News you can use
News you can use
Sorted by date Results 1 - 14 of 14
Editor’s note: This version corrects the name of the video. Havre Daily News staff Havre High School senior Natalie Verploegen was selected as this year's winner of Triangle Communication's Best of the West video competition. The purpose of the competition, which was spearheaded this year by Tom Metcalf of Triangle Communications, is to advertise the impact of the digital world. This year's topic was the importance of high-speed broadband Internet access to a community. W...
Golfing for a Cure is holding a Crunch for a Cause fundraiser tonight at Havre's Taco John's. When people paying for a purchase between 5 and 7 p.m. say they are donating to Golfing for a Cure, sponsored by the Havre Women's Golf Association, 50 percent of the purchase price will go to the fundraiser. Money raised will go to the 15th Annual Golfing for a Cure Tournament set for June 1. Havre Women's Golf Association holds the tournament to raise funds to fight cancer in the...
Thirteen athletes, along with friends and family, loaded up the Blue Pony Express Tuesday afternoon before heading to the Special Olympics Montana State Summer Games in Great Falls. All but one of the 14 local athletes who qualified in April's Great Northern Spring Games will be participating in the state games which will be ongoing through Friday. More than 1,000 athletes will be competing in 11 different sports, according to the Special Olympics Montana website, at...
From Natural Resources Conservation Service BOZEMAN — Agricultural producers in Cascade, Chouteau, Daniels, Fergus, Judith Basin, Petroleum, Roosevelt, and Sheridan counties can sign up for the Environmental Quality Incentive Program to reclaim saline seeps at their local USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service office between May 15 and June 14, 2019. The Montana Saline Seep Reclamation Project, proposed by the Montana Salinity Control Association, received funding through NRCS’s Regional Conservation Partnership Pro...
A treat from Georgia is back in Havre, on sale to help the North Central Montana Shrine Club help get children to care at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Shriner Bob Brandon said Sweet Vidalia onions are in stock and ready for sale. “Last year, we sold 6,000 pounds in one-and-half weeks,” he said. The sweet Vidalia onion sale is one of the North Central Montana Shrine Club’s main fundraisers through the year. Proceeds from it, and other fundraisers, are used to send children for treatment of burns, cleft lips and palat...
Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel recently told a gathering of former graduates about some changes at the university, some plans for more changes - and some things that haven't changed. "Our students are a little unique," he said. " ... Companies fly in in jets to hire them." Kegel was addressing the largest group of Golden Graduates to attend a graduation ceremony since 1991, with 15 graduates from 1959 to 1969 coming to be honored at, as well as hear...
Mathias Ephram "Tiger" Evans of Havre, age 85, died on Monday, May 13, 2019. Cremation has taken place. A Vigil will be held on Friday, May 17, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. and a Mass will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., all at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers, Tiger has requested memorials be made to St. Jude's School or Havre Youth Baseball. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Tiger's... Full story
From CHS FORT BENTON — Working together with CHS locations across the country, employees, community organizations and businesses, and farmers and ranchers of CHS locations in central and western Montana joined the fight against rural hunger through the cooperative’s annual CHS Harvest for Hunger food, funds and grain drive. The annual campaign gathered more than $500,000 and 94,959 pounds of food to fight hunger in rural America. Locally, these CHS locations raised $16,059.51 and 4,892 pounds of food for local food she...
Havre Daily News staff The Hill County Conservation District announced Tuesday that its meeting scheduled for today has been canceled. The cancelation is due to weather postponing planting and some board members not being able to make the meeting, the district announced. The next regular meeting will be June 19 at the USDA Service Center at 206 25th Ave. W. in Havre....
Havre Police Department A Grant Avenue caller reported Tuesday at 7:49 a.m. that a vehicle had been broken into and a laptop taken. -- A Sixth Street caller reported Tuesday at 2:57 p.m. that a car had been broken into during the night and a stereo taken. -- A two-vehicle crash between a Jeep and a blazer was investigated on Bullhook Boulevard Tuesday at 3:22 p.m. -- A caller in the Grant Avenue alley reported Tuesday at 3:28 p.m. a vehicle was broken into during the night and...
As long-time readers of The Postscript know, I do not delve into politics or current events. You might think this comes from a desire to find common ground with all my readers. You might think I am trying to bridge the divide in a time when there aren’t enough opportunities to examine the myriad of things we have in common. Or you might simply think I am a coward who wishes to avoid controversy. You would all be wrong. I am simply too ill-informed to say anything intelligent about current events, certainly anything that h...
When it comes to the Central A Divisional softball tournament, the Havre Blue Ponies have one simple objective: Win one game. By winning that one game, the Blue Ponies would head back to the Class A state tournament, a trip that has become routine for HHS. Yet, after finishing fourth in the Central A standings, getting that win won't be easy. Havre will open the tournament in Lewistown against Belgrade. The Panthers are the No. 1 seed and the defending state champs. The first...
Lauren Kato knows a thing or two about executing under pressure and as the ace for the Havre High softball team, she will face plenty of that this Thursday in Lewistown as she tries to pitch her team to the Class A state tournament. Of course, Kato won't be doing anything on her own. She will have a solid defense behind her and an offense led by Kinzee Peterson, who has a school-record eight home runs this season for the Ponies. But if Havre wants to win a game at divisionals...
