News you can use
News you can use
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 34
Saturday's Discover Downtown event brought together venders and shoppers and curious onlookers and all kinds of participants, including running, walking, stroller-pushing and ice cream eating contestants. The day started with the run and walk competitions, and Alison Adams and Marley Springer, no older than 7, came to run. The two girls leaned forward anxiously, heads past the starting line as Hayley Yost, the one-mile walk's referee, prepared to release the contestants. The...
The parents of a 2-year-old boy who police found on 5th Avenue early this morning have been located. Havre Police are saying very little about the mysterious case. Police put out an alert Friday morning that they had found a 2-year-old on 5th Avenue and were looking for the public’s help in locating the parents. At about 10 a.m., police said the parents had been located, but would not give any more information other than to say the child was male and in good health....
After speeches Thrusday in opposition - and two in favor - of renaming the Montana State University compuing college after gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte and his wife, the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education this morning in Havre unanimously approved the renaming. Thursday during the public comment period of the board's meeting in Havre, six MSU students and a Havre City Council member - and MSU alumnus - weighed in on the debate over whether the name should...
Havre continued on the path of growth and progress in the newspapers 100 years ago. The following article was on the front page of the May 16, 1916, issue of The Havre Daily Promoter: Broderick to Reside In Gas City Deacon and Mrs. A. J. Broderick, who for the past few years have made their home in Malta, have purchased a residence on Third avenue and will make this city their future home. In fact the deal was consummated some time ago, and since that time the Deacon has made this city his home, although he has not yet...
Editor: On Wednesday, I came home to read the front page of the Havre Daily News article about the retirement of the Highland Park Early Primary School children’s librarian ShirLee Perrodin. I had just come from a meeting between Havre-Hill County Library board members and the Hill County commissioners. We were discussing how the library can best cope with a $30,000 reduction in the library budget. Mrs. Perrodin’s words have encouraged me, as the current president of the library’s governing body, to keep working to provi...
Editor: I am a proud supporter of the Havre Marching Band, and would like to personally invited the Havre community to come out and support the band in its fundraiser, 6 to 8 p.m. today at Havre High School. The band will be having a spaghetti dinner, silent auction and a mini-concert with the proceeds paying for the Fourth of July trip expenses. The band will be traveling to Washington, D.C., to march in the Fourth of July parade. The band was nominated and chosen from other schools around Montana. What an exciting honor to...
Editor: As my husband, Paul, drove me home after the Streets and Sidewalks Committee meeting Monday night (where the possibility of an infrastructure mill levy on the November ballot was discussed), I winced at every jarring bump in the road as we drove down 4th Street to 12th Avenue and to Spruce Drive. My wheelchair does not have shock absorbers, and my wheelchair van is a very low rider, so I feel every road flaw in my whole body. It hurts. I know I'm not the only Havreite affected like this. We need to pass an...
For the record, I’m not one of those people who thinks her dog is her child, but since this is going on the record I do have to say that my dog is as awesome as any child — even cuter than a good number of them. Cooper is 10 years old, which isn’t remarkably old for a dog, but he’s definitely gotten to his senior years. He’s handling it really well, though. Every once in a while he loses his balance for a brief moment but catches it again in a snap, then he looks at me like, “Did you see that? I still got my cat-like re...
North Central Senior Center, May 23-27 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; exercise 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.; mall shopping at 1:30 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; cards at 1 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation is available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., but people must request it 24 hours in advanc...
MONDAY 8 a.m. — Center for Mental Health Board meeting 1:30 p.m. — Building manager — Anez TUESDAY 10:30 a.m. — Road Supervisor — Otto 5:30 p.m. — Fair Board meeting WEDNESDAY 4 p.m. — North Central MT Regional Water System Project meeting THURSDAY 10 a.m. — Business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Contracts Time for comments from the public FRIDAY Office hours...
The Great Northern Fair Board May meeting was rescheduled tor Tuesday, May 24, at the fairgrounds Community Center. The agenda for the meeting, which starts at 5:30 p.m., is: Call the meeting to order, Vice Chair Karla Vaughn presiding. Roll call of board members. Recognize and record public attendees. Read and approve the minutes of the April meeting. Finance: Budget Bills to be paid Committee Reports: Hiring committee — Scott Barn committee — Ray Carnival committee — Missy Finance committee — Calvin 4-H report — Karla Fai...
Havre Police Department Officers made an arrest and issued a summons during a motor vehicle stop Thursday at 11:45 a.m. Rikki Lynn Horn, 22, of Harlem was arrested for charges of driving without a driver’s license, operating vehicle with fictitious plates and failing to carry or have proof of insurance. A 16-year-old juvenile was issued a summons on an obstructing a peace officer or public servant charge and on two Justice or City court warrant. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash near 5th Avenue and 6th Stree...
Richard W. "Rich" Berger, 49, of Havre passed away Sunday, May 15, 2016, at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, Montana. Memorial services will be held Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. at Hi-Line Funeral Home in Havre. Rich was born March 2, 1967, in Butte, Montana, to Robert and Sharon Berger Sr. He attended schools in Havre, Montana. He married Julie Neely, and to this union, two sons were born. The couple later divorced. He worked as a cook at various places. For Rich, the... Full story
John Michael Davidson, born Sept. 9, 1936, son of the late Doran and Esther Davidson, passed away peacefully in Ocala, Florida, on May 17, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Connie, a daughter, Kristen Brush and her husband, Samuel, of Eagle River, Alaska; two grandchildren, Michael Brush of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Amanda Geddis of Belfast, Northern Ireland; a brother, Gerald Davidson of Red Lodge, Montana; a brother, Kris Davidson and his wife, Roberta, of Mendota Heights, Minnesota; and a sister, Karen Woodruff and her... Full story
Press release OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma City University has announced that Amanda Dolph of Havre has been named to the Spring 2016 Dean’s Honor Roll. Dean’s Honor Roll status is awarded to students who successfully complete a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher....
Daily News Staff Havre students performed at the Western State Music Solo and Ensemble Festival in Missoula, with many Havre High School musicians earning top ratings at the festival. Students who earned the top rating of superior competed at the District 7 Music Festival in Shelby. At the state festival, the students performed for adjudicators who then ranked the students performance and gave a critique and suggestions on the performance. The following students were rated at the state festival: Havre High School Choir...
Daily News Staff Stone Child College on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has announced the students who made its honor roll for the spring semester. Students earned their way onto the President’s List by achieving a grade point average of 3.5 to 4.0. Students in the following list with a perfect 4.0 GPA are designated with an asterisk following their name. Sakihik Misty Baker*, Randall Black Eagle, Joanie Bull In Sight, Leonard Cantrell Jr., Candice Carter*, Josiah Dust, Jennifer Flesche*, Van Four Souls, Payge Gardipee, Ari...
Press release PINKY and the FLOYD will pay tribute to the legendary rock band Pink Floyd in Havre June 10 at the Havre Ice Dome, just south of town on 5th Avenue. In the past seven years PINKY and the FLOYD has earned a reputation as one of the best Pink Floyd Tribute bands in the Northwest, playing sold out shows in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, a press release announcing the concert says. “Fans know PINKY as a Montana staple in the music scene with crowds reaching 5,000+ including die-hard fans ranging in ages from 5 to 95 (...
Press Release Fort Peck Summer Theatre is eager to mount five exciting shows for the 2016, as well as host the Annual Performing Arts Camp, Dam Cabaret, and introduce their new Theatre for a Young Audience series, with a veteran Havreite performer switching from acting with the troupe to directing for the first time. Pam Veis, a regular in both Havre's Montana Actors' Theatre and Fort Peck Summer Theatre, will direct "The Man of LaMancha" at Fort Peck this summer. Returning fo...
And Jesus taught in parables. Once he taught, "This is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day come and go and whether he is awake or asleep the seed sprouts and grows without his help. All by itself the seed grows and is nurtured by the rain and the soil and it produces grain - first the stalk, then the head and then the full kernel. He waits until the grain is ripe and then he harvests, for the time has come." - Mark 4:20-29 Out our...
The Havre High basketball and wrestling teams have already experienced the Eastern A Super Divisional and now it's time for the Blue Pony track teams to compete in their own super divisional. The Eastern A Divisional track meet, starts today in Laurel at 2 p.m. The meet will continue Saturday, with the action getting underway at 10 a.m. "This super divisional is really exciting I think," HHS head coach John Ita said. "It's better competition all the way around. In the old... Full story
One week after finishing second at the District 9C track meet in Havre, the Fort Benton girls traveled to the Northern C Divisional track meet in Great Falls and stole the show. Thanks to first-place finishes in the 100-meter dash, the 200, the 400 and the 800, the Longhorn girls racked up 94 points, which earned them the team championship at the divisional meet. Belt came in second with 70 points, while Geraldine was third with 58. Chinook notched a seventh-place finish in...
The Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team has a number of young players and with a few of the more experienced players unavailable, the youngsters got a chance to show what they could do. Havre, which played the Great Falls Outlaws Wednesday night at Legion Field, suffered a difficult 14-1 loss, but its players, especially its first-year guys, learned plenty in the process. "It was a good experience for them," North Stars head coach Dick Fuzesy said. "We had kids...
It has been a year of firsts for Box Elder athletics and on Tuesday, there was another first for the Bears football program. That's because Bodis Duran, a Northern C All-Conference and Class C Six-Man All-State football player signed his NAIA letter of intent to play in the Frontier Conference at Montana State University-Northern. In doing so, he becomes, according to athletic director Neal Rosette Jr., the first Box Elder player to receive ascholarship to play college...
It has been an up and down season for the Havre High softball team. But, if the Blue Ponies can play their way into the Class A state tournament, then they will still have achieved one of their biggest goals at the start of the season. Havre comes into the tournament, which starts Friday and runs through Saturday in Belgrade, with an overall record of 5-10, but a 4-4 record in Central A conference play. The Ponies will open their tournament against Lewistown, a team that... Full story
