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Havre Daily News staff Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line has highlighted more of the trees donated for Saturday's Festival of Trees fundraiser. Local people, groups, organizations and businesses decorate and donate the trees to be auctioned off at the festival. The event, which starts at 7 p.m. in the club, also includes a reverse auction of a Karen Vosen quilt, silent auctions and the Five Golden Rings Game, which features five rings donated by Heirloom Jewelers and J.M....
Havre Daily News staff Havre-Hill County Crimestoppers has announced that community members have donated to increase the amount of the reward offered for information about a threat discovered last week in Havre High School. The reward now is $1,200 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of suspect or suspects who wrote the threat on the wall of a boys bathroom at the high school. The threat was discovered Nov. 12 at 5:38 p.m. in the upstairs boys bathroom. The discovery led to the school being closed Nov. 13,...
Gov. Steve Bullock announced Tuesday that Oakwood Village in Havre will be one of five projects in Montana receiving Federal Tax Credits to develop affordable housing. "This is a win-win for Montana," Bullock said in a press release. "Montana families thrive when they have a safe and affordable place to call home, and our economy continues to grow when we are able to house a productive workforce, while creating hundreds of construction jobs in local communities throughout the...
Havre Police Department Tuesday at 8:59 a.m. a Sixth Street caller asked for officer assistance during a domestic disturbance. -- Chad Jerome Wolfchild of Box Elder, 33, was arrested on a partner of family member assault, reasonable apprehension, charge after a 14th Avenue caller reported a couple fighting Tuesday at 1:11 p.m. -- Three callers at 2:01 p.m. Tuesday on Ninth Street reported a man with a bloody face. One of the callers asked for police assistance at a residence...
Roger Ray Martens of Missoula, age 70, passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday, November 15, 2018, surrounded by his family. Roger was born in 1948 in Havre, Montana, to Jesse Martens and Wanda (VanBuskirk) Martens. Roger spent most of his childhood years in Havre, though the family also lived for brief periods of time in Helena, Maine, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Chief Mountain entrance station in Glacier National Park, where his father worked for the U.S. Immigra... Full story
Roger Lee Philippi, 86, of Missoula, passed away Saturday evening, November 17, 2018, at the Riverside Health and Rehab in Missoula. Services are pending in Havre and will be announced. Cremation is under the care of Cremation Burial Society of the Rockies.... Full story
C. "Norm" Spoonheim, 85, passed away due to natural causes on Thursday, November 15, 2018, at Riverstone Hospice in Billings. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, at Turner Christian Church with visitation beginning at 12:00 p.m. Burial will follow in the Turner Cemetery. Norm's family has suggested memorial donations be made in his name to Riverstone Hospice House, 2230 Mission Way, Billings, MT 59102. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has... Full story
A busy Thanksgiving week got off to a very good start for the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team. On Tuesday night, the Lights were in Dickinson, North Dakota, to battle arch rival Dickinson State, and in a tough road game, Northern came away with a 71-57 victory. Northern, which was coming off a blowout win last Saturday at Salish Kootenai College, didn't let another long road trip get in the way from playing at a high level either. The Lights shot a...
The dust is now settled on the Big Sky Conference football season, and Tuesday the league released its 2018 All-Conference Team and postseason awards. The Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats combined to put 21 players on the All-Conference Team, with the Griz getting 11 players named and the Cats 10. Montana quarterback Dalton Sneed was named the Big Sky Newcomer of the Year. Sneed, originally from UNLV, was a 2018 junior college transfer for the Grizzlies and wound...
We are playing catch up this week, but before we get to the bowling, Harvest Moon Lanes would like to give a huge thanks to all the patrons who supported the wrestling club at the Cat-Griz Tailgate and the jackpot bowlers who supported Havre Youth Baseball. It was a fantastic weekend. Thank you all again. High scores for last week were, Christy Holden, 214 and Lacy Farmer, 520 for the women. For the men, Ryan Mapes, 237 and Roman Surber 237-670. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Su...
The Havre Elks Lodge is having the premiere of a craft show Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., a show it hopes to turn into an annual event. Elks Lodge Secretary Brandy Kurtz, one of the organizers of the event, said the craft show at the Havre Elks Lodge 1201 at 321 First Street will have 22 different vendors and crafters filling all three rooms of the building. The event will be a mix of home-based vendors and crafters, Kurtz said. She added that the craft show will have free admission. She said there will also be a full...
Press release District 4 Human Resources Development Council will be closed Thursday and Friday in observation of Thanksgiving. District 4 HRDC will resume normal business hours Monday, Nov. 26, at 8 a.m...
Press release The Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line received a check Tuesday totaling $1,500 from Havre Ford and the Ford Motor Company Fund. Ford and local Ford dealers are donating more than $100,000 to 64 Boys & Girls Clubs in Washington, Oregon, northern Idaho, Montana and Alaska to help feed children during the holidays. It's part of the Ford Focus on Child Hunger campaign. This donation is in response to the increased demand for nutritious meals during the holidays, when...
Press release Things can interfere with life. No job. Severe injury. Hospitalization. Worried about where the kids’ next meal is going to come from. Mid-life career change gone bad. Major vehicle breakdown. Laid off suddenly after 25 years with the same company. Elderly couple and one dies. These situations, any combination thereof, and almost anything people can imagine, are what participants in the Energy Share program have gone or are going through. Energy Share of Montana is a statewide private nonprofit that helps p...
Every year after Thanksgiving, Americans kick off the holiday shopping season with big stores advertising deal after deal. Not long ago, Americans during the holiday season typically would visit locally-owned small retailers in a downtown area to purchase all of their gifts. Business owners would decorate their shops with lights and ornaments or create elaborate window displays to grab the imagination of a passerby and encourage them inside. It was a magical time of year, and many of us still hold on to those memories today....
My daughter Dee Dee sent me pictures of Antoinette building a snowman, the falling white fluff thick on the ground, the tree branches covered with hoar frost. For a moment, just a moment, mind you, I had a twinge of homesick nostalgia, for snow. I have a theory. Since snow in inevitable in our northern climes, in order to find a marginal ability to tolerate the slick, nasty frozen stuff — as opposed to the genius of ice-cream — we inventive humans, creatures without ben...
I’ve surpassed 25 consecutive years of joining as many as 800 of my closest friends in savoring the turkey and all the fixins during the annual Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner, first in St. Jude’s Social Hall and then in the Parish Center. I knew about the dinner the first time around, but I and my two boys dined at my parents’ home the few years it was prepared and served, beginning in 1982. The anonymous donor, a popular Havre businessman, conceived the idea of picking up the $1,200 to $1,500 tab at a time when pover...
Press release WELLESLEY, Mass. — Havre, Montana, business owner Tyler Smith and 151 other students graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program — 10KSB — earlier this month. Smith and his classmates were selected from a group of almost 800 applicants. The 10KSB program, launched in 2009 by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation, is based at Babson College in Wellesley. The goal of the program is to aid 10,000 small businesses through education and mentorship. Nationally, the program has about 7,600...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University will host its annual Crop and Pest Management School, set for Jan. 14-16, in MSU’s Strand Union in Ballroom D. MSU Extension, the MSU College of Agriculture and the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station will host the two-and-a-half-day workshop, which will focus on crop and pest management in small grains, including presentations on agronomy, MSU crop breeding program updates, integrated weed management, entomology and plant pathology. The workshop is geared toward pro...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University’s Pesticide Education Program will offer two trainings to assist applicators in effectively managing pests with phosphine fumigants while using the fumigants safely. Phosphine gas applicators may attend the fumigant training sessions on Dec. 18 in Havre or Dec. 19 in Miles City. The half-day sessions will focus on managing rodents with fumigants and managing insects in agricultural structures. Presenters are Stephen Vantassel, Montana Department of Agriculture ver...
Press release GREAT FALLS — The National Wheat Foundation’s National Wheat Yield Contest offers growers the opportunity to compete with farmers from across the United States and improve their production practices through new and innovative techniques. Today, NWF announced winners for the 2018 National Wheat Yield Contest. The contest recognizes winners in two primary competition categories: winter wheat and spring wheat, and two subcategories: dryland and irrigated. Montana Grain Growers Association member Randy Bokma, Den...
Montana FWP Test results from three deer harvested in Blaine County have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, accroding to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks last week. The deer were harvested within the 2018 priority surveillance area, which includes the northern half of Blaine County. As a result, the northern part of Blaine County - north of U.S. Highway 2 - has been designated a CWD-positive area. A previously existing CWD-positive area includes all of Liberty...
A pair of Havre High football juniors have been named Class A All-State for the 2018 season. Blue Pony running back Mason Dionne and offensive lineman Kasee Henderson were both games to the 2018 Class A All-State Team, which was released on Tuesday. In his third straight year as a Blue Pony starting RB, Dionne rushed for 690 yards and six touchdowns. He also threw a pair of TD's and had one receiving as well. Henderson, a second-year starter on the HHS offensive line, helped...
