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Great Northern Fair Board Chair Tyler Smith said Tuesday at the board’s monthly meeting that the board will be unable to hire a fairground manager as an independent contractor as previously planned. “It was this board’s intent to hire fair manager as a independent contractor position,” Smith said. “… We originally had received word from the numerous powers that be that it would be OK, then it gets to time to draw up the contract and it’s not OK. So that position will go back to being a regular county position like it has b...
Although he said some improvements have happened for trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said he is still concerned with with growing trade war between the United States and China and the country's other trade partners. "It's taking a financial toll on Montana," Tester said. During a press conference call Tuesday from Washington, Tester said the trade war the country is facing is hurting many agricultural producers in rural...
Dorothy Ann (Heckel) Paronto of Billings, formerly of Havre, died of heart disease on May 17, 2019 at the age of 90. She was born November 18, 1928. She shared her birthday with Mickey Mouse. She was preceded in death by her husband, Blair; parents, Pete and Betty Heckel; two brothers, Ed and Don; sister Helen Fox; and son-in-law Todd Ryan. She is also now reunited with her deceased daughter Karen Paronto. She is survived by three of her children, Linda Ryan, Al Paronto, and...
A celebration of the life of Robert “Bob” Markwardt, 79, who passed away at Northern Montana Hospital on February 26, 2019, will be held in the Vineyard Room at the Duck Inn from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, 2019. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home was entrusted with cremation services....
Elias J. Stump was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty in a case in which he was accused of jumping up and down on a man’s chest. Stump was charged Aug. 13 after he was accused of assaulting a man who was watching trains go by near a 22nd Avenue rail crossing. The victim said he was approached and started sharing his liquor with the man who approached him, and the man eventually started attacking the vitim, including jumping in the air and landing with his knees on the victim’s chest. BNSF Railway emp...
Emmett L. Windy Boy was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to time served after multiple charges of sexual abuse of a child were reduced to a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child. Windy Boy was charged July 12, 2016, with four felony counts of sexual abuse of children after investigators said he had conversed with hundreds of women and children via texts and Facebook and attempted to solicit them to send photographs or engage in sexual acts, with allegations including sexual actions with some...
Julia Larita-Jo Snow was sentenced to probation by a District Court judge in Havre after pleading guilty to drug charges. Snow, who was on probation, was charged Nov. 27 with felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs and a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of drug paraphernalia after law enforcement officers were checking on another probationer in a house in which Snow also was present found methamphetamine and syringes, spoons and baggies commonly used with drugs. Snow pleaded guilty Jan. 6 under a plea agreement...
Local residents report they have received calls this week from people doing a new scam using Social Security as a cover. People are receiving calls representing the source as the Social Security Administration saying the administration is checking on activity on the account and the person being scammed should press 1 to continue. When they check with the Social Security Administration, the residents said, there is no suspicious activity on their accounts. Social Security has reported numerous scams in the last few years, and...
Havre Police Department An officer making a motor vehicle stop on 13th Street at 10:01 a.m. Tuesday arrested James Edward Sinclair of Havre, 59, on a charge of driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license. —— After receiving a call from Fourth Avenue at 11:05 a.m. Tuesday about an erratic driver, officers arrested Matthew Dean Weaving of Box Elder, 26, on Justice/City court warrants. —— Officers assisting another agency on a call described as “out with vehicle sto...
Press release Blue Horizons Senior Camping Club will camp at Marden’s Campground in Beaver Creek Park in the Bear Paw Mountains June 11-13. Everyone is encouraged to attend....
Press release The Havre Community Pool will be closed Saturday, May 25, Sunday, May 26, and Monday, May 27, in observance of Memorial Day weekend. For more information, people can call 265-8161 or 265-5781....
The truth is, I don’t actually have 40 friends in my immediate community. I only recently moved to town when I married Peter. So, I just went around town and invited every person I recognized and, somehow, ended up inviting forty people to my patio this past Monday evening to celebrate the release of my book. I invited all the neighbors, and a guy I met on the trail, some writers, and a librarian, and a woman I occasionally see walking her dog—sometimes with her friend, Georgina. The dog-walking woman was recently div...
Friends and neighbors, I attended the rail passenger conference on Saturday in Cut Bank. One takeaway from the meeting that everyone in Northern Montana needs to be aware of; the 2019 Legislature approved House Joint Resolution 34 – the Interim Study on Passenger Transportation. Now, that may not cause any red flags to emerge, except that it was noted at the Cut Bank meeting, as per HJ 34, there is a renewed push to revive the Hiawatha Passenger Service, Chicago, Billings, Missoula and Spokane. Here’s a bit of history: Apr...
BILLINGS — Applications for the NILE Merit Heifer program are now available for the 2019-2020 year. The program is a live animal scholarship, meaning the recipients are given a young, live, heifer calf. The objective is to to help youth get a start in the beef cattle business and gain knowledge about the beef industry. Program participants are chosen based on merit, future goals, and ability to care for the animal. 4-H or FFA members who are 12-16 years old may apply. Applicants are not limited to Montana residents. During t...
From Montana Farm Bureau Federation Montana Farm Bureau continues celebrating its centennial this year with its summer conference theme, “Harvesting Our History; Cultivating Our Future.” The MFBF Summer Conference will be held June 11-13 at the GranTree Inn in Bozeman. This is a time when advisory committees meet to discuss current agricultural issues and concerns and surface ideas for policy development. Keynote speakers are from the state’s land grant institution, Montana State University. Gary Brester, Ph.D., Depar...
From Farm Service Agency USDA’s Farm Service Agency will accept applications beginning June 3 for certain practices under the continuous Conservation Reserve Program signup and will offer extensions for expiring CRP contracts. The 2018 Farm Bill reauthorized CRP, one of the country’s largest conservation programs. FSA stopped accepting applications last fall for the continuous CRP signup when the 2014 Farm Bill authority expired. Since passage of the 2018 Farm Bill last December, FSA administrator Richard Fordyce said FSA...
One year ago to the day, Bobby Hauck stood inside the show room at Tilleman Motors as the new head coach of the Montana Grizzlies. And he talked mainly about his vision for what he wanted the program to be in his second stint at the helm of the biggest college sports team in the Treasure State. Fast forward one year, and Hauck was back in Havre on the 2019 Grizzly Spring Tour, and, in his own words, things were decidedly different. Following a 6-5 2018 campaign, and a...
The Class A state tennis tournament has always been a place the Havre Blue Ponies have thrived. In just the last 17 seasons, the Pony boys and girls have combined to win six state championships and bring home 18 top three trophies. So, it would stand to reason that the 10 Ponies headed to this weekend's 2019 Class A state tournament in Kalispell, have a great chance to add to the trophy case in the hallowed halls of HHS. And the tournament, which runs Thursday and Friday, has...
Three local fire departments - Havre, Chinook and Bear Paw - came together last week to practice wildfire management techniques during a training exercise at US Bank Park in Havre. The firefighters spent an afternoon analyzing the weather and field conditions before creating a plan of attack and executing it during a controlled burn of a field in the middle of the park. Havre Fire Department Assistant Chief Kelly Jones said the group tries to hold at least one training...
