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Kathy Bilger is well known around Havre. Over the years, she has waited on people at 4Bs Restaurant, provided needs for seniors at Northern Montana Care Center and served folks at Town Pump She is known for her friendly manner. Now the community is waiting on her. She has been diagnosed with liver cancer, and family and friends have organized a fundraiser at Pizza Hut to help pay the many expenses. When people buy any food from Pizza Hut today - call-in, takeout or pick-up -...
A former Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation official was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison Wednesday at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls. John "Chance" Houle, in addition to the five years and eight months, was also ordered to pay a restitution of $646,446. The restitution will be split three ways - between the Chippewa Cree regional water project, the Chippewa Cree Tribe itself and the United States Internal Revenue Service. Houle pleaded guilty to...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON — Nonprofit co-ops, the health care law’s public-spirited alternative to mega-insurers, are awash in red ink and many have fallen short of sign-up goals, a government audit has found. Under President Barack Obama’s overhaul, taxpayers provided $2.4 billion in loans to get the co-ops going, but only one out of 23 — the one in Maine — made money last year, said the report out today. Another one, the Iowa/Nebraska co-op, was shut down by regulators over financial concerns. The...
Staff and wire report A Rocky Boy man and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management official who supervised his work in Virginia have been sentenced to time in prison and ordered to pay back tens of thousands of dollars they defrauded from the federal government. Larry Ray Denny of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, former deputy state director of BLM’s Eastern States Region, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud, making false claims and theft of government property. Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris sentenced Denny to one...
Montana's lone member in the U.S House of Representatives and its senior senator are finding themselves on opposite sides in the debate over whether genetically modified foods should be mandated to carry a label. The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act, which passed the House 275-150 last Thursday, would establish a single national standard for determining which products containing GMOs should be required to have a label. Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., was among the group...
Many natural gas consumers served by Havre Pipeline Co. are complaining that their service is deteriorating, and they want help from the company to help find and pay for new sources of energy. They found a supporter in the Montana Consumer Counsel, whose advisers suggest that it is the pipeline company's responsibility to help consumers, mostly farmers in rural areas of Blaine and Hill counties, make the transition, most likely to propane. The Montana Public Service...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — A 19-year-old Belgrade woman who was attacked in an off-campus apartment with two other Montana State University-Northern students is being released from the hospital. The Great Falls Tribune reports that Taylor Woolman will be released from the Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, Tuesday. Woolman was attacked in the May 2 stabbings that also injured Sam Mix and Alicia Schneid. Mix was stabbed more than three dozen times, Woolman more than 20 times, including one that pierced her brain. Schneid was s...
Press release Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., announced members of his staff will be holding “mobile office hours” in north-central Montana in the coming weeks. A representative from Daines’ Montana offices will be at the Blaine County Library at 94 4th Street in Chinook Tuesday, Aug. 11 from 10a.m. to noon, and a representative will be at the Liberty County Library at 100 First Street East in Chester Wednesday, Aug. 12, also from 10 a.m. to noon. Daines said this year his staff will regularly hold office hours in all of the c...
One never knows, right? It’s one thing to plan. For example, today I mop the floors. Then a friend stops by and suggests, “Let’s go to Callecita for seared tuna and guava pie.” Are you going to be flexible? Or are you rigid in concrete, “I cannot go. I must mop my floors.” Really? Only a few more days and I will cross the heat-shimmering tarmac to board the plane from Mazatlan to Dallas to Seattle to Great Falls, Montana. Originally I planned a trip for March and April, with a...
The Hill County Park Board meeting will be at the Timmons Rooms in the Hill County Courthouse Monday at 5:30 p.m. The agenda is: 1. Approval of minutes: 2. Approval of agenda: 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only 4. Cabin business: 5. Old business: Corey Lloyd; Committee work session — Dave; Rules and Regulation Committee; Blackie Coulee update; Lions Campground update; Star Gazers — Robbie; spring cabin inspections 6. New business: Friends of Beaver Creek Park; Grazing Committee report 7. Cabin Owner’s Assoc...
Summer is a time for fun and sun. But Havre High junior-to-be Parker Filius has also put a lot of hard work in on the wrestling mat this summer. Filius, a two-time Class A state champion for the Blue Ponies and head coach Scott Filius, who also happens to be his father, competed in the National Junior Wrestling Tournament last week in Fargo, North Dakota. The tournament is one of the biggest sanctioned wrestling tournaments in the country each year. As an indication of just...
The 2015 season was a memorable one for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team. But, it will always be a season of what ifs after Havre failed to qualify for the Montana State A baseball tournament despite earning the top seed for the Northern A district tournament. Yet, just because the North Stars didn't make it to state, doesn't mean their season was a failure. In fact, far from it. The 2015 North Stars could ultimately go down as the team that started the...
