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Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS LIKELY TO STICK THROUGH ELECTIONS: Officials say a court decision on whether individuals and political parties can give unlimited amounts of money to state candidates likely won't be made until after the Nov. 4 elections. Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl says the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may schedule oral arguments months after a September legal brief is filed, which would push back...
BILLINGS (AP) — Montana's U.S. House candidates claim to offer "all-of-the-above" solutions to the nation's energy problems— a familiar mantra among politicians keen to give equal attention to fossil fuels and renewables such as wind and solar. Yet stark differences in the details of their proposals reveal a wide divide. Republican Ryan Zinke is a staunch fossil fuels advocate who questions humanity's role in climate change. Democrat John Lewis touts the potential for renewables that he says could transform the state's ene...
The 50th Annual Rocky Boy Celebration brought the area's biggest powwow to the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation powwow grounds Friday through Sunday. The first grand entry for the three-day event was 5:30 p.m. Friday and hundreds of spectators gathered round the grounds to watch the day's dancers circle the color guard. The first songs of the drum groups from around the continent provided background for the prairie chicken, traditional, fancy and other dancers from many nations...
I have always enjoyed the local Hill County fair, now known as the Great Northern Fair, especially when I was a child and involved in 4-H. Now that I am grown up, I still enjoy watching my nieces and nephews with their 4-H projects. This is why I am so disappointed and saddened by your lack of coverage of the recent 4-H doings at the fair. You showed pictures of the derby and gave the results; you gave the results of the Junior Rodeo and the NRA Rodeo. The only 4-H coverage you did was the horse judging, which you missed...
The best $10 bucks I've spent all summer was for the tickets to "Sympathy Jones: The New Secret Agent Musical," directed by Audrey Barger and Angela Pratt. It was wonderfully cast and performed by a tremendously talented group of Havre's youth. Emily Simonson, as Sympathy Jones, secret agent wanna-be, packed a punch. She sang, danced and even did her own stunts! She was counterbalanced by the vivacious and vicious villainess in the most deliciously derelict of dresses — Aria Pratt, as Kitty Hawk. She played a very b...
I'm writing to thank the public and the press for following the Public Service Commission's nine-day-long hearing on NorthWestern Energy's proposed acquisition of a dozen dams. The PSC expects to make a decision on this matter in September, and that decision will have consequences decades to come for Montana consumers. There is still time to offer public comment on the deal, and you can do so online at http://psc.mt.gov. The fundamental issue in the proceeding boils down to...
Deland L. Robertson Jr., 41, passed away on Thursday, July 31, 2014, at Benefis Medical Center in Great Falls, Montana, of natural causes. Wake services will begin with a rosary at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, and will continue until his traditional funeral service, which will be at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, all at the Red Whip Center in Fort Belknap, Montana. Interment will be in the Shortman Family Cemetery in Hays, Montana. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been en...
The Hill County Health Department is bringing a look at ways to reduce poverty in the county to Havre Tuesday and Wednesday as part of an effort to help young children even before they are born, along with everyone else in the community. Hill County Lead Public Health Nurse Bridget Kallenberger said a point identified as a major problem in an assessment of maternal, infant and early childhood issues was poverty, and the department applied for a grant to help look at ways to reduce poverty. The U.S. Department of Health and...
Havre Police Department Samantha Brooke Johnson, 19, of Havre and Jordan James Normandy, 20, of Havre were arrested on Justice or City court warrants after officers served the warrants at 6:34 a.m. Friday on 5th Street. ——— Officers investigated a 9:44 a.m. Friday call from a 3rd Street business about a possible scam. ——— Officers investigated a 12:40 p.m. Friday call from 4th Street and 6th Avenue about a possible sex assault. ——— John Edward Derry III, 34, of Havre was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended or rev...
The 2014 Rocky Boy All Nation Ultimate Warrior Challenge sent the teams through a grueling relay-style race around Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Friday. The men, however, had to take the entire course by themselves. First, they were sent on a 2.5-mile run to their horse, which they then had to ride bareback for 4.5 miles. After they completed their ride, they had to run to an archery range, where they had to hit a target or spend 10 arrows trying. Once they were out of...
Democratic U.S. House candidate John Lewis was in Hill County Friday, touring biotech facilities at Montana State University-Northern, touting his new energy and agriculture policies and then attending the powwow at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Lewis opposes Republican Ryan Zinke in the Nov. 4 election. Lewis called Northern’s biodiesel facilities “not nationwide leaders but worldwide leaders” in biodiesel development. “I can‘t believe they have five people running the entire program,” he said. Jobs in the biodiesel i...
The running game. Over the last few Frontier Conference football seasons, running back and powerful running attacks have been at the forefront of all of the league’s offensive fireworks. And though there are some great quarterbacks, and potent passing attacks in the Frontier this upcoming season, running attacks and stellar individual running attacks will certainly take center stage yet again. The Frontier returns four 1,000-yards rushers from a season ago, and several t...
Fans and players alike experienced an atmosphere that was unique and festive as the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field played host the 2014 Montana Men’s Fastpitch state tournament. The event, played in Havre for the first time since 2009, featured six teams, four from Havre to go along with one team from Missoula and one team from Deer Lodge. “I think it was a really great tournament,” said Patch Wirtzberger, a member of four state championship teams. “Just look at the atmosph...
