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Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the last election for statewide offices to 2018 and the office in which Blaine County Clerk of District Court Tami Mitchell was running for re-election. The unofficial results are in for the Montana primary elections including some closely contested and even nationally watched races. The Republicans are hoping to take back the Montana governor's office that the Democrats have held for 16 years, while the Democrats are trying t...
Editor’s note: This version reports the first name of the defendant. A local woman was given in state District Court in Havre six months probation after she pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to reduced charges stemming from a stolen vehicle. Cali Brien was charged with a felony count of theft when she was found in the trunk of a stolen vehicle that had been spray-painted and had her license plates from another car. Brien said she was in the car in connection with Jaylen Jake Crazyboy, who is facing sentencing after p...
The Havre City Council Ordinance Committee met Monday after the council meeting and discussed Havre changing to a charter form of government. Ordinance Committee member Lindsey Ratliff said she and former member Caleb Hutchins met a couple of months ago and looked through examples of different cities that used charters. She said the last time the ordinance committee proposed a charter was in 2016. “What I took out from that discussion was all we need to do is figure out the language you want that gives yourself s...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 68 with 1 active hospitalization. The number of tests completed was 43,448 with 1,236 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 17. The number of recoveries was 464 and the number of active cases was 44. The two new cases were in Yellowstone County, which has a total of 102 cases. People can visit the state tracking map online through a link on http://covid19.mt.gov ....
At a special meeting Tuesday, the Great Northern Fair Board canceled the 2020 Great Northern Fair, making it the first fair cancelation in over a century of running, board Vice Chair Chelby Gooch said. After discussing the issue and listening to comments from members of the public in attendance the board passed a motion 3-2 to cancel the fair. Ron Konesky and Ray Kallenberger voted against the cancellation, while Gooch, and board members Tyler Smith and Josh Heitzenroder...
Havre Police Department Someone stopped at the police station Tuesday at 1:04 p.m. to report an identity theft. -- A caller on Fifth Avenue reported a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. -- Officers investigated a hit and run reported at 1:59 p.m. Tuesday in the Third Avenue alley. -- Edwina Marie Whitford of Box Elder, 45, was issued a summons on charges of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license and failing to carry or produce proof of vehicle insurance...
Press release HELENA — Many of the same meal programs that served families during COVID-19 school closures will continue throughout the summer months, and they just became easier for families to find thanks to the opening of a texting service. The Summer Food Service Program, a USDA program overseen by the Montana Office of Public Instruction at the state level, expanded to provide food to kids when regular school breakfast and lunch options weren’t available during the coronavirus emergency. Now that the school year is off...
Kevin Gene Tomaskie, 46, passed away suddenly in Havre May 28, 2020. A private family service will be held at a later date. Full obituary to follow....
Kodi Cheyenne Barnes was sentenced in state District Court in Havre on a misdemeanor with another misdemeanor and two felonies dismissed in a plea agreement. Barnes was charged with two felony counts of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and misdemeanor counts of making false reports to law enforcement and criminal trespass to property after on Sept. 11, 2019, she told law enforcement a former boyfriend had beaten her up. Witnesses told investigating officers the event she was claiming occurred didn’t happen. U...
A local man was given in state District Court in Havre three years probation and a chance to have a felony charge struck from his record and ordered to pay restitution after he previously pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to two of several charges. Treyton Reed Sutherland was charged April 18, 2019, after fleeing from law enforcement officers after a store in Box Elder reported he had stolen a package of Twisted Tea, ending up crashing his vehicle in a field. He was charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and theft...
I want to make it clear that we are not adopting a dog. I won’t deny it is tempting. We decided not to get another dog because we travel. Dogs and airplane travel do not go well together. Now, however, with no travel in sight, I admit I am consumed with envy when I see happy dog owners on the trail. I have started carrying dog treats just so I can talk to the dogs of complete strangers. The owners are tolerant. The dogs love it. My brother-in-law had our entire extended family...
Havre’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 497 has announced it is looking for a new space to house its items and activities. VFW is looking for a permanent space of its own, it said in a release, to meet, hang memorabilia, and store items for funerals, memorial day, fund raising and so on. People who can help or have ideas are asked to contact: Dale Herd at 910-824-0016; Scott Prindiville at 406-945-5627, or Tom LaFond at 406-301-1194....
The COVID-19 outbreak requires us to change our daily habits, stay indoors unless absolutely necessary and — if we have to go outside — maintain significant physical distance from other people. These restrictions may exacerbate an already growing problem for older adults: social isolation. Social isolation can (but does not have to) lead to loneliness, and studies have shown that both isolation and loneliness can put older adults at higher risk for heart disease, dementia, mental health issues and stroke. But limiting physica...
It was a big day for local sports, as the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club got to take the field for the first time in 2020. COVID-19 certainly posed a threat to the Northstars chances of playing at first, but Havre got on the diamond Tuesday night at Legion Field for its season and home opener against Class A North District rival, Lewistown Redbirds. The doubleheader showdown was exciting as the Northstars were playing Havre's first varsity sporting event since...
We've seen a lot of cancellations, and in fact, full seasons cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And that includes many rodeos on the Montana pro rodeo circuit. And already locally, the Great Northern Fair has been canceled as of Tuesday night, and with it, the Great Northern Ram Rodeo and the Havre Junior Rodeo. The Four Colors Memorial Bull Riding had also been canceled last month. However, the Hi-Line's biggest rodeo is still a go, though it will have a new date. The...
There will be college hockey in Havre next season. That's because the Montana State University-Northern Lights will make their debut as a club hockey team this coming fall. And, the Lights will have a hometown feel on their roster, too. Northern head coach Jeff Krissek, who has been in Havre now for some time, has been building this roster for the first year of Lights hockey, and he recently announced that the team will feature three former Havre Ice Hawks. Among the Havre...
Press release The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency in Montana is hosting two webinars open to the public June 8 and June 15. Producers and others involved in agriculture will have an opportunity to learn about the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program available to farmers and ranchers whose operations have been directly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The CFAP will provide direct relief to producers who faced price declines and additional marketing costs due to COVID-19. The webinars will highlight b...
