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After more than a year without one, Havre will soon again have a Taco John's. The fast food chain will soon open a restaurant at the former Taco Time at 505 First St. W next to TownHouse Inn of Havre. Megan Grundstrom, vice president of the Preferred Restaurant Group, a North Dakota-based Taco John's franchise that owns 15 restaurants, said they wanted to take over the Taco John's on Fifth Avenue when a local franchiser sought to get out of the business early last year. The...
Pearl Jam bass guitarist Jeff Ament will be in Hays Saturday for a ribbon cutting ceremony for a skate park that he funded. The ribbon cutting will take place at 11:30 a.m Saturday at the Hays-Lodge Pole High School. Loretta Kirkaldie, a grant writer for Fort Belknap Indian Reservation who helped spearhead the project, said Fort Belknap Indian Community Council Vice President George Horsecapture Jr. and other members will be on hand for the ceremony. Kirkaldie said that later...
With Celebrate National Health Center Week in full swing at the Bullhook Community Health Center, the Jon Tester Room was packed Wednesday afternoon with people getting free personality, career and love assessments. "It's been a great turnout," Jay Getten, behavioral health counselor, said. "The afternoon has been especially good." Getten and four other clinic employees - behavioral health case worker Ron Kling, behavioral health counselor Lindsey Reichelt, behavioral health...
Havre Police Department Alexander Dennis Eakins of Havre, 27, was arrested on a criminal contempt charge Wednesday at 7:18 p.m. at the police station. —— Drew John Cole of Havre, 36, was arrested on a criminal contempt charge in relation to a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation Wednesday at 8:06 a.m. at the police station. —— Officers investigated a disturbance after a 13th Street caller reported Wednesday at 11:37 a.m. that a woman needed to be removed. —— Officers investigated a non-injury motor vehicle crash on Third Avenu...
The Hill County Mosquito Control District Board will meet Monday, Aug. 15, at 5:15 p.m. in the Hill County Weed and Mosquito Control District Office in the Road and Weed Shop Complex at 1405 Second Street West. The agenda: 1. Review minutes from previous meeting 2. Correspondence 3. New business A) Purchase order approval 4. Unfinished business A) Budget update B) Larvicide and adulticide applications 5. Announcements — Non-action items A Next meeting is Oct. 17 with the weed district 6. Public comment 7. A...
Elsie Kay Gilbert Nelson, 103, died Aug. 10, 2016. Viewing will be Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook. Graveside service will be at Highland Cemetery in Havre, Aug. 19, 2016 at 2 p.m. A full obituary will follow....
Press release Havre Middle School Registration fro the 2016-2017 school year will be Tuesday, Aug. 23, to Thursday, Aug. 25, at the middle school. Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students accompanied by a parent or guardian can register from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students are asked to bring $6 to buy an assignment notebook and a student ID. Administration also reminds parents that all students need to be current on immunizations. For more information, people can call the middle school at 265-9613....
The workmen are finished. Thanks to daily rain my damaged lawn is repairing itself. No more mud and crud. My house is in order. Trees are planted. I’m weeding the neglected flower beds. Two-or-three-or-several times a week I am rendered speechless with gratitude with a-hit-me-over-the-head-look-at-how-different-my-world-is-than-it-coulda-woulda-been. Whew. Think about it. I grew up in Harlem, Montana, in the 50s and 60s. A trip to Chinook was a big deal. The Harlem News u...
Editor, I have been teaching in Montana for the past 24 years. I am also a parent of an elementary student and a Montana University student. As an educator here in Great Falls, I have seen a lot of changes. Having good leadership in the top positions is absolutely critical to continuing to prepare and educate our youth. Montana’s superintendent of public instruction affects me, my family, and lives of the children I teach. I’ve studied the issues and where the candidates stand. If you are a fellow educator, a parent, grandpar...
On a sunny, warm Tuesday afternoon, the Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts, located at Elks Park were busy. Kids of all ages were running around, hitting tennis balls and generally having a great time. The reason was, the Havre Tennis Camp, put on by longtime Havre High head coach George Ferguson, the coach of the highly successful Blue Pony tennis teams for the past 14 springs. While the camp was well attended once again, with nearly 40 boys and girls ranging from grades 3-1...
The Montana State University-Northern football team has plenty of things it needs to improve upon if it’s going to find the win column in 2016 and one of those areas is defense. While the defense wasn’t the only unit to blame for the team’s 0-11 record a season ago, it certainly played its part, allowing more yards to opponents (479.8) than any other team in the Frontier Conference. The Lights allowed the second-most rushing yards and the second-most passing yards last seaso...
After decades of absence, once-native grizzly bears have been spotted in the hills north of Chester. State wildlife officials are asking residents and recreationists of the Sweet Grass Hills to be bear aware after the sighting of a couple of grizzly bears recently. "We believe there are at least two bears in the Hills," said Mike Madel, bear management specialist with Fish, Wildlife and Parks, adding the bears were involved in the killing of several sheep. The Sweet Grass Hill...
