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The Miss Great Northern Rodeo Pageant crowned Sheridan O'Neil as the 2014 queen of the fair. The pageant saw two contestants this year: O'Neil and Rachel Bartlett. The two contestants went through a rigorous trial of showing their horsemanship at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Arena and then moved on to the Holiday Village Mall to do the speech and posing portions of the competition. At the arena, both contestants ran patterns with their horses. "You...
On July 18, 2014, Dorothy Jean (Bough) Majerus, 88, passed away peacefully surrounded by family in the Central Montana Medical Center. A Vigil will be held Tuesday, July 22 at 7 p.m., and Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, July 23 at 11 a.m. at St. Leo's Catholic Church in Lewistown. Dorothy was born to Edward and Anna (O'Connor) Bough on May 22, 1926, in Havre, Montana. She was the youngest of the five Bough girls who worked to help make a living on the family homestead...
Smoke from fires in state of Washington have created unhealthy hazy conditions in several Montana cities, especially those in the western part of the states. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality says that in Missoula, Butte and Hamilton the air has reached unhealthy conditions. There is no air quality station in Havre, but Great Falls was at healthy levels, while in Malta, the conditions were unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as those with lung diseases. The department said conditions were likely to remain the...
NorthWestern Energy reports that a large area between Chester east to the outskirts of Havre is without power. The company, in a Twitter feed, says that it believes high winds are to blame. Crews are en route....
HELENA (AP) — Montana's attorney general asked a federal court Thursday to uphold the state's constitutional same-sex marriage ban in response to a lawsuit that seeks to overturn it. Republican Attorney General Tim Fox in documents filed in federal court in Great Falls denied all the allegations brought by the four gay couples who filed the lawsuit in May. The move was not unexpected, as Fox had said previously he would vigorously defend the ban. Approved by voters in 2004, the ban says marriage is between a man and woman. I...
HELENA — This week largely has been about the numbers as candidates filed second-quarter fundraising reports and information came out about their personal assets. Here's a look at the week's most interesting and important developments in Montana's election campaigns: FOREST MANAGEMENT "MISUNDERSTANDING" Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Daines was one of more than two dozen representatives who signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner last week urging him to reject proposals in the Senate that "address forest management p...
Marcus Carter is an artist who lives in Havre who uses his art to communicate with other people. Carter is deaf and was speaking through an interpreter, Melissa Hendricks, at the Atrium Mall as he painted a landscape of mountains. Carter grew up in Great Falls and attended the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind there. "That's where I grew up for most of my childhood," Carter said. " ... I learned about myself through drawing and painting." Jack Fischer, a former teacher at...
It’s Fair Week, and everyone is in a good mood, so let’s stick to laurels. Laurel — The Montana Supreme Court has ruled what we thought was obvious. If you want to claim that you shot somebody in self-defense, you have to actually claim it. Prosecutors have to prove that you are guilty of the crime, and the defense has the right to claim self-defense. But when defendants do that, the state’s high court ruled, the defendants have to testify and waive their right to involve the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constit...
HELENA (AP) — NorthWestern Energy CEO Bob Rowe is telling state regulators that the company's $900 million plan to purchase 11 hydroelectric dams and charge the cost to its electricity customers is solid. Rowe said Thursday the dams are an "extraordinary set of assets" and it makes sense for NorthWestern to purchase them. A consultant for the Montana Consumer Counsel said previously if the Public Service Commission approves the deal without changes, NorthWestern will get guaranteed profits and ratepayers will pay a...
The July 18, 1914, issue of the Hill County Democrat was a very interesting one. It was a Booster Edition, full of columns boasting about how great Hill County, Havre and Montana were to live and work. The issue was 24 pages in length, with only one of those pages and a scattered short column or two pertaining to national and world events. Pictures were in this newspaper of buildings and interiors of businesses long gone, unfortunately, the ones that most of us have not seen...
Maybe I watch too many movies and I’ve become jaded, bored by the action movie formula, but thoughts of reality keep intruding on my action/adventure cinema experience. In a scene where thieves break into a downtown office to steal solid gold bars to finance a major drug and firearms purchase from dastardly no-good-nicks, (this is what I see): Two mastermind thieves enter the building through the roof (one of them gets stuck in the opening they made and, in the process of g...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 2:40 p.m. Thursday call from 3rd Street about a stolen mountain bike. ——— Officers investigated a 5:05 p.m. Thursday call from Smithville Road about someone hacking at a tree with an axe. ——— Officer investigated a 7:56 p.m. Thursday call from a 1st Street business about a stolen bike. ——— Keionna Marie Frederick, 21, of Havre was issued a summons on a charge of endangering the welfare of children after officers responded to an 8:01 p.m. Thursday call from a 1st Street busine...
The Hill County Drug and DUI courts held a celebration of a major milestone Thursday following court: the first graduation of their participants. Josh Kaupang and JonAnn Roastingstick both graduated from the program, with congratulations and thanks for their work to overcome addictions from Judge Audrey Barger. “I hope you both have a lot of self-respect,” Barger said, adding at the end of the presentation, “I will miss you both terribly.” The graduation was held before a crowd of celebrants including members of the Drug an...
Kristen Johnson has been traveling across the nation putting on her show for many years and is performing it at the Great Northern Fair until Saturday evening. Kevin Ridgeway, her presenter at her shows, said the crowds were very responsive Thursday afternoon. Johnson and Ridgeway are putting on two shows a day, with three on Saturday. Johnson said Thursday that she got into escaping chains and traps originally because she was part of someone else's show and wanted to be an eq...
The latest phase of a project 10 years in the making is coming to fruition, with the new Bullhook Community Health Center facility across from Havre City Hall on the 500 Block of 3rd Street opening next week. Bullhook CEO Cindy Smith said health center staff members have been moving items from the center's medical location by Northern Montana Hospital and the dental offices in the Atrium Mall into the new building, and training was scheduled for today. "I just know that my...
If you’re a professional rodeo fan, then saddle up and head to the Great Northern Fairgrounds this weekend for the NRA Great Northern Stampede as the event promises to deliver two days of exciting action. The annual event sanctioned by the Northern Rodeo Association, will begin tonight at 7 inside the Great Northern Fairgrounds Arena and concludes Saturday when the second day of the event gets under way at 7 p.m. There will also be plenty of slack, scheduled for Saturday at 9...
The 2014 season is winding down for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball club, but before they begin play in the Northern A District Tournament next Thursday, the North Stars will head to Whitefish for a pair of nondistrict games against the Glacier Twins to close out the regular season. The North Stars, who are 18-22 overall and 9-15 in district play won’t have anything to gain standings-wise when they square off against the Twins tonight and Saturday in a pair o...
The Great Northern Fair offers fans a bevy of sporting events to enjoy over the course of the week but Thursday night, inside the arena at the Great Northern Fairgrounds, the participants in the Junior Rodeo took center stage. Cowboys and cowgirls from across the Hi-Line, ranging from four to 18 years old, competed for prizes in a slew of exciting events that included sheep riding, barrel racing, steer riding, breakaway roping, goat ribbon untying, goat tying, arena boot...
