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(Last updated 9:30 p.m.) The Havre police chief said the unidentified gunman who held off law enforcement for nearly 21 hours was pronounced dead at a Havre hospital. Acting Chief Gabe Matosich said the gunman who had faced police at US Bank in Havre in a standoff since about 11 p.m. Sunday was taken to the hospital by ambulance after law enforcement officers heard a shot ring out at 7:42 p.m. No law enforcement fired a shot, Matosich said. Matosich said the event started...
Montana’s wilderness. That’s where my mind went to most often while I was deployed in Southern Afghanistan as an explosive ordnance disposal operator in the summer of 2009. Some people missed their families, others had a sweetheart or spouse back home whom they missed, and others just longed for a good meal and a comfortable bed. But for me it was different. What I missed most were Montana’s wild open places. In Afghanistan I quickly learned that the most important thing was the people fighting next to me. Getting kille...
Looking out the window, and cautiously waiting for the moment when his father gets home, the fear begins to set in. Many reoccurring questions start to develop in his head; “What will he do this time? Was it my fault? Will it hurt?” Fear and anticipation begin to take over while his dad’s car starts pulling into the driveway. After noticing the angry look on his father’s face, the fear takes over. The boy jolts for the best hiding place before the father gets to the front door. The boys slides under his bed as the door be...
Last week was another landmark in the long and sad epic of the Rocky Boy scandal. Tony Belcourt, the once up-and-coming state lawmaker, and several other people, have pleaded guilty to felonies in connection with a series of bribes and thievery of federal funds that were designed to help residents of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and other areas of north-central Montana. Belcourt says he’s ready to tell his side of the story of his sentencing hearing, but few people can imagine he could say much to change public opi...
It seems like there is always some special interest group trying to impose their limited set of values on all the people of Montana. As I write this, an animal activists group is attempting to ban trapping on nearly 30 million acres of public land. I have been a trapper for over 50 years. I do everything I can to make sure my trapping is safe, effective, ethical, and targeted. I make sure my traps are well off trails used by others. We need to be able to all share our public lands and put them to use for our individual intere...
Montana Political Practices Commissioner Jonathan Motl has found that State Senate Majority Leader Art Wittich, R-Bozeman, has violated state campaign laws by his exceptionally close ties to dark money. Wittich worked closely with Western Tradition Partnership, an especially odious group that either — depending on who you listen to — skirted or openly violated state campaign laws to elect conservative members to the Montana Legislature. State law says that groups such as WTP can take stands on issues and support can...
HELENA (AP) — A conservative group is seeking donations again after appearing to fade away when a Montana judge ruled it disregarded state campaign laws by acting as a political committee while keeping its donors and spending confidential. American Tradition Partnership recently sent out emails seeking donations, blasting environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency, and urging people to sign petitions for President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, Lee Newspapers of Montana reported. One email ac...
Long ago, it became obvious that the girls basketball Class of 2014 on the Hi-Line was going to be a great one. And the 2014 Havre Daily News All Hi-Line Girls Team certainly proves that point. This year’s version of the All Hi-Line Team is senior heavy, with nine in all. It’s also littered with players who have been on the All Hi-Line Team before, including two standouts who have become the first to make it four years in a row. Overall, in what is a reflection of a tre...
Men Who Cook for Women Who Wine was held Saturday at the old Hingham public school gym and saw hundreds of people from all over Montana file into the building to take part of food and wine. Joyce Donoven, one of the organizers of the event, said they have they have been holding this fundraiser for eight years. Donoven said the money raised by the event goes to people ranging from Chester to Saco to pay for getting them to and from hospitals in the smaller Hi-Line towns. "The...
Joyce (Afdahl) Lumsden, 86, of Chester, formerly of Havre and Lakeside, passed away on April 3, 2014, at her home in Chester. Memorial Mass will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, April 11, 2014, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Chester with Father Joseph Diekhans presiding. Committal of ashes will take place at a later date at the Highland Cemetery in Havre. The family has suggested that memorials in Joyce's name be made to the Liberty County Senior Center in Chester; St. Mary Cat...
BIG SANDY - Funeral Services for Robert J. Gasvoda will be 2 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2014, at the United Methodist Church of Big Sandy, with Pastor Ross Rettig presiding. Burial will follow at the Big Sandy Cemetery with full military honors. Family may pay their respects at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home starting Wednesday, and are welcome to dress casually in jeans and shirt, just as Bob is dressed. Robert J. Gasvoda, 78, a lifetime South East farmer and rancher, passed...
Julius Christianson, 95, died April 3, 2014, at his home in Helena, Mont. He was born on Oct. 10, 1918, on the family homestead west of Wolf Point. He worked for the Great Northern Railway and Burlington Northern Railroad for 42 years and served in the China-Burma-India "Secret War" during World War II. Julius was preceded in death by his sister, Jean Schwinden; and daughter and son-in-law, Carmen and Ray Paulsen of Superior, Wis. He is survived by his wife, Carmen; sons,...
The wind blew, the air was cold yet again, but the Havre High tennis teams had another productive weekend on the hard courts. The Blue Ponies traveled to Conrad for the Conrad Duals Saturday, and while HHS won plenty of matches, it was again the experience that pleased veteran Havre head coach George Ferguson the most. “I’m taking a lot more out of Saturday than just the wins and losses,” Ferguson said. “We had more of our varsity lineups in Conrad then we did in Cut Bank, s...
The Havre High track and field program took full advantage of its first weekend out on Saturday, and according to head coach John Ita, the first opportunity to compete went very well. Saturday the Central A Blue Ponies spent the day competing at the Lewistown Invitational. Team scores were not available, and no individual finishes were submitted, but the Ponies are still confident they achieved everything they set out to accomplish this early in the season. “It was a very p...
In 1914, flooding struck parts of Havre. People were in need of food, shelter and help to get back on their feet. The Salvation Army arrived in town to provide emergency services to flood victims, and it has been in town ever since. Salvation Army wasn’t formally organized in Havre until 1915, but the agency is going to celebrate its centennial of service to the Hi-Line this week. Celebrations will start this afternoon with a reception of captains Ralph and Peggy Guthrie, who were the last officers to head up Salvation Army o...
The Class AA Great Falls Jamboree is never an easy way for the Havre High softball team to start a new season, but like they do so often, the Blue Ponies returned home having found some success and getting quality reps against a great field of competitors. Spending all day Saturday in Great Falls, the Central A Ponies went 1-3 in their four games. In the jamboree format, five-inning games, or a one-hour time limit, these games will not count against the Ponies record. But none...
