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HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus is asking President Barack Obama to consider Montana as the administration develops its policy to deal with climate change. The president has said rules are needed to curb greenhouse gases. Baucus sent a letter to Obama on Tuesday asking him to reach out to individual states and avoid a one-size-fits-all solution. He outlined 15 priorities for Montana. The senator says the president should approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline that runs through Montana, upgrade electric transmission lines t...
Just a month after weeks of rain created disastrous flooding in the region, another storm dumped estimates of .75 inch to 1 inch of rain on Havre in a short but intense storm Monday, but it appears this deluge did not cause significant damage in the Havre area. “Not anything that created any big issues … ,” Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said this morning. “We didn’t get any calls we had to respond to.” The rain seemed centered on the Havre area, with the National Weather Service recording station at the Havre C...
HELENA (AP) — Police charged a Washington state man in the slaying of his 3-year-old son Tuesday, a day after he was arrested while washing blood off his clothes in a southwestern Montana convenience store restroom, authorities said. Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, of Lacey, has been charged with deliberate homicide, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka said. He made an initial court appearance Tuesday, where he asked to be represented by a public defender. His bond was set at $250,000. The boy's mother told police on Mo...
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 after Lisa Stroh resigned to become superintendent of the Valdez school system in Alaska. Commissioner Chair Dolores Plumage said Brockie was chosen because of his enthusiasm. “He was just so energetic about education,” she said. Brockie is a graduate of Harlem High School, received his associate degree from Haskell Indian Nations Uni...
The Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team was supposed to start one final six-game road trip Monday afternoon north of the border. Instead, the North Stars watched it rain. Havre was to play a Northern District doubleheader with the Lethbridge Spitz Miners Monday in Lethbridge, but thunderstorms which swept through the southern Alberta city washed away the games. No makeup date for the double dip has been announced. The North Stars will try and get back on the diamon...
It’s been a busy recruiting season for Montana State University-Northern head women’s coach Chris Mouat. And with the NAIA basketball season still several months away, Mouat is still busy. Last week, he announced the signing of 6-1 forward Megan Feldman, who is transferring to MSU-N after two years at Clackamas Community College in Oregon. This past season, Feldman was a key player on a Clackamas team that won the South Region, and played for an NWAACC title, falling 51-49 to...
With the Fourth of July falling right in the middle of the week, competitive golf took a backseat to the holiday last week. Though local courses were booked solid with golfers, families and plenty of fun in the sun last week, men’s and women’s leagues took the week off, and will resume starting tonight at Prairie Farms. The local tournament scene also took a week off, but that will get right back into the swing of things Sunday at Prairie Farms as the annual Rotary Blast Tourn...
Cheers to the Blaine County Commissioners for the selection of Terry Brockie as the new Superintendent of Schools. Brockie has displayed enthusiasm for educating young people and seems ready to move forward to further improve Blaine County schools. Brockie is truly committed to education, He had no plans to teach as a career, but returned to college as an adult to get his degree at Montana State University-Billings. He starts with a good base. The county’s larger schools — Chinook, Harlem, Turner and Hays-Lodge Pole have a l...
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Next to wedding gowns waiting for alterations, seamstress Virginia Wock has 10 bags of oilfield clothing in need of repairs. The owner of alterations business The Perfect Fit in Dickinson is in demand to alter and repair fire-resistant clothing for workers who come to North Dakota from all over the country. "I'm close to 40 states just off the top of my head," Wock, 66, told The Forum newspaper.The fire-resistant coveralls that are required for oilfield...
Havre High School band students wash a pickup truck in the Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods parking lot during a car wash fundraiser for the Havre High marching band’s camp and travel expenses....
Havre Police Department A caller on Lincoln Avenue reported Monday at 11:01 a.m. that someone had turned on their outside spigot and flooded the basement. Officers investigated the incident. ——— After a caller from a 1st Street business reported a shoplifter at 4:53 p.m. Monday, responding officers arrested a 32-year-old Hays woman for theft by shoplifting. ——— Officers investigated a report made Monday at 4:57 p.m. from 4th Avenue of a USB drive stolen from a vehicle. ——— Monday at 8:18 p.m. officers investigated a tw...
Viola Marie England, 72, passed away Sunday, July 7, 2013, at her daughter's home in Havre. Public viewing will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Funeral Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, July 12, 2013, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, with burial to follow at Highland Cemetery. A full obituary will follow....
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is bringing Washington to Havre to discuss a matter close to home: border security. Tester, a Montana Democrat, will hold a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee he chairs, with U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., a member of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, scheduled to participate. The hearing, “Protecting Our Northern Border: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Local Partnerships,” is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Friday in Hensler Au...
