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An upbeat crowd celebrated 113 graduating seniors in a packed Havre High School gymnasium Sunday afternoon. The crowd occasionally screamed, roared, whistled and someone may have even blown what sounded like a very loud kazoo. The hour-long celebration had light-hearted and serious moments. When Heather Lizotte was called to accept her diploma, someone in the bleacher seating, perhaps her boyfriend, proclaimed, "That's my girlfriend!" The last person to receive his diploma,...
Vicky Lynne (Boles) Thomas, 55, passed away on Thursday, May 26, 2016, at her residence following a long illness. Cremation has taken place, and a celebration of Vicky's Life will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, 2016, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel, followed by a fellowship luncheon at the Elks Lodge. Burial will be Highland Cemetery at a later date. Her family has requested that memorial donations be made to the Havre Animal Shelter or the charity of the donor's c...
John "Jack" Lee, 85, passed away on Monday, May 23, 2016, in Minnesota of natural causes. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, 2016, at First Lutheran Church with Pastor Tanner Howard officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Jack's online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at www.hollandbonine.com. ...
There was cloudy, windy weather, and it was threatening to rain, but that mattered little to the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts at the Memorial Day services at the Hill County Courthouse Monday. Even before the services began, they practiced their march around the courthouse grounds, practicing and getting ready to raise the flag. The ceremonies were a mix of generations. The young Scouts, excited that to be taking part in the services, stood alongside old veterans....
Black powder rifle and pistol shooters competed in many different shooting competitions at the 37th annual Black Powder Shoot event Saturday, Sunday and Monday on the Fort Assinniboine grounds. The area was lined with campers and trucks as 79 shooters - men, women and children - from Montana and Canada came to have fun and compete against one another with the traditional firearms. Black powder firearms are old-style rifles and pistols that were used prior to the wide adoption...
Jeannie Walter has had a rough life. As a child, she was held for several years by a man who had kidnapped her and frequently beat and raped her. After an especially unpleasant encounter with the man she took a razor and slashed her arm five times. "I don't think I wanted to die, I just wanted to escape," she said. As an adult, two of her children committed suicide. Now, as president of the Lewistown chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, she said she is...
Havre Fire Department Officers investigated an accident after a caller near a 3rd Avenue business reported Friday at 10:59 a.m. that a street sweeper hit his motorcycle. —— Officers investigated an animal control report after a caller from a 2nd Street business reported Friday at 1:35 p.m. that a paper carrier said he was bitten when delivering papers. —— Officers investigated an animal control report after a 10th Street caller reported Friday at 2:17 p.m. that two dogs were attacking walkers by her house. —— Officers in...
Press release Chris Moore, 32, of Allen, Texas, and Hays residents Chase and Warren Morin, 27 and 51, respectively, were separately charged with violations involving the illegal harvest of a mule deer buck on Bureau of Land Management property near Bird Tail Road in southwest Blaine County. In 2014, Moore obtained a non-tribal member deer hunting license from Fort Belknap Fish and Wildlife for the 2014 rifle season. To use the non-member license, Fort Belknap Fish and Wildlife requires non-tribal members to utilize the...
Andrew Small Jr., 50, of Rocky Boy passed away Sunday, May 29, surrounded by family. Vigil began at 3 p.m. Monday, May 30, and funeral services was at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy. Arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Please visit Andrew's online memorial and leave a message of condolence for his family at www.hollandbonine.com. Jr was born on Sept. 12, 1965, in Havre, Montana, to the late Andrew Small...
The Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team got their season re-started Monday afternoon, and they did it with a win. The North Stars traveled to Scobey for a game against the Scobey Blue, who are resurrecting their Legion program, and Havre was able to come away with an 11-9 win. The North Stars, of head coach Dick Fuzesy, used three pitchers in the non-conference win, as Jerod Boles, Ethan Roberts and Kennedy McKay all took the mound for the North Stars in the...
The 2016 Class C state track meet has come and gone and once again, a number of local athletes from the Hi-Line and surrounding area had standout performances. On the boys side of things, no local team performed better than the Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hawks, who in particular, got a memorable performance from senior Justin May. May, a stellar three-sport athlete, who has been working to win a state title for four years and, finally, in track he achieved it in the long jump,...
The Havre High softball team came into the state tournament as underdogs. And although the Blue Ponies were knocked out of the tournament before Saturday, they at least did some damage before exiting. The 2016 Class A state softball tournament took place last Thursday through Saturday in Belgrade, and on the opening day of the tournament, the Ponies played one of their best games of the year, topping Eastern A rival Glendive, 5-4 in their first game. Yet, HHS couldn't keep up...
The Havre High track teams came into the Class A state track meet with expectations of doing well and scoring points. What the Blue Ponies didn’t expect was to win state championships in two different events. As well as a number of Havre athletes did, though the weekend really belonged to senior Nate Rismon, who won Class A’s 400-meter dash with a time of 50.33. Rismon was also a key part of the 1,600 relay team that won that event Saturday to cap the meet with another sta...
Tennis is a game of inches. It’s also a game of momentum and timing. And, in regards to state championships, it really was that close for the Havre High boys. The Blue Pony boys wrapped up another highly successful season Friday in Bozeman, finishing third at the Class A state tournament for the third straight year. Thanks to another huge effort from senior singles star Jeff Miller, and big points from the doubles team of Jerod Boles and Jake Sedahl, the Ponies scored 18 p...
Dani Wagner, Havre High Softball Havre High senior Dani Wagner has done plenty of special things in her high school career. And she made sure her last competition was special too. At last week's Class A state softball tournament in Belgrade, Wagner belted a pair of home runs, giving her double-digit totals for the season, while she also boosted the Blue Ponies to a 5-4 opening-round win over Glendive. Wagner will be All-State in softball for a third straight year, while also...
