plead guilty in a deal on two cases alleging he committed fraud and embezzlement at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. James Howard Eastlick Jr. has reached a plea agreement with the federal prosecutors that will involve a plea in one of two cases alleging he and others defrauded the government and stole federal funds allocated for projects at Rocky Boy. His co-defendants include former state Rep. Tony Belcourt, D-Box Elder, a...
Last year a 62-year-old Martin City woman was reduced to thrashing on the ground, covered with blood from her snapping, wounded dog while her 5- and 6-year old grandchildren looked on, crying in terror. The family was out for a walk. Their dogs were both caught in foothold traps hidden within feet of the road the children were running on. The grandmother was trying free her 100-pound dog. She did, finally, with a superhuman effort. The incident was reported to Fish, Wildlife and Parks in November 2013. They told her the set...
It was close to 4 o’clock when I left my apartment to walk up the street to get a liter of milk, no specific destination in mind, just a purpose — buy milk. I could go to the frutera and buy milk and fruit. Or to the Farmacia for milk and an apple turnover. Or to the Oxxo for milk and pan dulce, a sweet treat for the next morning. Or to any of a dozen other small markets for milk and whatever might catch my eye. Instead, I crossed the street to Tony’s on the Bay, seated mysel...
Thanks so much for everyone who came to the Second Annual Shamrock Shindig and made it another success. Thank you to all the volunteers, the youth that sold tickets, all the kitchen help and the cooks. The meal was wonderful. To the hostesses of the tables, you put a lot of work and time into each table to make them unique and different. Your auction items were awesome. To Willard Vaughn, your metal art was a masterpiece. Thanks also to Duchscher Agency for donating part of this art work. To Don Greytak thanks for donating...
I am writing this letter today in hopes of urging Montana sportsmen and outdoor enthusiasts to oppose efforts by animal rights activists to ban trapping on Montana public lands. There have been efforts in recent years to paint trapping as an outdated “hobby” that serves no purpose. The truth that animal rights activists don’t want you to know is that trapping serves incredibly vital roles in Montana. It ensures that furbearers and their habitat are healthy and sustainable. And it ensures that predator populations are kept...
David L. Ironmaker, 57, of Great Falls, passed away of natural causes on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at his residence. Wake services will begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rocky Boy and will continue until his traditional funeral service, which will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 21, 2014. Burial will follow in the Rocky Boy Veterans Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements, and you can leave your...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated an 11:16 a.m. Wednesday complaint at the police department about clothes stolen from a laundromat. ——— Officers investigated a 3:04 p.m. Wednesday call from Havre High School about someone throwing pop all over the calling party’s 1966 blue Ford truck in the junior and senior parking lot. ——— Someone was arrested after officers responded to a 4:41 p.m. Wednesday call from a 1st Street business about a combative shoplifter in the parking lot. No other information was given. ——— Off...
Weather forecasters again are expecting snow to hit the area in what would be a start-of-spring storm, after a previously expected storm fizzled in this region. National Weather Service and Weather Channel both have a forecast of snow today and tonight — the first day of spring — and into Friday, with highs in the 20s and the low expected to drop into the single digits. A winter weather advisory for this part of north-central Montana Monday and Tuesday essentially skipped this area, with heavy rain Monday morning but lit...
Relief efforts after the extensive damage caused by flooding that plagued Havre last spring continue this year, and a group of college students from Idaho is working at low-income households, damaged in last year's flooding, during their spring break. The students, who are pursuing degrees at the University of Idaho, are working today on their second house since arriving in Havre at the beginning of the week. The damage to the houses was to their basement level, and the...
A test of communications equipment funded by a federal grant included, for the first time ever to the knowledge of Hill County Sheriff Don Brostrom, law enforcement officials from the United States and Canada communicating seamlessly with each other. “It’s pretty historic,” Brostrom said Wednesday at the Hill County Justice Center before officials conducted a “hotwash” debriefing of the exercise. The exercise started in Valley County about 8 a.m., ran through Hill County and was moving west in its second half as the debri...
The community of Box Elder and surrounding areas gathered at Box Elder Public School Wednesday to celebrate the success of the school's boys basketball team. Matt Topsky, a Box Elder graduate and former basketball player, sang a Chief Rocky Boy's honor song, to the boys. "What these athletes did ... ," Topsky said after his song, "Not a lot of athletes can do." Topsky played the drum and sang as four dancers performed to honor the Box Elder Bears. "It's been truly an honor...
Members of the Havre Lions Swim Team recently competed at the Swimming Short Course State Championship Meet. The meet was held March 7 at the Grizzly Pool on the campus of the University of Montana in Missoula. The Lions’ swimmers had an outstanding meet, earning many individual medals on the day. Competing for Havre was Kobi Burchard, Kyla Burchard, Lita Cammon, Addyson Lewis, Amelia Miller and Natalie Padgett from the Havre Lions Swim Team all qualified to compete in the C...
The Fundraiser for Havre Youth Baseball will be this Saturday night. Sign-ups are at 5:30 p.m. with bowling to start at 6:30. Cost is $20 per person. There will be a Silent Auction, along with 50/50 tickets. Sloppy Joes will be served. All proceeds will go to the Havre Youth Baseball Association. Lane Kinsella, 9-year-old son of Jennifer and Dusty Kinsella (one of Havre’s top keglers) recently bowled a 213 single game and a 481 series on the Sunday afternoon Jr. League. He, along with several other bowlers, including Max O...
Every successful college basketball team has that one player, that one who is similar to the drummer in a band. He might not steal the headlines, he may not be front and center all the time, but he does all the hard work and is essentially the heart of the group. And when that one guy gets ripped away from the group, things just don’t seem to work like they should. Will Perry is that guy for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. And wherever he’s gone, he’s alway...
The MSU-Northern Skylights have been here before. It just so happens, it was eight years ago. But head coach Chris Mouat knows what the NAIA Sweet 16 is all about. And on Friday morning in Frankfort, Ky., the No. 21 Skylights will know what it’s all about, too. Northern’s 56-55 win over Columbia College Wednesday sets up a matchup with No. 2 seed Oklahoma City (23-4) in Friday’s Sweet 16 of the NAIA national tournament. The game will tip off at 10:30 a.m. MDT and the winne...
It may have been eight years since the Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team last played in an NAIA national tournament game. But the Skylights haven’t lost their first-round touch. The No. 21 Skylights pulled off an impressive upset over the No. 3-seeded Columbia College Cougars (Mo.) 56-55 in the first round of the 2014 national tournament Wednesday afternoon in Frankfort, Ky. The win boosts the Skylights record to 22-9, while the loss ended the Cou...
