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  • Move to a neutral site state championship for 8-man football causing a stir

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    High school football in Montana has undergone a lot of significant changes over the past few years and in 2018, Class C 8-Man football will undertake another. With a vote of 30-11 in favor among member schools and a 6-1 approval from the Montana High School Association executive board, the measure to adopt a neutral site for the Class C 8-Man football state championship game passed Monday. It will end the practice of schools hosting the championship game in 8-Man football and...

  • Forward Montana at Havre's Triple Dog tonight

    Tim Leeds|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    A nonpartisan group is ending a state tour of college campuses in Havre today, inviting students from Montana State University-Northern to come down to Triple Dog Brewing Co. to have a free beer and talk about democracy. Forward Montana Foundation started recruiting voters at Flathead Community College and hit another six campus communities before coming to Havre. The group will be at Triple Dog at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. to talk to anyone “interested in learning more about how young Montanans can engage in democracy.” A rel...

  • Heaviest part of predicted storm expected to mostly miss this area

    Tim Leeds|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    Snow is still predicted to hit this part of the Golden Triangle Thursday and Friday, but with the path of the storm now expected to hit mostly west, south and southeast, Havre might have to wait a bit to set a new record amount of snowfall for the year — but maybe not. National Weather Service predicts a storm will sweep through Montana Thursday, with a winter storm watch from Glacier and Teton counties spreading through Chouteau County and points south and east into Wyoming and South Dakota. But the prediction on heavy w...

  • School board approves request and hears the positive impact of MBI

    Kristen Takeuchi|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    At its monthly meeting Monday, Havre Public Schools District Board of Trustees approved a request by Cottonwood School District, heard about what Havre High School's implementation of the Montana Behavioral Initiative has done for the school and discussed the district mobility/transiency report. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson presented the request from Cottonwood School District 57 to cross boundaries into the Havre School District. Carlson said that the...

  • Competitors at Northern for SkillsUSA state conference

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    Students from high schools across Montana and two Universities are spending the first half of this week at Northern in the 47th Annual SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference, the 46th time Northern has hosted the event. SkillsUSA is a career and technical service organization aimed at complementing technical skills training provided by high schools and colleges. SkillsUSA state association director Cassie Huntley said that this year students from 32 schools and...

  • For the Record, April 11, 2018

    Updated Apr 11, 2018

    Havre Police Department Lance Anthony Pitkanen of Chinook, 35, was arrested on two Justice or City court warrants while at the probation and parole office Tuesday at 8:23 a.m. —— Christina Faith Eagleman of Havre, 24, as arrested on two Justice or City court warrants served Tuesday at 8:53 a.m. at a Second Street business. —— Officers investigated a hit-and-run crash reported Tuesday at 8:56 a.m. on 11th Street West. —— Officers made an arrest at Justice Court Tuesday at 10:44, but no details were provided on the arrest. ...

  • Early childhood screening April 24 in Chinook

    Updated Apr 11, 2018

    Press release Parents of preschool children in the Chinook, Hartland Colony, Zurich, Davey, and Cleveland school districts are invited to bring their children for a free early childhood screening The screening, sponsored by Bear Paw Cooperative, is set for Tuesday, April 24, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at United Methodist Church-Wallner Hall at 337 Ohio St. in Chinook. Chinook Public Schools will also be having kindergarten registration during this time. People should bring their child’s birth certificate and current i...

  • Rutledge awarded NILE Foundation scholarship

    Updated Apr 11, 2018

    Press release BILLINGS - The NILE Foundation has announced that Andrea Rutletdge of Big Sandy is among a group of people receiving scholarshipts for the 2018-2019 academic year. "Through the efforts of the NILE Foundation the total scholarship amount was increased from $30,000 to $32,000 to help support this year's scholarship winners, interns, and rolling scholarship winners from previous years," said Al McCormick, NILE Scholarship Committee chairman. Rutledge was one of...

  • Stockmanship clinic hopes to help ranchers reap more benefits

    Kristen Takeuchi|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    Local rancher have three opportunities in June to attend clinics to learn about low-stress livestock handling and about grass growth response to grazing, while also being able to view live on-foot and horseback cattle-handling demonstrations. The Stockmanship Clinic, sponsored by the Toole, Pondera, Glacier, Liberty and Hill County Conservation Districts, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation’s Conservation District Bureau will be held in Shelby, Che...

  • Skylights land Froid-Lake standout guard

    George Ferguson|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball 2018 recruiting class is starting to take shape. On Tuesday, Northern women’s basketball coach Chris Mouat has announced the signing of Morgan Mason to join the Skylight program next fall. Mason, a 5-8 guard, has helped lead Froid-Medicine Lake to three consecutive Class C State Tournament appearances. Mason is a two-time Class C All-State and four-time All-Conference selection in basketball. She was also named to the S...

  • Blue Ponies finally get to play a real softball game

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 11, 2018

    After weeks of delays and cancellations, the Havre High softball team finally got on the field Tuesday in Lewistown. Unfortunately, the start didn’t go quite as planned for the Blue Ponies. In the debut of first-year head coach Tony Vigliotti, Havre dropped its first Central A conference game of the year to Lewistown by the score of 14-4. Havre is 0-1 on the season and will return to Lewistown Friday and Saturday for the Lewistown Invitational. “We saw dirt for the first tim...

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