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LOLO (AP) — Fire managers at the Lolo Creek Complex of fires near the town of Lolo focused Sunday on the northern edge of the fire that's heading toward a Bonneville Power Administration power line. Fire spokesman Thomas Kempton says contingency plans are being made should the 16-square-mile fire reach the 500-kilovolt line that's about a mile and a half from the fire. He says about 800 personnel and seven helicopters are assigned to the lightning-caused blaze that destroyed five homes last week. He says firefighters have h...
Rosalyn Anstine Templeton, provost at Montana State University-Northern, has resigned her position. Templeton’s resignation from the number-two post on campus, will be effective Jan. 3. She has served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at MSU-N since 2010. In an email sent to faculty and staff this morning, Chancellor James M. Limbaugh wrote, “I will meet immediately with representatives of Academic Affairs to begin the necessary conversations regarding a smooth transition in leadership.” Limbaugh made no me...
HELENA (AP) — The deputy director of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has been cited with misdemeanor assault after police say he punched a man who made a derogatory comment about the woman accompanying the deputy director. Helena police tell the Independent Record 44-year-old Mike Volesky punched a 36-year-old man in the jaw Thursday evening at the Downtown Walking Mall near the Big Dipper ice cream store. Helena Assistant Police Chief Steve Hagen says the 36-year-old declined medical treatment at the scene. Hagen says V...
BUTTE (AP) — A Butte man who police say impersonated an officer has pleaded not guilty. The Montana Standard reports (http://bit.ly/18RkCxr) that 47-year-old James Richards Sr. made the plea at an arraignment hearing Thursday. He remains free on bond. Police say that in June Richards forced another vehicle to pull over on Interstate 90 and told the people in the vehicle he was a member of a drug task force and ordered the people out of the vehicle. Police arrested Richards later that day after determining he was i...
LOLO (AP) — Fire crews bolstered a barrier meant to prevent a pair of wildfires from moving east toward houses and heavy timber outside the town of Lolo as light rain and cooler conditions helped efforts to contain the blazes. The Lolo Creek Complex of fires was 40 percent contained Friday night and burning on more than 15 square miles, fire officials said. Crews building fire lines with bulldozers and shovels were working to connect the lines to keep the fire from moving closer to Sleeman Gulch and homes to the east o...
DEER LODGE (AP) — An inmate serving a life sentence for deliberate homicide has died at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Prison spokeswoman Linda Moodry says inmate Cleveland Boyer was found in his cell in a high security housing unit Friday morning and died at the hospital just before 9 a.m. He was 23. An autopsy is planned. Boyer was given a life sentence in January for the shooting death of his former best friend, Daniel Valenzuela. Valenzuela was shot numerous times as he stood at a downtown Billings convenience s...
LOLO (AP) — Fire crews took advantage of rain and cooler conditions Friday to work on a barrier meant to prevent a pair of wildfires from moving east toward houses and heavy timber outside the town of Lolo. The weather Thursday and early Friday allowed firefighters to make progress in corralling the Lolo Creek Complex of fires, which was 30 percent contained Friday morning and holding at about 9,500 acres, or nearly 15 square miles. Crews building fire lines with bulldozers and shovels were working to connect the lines to k...
HELENA (AP) — A federal appeals court is ruling against state laws designed to buck federal gun rules. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday agreed with a lower court's decision that struck down the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. The 2009 Montana law attempted to declare that federal firearms regulations don't apply to guns made and kept in that state. Other pro-gun states subsequently passed similar laws. But the Justice Department successfully argued that the courts have already decided Congress can use its p...
Dave Johnke, band director at Havre High School, had nothing but good things to say about the students in his band during the school’s band camp this week. “The first couple of days are grueling,” Johnke said. “But’s it’s cool to see the evolution as they go along.” The camp lasted for four and a half days, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. Band members practiced their halftime show for the four eight-hour days. During the school semest...
The Havre High boys and girls golf teams got to start the high school golf season on a familiar course and against familiar opponents. But the second varsity golf tournament of the season will be much different for the Blue Ponies. Monday morning, the HHS varsity teams will compete at the prestigious Great Falls Invitational. The tournament is a two-day, 36-hole event featuring every Class AA school, as well as the Ponies and Whitefish from the Class A ranks. Havre started...
At the beginning of the week, Montana State University-Northern head football coach Mark Samson said his team was going to grind through the second week of two-a-day practices. And that difficult grind ended with Thursday night’s scrimmage at the Havre Middle School football field. Northern scrimmaged live for about an hour and a half with the team working on offense, defense and special teams. And at the end, the Lights broke the huddle headed for game week as they take on D...
The summer has already cruised by, and the start of the Havre High volleyball and football seasons are just days away. But before the official start of the regular season arrives, the Central A Blue Ponies will play in their traditional Blue/White scrimmages. Saturday at the Havre High gymnasium, the volleyball team will scrimmage at 2 p.m. At 5 p.m., the HHS football program will scrimmage at Blue Pony Stadium. In volleyball action, Havre High head coach Melanie Skoyen is...
Laurel — Stuff the Bus is a program launched by Walmart, its employees and the Salvation Army to help provide needy children with the supplies they need to be a success at school. The program went well this year, and the students will be well-prepared for next week’s start of school. Laurel — Firefighters have done a great job of battling against the odds for two of the nation’s most serious summer wildfires in southern Montana. Firefighters are risking their lives and members of the Montana Army National Guard have been ca...
For socially conscious people unsure of what cause to champion this weekend, HuffingtonPost.com reports that Sunday, Aug. 25, is Go Topless Day. The Go Topless event — which HuffPo reports has spread to more than 40 cities in the U.S. and sympathetic countries — encourages women to go topless in public, while men supporting the movement cover their chests by wearing brassieres, bikinis or pasties. Organized in 2007 by the Raelians, a UFO-based religious group started in Nev...
Editor: On behalf of the Havre Area Chamber Chamber of Commerce and the Town Square Committee we would like to thank all the bands that made this summer’s Sounds on the Square a huge success. The time that each of the eight bands dedicated to each Wednesday evening in the months of June, July and August shows their commitment to the Sounds on the Square and to the community. As with so many activities that take place in Havre, Sounds on the Square wouldn’t happen without the volunteer help and the financial generosity of tho...
Robert Henry Reed, 84, passed away Aug. 19, 2013. Memorial services will be held Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, at 1 p.m. at Zurich Park in Zurich. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 10:01 a.m. Thursday call about a noninjury car crash on Montana Avenue. ——— An officer arrested a 27-year-old Box Elder man for Justice or City court warrants after been waved over at Pepin Park at 2:24 p.m. Thursday, where two people were arguing. ——— A 21-year-old Havre man and 21-year-old Havre woman were arrested for disorderly conduct after a 3:18 p.m. Thursday call about a couple yelling at each other on 10th Avenue. ——— A 53-year-old Helena man was arrested for aggr...
Steven T. Carrier, PhD passed away on Aug. 20, 2013 at Midwest Palliative and Hospice Care Center, Glenview, Ill. He was born on Nov. 8, 1938, in Havre, Mont., and graduated from Havre High School in 1957. During high school he served in the United States Army Reserves. Five days after graduating high school, he joined and served in the United States Marines for three years. He then completed a four-year apprenticeship, receiving a Journeyman Electronics Mechanic Certificate from the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, Calif....
The Great Northern Fairgrounds manager said this week that vandals who rampaged on the fairgrounds in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 21, still are at large, and he still is working on repairing the damage. Manager Tim Solomon told the fair board that someone, between the hours of midnight July 20 and 1 a.m. July 21, slashed the awning over the free stage, damaged the commercial buildings, slashed chairs set up by a group at the fair and sprayed foam out of fire extinguishers. Sheriff Don Brostrom said Thursday that...
By not taking action, the Great Northern Fair Board this week seems to resolve an issue hanging since the summer of 2012: Can the local 4-H clubs provide concessions at the fairgrounds without paying the fair a commission? The board reached consensus to allow a club to provide concessions at an event Sept. 28 without paying commissions, and approved Hill County 4-H running some fundraisers during Festival Days. Hill County 4-H Council President Stacey Waid requested the board approve 4-H opening the Chuckwagon to sell food...
A free clinic to spay, neuter and administer shots to dogs and cats will be held at Rocky Boy’s and Fort Belknap Indian Reservations this weekend. The Rocky Boy clinic will be today and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Old Post Plant on Oats Road. The Fort Belknap clinic will be at the Chief Nosey Center in Lodge Pole Sunday and at the Bingo Hall at the agency Monday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Both of the clinics are coordinated with the Spay Montana organization, which sets up free spay and neuter clinics in Montana t...
The Fort Belknap community’s push for the relocation of 33 bison from Fort Peck Indian Reservation to Fort Belknap Indian Reservation came to fruition as the bison took their first steps onto the reservation Thursday. The bison are originally from Gardiner, at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park, and 60 of them were moved to Fort Peck in March 2012. Officials and ranchers from the Fort Belknap area fought the moving of the 33 bison to Fort Belknap until the Montana S...
