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HELENA (AP) — Montana's pension funds have returned to their pre-recession market value. The state Board of Investments learned Thursday that the state's nine pension funds posted a net gain of just over 13 percent for the fiscal year ending June 30, and now have a total value of $8.54 billion. The funds were valued at $8.5 billion in October 2007, before losing a quarter of their value in the 2008 financial meltdown. Board of Investments Executive Director David Ewer tells Lee Newspapers of Montana that the funds b...
Politicians work the crowd Most fairgoers liked Thursday’s weather. It was warm, but the wind kept it comfortable. Not so for the Hill County Democrats. Located right near the entrance most people use, the Dems usually catch the attention of passersby with their colorful signs, posters and sometimes cutouts of their candidates. This year’s booth looked rather barren. “The wind blew down our signs,” said Hill County Democratic Chair Brenda Skornogoski. But a cadre of Democra...
HELENA (AP) — The Democratic Party can still win the Senate seat being vacated by Max Baucus, but it's going to take a lot more work now that former Gov. Brian Schweitzer isn't running, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester said Friday. Schweitzer was the Democrats' best chance of winning the 2014 election, but there are good potential candidates in the state Legislature, administration and the private sector who can the 2014 election if they're willing to do the work, Tester said. Losing Baucus' seat to a Republican candidate would make i...
HELENA — A foundation run by a New York private equity firm pledged $2 million Friday to help pair young entrepreneurs at the University of Montana and Montana State University with businesses that can help get their ideas off the ground. Blackstone Group president Tony James announced Montana as the fifth state with a Blackstone LaunchPad program, a $50 million initiative that aims to encourage entrepreneurship across the nation. "I think entrepreneurship is absolutely the core of the American character," James told a p...
Ken Blatt St. Marks has apparently survived another effort to get his name off the ballot in the July 30 elections for Chippewa Cree tribal chair. St. Marks said Tribal Judge Donna Running Wolf ruled Thursday that the provision of tribal code that the Election Board initially used to throw him off the ballot was unconstitutional. The provision says that after a person is removed from tribal office for misconduct, they are ineligible to run for two years. St. Marks said Running Wolf ruled that provision was added to tribal law...
Aside from a brief lapse in focus as a 5-year-old who wanted to be a cheerleader, Havre-native Carly Swenson has always wanted to be an artist and starting next week visitors to Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls will get to see where her lifelong artistic ambition has taken her. While working toward her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, Carly worked with a variety of art mediums — graphite, India ink, acrylic inks and paints, oil pa...
If there was ever a time to make sure all the wrinkles were worked out of the Havre North Stars’ program, that time would be now. This afternoon, the Havre American Legion baseball team will play its final games of the regular season. And hosting one of the tougher teams they will face this year, the North Stars welcome in the Lethbridge Spitz Miners at Legion Field in Havre. Game 1 was previously scheduled for 5 p.m., but has been moved up to a 1 p.m. start. And this will b...
The Great Northern Fair always has a lot to offer in the way of sports. But Thursday night, the grandstands belonged to the participants of the Hi-Line Junior Rodeo. Dozens of cowboys and cowgirls from all over the Hi-Line, ranging from 4-18 competed for prizes Thursday inside the Great Northern Fairgrounds arena. And with several events, including sheep riding, flag race, barrel racing, chute doggin’, steer riding, the arena boot race, goat ribbon untying, goat tying, b...
If you’re looking for a great rodeo to watch, then look no further than the Great Northern Fairgrounds. It’s true, the Great Northern Rodeo, formerly known as the Great Northern Stampede always creates plenty of wild excitement, but this year’s performance might be the best yet. The annual Northern Rodeo Association sanctioned Great Northern Rodeo kicks off with tonight’s performance at 7 inside the Great Northern Rodeo arena, while the rodeo concludes Saturday night with a se...
Dart — It’s bad enough when someone steals an American flag from any place. But the actions of the people who took the flag that flew for all to see at Community Effort Pavillion and Campground at Beaver Creek Park are especially repulsive. The Railroad Pagers worked hard to get the community to support the new pavillion that all area residents will be able to enjoy. If you know who did it, call the Hill County Sheriff’s Office right away. Laurel — Gilbert Horn was honored by District 2 American Legion last week. He served...
Last week I found myself standing outside with hands on hips, shoulders and elbows spread wide, feet splayed shoulder-width apart, admiring the view down the coulee, and I asked myself a profound question: How long has it been since I last stood around in this Wonder Woman pose? It’s an important life question, but I’ll back up about 20 years or so to the beginning of the story. I had “dinged” my back slinging around some hefty hay bales. And by hefty I mean to say that th...
The July 18, 1893 issue of The Havre Advertiser had only one full article dedicated to local news, and it came from Fort Assinniboine. It contained news of a new firearm called the Krag-Jorgensen; the inventors were Norwegians. It weighed about 8 ½ pounds with a 12-inch knife bayonet. The magazine held five cartridges and the bullets weighed 220 grains as opposed to the current 500 grains. Calibre was 0.30. Another article said Chaplain C. C. Bateman attended the World’s Co...
On July 13, 2013, Erma Mae Reichelt, 86, left this world to be with her heavenly Father. She lost this life to pancreatic cancer. Her time of suffering was brief, and she passed with many family members and friends by her side. Erma was born to Elsie and Walter Buchholz on Feb. 3, 1927, in Big Sandy, Mont. She was raised in Big Sandy with her three younger sisters. After high school graduation in 1945, Erma and her best friend Mardella Reichelt moved to the big city of Great...
Sharon Lynn Burch, 60, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away Friday, March 22, 2013, at her home of natural causes. Sharon was born Nov. 5, 1952, in Havre, Mont., to Lawrence Kazar Nanoff and Jewel Ann Davey (Nickey) Nanoff. She attended school in Havre. In 1970, Sharon married Michael J. Morrow. They were later divorced. On April 1, 1976, she married Rodney Lee Burch in Havre. They were later divorced. She was a member of the Assembly of God church. She attended Bible study and loved to share the word of God with everyone who...
The jobless rate in Montana stayed at 5.4 percent during June. The state Labor Department called the rate “a pause in the long-term downward trend experienced throughout 2013.” Still, Montana’s rate was considerably lower than the national rate of 7.6 percent. “Montana has added more than 2,500 jobs in the last two months, continuing the strong employment growth experienced in 2012,” said Labor Commissioner Pam Bucy. “Montana’s unemployment rate continues to fall, and Montanans are back to work.” “Montana’s econ...
Representatives of three counties, two Indian reservations and an electric cooperative met Thursday with state and federal officials to start federal help for the recovery from this spring’s flooding, with the officials saying their goal is to help the local governments get help as quickly as they can. “I like to say we’re like the circus,” Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Federal Coordinating Officer Tom McCool said during the briefing. “We come in, we perform, and we leave town. Because the quicker we get done...
