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Retiring Havre High School math teacher Mary Wagner doesn't like change. If it were up to her, she said, she would bring back the chalkboards and throw out the cellphones. Mary liked it when times were simpler. "Changes are going to happen. I'm not a big change person. My living room still looks the same as it did in 1983. I tell the kids I'm an old-fashioned person with a few modern ideas," she said. Mary speaks quickly but fluidly and clear. She rarely stops smiling when doi...
Brad Lotton, long active in Republican affairs in Hill County, has been elected as a Montana delegate to a Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He was chosen as one of 24 delegates to the convention at Saturday's state GOP convention in Billings. Lotton owns Lotton Construction Co. and is a former Hill County Republican chair. He is a supporter of Donald Trump. Further details later....
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on Sunday to commemorate Peace Offiers Memorial Day and Police Week. "Montana’s peace officers are dedicated public servants who work tirelessly each and every day to serve our communities,:" the governor said. "On this day, we honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty to protect our citizens and this state," Bullock said....
Annually at graduation, Montana State University-Northern honors those who graduated 50 years ago or more. At graduation ceremonies, they wear yellow gowns and go through the ceremonies just as they did 50 years ago. But on the day before graduation, some of them meet for a luncheon at the Vande Bogart Library. This year they listened to a brief talk by Chancellor Greg Kegel, then they chatted with one another about the good old days. Some of this year's participants knew each...
She has been a part of tribal government on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation for years, but LeAnn Montes hopes to enter the halls of state government in Helena as a lawmaker next year. Montes, the attorney general for the Chippewa Cree Tribe, is competing against two other Democrats to be the party's nominee in the race for Senate District 16, Bobbi Jo Favel, also of Rocky Boy, and former state Sen. Frank Smith of Poplar. The district spans from Box Elder to Fort Peck,...
Letter carriers will be picking up food at mail boxes throughout the area Saturday during the annual “Help Stamp Out Hunger” program. People are asked to leave nonperishable foods at their mailbox to be picked up by letter carriers on their daily rounds and taken to the Havre Food Bank, where the food will be given to people in need. “We need food,” said Diane Sebastian, the director of the food bank. This is the time of the year when the food donated at the holiday has been depleted and the need for food remains, she said. P...
There will be Harleys, hamburgers and holiness at Pepin Park, as the Set Free Ministries of Havre will be holding a Servants of Christ Motorcycle Bike Blessing Saturday. Those looking to take out their motorcycles for the riding season are invited to have them blessed. "We pray a blessing over the bike, over the rider for protection for the riding season,” said Pastor A. J Benson of Set Free Ministries. Benson said it is the third time year they have had the event, but the first time they will be having it at Pepin Park. T...
By Emily Mayer Havre will be celebrating our downtown area this weekend, and the timing between it and what was being published in the newspapers this week 100 years ago couldn’t be more perfect. Several announcements were being made throughout their pages, and the following two articles were printed in the May 13, 1916, issue of The Havre Plaindealer: Will open candy shop at Masonic Temple L. E. Thorne, who came to Montana from Toledo, O., has leased a business room in the Masonic temple and will upon completion of that b...
I have been watching a television series based on events and people involved in the American Revolution and it is clear to me that, had I lived at that time in history, the likelihood of my survival to old age would have been roughly nil. First off, it’s unlikely I could have managed to survive childhood and early adulthood. Aimless children prone to daydreaming rather than working were killed either by accident or out of frustration — or flat out to save money to buy food and...
Havre Police Department The police department did not fax the dispatch log before printing deadline this morning. Hill County Sheriff’s Office Deputies assisted a citizen at the airport and made an arrest Thursday at 4:35 p.m. No further information was provided. —— Makray Lane Demontiney, 27, of Box Elder was arrested on a state District Court warrant and a Justice or City court warrant and transported from Rocky Boy to Hill County Detention Center this morning at 12:17. Havre Fire Department Fire crews responded by helpi...
MONDAY 10:30 a.m. — Lions Campground Final Inspection TUESDAY 8 a.m. — MACo Spring District 4 & 5 meeting 1:30 p.m. — 911 Committee 5:30 p.m. — Fair Board meeting WEDNESDAY 9 a.m. — Road Supervisor — Otto 10 a.m. — Library Mill Levee THURSDAY 10 a.m. — County Officials 11 a.m. — Business Meeting • Manual claims • Employment review • Resolutions • Tax adjustments • County permit approval • Subdivision/survey approval • Contracts • Time for comments from the public 3 p.m. — Airport Board meeting 3 p.m. — Deputy Sheriff Pet...
Havre City Councill will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall. The agenda: Call to order Pledge of Allegiance Roll call Minutes Committee reports Public comment on regular agenda items: 1 through 7 only. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments offered here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda 1. Consideration and appointment of Ward 2 council position vacancy. 2. Resolution No. 3730 — A resolution to amend the process of making an application for a special use permit t...
North Central Senior Center, May 16-20 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; exercise at Full Circle 10-10:45 a.m. and at the Senior Center 11-11:45 a.m.; Painting & Adult Coloring Group at 1 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; TOPS at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; cards at 1 p.m.; Great Falls trip at 8 a.m. Friday — Medical transportation is available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., but people mu...
Press release Jessie (Ramos) Big Knife, a 2012 graduate of Box Elder High School, graduated Saturday from Upper Iowa University. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in business management. He went to Upper Iowa University, located in Fayette, Iowa, on a basketball scholarship. Big Knife has been accepted to the University of Montana Law School, which he will be attending in the fall....
Press release Havre High School senior Madison Huebsch has been awarded the Dr. David and Gloria Almas Scholarship to Montana State University-Northern. Huebsch, the daughter of Bill and Tracy Huebsch, has a 3.5 GPA and is very active in extracurricular activities and participates in volleyball, tennis, Key Club, PASS, ReAct and Leadership High School. She also participates in many community activities. The scholarship is an annual endowed monetary scholarship and laptop...
Jesus told the disciples another parable, "No one brings a light into a room and then hides it under a bushel, but sets it out where it can give light to the whole house." - Mark 4:21 Out our way, open range cattle are not very common - except in Beaver Creek Park. Every fall after Labor Day, local ranchers are allowed to lease grazing rights in the park and turn their herds loose. The cattle wander freely throughout the area and I am sure I am not the only camper who has...
Believe it or not, the Havre High softball team has just one more week to go in the regular season. And while the Blue Ponies have completed all of their conference games, they will be tested this weekend in Butte by a number of Class A opponents. Havre, which competes annually at the Lavere Combo Softball Invitational, will play a total of four games this year, two today and two Saturday. The Ponies will go head-to-head with Glendive at 12:45 p.m. today, followed by a...
The Havre High tennis teams won’t play at the Central A Divisional Tournament for another six days. But make no mistake, the importance of the postseason is already upon the Blue Ponies. Havre will travel to Lewistown Saturday for the annual Lewistown Invitational, and for a myriad of reasons, longtime Blue Pony head coach George Ferguson looks at the annual regular season finale as the actual start of the postseason. “There are a bunch of reasons why this weekend is so big fo...
