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Articles from the April 20, 2017 edition


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  • Hi-Line Athlete Profile: Nicole McCracken, Chinook Tennis

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 20, 2017

    There is a belief and actually some strong evidence behind it that participating in extracurricular activities is vital to an education. Well if that's the case, then Nicole McCracken has gotten the most out of her four years at Chinook High School. McCracken, who is a senior on the Sugarbeeter tennis team, has been active in athletics throughout her high school career. In fact, at one time or another she has been a part of each sport offered in Chinook. She played volleyball...

  • High School outfits jazzin' it up Monday night

    Paul Dragu|Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Taste of Jazz, a fundraising concert featuring four melodious outfits, will be happening Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Havre High School gym. For the entry price of $5, parents, friends and music lovers can hear about 12 jazzy tunes and enjoy refreshments like pie while there. The money raised will go toward scholarships for students going to college to earn a music degree. The performing ensembles will be Jazz Band I and its younger counterpart, Jazz Band II, the select all-...

  • Quick Pics - Cultural differences discussed

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

  • Quick Pics - Learning at the library to live like a gnome

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

  • Tuss, city officials talk trash

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Paul Tuss and Havre city officials met this week to discuss ideas for a program in which area businesses and community organizations could clean up parks. Tuss, who is executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., met Havre City Council members Terry Lilletvedt and Caleb Hutchins, who sit on the council's parks committee, and Havre Parks and Recreation Director Chris Inman at City Hall. Tuss said at the April 3 Council meeting that he wanted to talk with city officials...

  • Local News - Garden club meeting next week

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Press release The Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club will meet Tuesday, April 25, at 2 p.m. in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse on the bottom floor. The club will have a greenhouse tour at Downtown Gardens with Lorrie Hanson as the speaker. Hostess Pat Tilleman will serve refreshments. Guests are welcome. For more information, people can call 265-2133....

  • Local News - Hi-Line United hosting soccer this weekend

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    From Hi-Line United Soccer Havre will be hosting three Montana Youth Soccer Association games Saturday at the Havre High School soccer fields. Hi-Line United Soccer (Co-ed U18) will play Sidney Youth Soccer (Boys U16) for the first game at 11:30 a.m. The second game will be at 2:30 p.m. between Sidney and Miles City Posse (Co-ed U17). Havre will play again at 5:15 p.m. against Sidney. Havre’s only team this year is coached by Jayson Burrington. New MYSA rules require that dogs be kept away from the fields and spectator a...

  • LIbrary hosting 'Load sixteen tons, and what do you get'

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    From Havre-Hill County Library The Havre-Hill County Library will host the Montana Conversation program “Load Sixteen Tons, And What Do You Get?” with Bill Rossiter Tuesday at 7 p.m. From “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” to “Take This Job and Shove It,” Americans have sung about work, whether they’re nine-to-fivers or dawn-to-duskers. The songs from union halls, mines, fields, factories, picket lines and jail cells are the sound-track to an important part of American history, and they can still stir us. As one old-timer p...

  • Looking Out my Backdoor - All in life is not sweet

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Apr 20, 2017

    John and Carol walked over for Qi Gong on my patio. It’s how we start our day. “How are you this morning?” “Fine, all things considered.” My stock answer when I’m not feeling all that well. “We came to tell you the workmen have started bathroom tile. We need to be at the house this morning. No Qi Gong for us today.” “Actually, that’s fine with me. I had a miserable night with the smoke.” I wiped my cheeks. Tears have continually washed my eyeballs for the last three weeks...

  • Correction: Vacant properties

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    In Tuesday’s front page story “Clawson presents vacant property idea to Havre City Council,” the name of Sunrise Financial was misreported....

  • Correction: Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    An announcement about a meeting of the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club on Page A3 of Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misreported the date. The club will meet Tuesday, april 25....

  • For the Record, April 20, 2017

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Havre Police Department Roger John Brough of Havre, 56, was arrested on a state District Court warrant Wednesday at 8:29 a.m. at the Hill County Courthouse. —— Officers investigated a complaint after someone made a report of elder exploitation Wednesday at 8:56 a.m. —— Officers made an arrest Wednesday at 10:43 a.m. at the Hill County courthouse after an employee reported a male with a warrant. No more information was provided. —— Officers investigated a fraud report after a 19th Street caller reported Wednesday at 2:55 p.m....

  • Obituary: Helen Leo Vandeberg

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Helen Leo Vandeberg passed away April 3 in Duvall Washington, just 11 days before her 96th birthday. Helen was a pioneer in the field of family planning and the first educated nurse practitioner in the Havre community. Dr. James Kelly was her preceptor and together they started the clinic which over the years counseled many men and women in the use of birth control, reproductive health care, e.g. pap smears and breast exams. Many low-income women received their pap smears and...

  • Obituary: Judy Ann Lazier

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Judy Ann Lazier of Havre, 70, died Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at her home surrounded by family. Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2 p.m. at Holland and Bonine Funeral Chapel with Deacon Timothy Maroney officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Judy’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for her family at http://www.hollandbonine.com. Full obituary t...

  • Hill County Justice Court, Nov 2016

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    Editor’s note: The computer program provided by the Montana state government to print media reports on court actions does not always list all fines assessed. The following cases were resolved in Hill County Justice Court by Judge Audrey Barger Nov. 8-15. —— Carol Ivy Meyers, born in 1961, was sentenced to 180 days in jail, 166 days suspended and 14 credited, for driving while privilege to do so is suspended or revoked. —— Ralph Chatfield Preston, born in 1957, was fined $600 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, 178 days susp...

  • Local Golf Report: Welcome to a brand new season

    George Ferguson|Updated Apr 20, 2017

    It’s the first golf column of the 2017 season, and already I’m apologizing. That’s because, as I write the inaugural From Tee to Green, the weather forecast says its going to rain, snow and blow for literally the next 15 days. Sorry guys and gals, but Mother Nature isn’t going to ease us into this golf season. And yet, here it is. Prairie Farms Golf Course, Beaver Creek Golf Course and Chinook Golf Club are all open and have had a steady stream of players for weeks now. Ye...

  • Yellowstone starts opening roads on Friday

    Updated Apr 20, 2017

    YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park will begin opening select roads Friday that had been closed over the winter within the park. Roads opening at 8 a.m. Friday include Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris, Norris to Madison, Madison to Old Faithful, Madison to the West Entrance and Norris to Canyon Village. Road construction also is resuming between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris with delays up to 30 minutes. Yellowstone closes about 320 miles of road over the winter and plows them open in the s...

  • Lights hit the field one last time

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 20, 2017

    The Montana State University-Northern football team has been at it with spring practice for the past few weeks, but that all ends this weekend, as the Lights get set for their spring game Saturday. The scrimmage, which will take place on the practice field on campus at MSU-N, is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. “I think that we have seen a lot of positive things,” Northern head coach Aaron Christensen said. “We have been building up with everything these past few weeks and want to...