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Articles from the August 18, 2016 edition


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  • Museum board to fill vacancies

    Paul Dragu|Updated Aug 19, 2016

    Editor's note: After this story was printed, H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board Director Judi Dritshulas contacted the Havre Daily to say the vacancies on the board were filled shortly after they became open. The museum board has no vacancies. The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board has two vacancies and will be taking suggestions for board membership until Sept. 15. "The appointment to the museum board will be made after that," a press release says. Hill County Commission...

  • Bullock to headline Pasma-Peck Dinner

    Alex Ross|Updated Aug 19, 2016

    With 80 days left until November’s election, Gov. Steve Bullock is slated to galvanize local Democrats Tuesday when he serves as keynote speaker at the annual Pasma-Peck Dinner at the Eagle’s Club in Havre. Bullock is fending off a challenge from Bozeman entrepreneur Republican Greg Gianforte as he runs for a second term. A representative with the governor’s office said he will arrive at the fundraiser after attending two events on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation: a roundtable discussion on apprenticeship programs at Stone C...

  • Quick Pics: Catch of the Day

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

  • Residents report cars were entered, money taken

    Paul Dragu|Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Four calls were made to the Havre Police Department Wednesday between 7:55 and 9:30 a.m. with the callers reporting someone had entered their vehicles. Of the four, only the Sixth Avenue caller reported, at 8:23 a.m., that anything was taken. “Vehicle entered last night. Parked in alley, locked (but) windows down a little bit, money was taken, other items left on ground by the car,” the dispatch log narrative says. The other reports were made by a Fifth Avenue caller at 7:55 a.m., someone from Seventh Street at 8:25 a.m...

  • Drive sober or get pulled over

    Paul Dragu|Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Law enforcement agencies across Montana will deploy extra patrols beginning Saturday and lasting until Labor Day, Sept. 5, as part of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown. “More than half of roadway fatalities in Montana each year involve an impaired driver, and this is unacceptable,” Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said in a news release. Citing a statistic from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the news release says that “high-visibility” enforcement can reduce alcohol-related driving fat...

  • For the Record - August 18, 2016

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated an assault report after a caller from a First Street West establishment reported Wednesday at 10:42 a.m. that he was approached by a man who was possibly armed. —— Officers investigated a found property report after a Third Street caller reported Wednesday at 3:46 p.m. that a bike was found. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash after callers from a Fifth Avenue reported Wednesday at 9:14 p.m. that their son was hit by a vehicle that took off. The vehicle was described as...

  • Agenda: Weed board meeting canceled

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    The meeting of the Hill County Weed Control District Board scheduled for Friday has been canceled....

  • Obituary - Patti Marie Hagfeldt

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Patti Marie Hagfeldt of Laurel was born Sept. 22, 1956, in Havre, Montana, to Maurice and Arlene Harshman. She passed away unexpectedly on the morning of Aug. 12, 2016. Patti grew up in Chinook, Montana, and graduated from there in 1975 as a proud Chinook Sugarbeeter. In the coming years, she would often recite Chinook’s fight song to her family and would remind them that she was Carnival Queen and Homecoming Queen while at CHS. Patti went on to attend Eastern Montana C...

  • Obituary - Timothy Marvin Hauge

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Timothy Marvin Hauge, 55, was born on Oct. 1, 1960, in Conrad, Montana, to Marvin and Joanne (Warnick) Hauge. Tim passed away on Aug. 15, 2016 in Odessa, Washington. He was a much-loved pastor at Christ Lutheran Church for the last 15 years in Odessa. He was also a member of the Odessa Fire Department, the Odessa Ministerial Association, Oompa Band, Crab Creek Gospel Group and also drove school bus for the Odessa School District. He enjoyed motorcycle riding, boating, camping...

  • Obituary - Leonard J. Weaving Sr.

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Leonard J. Weaving Sr., 83, passed away due to natural causes on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, at his residence. Cremation has taken place, and a memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at Our Saviours Lutheran Church. Burial with military honors will follow in the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Leonard's online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at...

  • Looking Out My Backdoor: Straining tea leaves through my teeth

    Sondra Ashton, Humor columnist|Updated Aug 18, 2016

    My cousin Nancie will board the plane for her home in Washington today. Three weeks wasn’t enough time for her to finish the long list of tasks she set herself in her new casa. But she painted and made curtains and cleaned and scratched off great chunks of her list. We found time to visit each day, often during work breaks or sharing meals, mugs of coffee, cups of tea. Years ago I had a friend in construction work who, with a wink, said that paint hides a multitude of sins. I...

  • Sports Photo: Skylights hit the court tonight...

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

  • Lights getting there with second fall scrimmage

    George Ferguson|Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Two-a-day football practice during fall camp can be a grind. Whether it's high school, college or the NFL, fall camp gets long, it gets hot and it gets tedious. But, during that grind, teams get better, and Montana State University-Northern head football coach Aaron Christensen sees his Lights doing just that. On Wednesday morning, Northern held its second scrimmage of the fall, and, for all intents and purposes, its last before taking on Rocky Mountain College in the...

  • 2016 Pony teams to be unveiled Saturday

    Chris Peterson|Updated Aug 18, 2016

    One of the great traditions of Havre High athletics are the annual Blue-White scrimmages, put on by the football and volleyball teams. The scrimmages signal the start of the fall sports season and in terms of the football team, it gives fans their first look at Blue Pony Stadium. The Blue-White football game will also give Havre its first look at the 2016 Blue Ponies, along with a look at first-year head coach Ryan Gatch. Gatch inherits a team that went 7-3 a season ago and...

  • Havre City Court: July 2016

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Editor’s note: The computer program provided by the Montana state government to print media reports on court actions does not always list all fines assessed. The following cases were resolved by Havre City Judge Virginia Seigel in July. Anita Jo Eagleman, born in 1975, was fined $150 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, 178 days suspended and two credited, for driving while privilege to do so is suspended or revoked, and was sentenced to 180 days in jail, 173 days suspended and seven credited, for operating a vehicle with ....

  • Havre City Court: June 2016

    Updated Aug 18, 2016

    Editor’s note: The computer program provided by the Montana state government to print media reports on court actions does not always list all fines assessed. The following cases were resolved by Havre City Judge Virginia Seigel in June. Timothy Michael Koop Jr., born in 1987, was given a deferred imposition of sentence, fined $300 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, all days suspended, for assault. —— A man born in 1998, who was 17 at the time he was charged, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt. In a later case, he w...