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I came across the derelict structure a short few years ago when I was driving my van crammed with furniture and boxes on my move back home to Montana. The building obviously had been long abandoned. A corner of the roof threatened to collapse. Windows were broken and a door hung loose. A warped and peeling sign across the front announced that this heap of debris had once been the Cajun Café. A homemade “For Sale” sign stood staked in the yard. “You’re a long way from Louisiana...
Chinook won yet another boys title at the annual District 9C track and field meet, and the Sugarbeeters did so in dominating fashion. Wednesday, the Havre Middle School track welcomed in the 9C track programs from across the Hi-Line. And it was the Beeters who claimed the No. 1 spot with an impressive 210 team points. The North Star Knights followed with 131 for a second-place finish, while the Box Elder Bears brought just five athletes and still managed 55 points and a third-place finish. The Big Sandy Pioneers were fourth...
Heading into the last weekend of the regular season, the Havre High softball team knows the importance of playing well at this point. The Blue Ponies have just four games left before they host the Central A divisional tournament in Havre, and four wins is just what they are looking for. Friday and Saturday, the Ponies will be in Butte for the Butte Central Invitational. HHS will face four nonconference opponents, but will treat this like a conference weekend. The Ponies will face Class B Thompson Falls, Class A Corvallis,...
The North Star Knights have truly become a dominant force in the District 9C track and field ranks. And this season, with another 9C track meet in the books, the trend continued. Wednesday afternoon brought the District 9C track meet to the Havre Middle School. And with some of the state’s best athletes in attendance, it was another good showing for local competitors. The Knights captured their seventh straight 9C title, besting the field with 242 team points. The Chinook Sugarbeeters came in second with 176, and the Big S...
Bernard “Abe” Bergren, 89, our husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at his home in Havre of natural causes. His memorial service will be 1 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, at Fifth Avenue Christian Church with Pastor Titus Bergren, his grandson, officiating. Full military honors will be held outside of the church. A luncheon will be held at the church immediately following the military service. Memorials in Bernard’s honor may be ma...
Our beloved father, grandfather and friend Norman Everett Andrew passed away Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at his home in Havre of natural causes. His funeral service will be 10 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. John Bruington officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. A fellowship will be held at the church immediately after the services at the graveside. Memorial contributions in Norman’s honor may be made t...
Bernard G. "Bernie" Robertson, Sr. passed away peacefully Sunday, April 28, after a courageous battle with cancer, surrounded by his loving family. Born to Clara Laugen Robertson and William Arthur Robertson in Havre, Mont., on Nov. 2, 1950, he is survived by his children, Shannon (Kevin) Robertson; Gerry (Jodi) Robertson and Chad (Lisa) Robertson; and five grandchildren, Andrea, Sabrina, Alecia, Kiana, Brandon and great-granddaughter, Braelyn; one brother, Bob (Marie); three...
The Havre High School Drama Department is giving a variety of shows to the community, starting tonight and running through Saturday. The shows of the 10-Minute Play Festival start at 7:30 each night at the Havre High School Theatre. Jay Pyette, Havre High’s director of drama, provided a summary of each of the short plays. The first, Mary Miller’s “Ferris Wheel,” shows two strangers who meet while on a ferris wheel. Dorie, played by Hailee Kilgore, is afraid of heights, while John, played by Patrick Leeds, is trying to quit...
Two weeks into the filing process for candidates in city elections, only two candidates had filed as of this morning, with one aiming for a spot where the incumbent has announced she will not run for re-election. Havre City Judge Margaret Hencz said Wednesday she has decided she will not run again. She added that she has been honored by being able to serve in the position. “It was the most incredible privilege, and the most incredible responsibility, that I ever have had … ,” Hencz said. “It’s just been a real privilege...
More than 50 people — some from regions far off the Hi-Line — attended a meeting in Havre to hear about plans on how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will manage its land on the Hi-Line. BLM held a meeting in Havre Wednesday to present its draft — and to request comments on that draft — of its plan for resource management on BLM land across the Hi-Line from Valley through Glacier counties. Brian Hockett, BLM project manager on the drafting of the plan, stressed that nothing is final in the proposal, which is availab...
Once again the international committee trying to upgrade operations at a border port north of Havre is faced with an hours problem — each side of the port is running different hours of operation. “It was a surprise to me,” Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, who co-chairs the Wild Horse Border Committee with Medicine Hat, Alberta, Mayor Norm Boucher, said Wednesday. After Canada not mirroring U.S. expanded summer hours at the port in each of several years, this year Canada is extending the time frame of the summer hours and the U.S....
