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BILLINGS — A proposal to relax gray wolf hunting and trapping rules in Montana got a cool reception from Yellowstone National Park administrators who said Monday the move appears to be aimed at substantially reducing the park's population of the animals. Wolves regularly cross from the hunting-free safe haven of Yellowstone into Montana, where wildlife officials want to drive down pack numbers in response to complaints about the predators from ranchers and big game hunters. Montana wildlife commissioners are scheduled on W...
Bob Sivertsen’s longtime motto is "If it's to be, it's up to me." That attitude has led to a lot of community service, business involvement, rodeo work and ranching on the Hi-Line. And that work has led to him chosen as the Hi-Line inductee into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame for 2013. “I’m very humbled,”Sivertsen said. “So many people are more deserving of this award.” Sivertsen said his love for and his belief in the Hi-line is what has prompted him to become involved in the community so much. “I am always disappointed...
Sen. Jon Tester will chair a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee field hearing in Havre on Friday. The panel will examine the best ways to keep America’s northern border secure. Tester, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee charged with making government more efficient, will open the hearing at 1 p.m. at Montana State University-Northern’s Hensler Auditorium. U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., a member of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Sec...
Terry Brockie, a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole schools since 2004, has been named Blaine County superintendent of schools. Blaine County commissioners tapped him to fill the vacancy created when Lisa Stroh resigned to become superintendent of the Valdez school system in Alaska. Commissioners Chair Dolores Plumage said Brockie was chosen because of his enthusiasm for education. “He was just so energetic about education,” she said. Brockie is a graduate of Harlem High School, received his associate’s degree from Haskell India...
Mersades Lodge is a struggling Montana State University-Northern student looking for a way to pay for textbooks. In crocheting, she thinks she’s found her answer. She crochets everything from elephants to potholders to scarves. And she puts them up for sale at the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Saturday Market at Town Square. Saturday was the first day of the season, and although it was a holiday weekend and many people were out of town, things went pretty well, L...
BUTTE (AP) — Officials with NorthWestern Energy say they aren't abandoning the use of coal-fired power even as the Obama administration seeks to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. NorthWestern CEO Bob Rowe tells Lee Newspapers of Montana that the company does plan to bring on more renewable power and continue programs that encourage energy conservation, but he says coal still generates about half of the power the company sells its 340,000 Montana electricity customers. About 15 percent of the c...
Through the first three installments of the Golf on the Hi-Line series, we’ve taken a close look at three courses which certainly keep Hi-Line golfers busy during the summer months. And next week, we’ll take a look at the oldest and most historic course in the area. But the U.S. Highway 2 corridor isn’t the only place in our area which is golf crazy. Our neighbors to the south like golf, too, and Signal Point Golf Course just outside Fort Benton is the course of choice for m...
KALISPELL (AP) — A Bigfork pastor recuperating from a torn Achilles tendon was in the right place at the right time last Monday to resuscitate and save the life of a Boston terrier named Dozer. Randy Passons, the associate pastor at Crossroads Christian Fellowship, was lounging on the dock at Yenne Point on Flathead Lake near Woods Bay while his 7-year-old daughter, Avery, and other neighborhood children swam during the heat of a near 100-degree day. Passons, still using a w...
Eva E. Ellis, 93, of Harlem, passed away on Thursday, July 4, 2013, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes. Wake services will begin at 7 p.m. today, July 8, 2013, at the First Church of the Nazarene in Havre and will continue until the visitation, which will be from noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Funeral services will follow the visitation at 2 p.m., and the burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. The family has requested that memorials be made in...
Havre Police Department A 21-year-old Havre man in the 24/7 Sobriety Program was arrested for criminal contempt at the police station 8 a.m. Friday. ——— At 10:58 a.m. Friday officers at the police station assisted a man with a custody issue. ——— Officers investigated a report made at the police station at 11:49 a.m. Friday of a stolen handicap placard. ——— After a receiving a request for assistance from an area youth program Friday at 12:24 p.m., officers performed a welfare check and issued summonses to a 20-year-old Havre...
The classic cars in the Blaine County Cruise’s annual trip around the area are always popular with passers-by. The cars and their owners gathered in Chinook Saturday morning, drove to Fort Benton, then to Havre before heading home to Chinook. At each stop, people came by to look at the cars and talk to the owners. But Allen Pula of Chinook says people who look at them and talk about the cars are missing most of the fun. “The real fun is driving them,” he said when the cars sto...
