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  • Havre man dies in crash in Phillips County

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jun 18, 2024

    Editor’s note: This version adds the name of the crash victim, Robert Micheal Grimm, Robert Micheal Grimm of Havre, 39, died in a single-vehicle crash in Philips County early Friday morning June 24. Phillips County Coroner had not returned by printing deadline calls asking if the name of the crash victim has been released by the time this story orginally was filed, but released the name after the deadline. Montana Highway Patrol reports the crash occurred on U.S. Highway 2 at Mile Marker 462 near Malta. The Ford F-150 d...

  • Radio Field Day set in Havre June 22-23

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jun 17, 2024

    Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the field day. The local ham radio club again is inviting people to come watch — and use — amateur radios June 22-23 in Havre. Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the American Radio Relay League — ARRL — Field Day from noon Saturday, June 22, to noon Sunday, June 23, at Veterans Memorial Park on 11th Street west across from Montana State University-Northern’s Tilleman Field, club member Heather Hinckley said. Hinckley said the field day is an opportunity...

  • Contract awarded on St. Mary Dam project

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jun 16, 2024

    Work is set to start on repairing a major part of the system that has been called “The Lifeline of the Hi-Line.” U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced last Thursday that a more-than $88 million contract that is funded through his bipartisan infrastructure law has been awarded to Montana-based NW Construction to complete the St. Mary Diversion Dam Replacement project. The contract is part of the up to $100 million Tester secured for the Milk River Project through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tes...

  • Quick pics: Classic theater and activities in Beaver Creek Park

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

  • Port of Wild Horse starts summer hours

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jun 13, 2024

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection did an about-face this week and announced that it has decided to extend the summer hours of the Port of Wild Horse at the U.S.-Canadian Border north of Havre to its usual summer hours for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. After U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., sent a letter to a letter to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy A. Miller the last week of May asking for the summer hours to resume, CBP said the agency planned to continue with the 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours, with...

  • Obituary - Annaliese (Gebert) Buholz

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Annaliese (Gebert) Buholz died peaceably at her home Thursday evening, May 30, 2024, with her husband Neal by her side. This after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 86 years of age. Annaliese was called by many names: Ann, Annie, Anna, in addition to Annaliese. But the one she heard the most was from her husband: "Honey." And honey she was, sweet, with many attributes of the Spirit: love, kindness, generosity, patience, and care for others. Annaliese was born on May...

  • Obituary - Dr. Lewis Leon Gilbert Jr.

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Dr. Lewis Leon Gilbert Jr., MD, of Great Falls, MT, age 82, passed away February 2, 2024 surrounded by his family. Lewis was born to Lewis Gilbert Sr. and Irene Gilbert at Fort Belknap agency December 26, 1941. Lewis grew up on the Gilbert Ranch at Fort Belknap and in Harlem, Montana. After graduating from Harlem High school, Lewis joined the Air Force Reserves and graduated from basic training from Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio, Tx. Following basic training, Lewis...

  • Obituary - Kenny D. Thune

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Kenny D. Thune, 79, passed away due to natural causes at Peace Hospice Monday, May 13, 2024. Cremation has taken place, and private services will be held at a later date. Kenny's family has suggested memorial donations be made to the charity of the donor's choice. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Kenny's online memorial page to send a card or leave a message of condolence for his family at https://www.hollandbonine.c...

  • Obituary - Sharon Yvonne (Anderson) Nold

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Sharon Yvonne (Anderson) Nold, 70, died Friday, March 15, 2024, due to natural causes. Sharon’s ashes were buried along with Wayne’s in a private ceremony. Family and friends will gather to celebrate her life in a final goodbye 2-4 p.m. Saturday, June 15, 2024, at Ralph’s old shop 5 miles east of Havre. Sharon’s Facebook page will have detailed directions to the shop....

  • Agenda - Cottonwood Schools June regular/quarterly safety meetings

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Cottonwood Schools District 57 will hold its June regular/quarterly board meeting Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 5 p.m. in the Cottonwood North School. The agenda is: 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of Consent Agenda (Board Minutes, Bills, Correspondence, Hearing of Patrons and Visitors). This is the point in the meeting for comments on matters not already on the agenda. Comments on agenda items will be accepted when that item comes up during the meeting. I. Superintendent Report 4. Old Business I. U.S.A. Flag ...

  • Agenda - Havre City-County Airport Board

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Havre City-County Airport Board will meet at Havre City Hall Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 3 p.m. The meeting agenda is: 1. Approval of May minutes 2. Correspondence 3. Reports (A) Manager (B) Inspection (C) Finance (D) Engineer 4. Public comments on agenda items 5. Unfinished business (A) Big Hangar renovation (B) GSA lease (C) Fiscal Year 2025 budget 6. New business (A) Airport leases 7. Public comment on non-agenda items 8. Approval of May claims...

  • Skylights land former Hardin standout

    George Ferguson|Updated Jun 13, 2024

    It's been a busy recruiting season for Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Chris Mouat. Last week, Mouat announced the signing of 5-7 guard Aiyanna Big Man. Big Man recently completed her first year at Cowley Community College in Arkansas City, Kansas. She is a 2023 graduate of Hardin High School. This season, Big Man had her season cut short due to injury. She appeared in 10 games and started 6, averaging just under 8 points per game. She recorded...

  • Northstars face tough opponents at GVO tourney

    George Ferguson|Updated Jun 13, 2024

    The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club faced some great competition at the Gallatin Valley Tournament this past weekend in Three Forks. Havre opened the tournament with a pair of difficult losses, as the Northstars fell to the Bitterroot Red Sox 6-5 and the Cody Cubs 13-5. Game one was a tough for the Northstars. Both teams had no-hit performances through the first few innings of the contest with Colter Solomon eventually pitching five and two-thirds innings with t...

  • Havre standout qualifies for National High School Rodeo Finals

    George Ferguson|Updated Jun 13, 2024

    At last weekend’s Montana High School Rodeo Finals in Kalispell, a standout from Havre shined once again. Cassie Gibson was second in goat-tying at the Montana High School Finals, finishing her rodeo with an overall score of 185. Gibson will join her fellow Montanans as a representative in the National High School Finals Rodeo, which will be held July 14-20 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Gibson is no stranger to rodeo, as her family has been a staple on the high school rodeo c...

  • Extension specialist to study grasshoppers' impact on pulse crops

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Reagan Cotton MSU News Service BOZEMAN - Through new funding from the USDA and the Montana Department of Agriculture, a Montana State University scientist will study the impact of grasshoppers, an increasingly common pest in Montana, on pulse crops and forages. Hayes Goosey, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences in the College of Agriculture and an MSU Extension specialist, received roughly $330,000 through the USDA's Specialty Crop Block Program,...

  • Montana State's central research center works on crop yield and profit

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Reagan Cotton MSU News Service BOZEMAN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that in 2023, nearly 5.3 million acres of wheat, 1.2 million acres of barley and more than 1 million acres of pulse crops were planted in Montana. At Montana State University’s Central Agricultural Research Center, scientists are aiming to maximize the yield and profit that come from that acreage, with a focus on central Montana. The research center, located just outside Moccasin, is the second-largest of the seven facilities in MSU’s Depar...

  • Middle school lists May students of the month

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Press release Havre Middle School's Sixth-Grade Student of the Month for May is Ivan Whiteman-Grant. Ivan is the son of Brueshana and Sunny Whiteman-Grant. He has two siblings, Ely and Brityn Whiteman-Grant. Ivan plays the trumpet in the middle school band. Outside of school, he is involved in track. In his free time, Ivan likes to play video games and spend time with his family. In the classroom, Ivan is a hard worker who excels in his academics. He is driven to do his best...

  • Warning to Deere a victory for right-to-repair advocates

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Montana Farmers Union The EPA’s recent warning to John Deere that the equipment manufacturing company’s equipment manuals prohibiting the repair of emissions control systems by anyone other than Deere authorized dealers may have violated the law is another victory in Farmers Union’s fight for farmers’ right to repair, Montana Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer said. “The fact that John Deere has acknowledged the EPA requirement also affirms that Farmers Union has been justified in advocating for the farmers ‘right to...

  • NIH to train Young Medicine Movement scholars for research

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Press release Four Fort Belknap graduates of the Young Medicine Movement Program — YMM — have been selected for research training at the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Summer Internship Program — NINDS SIP — in Bethesda, Maryland, and at Northern Arizona University Cultural and Academic Research Experience — CARE — in Flagstaff, Arizona. Elayna Adams, a 2024 graduate of Chemawa Indian School, Salem, Oregon, has been accepted into the NAU CARE Program. She will train...

  • Senior Center News, Thursday June 13, 2023

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    North Central Senior Center June 17-21, 2024 Menu Menu subject to change Monday, June 17, 2024 — Fish sandwich-on-a-bun, cheese and tarter sauce; jojo’s; green beans, pear Tuesday, June 18, 2024 — Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, peas, Carrots, Pudding Wednesday, June 19, 2024 — Beef, rice, onion, green beans/tomato; fruit cocktail; frosted cake Thursday, June 20, 2024 — Personal pan pizza, corn, pears, lime Jell-O Friday, June 21, 2024 — Tomato soup, grilled cheese sandwich, corn, pears, rice crispy...

  • Pastor's Corner: Liar, liar

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    Exodus 20:1-17 Thou shall not fib, prevaricate, deceive, manipulate, dissemble, play fast and loose with the truth, or equivocate. In other words, thou shall not lie! Or, as the Bible puts it: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (V. 16). So, although our text is the most well-known of two places where you can find the Ten Commandments in the Bible, today's topic will cover only one of them - the one about lying, because last year, 2023, and this political...

  • Senior News - Rudyard senior center menu

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    The Hill County Council on Aging has listed the meals to be served at the Rudyard senior center, 406-355-4240. No meals are served Tuesdays. The menus planned for the Rudyard center next week are: Monday, June 17, 2024 — Salisbury steak, potatoes with gravy, veggies, fruit Wednesday, June 19, 2024 — Pulled pork, baked beans, veggies, fruit Thursday, June 20, 2024 — Ham-n-macaroni and cheese, veggies, fruit Friday, June 21, 2024 — Chili, cornbread, fruit Menus are subject to change without notice....

  • Out Our Way: Watch them spurs!

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    2Tim 2:14 "Remind them before God to avoid wrangling over words which does no good, but only ruins those who ate listening" Out our way, we don't have many tourists and aside from me, most of the folks weaning cowboy gear are the real deal. But in the bigger cities - especially during fair season, we get tourists who try to pretend to be cowboys and get caught. I have shared the story of the dude who bought chaps but didn't know they went over the jean, not instead of them, bu...

  • Hello, God. It's me, Mara.

    Updated Jun 13, 2024

    You know, Lord, Father's Day is next Sunday, it was special to watch the younger and older guys being fathers. Before the church service began, one guy sat with several little girls; their mommy was off tending to, whatever. They were in the front row, but he carefully lifted the little one, maybe 3 years old, way up, holding tightly to her legs - she stood straight and tall, waved her arms, smiled; once back down, hugged her daddy tightly. A grandpa leaned over, helped his...

  • Gospel musical tour in area June 21-23

    Tim Leeds|Updated Jun 13, 2024

    The 2024 Gathering of the Mavericks tour is coming to this area, with a concert described in a flyer as “a description of faith in God like you’ve never heard before.” The concerts, featuring 2022 Gospel Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year Mark Umfleet, will be Big Sandy Friday, June 21, at the Paul Williams Memorial Park starting at 7 p.m., in Box Elder Saturday, June 22, at Joe Rosette Memorial Park starting at 2 p.m. and in Havre Sunday, June 23, starting at noon at Pepin Park. The concert is free but donat...

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