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BUTTE (AP) — Four skiers have been rescued after several were caught in an avalanche near Butte in western Montana. A helicopter from Malmstrom Air Force Base lifted the skiers out early Monday morning after ground rescuers couldn't reach them. One skier was taken to a hospital and treated for a diabetic emergency. However, no one remained in the hospital by noon Monday. Rescue officials told The Montana Standard (http://bit.ly/1nNqcIz ) that the skiers were in a restricted area and caused the avalanche. The skiers said t... Full story
Margaret Gorder, 86, of Havre, passed away on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at Benefis Medical Center in Great Falls of natural causes. A visitation will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at First Lutheran Church with Pastor Michael O'Hearn officiating. Interment will follow in Highland Cemetery. The family has requested that memorials be made in Margaret's na... Full story
BILLINGS — The chairman of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee says he wants the Obama administration to address the "dysfunction" that is hobbling Native American health care and causing rising dissatisfaction over poor and delayed care on reservations. Chairman Jon Tester has invited tribal leaders from Montana and Wyoming to a Tuesday field hearing in Billings to air grievances about the U.S. Indian Health Service — a $4.4 billion agency that provides health care for 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. The...
BILLINGS ---- (AP) — A Billings businessman has signed a $1.5 million bequest to the University of Montana for athletic facility improvements. Jim Hilleboe is a 1967 graduate of UM. University of Montana Assistant Athletic Director for Development Dan Ingram says the money will be available after Hilleboe's death to be used for whatever facilities the athletic department needs at that time. Current facility needs include a new softball complex, a new weight room and a football locker room. The 69-year-old Hilleboe founded H... Full story
The Lohman Motorsports Complex brought motorcycle and ATV riders to the Hi-Line to take on the area's track Sunday. The riders competed in a variety of events to earn points for Sunday's competition and for year-end totals. Lohman Motorsports Complex, located halfway between Havre and Chinook just east of the town of Lohman, is part of a larger circuit that many of the riders are traveling around in. The points they earned at Lohman Motorsports Sunday will be added to the...
HELENA (AP) — A Montana State Prison inmate who died last week had a criminal record that included bank robberies and bombings in New England in the 1970s, a murder in an Arkansas prison in the 1980s and attempted murder and kidnapping in Montana. Prison officials say Joseph Aceto died May 20 at the prison infirmary after an extended illness. He was 61. Aceto was in prison after being convicted of shooting at Rocky Hoerner at his Columbia Falls art gallery and kidnapping his former girlfriend, Eileen Holmquist, in May 2... Full story
Now that the postseason is getting underway, it is time for the Havre High girls track and field team to see what they can accomplish after some much-needed rest. Late in the season the Central A Blue Pony girls ran into some injuries and sickness. But after a week of rest heading into this weekend's Central A Divisional meet in Havre, the HHS girls should be able to turn in several top times and distances against the rest of the Central A. Today and Saturday the Belgrade... Full story
GREAT FALLS (AP) — A federal jury convicted a consultant for the Blackfeet Indian tribe of more than two dozen charges after prosecutors said he provided kickbacks to tribal leaders in a scheme to defraud a $9.3 million mental health program. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris set a Sept. 4 sentencing for Gary Conti. Prosecutors said the retired Oklahoma State University professor kicked back more than $230,000 from a federally funded project for troubled youth to accounts controlled by the program's tribal leaders. F... Full story
For the first time in five seasons, the Havre Blue Ponies will be part of the Class A state softball tournament. Havre secured its place in next week's state tourney with an exciting loser-out win over Lewistown Friday night at the Central A Divisional in Belgrade. On Thursday, Havre beat Browning, was defeated by Belgrade, but then beat Lewistown. Havre wound up finishing third at the Central A tourney on Saturday, and will now advance to the Class A state tourney, which starts Thursday in Polson. For complete coverage, see... Full story
The weekend was kind to area players and tennis teams, as both the Havre Blue Ponies and Chinook Sugarbeeters found state tennis success. Friday in Billings, HHS sophomore Jeff Miller captured the Class A boys singles state championship, beating Corvallis' D.J. Pekoc in the championship match. Miller, who became the fifth player in Havre High history to win a boys singles championship, helped vault the Ponies to an outstanding third-place finish. Also helping out was the senior doubles team of Ned Malone and Brian Smith, who... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — In a recent review, the Department of Veterans Affairs Montana Health Care System ranked higher in patient satisfaction and call responsiveness but came in near the bottom for patient wait times, employee satisfaction and nurse turnover. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/1r0Ze5L) that in a March review by the VA inspector general, VA Montana scored 51st in patient satisfaction out of 128 facilities and came in 69th on call responsiveness. However, the report ranked the Montana VA in the bottom eight in w... Full story
The Montana University System Board of Regents will conclude its three-day meeting at Montana State University-Northern today. Regents met for executive session to talk of personnel issues Wednesday, and Thursday they convened from 7 a.m. to just before 6 p.m. to listen to presentations and to take action on agenda items. Included in the agenda items was a pay increase for Northern faculty, which the board approved along with increases for other schools' faculty. "The primary...
This is the 20th installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory, signed into existence by President Abraham Lincoln. The Havre Plaindealer's May 23, 1914, issue had a lot of local news, including the following, complete with misspelling: Unique Celebration Planned By Ladies Will Be in the Nature of a "Publicity Day" The Civic department of the Woman's club held their last meeting, until the autumn season, last Monday afternoon at the home of...
It is always tough to compete with the best track programs in the conference when a team doesn't quite have the same numbers and depth. But the Havre High boys track and field team has produced some solid marks and times this season, and will put it all on the line this weekend in Havre. Today and Saturday, the Central A Blue Ponies will host the Central A Divisional track meet at the Havre Middle School track. It will be a battle for the Ponies as they host the Belgrade... Full story
Dart — Chinook residents are living without water this week because aging infrastructure caused a water main break. Chinook isn’t the only Hi-Line municipality that has water and sewer lines that are in poor repair. Many other communities have time bombs beneath the streets in the form of decrepit water and sewer lines. In most communities, the water and sewer lines were built shortly after the area was settled more than 100 years ago. In Havre, a street caved into the Bullhook drainage system recently. The solutions are diff... Full story
I have outdone myself this week and turned from being simply old to being old-old. Birthdays come and go and we get older with more or less grace and certainly without any effort on our part because aging is just a byproduct of breathing. We have an endless supply of truisms about age, aging and being old: “Age is relative” — because a 5-year-old thinks a 20-year-old is old, the 20-year-old thinks 40 is old and the 40-year-old thinks 80 is old. “Aging is alright; it’s th... Full story
Alice Darby, born in Havre, Montana, in 1918, passed away peacefully May 15, 2014, in Prescott, Arizona. She is survived by daughter, Elaine McKenzie; and son, Jerry Hickethier. She was preceded in death by son, Ken Hickethier. Alice requested no services.... Full story
Margaret Gorder of Havre passed away on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at Benefis Medical Center in Great Falls. Funeral arrangements are pending with Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. A full obituary will follow.... Full story
Verna Farnik died May 10, 2014. Mrs. Farnik was born Jan. 22, 1916, on a farm near Coalridge, Montana, to John and Inga Johnson. During World War II, she worked at the Swan Island Shipyards in Portland, Oregon. She moved to Havre in 1948 and retired from the Great Northern Railroad. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Havre. Verna was preceded in death by her husband, Otto; four brothers; five sisters; and one grandson. Her final years were spent in a retirement home... Full story
Lindsay Brown, admissions specialist, gives first-graders from Rocky Boy Elementry School a tour of the new Louis and Antoinette Hagener Museum of the Northern Montana Plains Indian Thursday. Susan Sutherland's first-grade class walked the Montana State University-Northern campus and toured both the Hagener Science Center and the Museum of the Northern Plains Indian.... Full story
Traditional Memorial Day observances will be held in Havre at 11 a.m. Monday on the west lawn of the Hill County Courthouse. Jed Damson, one of the organizers, said Thomas Baty, a Havre High School teacher, will lead about 20 high school boys in singing patriotic songs. There will be prayers for deceased military personnel. There also will be a roll call of veterans and auxiliary members who have died over the last year, he said. Members of veterans groups and auxiliaries... Full story
Some federal-level candidates will join local candidates in Havre next week during a Democratic fundraiser. U.S. Senate candidate Dirk Adams and U.S. House candidate John Driscoll are expected to attend the burger feed, which starts Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Havre Eagles Club. State-level candidates also expected to speak include state Rep. Clarena Brockie, D-Harlem, state Sen. Greg Jergeson, D-Havre, and state House candidates Rob Laas of Chester and Janet Trethewey of Havre. Candidates for Hill County offices also are...
While the water distribution system is repaired in Chinook, the city has issued a boil order until further notice while samples of the water are tested. The city issued a boil order Thursday afternoon due to the chance of disease-causing organisms getting into the system when a main line coming out of the water treatment plant broke Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, The break — a softball-sized hole in the main line — happened just two weeks after the city received $4.6 million in grants and low-interest loans to reh... Full story
