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  • Havre High adding remote learning appendix to school handbook

    Rachel Jamieson|Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Havre Public Schools' Board of Trustees met Tuesday and discussed the revisions of the high school, middle school and elementary school handbooks for the 2020-2021 school year, including with remote learning procedures. During the reading of the superintendent's report at the meeting, Andy Carlson thanked the principals, staff and the board of trustees for their work during this school year especially through remote learning. "This was an incredibly difficult circumstance that...

  • Chagnon retires after three decades in Havre schools

    Rachel Jamieson|Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Havre High School Activities Secretary Ginger Chagnon is retiring after 18 years at the high school and 28 years years in the district. When she first started out in the district in 1992, she said, she was the secretary to the curriculum director in the Robins Administration Building for three years. After that, she transferred to Havre Middle School, where she was the secretary to the principal for seven years, she said. She said when her son, Gray, was a freshman in high sch...

  • The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after today's 10 a.m. update was 561 with 8 new cases.

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 74 with 7 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 54,616 with 1,432 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 18. The number of recoveries was 487 and the number of active cases was 56. The new cases by county were in: Gallatin: 6 new cases, 174 total Big Horn: 2 new cases, 43 total People can visit the state tracking map online through a link on http://covid19.mt.gov ....

  • Grizzly sightings continue in local area, seen again near Big Sandy

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks GLASGOW — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff have confirmed a grizzly bear is roaming near Big Sandy in north-central Montana. This represents further expansion east of known grizzly bear movement and reinforces the need for communities and the public on the edge of grizzly bear habitat to be bear aware. This bear was first seen last week near Conrad — where it got into dog food — then outside of Brady. It got into garbage near the Chester-Fort Benton highway, Montana Secondary Highwa...

  • From the Coruts - State District Court: Man sentenced to 10 years, five suspended, in sentence revocation

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Darrell David Gardipee III was given in state District Court in Havre, Monday, a 10-year sentence, five suspended, for violating conditions of his release in a three-year-old case involving a high-speed chase in Havre. State District Judge Jon Oldenburg imposed the sentence, crediting Gardipee with 171 days served and recommending he be screened and placed in a treatment program. Gardipee was charged on accusations he fled from police who tried to pull him over for having illegal LED lights and not having matching license...

  • From the Coruts - State District Court: Man resentenced on revoked DUI suspended sentence

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Milton E. Garcia was sentenced to three years with credit for most of that already served for violating conditions of his suspended sentence on a driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Garcia in state District Court in Havre, Thursday, to the three years with the state Department of Corrections and credited him with 866 days street time and 26 days served. Garcia pleaded guilty in a plea agreement in June 2016 to his fourth DUI, which is a felony, and to a misdemeanor charge of...

  • From the Coruts - State District Court: Woman resentenced in drug case for violating conditions of release

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Amanda Nicole Buck was re-sentenced in state District Court in Havre, for violating conditions of her release in a six-year-old drug case. State District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Buck Thursday to five years with the state Department of Corrections, crediting her with three years, two months street time and 79 days served, and recommended she be screened and placed in a treatment facility. Buck was charged after a local store reported having her in custody for shoplifting. Investigating officers found prescription...

  • From the Coruts - State District Court: Man sentenced in charges reduced from assault on an officer

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Zane Jay Pasma was sentenced in state District Court in Havre, Thursday, to a misdemeanor assault charge reduced in a plea agreement from a felony count of assault on an officer. State District Judge Olivia Reiger sentenced Pasma to six months all suspended on each of a charge of assault and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, credited him with four days served and ordered him to pay $190 in fees and surcharges. Pasma was originally charged with the felony and misdemeanor counts of obstructing a peace officer and criminal...

  • For the Record, June 10, 2020

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Havre Police Department Jadelynn Fourstar Clancy of Havre, 20, was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and minor in possession, and Aariana Marie Horn of Havre, 20 was issued a summons on an MIP after a caller at a First Street West business reported an intoxicated driver Tuesday at 8:02 a.m. -- Joshua Glen Reid of Havre, 41, was arrested on charges of partner or family member assault, three counts; burglary of a residence; and probation violation after a 12th...

  • Correction - Peet sentencing

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    A story on Page A5 of Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misreported the length of a sentence imposed on Jaden Peet after he previously pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to a felony count of sexual assault. Peet was sentenced to 10 years, all suspended....

  • Letter to the Editor - Celebrate our nation's flag on Flag Day

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Editor, On Aug. 3, 1949, President Harry S. Truman singed the following into law: “The 14th day of June of each year is hereby designated as ‘Flag Day,’ and the President of the United States is authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation calling upon officials of the government to display the flag of the United States on all government buildings on such day and urging the people to observe the day as the anniversary of the adoption on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the o...

  • The Postscript: A little awkward

    Carrie Classon|Updated Jun 10, 2020

    It’s harder to keep in touch with people these days. Things are opening up, but it’s going to be a while before we hop in a car and visit people the way we used to. I met the pastor of my church while walking. She told me the youth group had been meeting via Zoom, and the kids were overcome with shyness, seeing their faces on the screen. I wanted to say, “Don’t they realize they can be seen when they show up in person?” But I sympathized with the teenagers. When my husband P...

  • Sports Photo: Basketball is back in the Armory...

    Updated Jun 10, 2020

  • George Ferguson Column: Thank you, Murph, thanks for everything you did for all Blue Ponies

    George Ferguson|Updated Jun 10, 2020

    When Dennis Murphy called me last month and told me he was retiring as Havre High’s longtime Activities Director, my first reaction was one of selfishness. I didn’t want him to go because he’s first, and foremost, a really, really good AD and, as a coach, that’s actually what you always hope for. But there’s another side to my relationship with Dennis, and that’s one in which I didn’t have the right to be selfish. He’s my good friend and he’s retiring, so I have to be happy...

  • Hi-Line Athlete Profile: Carson Lunak, Havre Northstars Baseball

    Aarron Thompson|Updated Jun 10, 2020

    Havre hosts Great Falls in a Northern District double-dip The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club has been back in action and the community is eating it up. On top of that, another year of baseball, especially in such uncertain times such as these, means another year of watching athletes give it their all on the field. And example of that kind of athlete is junior - soon-to-be-senior at HHS - Carson Lunak. Lunak is a lineman for the Havre High Blue Ponies football...