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Havre High School Havre High School's Class of 2014 paraded into the packed gymnasium Sunday as the symphonic band played "Pomp and Circumstance." It was hard to tell who was beaming more - the graduates or the family and friends, some who had tears in their eyes, even as they were fanning themselves for relief from the stifling heat. Across the hall in the auditorium, the overflow crowd was as much a part of the ceremonies as those in the gym. They clapped during the Havre...
The city of Chinook lifted the boil order on its water after tests showed no problems following a break in its main line, but people still are urged to be cautious. The city issued a boil order late Thursday afternoon while awaiting tests on its water. Late Friday morning, the city lifted the order. “None of our testing has shown disease-causing organisms in the water,” a press release from the city says. The release continues to urge people at a high risk from contaminated water — including households with infants, some...
Paul Tuss was elected to become the chair of the Montana University System Board of Regents at its annual meeting Friday. The Board of Regents’ meeting was held at Montana State University-Northern’s Student Union Building Ballroom Thursday and Friday. In addition to listening to presenters and taking action on items such as raising the salaries of many campus’ faculty — including MSU-Northern’s second raise — they named Tuss, a Havre resident, to be the new, full-fledged chair of the board. Tuss has been interim chair since...
People young and old attended the annual Memorial Day ceremonies on the Hill County Courthouse lawn. Willard Langlois sat in a lawn chair on 3rd Avenue, looking to the podium on the west lawn. He's a regular at the ceremonies. He said he never misses an opportunity to pay tribute to those who gave their lives for the United States. He served in the Navy in the Pacific for 22 months during World War II. "I come every year," he said. "I don't know if I will come next year," he...
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...
Franklyn M. Clikeman, 81, passed away May 21, 2014 in West Lafayette, Indiana. Frank was born in Havre, Montana, to the late Bert and Celia (Klingler) Clikeman, and graduated from Havre High School in 1951. He married Janice A. Moe on August 17, 1958 in Waukon, Iowa, and was the father of Paul Clikeman....
With the powerhouse Belgrade Panthers in the mix, it wasn’t a tight race for the Central A divisional title this year. But the Havre High boys track team did find out that the race for third place would come down to the wire. Friday and Saturday the Havre High Blue Ponies hosted the annual Central A track meet at the Havre Middle School Track. And after the long two days, the Panthers captured the No. 1 team finish with an impressive 204 points. The Lewistown Golden Eagles f...
Both the Havre High boys and girls teams were chasing numbers at the Central A divisional track meet, but it seemed to hit the Blue Pony girls a little bit harder this season. The Central A Blue Ponies have a lot of talented track and field stars, but facing the bigger squads in the division they were spread too thin to keep pace in the team standings. The Ponies wrapped up Friday and Saturday’s divisional meet at the Havre Middle School track and field in fourth place with 6...
The wait is over. The Havre High softball program will make its first trip to the Class A state tournament in five seasons. It was another long season with plenty of ups and downs for the Central A Blue Ponies, but after two days at the divisional tournament in Belgrade, the Ponies will take on the best of the best this weekend at state. Friday and Saturday in Belgrade, the Ponies went 2-2 at the second annual Central A softball tournament to finish in third place. It took a...
The North Star girls track and field team has been a Northern C power for years. And so it was to no one’s surprise that the Knights dominated the 2014 Northern C Divisional track meet last week. Last Thursday in Great Falls, the Knights scored 89 points to claim yet another Northern C title for head coach Brian Campbell. And overall, the District 9C was dominant as the Chinook girls finished in third place with 62 points, while plenty of area athletes found the podium and a...
It wasn’t that long ago that state championships, medals and hardware were second nature to the Havre High tennis teams. And the Blue Ponies got back to that kind of success in a big way this past weekend at the Class A state tournament in Billings. Havre High sophomore Jeff Miller captured the Class A singles state championship Friday afternoon in Billings, becoming the fourth Blue Pony to win a boys singles championship. Miller’s win over Corvallis’ D.J. Pekoc, who was f...
