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The four members of the Chippewa Cree Business Committee who have been waiting to be sworn in while appeals have been going on were finally able to take their seats Thursday. Beau Mitchell, Jody LaMere, Calvin Jilot and Harlan Gopher Baker filled empty seats on the tribal council after taking their oath. "I think we can do some great things for the tribe if we just stick together," said Ted Whitford, a committee member who led the meeting Thursday. Rick Morsette stepped out of...
Les Johnson, the commander for the American Legion in Havre, said that the usual remembrances will be held Monday. Monday, Memorial Day, the ceremonies begin at 11 a.m. on the west side of the Hill County Courthouse. The Boy Scouts of America will be performing the flag-raising ceremony. Dena Rudio will sing the national anthem. The names of last year’s deceased veterans from the Hi-Line will be read and wreaths will be placed on the monument dedicated to them at the courthouse. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, American L...
Montana's U.S. senators both pushed for action - one successfully, one not - to change the federal Veterans Affairs Administration, including a successful amendment to allow veterans to use medical marijuana. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., amended a bill in the Senate Appropriations Committee to allow veterans to take service dogs into VA health facilities, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take into account the situations of large rural states when determining...
A decorated Havre veteran was one of several honored in Congress Wednesday by a member with an impressive military history of his own. Havre veteran Willard "Bill" Purkett, who died in 2000 at age 50, was one of the veterans Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., a former Seal Team 6 commander, honored on the floor of the House of Representatives. "Montana has a great heritage of service, and we lead the nation with about 1-in-10 of us putting on the uniform to serve our nation," Zinke...
The 2015 graduating class of Rocky Boy High School entered the next phase of their lives Thursday. Robert Murie led the ceremony with a prayer after the graduating students entered the gymnasium to the beat of the Southern Cree Jrz drum circle. "It's our language and our ceremonies that built this land so we could have a home," Murie told the crowd of family and friends gathered to witness the youths embark into adulthood. The co-salutatorians, Ariana Marie Gopher and...
By Emily Mayer The problems pertaining to the Hill County Courthouse continued to make headlines 100 years ago. In the May 22, 1915, issue of The Havre Plaindealer, we find this story on its front page: ASK INJUNCTION TO STOP COMMISSIONERS From Concluding Latest Move on Courthouse Site. Through Attorney W. B. Rhoades, P. C. Barrett, James Holland and C. F. Morris yesterday filed an injunction against the board of county commissioners to restrain them from purchasing the...
We are about to start a holiday weekend, with sunny weather in the forecast. It doesn’t seem like a time to have darts on our mind. So how about some laurels to celebrate the great things going on in our community. Laurel — To the veterans groups, the Elks Club and all the Havre residents who work to hold the annual Memorial Day ceremonies on the Hill County Courthouse lawn, we give our thanks. Take time out on Monday to attend the services at 11 a.m., which honor the very reason for which Memorial Day was founded. Honor the...
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Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 7:44 a.m. Thursday request from Lincoln-McKinley Primary School to have drug paraphernalia picked up. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash reported Thursday at 10:12 a.m. on 1st Avenue. —— Animal control was requested by an officer Thursday at 10:14 a.m. on 1st Street. —— A 14-year-old boy was arrested on a charge of partner or family member assault, causing reasonable apprehension, after a report from 12th Street of a juvenile status offense Thursday at 8:29 p.m. —— O...
MONDAY Office is closed, in observance of Memorial Day TUESDAY 10:30 a.m. — Road Supervisor-Otto 9 am — BOR meeting in Chester 1 p.m. — Sheriff union meeting WEDNESDAY Office hours THURSDAY 10 a.m. — Business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax zdjustments County permit Aapproval Subdivision/ survey approval Time for comments from the public FRIDAY 9 a.m. — Payroll approval 9 a.m. — Extension interview 1 p.m. — Claims approval 1:30 p.m. – Extension interview...
William E. "Bill" Olsen died April 16, 2015, in Phoenix, Arizona, following a three-month attempt to recover from benign brain tumor surgery. William was born in Moose Lake, Minnesota, on Aug. 23, 1945, to Thorwald and Borghild Holten Olsen. Bill was raised on the family farm near Mahtowa, Minnesota. He attended schools in Mahtowa and Barnum, Minnesota, and Havre, Montana. Bill was a very energetic and hard-working man. He began his varied career when just a child as he helped...
Marion Briggs died in Mesa, Arizona, on April 7, after a brief illness. She was preceded in death by her husband, Web, in 1997. Marion packed a lot of living into her 97 years. She was brought up in Brady and Collins and graduated from Brady High school and received her elementary teaching certificate from Northern Montana College. She went to teach in Box Elder and met the love of her life, Webster, whom she married in 1939. She was active in many community activities and...
An Intro to Food Sovereignty class brings something different and fairly unique to Stone Child College on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The class is more than a class. It is more than an economic initiative that gives credits toward a student's degree. Bob Quinn, Ph.D., has headed the new class and said the point of the instruction is to create food all the way from seed through processed product on the reservation, for the reservation, using kamut, a wheat developed from th...
Special to the Daily News The Montana University System announced it has offered 2015 Havre High School graduates Jacie Meldrum, Hannah Pepprock and Lieza Reighard honors scholarships worth an average of $16,000 each. The MUS Honor Scholarship is a renewable scholarship offered by the Montana Board of Regents that waives undergraduate tuition for up to eight semesters at any campus of the Montana University System or Dawson, Flathead Valley, or Miles community colleges. Students offered this scholarship must be graduates of a...
North Central Senior Center, May 22 to June 5 Senior center closed for remodeling The North Central Senior Center announced it will be closed for kitchen remodeling through June 5. There will be no activities, congregate meals, Meals on Wheels or transportation during this time. The center plans to reopen June 8, and its staff asked people to please accept their apologies for any inconvenience this might cause....
Connor Kline, who attended North Star High School, graduated from Carroll College May 16. She received a bachelor's degree in elementary education. She is the daughter of Dani Kline and Chris Kline both of Rudyard. Kyle Matthew Baltrusch, a Havre High School graduate, will receive his medical doctorate from Oregon Health and Science University - Portland, Oregon, June 5. He is the son of Gary and Molly A. Baltrusch of Havre. His residency will be in plastic surgery at Oregon...
Press release The Fort Peck Summer Theatre, celebrating its 46th season, is prepping for the 2015 season, featuring popular, in-demand titles and some of the theater’s most frequently requested musicals Under the leadership of returning Artistic Director Andy Meyers, this season promises five shows likely to attract the entire family: “Always ...Patsy Cline,” “One Man Two Guvnors,” “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” Disney’s “Tarzan” and “Steel Magnolias.” The Annual DAM Cabaret will be performed July 1, and the theater...
"Pharaoh sought to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well." Exodus 2:15 Out our way, folks who regularly ride know that it's not a question of "if" you will one day get tossed, but "when." Some folks ride better than others, some have gentler horses, and maybe some are just lucky. But nearly all of us get dumped somewhere long the way. As you who are faithful readers know, although Goliath is gentleman and rarely gives m...
It’s been an exciting and rewarding track season for both the Havre High boys and girls track teams. But as fun as it’s been, it’s not over yet as both Blue Pony track teams will get one last chance to shine at the Class A state meet. This year, all the teams that qualified athletes from Class A and Class C will converge on Laurel, which will host the Class A and C state meets this year. The action gets underway today and continue through Saturday. “It’s going to be tough for...
Once again, the Class C state track meet is going to have a Hi-Line feel to it. That’s because last week, plenty of area preps punched their ticket to the state meet. Now, those athletes will head to this weekend’s Class C state meet, which starts today and runs through Saturday afternoon in Laurel. On the girls side, Chinook, North Star and Fort Benton are all taking strong teams into this weekend’s meet. At the Northern C meet last week in Great Falls, the Sugar...
Lights Football Camp New MSU-Northern head football coach Aaron Christensen will be holding a three-day youth camp June 8-10. The camp is open to grades K-8 and will run from 9 to 11 a.m. each day at the MSU-N practice fields. The camp is a noncontact camp and campers will receive a T-shirt. Cost for the camp is $60. To register, visit www.msun.edu/athletics. Bear Paw Wrestling Camp Once again, Havre High head wrestling coach Scott Filius is hosting his annual Bear Paw Youth Wrestling Camp. The camp is held at Camp Kiwanis...
