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This summer, Havre High had several head coaching and assistant coaching jobs open up. But the Blue Pony board, as well as Blue Pony fans and athletes can rest a little easier, as two major coaching positions have been filled. HHS Activities Director Dennis Murphy announced two new hirings. As of Tuesday, the Ponies officially have a new head golf coach in Brett Gilman and a new head cross country coach in Darci (Briere) Heninger. Murphy was not flooded with applicants for...
Closing out the regular season with a 1-1 split with Lethbridge, one of the top teams in the in district, the Havre North Stars are hopefully entering the postseason with some positive momentum. And the North Stars are going to need as much momentum moving forward as possible. The American Legion Northern District tournament starts Thursday in Vauxhall, and the field is packed with talented teams. Great Falls (16-8) enters the post season as the No. 1 seed, while Lethbridge...
BANNACK (AP) — Flash-flood damage at Bannack State Park will keep the southwestern Montana ghost town closed to tourists for at least a month, state officials said. Lt. Gov. John Walsh and State Parks Administrator Chas Van Genderen toured the site Monday to survey damage caused by the July 17 flooding. About 80 percent of the town's buildings were damaged by hail, mud and water. The Assay Office was destroyed, boardwalks were torn out, and last weekend's annual Bannack D...
Havre Police Department Officers responded to a request for assistance made at 9:44 a.m. Tuesday by a person who said their ex was at the house trying to take their children in violation of a parenting plan. ——— Officers at 10:56 a.m. Tuesday investigated a report of a window being broken out of a pickup in an alley on Grant Avenue. ——— Officers at 11:09 a.m. Tuesday investigated a report from 10th Street West of items stolen from a pickup. ——— Officers assisted at 12:01 p.m. Tuesday a caller who reported a Medicaid scam. ...
Everett G. Topham, 85, of Havre passed away on Sunday, July 21, 2013, at his residence of natural causes. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m., on Thursday, July 25, 2013, at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, July 26, 2013, at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church. Interment will be at a later date in Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va., with full military honors. The family has requested that memorial donations be made in...
The Hill County 4-H teen representative and queen were elected Thursday for 2013. Natalen Kinsella was elected queen, and Mike Compton was chosen as teen representative. Kinsella, upcoming senior at Havre High School, said that she was not nervous about the verdict. “I was pretty confident,” she said. The two leaders were chosen as county wide 4-H leaders after an interview on July 16. Family Consumer Science and 4-H Extension Agent Lea Ann Larson said the organization loo...
Usually when someone asks homeowners if they want to display a sign in their yard, the request is met with resistance, but Tammy and Bruce Nelson of Havre will be proudly displaying a new sign: Yard of the Week, awarded by the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club. Members of the garden club take turns throughout the summer choosing eye-catching yards around the city, and this week’s choice came from Paulette Cronk, one of the club’s co-founders who is also a member of the Jumping Jun...
Several people, including board members, said the community did not seem pleased with the new carnival at the 2013 Great Northern Fair, although the fair manager said it still made respectable ticket sales. The board ended its three-year contract with Royal West Amusements that had been putting on the carnival at the fair, and signed a contract with Brown’s Amusements, the first year that company has come to Montana. Social media started filling with complaints about the carnival on its first day, Wednesday. Those c...
Organizations that put events on at the Great Northern Fair were split on comments about this year’s fair, with a representative of one group telling the fair board Monday that his group would no longer put on the rodeo due to conflicts with the management, while a 4-H representative said this year was tremendous for that organization. Clint Solomon of the local association that started putting on the professional rodeo at the fair in 2011 said the rodeo went well, but his gro...