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BILLINGS (AP) — Flooding has damaged bridges and blocked and washed out roads along Montana's Hi-Line. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1nKQ6M9) storms dropped 4 to 8 inches of rain from Glasgow to Malta between Aug. 21 and Aug. 25. Rivers spilled over their banks, onto roads and into basements. National Weather Service meteorologist Tanja Fransen says the situation is gradually improving, though some areas are still under water. She says the Milk River at Nashua was flowing at five times the previous record for t...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated an 8:31 a.m. Thursday call from a 3rd Street location about a hash pipe that was found in a donation box. ——— Officers investigated an 8:32 a.m. Thursday call from 11th Street West about found marijuana. ——— Officers investigated a 9:42 a.m. Thursday call from Wilson Avenue about a found bag of clothes beneath a trailer. ——— Officers investigated a 12:52 p.m. Thursday call from Bonine Drive about the calling party stating somebody put broken beer bottles under her car and they...
The Havre High football team did not start its 2014 season the way it hoped, falling to the Whitefish Bulldogs for the third straight season 27-14 at Blue Pony Stadium on Saturday. In a game that was closer than the score indicated, the Bulldogs were just more physical than the Ponies, using a bruising ground game led by quarterback Luke May and running back Chris Park to HHS into submission. Havre quarterback Dane Warp threw a pair of touchdown passes and led a touchdown...
What started out as a good night under the Lights in Butte, ended in disappointment for the Montana State University-Northern football team. The Lights got out-scored by Montana Tech 28-7 in the second half and lost their season-opener to the Orediggers 38-24 Saturday night in Butte. Northern's Zach McKinley scored one MSU-N's opening drive, and a 70-yard touchdown pass from Travis Dean to Jake Messerly helped lift the Lights to a 17-10 halftime lead. But a second Messerly...
Friday's Scores The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Belgrade 34, Butte Central 20 Big Sandy 46, Heart Butte 0 Billings Senior 30, Butte 27 Billings Skyview 21, Bozeman 17 Ennis 46, Broadview-Lavina 6 Great Falls Russell 33, Missoula Sentinel 28 Hamilton 42, Salmon, Idaho 20 Helena 48, Missoula Big Sky 10 Helena Capital 36, Missoula Hellgate 6 Huntley Project 26, Columbus 0 Kalispell Flathead 13, Great Falls 12 Kalispell Glacier 31, Billings West 7 Miles City 43, Powell, Wyo. 7 Polson 29, Raymond, Alberta 26 Richey-Lambert 52,...
HELENA (AP) — Montana ranks fifth in the country for employment growth, but it faces slower growth in the future as many members of an aging workforce retire, state officials said Friday. The Department of Labor and Industry's Labor Day report shows the unemployment rate has dropped steadily since 2010. At 4.6 percent, it's now the 11th lowest in the nation. "Businesses have created more than 12,000 jobs in the first part of 2014, and that's truly a record-breaking pace for our state," Gov. Steve Bullock said in presenting t...
Greg Kegel, dean of technical sciences at Montana State University-Northern, has been named interim chancellor. Kegel will replace James Limbaugh, who announced his resignation Thursday and will leave office at 5 p.m. today. According to a press release this morning from MSU offices in Bozeman, the decision to place Kegel in the temporary position was made this morning. He will assume the position Saturday. “I’m humbled and honored to be asked to lead Northern,” Kegel said in the press release. “I love Northern and have ma...
Let me ask you all one simple question — and I know it’s a Hank Williams Jr. special, but — are you ready for some football? For many of you reading this, I already know the answer. But for me, the start of the local football season couldn’t get here any soon enough. I’ll admit, it’s been trying, thinking about Northern football without head coach Mark Samson. For me, for all of us who know him so well, and for the entire Montana State University-Northern program, coach Samso...
The Havre High golf teams got back on the course after a week that was filled with rain and more rain. But there was plenty of sunshine for Havre’s latest varsity tournament. Thursday, the Blue Ponies were at the East Glacier Lodge Golf Course for the Browning Tournament. Havre went up against Central A rivals Lewistown and Browning, as well as golfers from Whitefish, CMR and Great Falls High. And it was an up-and-down day for the Ponies, who played 18 holes for the first time...
When the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team went to Spokane last weekend to open the 2014 season, the Skylights played some tough teams. But Northern will take a major step up in competition over the next two days. And it’s a big step. Starting this afternoon, the Skylights will play four matches at a tournament in Bellevue, Nebraska, hosted by Bellevue College. While in Nebraska, the Skylights will play three matches against nationally ranked opponents, so afte...
The halls and classrooms of Montana State University-Northern are again filled with students, faculty and staff as the first week of school comes to an end. Orientation at the college saw high numbers of participants, and college officials seem hopeful that the incoming and returning classes will contain leaders and enthusiastic go-getters. Director of University Relations Jim Potter said the student orientation, which began last Friday, went very well and was a record for...
Betty Jo (Lemmon) Eldridge of Fort Benton, Montana, went home to be with Jesus on Aug. 19, 2014. Betty Jo was born May 7, 1932, to John and Emma Lemmon in Craig, Colorado. On May 19, 1950, Betty Jo married Marvin Eldridge, and together they raised four children, Marvia (Rick) Johnson, Keith (Loretta) Eldridge, Ronda (Bud) Childers, Jean (Martin) Shea. During their 64 years of marriage, Marvin and Betty Jo ministered in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Along with being a pastor’s wife, Betty Jo had many ministries of h...
April 9, 1927 – August 14, 2014 Our father, grandfather and great-grandfather left this world on the evening of Aug. 14, 2014, surrounded by his family. He was born on April 9, 1927. After one year, six months and nine days, he joined his wife, Dodie. Dad loved to hunt, square dance and fish. Two days before he passed away he was fishing for the big one that got away. Dad also liked to go four-wheeling and snowmobiling. He would go for coffee with his buddies and spend half the morning shooting the bull with them. Dad could t...
Herman Liese, 100, of the Turner/Harlem area, passed away Aug. 25, 2014, in Havre. Cremation has taken place, and memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, at Fifth Avenue Christian Church, with Pastor Frank Donato officiating. The family has requested that memorials be made in Herman's name to the Shriners Hospitals for Children or to the charity of the donor's choice. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and...
Matt Wyeth Crain, 56, of Phoenix, Arizona, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. He died of natural causes near his residence in Phoenix. Funeral and burial services took place in Phoenix on Aug. 22, 2014. Matt was born on Dec. 10, 1957, in Havre, Montana, to Anna (Parker) Crain and Allan Crain of Rocky Boy, Montana. He spent his formative years in Sitka, Alaska, where he graduated from high school in 1975. After is his family moved back to Montana in 1975, he attended...
The head of employment and training at District 4 Human Resources Development Council said that, in the midst of local schools rolling out a new year, HRDC is making some changes in how its education is presented as well. Director Andi Daniel said that starting next week, the hours that the Adult Basic Literacy Education — ABLE — classrooms will be open are expanded. Now, the classrooms are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and 8 a.m. to noon Friday, with testing done Wednesday afternoons. Starting after Lab...
The last major camping holiday often brings many visitors to Beaver Creek Park south of Havre, and its end brings more visitors of the bovine type. The cattle grazing season, the single largest source of revenue for the park, starts the day after Labor Day, and drivers on Montana Secondary Highway 234 — Beaver Creek Highway — are urged to use caution and watch for cattle on the road. Ranchers contract with the park board to bring cattle onto the park starting the day after the holiday, which this year is Tuesday, with the...
With everything that has transpired in fall camp, no Montana State University-Northern football team has wanted so badly to start a new season than the current one. That moment is now here for the 2014 Lights. After a tumultuous month that started with the Lights losing their head coach during the first full week of camp, MSU-N will make its season debut Saturday night when the Lights take on Montana Tech in Butte. Kickoff inside Alumni Coliseum is slated for 6 p.m. “It has s...
After nine months of silence, the atmosphere at Blue Pony Stadium will be electric Saturday, when the Havre High football team opens the season against rival Whitefish in the annual battle for the BNSF trophy. The Ponies, who have dropped two straight to the Bulldogs in what is the annual season-opener for both teams, look to regain their foothold in the series and reclaim the trophy for the first time since 2011. “Winning back the trophy isn’t the important thing,” HHS head...
Football Championship Subdivision teams playing up against FBS opponents is nothing new. But FCS squads beating FBS schools is somewhat of a rare occurrence. However, both the Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats believe they can do just that. The Grizzlies and Bobcats both open their season Saturday with games at FBS opponents. The No. 5 Montana Grizzlies take on Mountain West Conference stalwart Wyoming, while No. 19 MSU travels to Arkansas to tangle with the...
