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Articles from the September 6, 2018 edition


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  • Clack family tours Clack Museum

    Tim Leeds|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Editor’s note: This corrects the name of the owner of Anderson Wholesale Descendants of the Havre icons for whom the county museum is named toured the museum and other attractions Wednesday, ending with a tour of the building being remodeled into the future permanent home of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum which reveived high praise from the visitors. "This is going to be a phenomenal place," said Clack grandson Turner Askew. The day started with Clack museum manager E...

  • Outdoors: Important hearings on grizzly bear delisting coming up this month

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Public hearings are coming up on the controversial Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem grizzly bear population administrative rule. The rule will provide a regulatory framework for the NCDE population objectives outlined in the conservation strategy recently completed by the NCDE subcommittee of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee. The NCDE conservation strategy identifies a demographic monitoring area, or DMA, that is home to the core population of grizzly bears in the...

  • Havre City Council passes resolutions, approves annual budget

    Derek Hann|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Havre City Council Wednesday unanimously passed the city budget, including renewing tax levies for services in the city, as it resumed its council meeting from Tuesday to hold its budget hearing. The council on final reading of the motions renewed tax levies, with some having small decreases and some small increases in dollar amounts. It unanimously passed a resolution levying and assessing a tax to defray the cost of maintaining street lights for the city of Havre for the fiscal year 2018-19. Havre City Clerk Doug Kaercher...

  • Regional water system, St. Mary Diversion update given to City Council

    Derek Hann|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Officials gave Havre City Council an update Tuesday on what is happening with the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Water System Project and on the status of the St. Mary Diversion upgrade. The regional water system came out of the Rocky Boy Water Compact approved in the 1990s. In 2002, Congress authorized building a water treatment plant at Tiber Reservoir and piping water to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation as the core portion of the project, along with transporting treated water to communities off the reservation. The non...

  • Obvituary - Sharon N. (LaMere) Watson

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Sharon N. (LaMere) Watson, 75, passed away at her residence due to natural causes on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Wake services began at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, and continuee until her funeral service which was at 10:00 a.m. today, Thursday, September 6, 2018, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the Watson Family Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit her online m...

  • For the Record, Sept. 6, 2018

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Havre Police Department Wednesday at 11:23 a.m. a caller at Fourth Avenue and Seventh Street reported that a car was keyed. -- Someone on First Street reported a possible drug sale Wednesday at 12:12 p.m. -- A caller from a First Street business reported Wednesday at 2:43 p.m. that a vehicle had struck a building then fled the scene. -- A Seventh Street caller reported Wednesday at 2:52 p.m. that a car key with a fob was found. -- An arrest was made after an officer had...

  • State Motor Vehicle Division launches REAL ID website

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Press release HELENA — As part of its ongoing efforts to inform the public about REAL ID, the Montana Department of Justice’s Motor Vehicle Division has launched https://mtrealid.gov/. The site provides answers to frequently asked questions and allows interested individuals to sign up for MVD’s email notification list when appointments are available to obtain a REAL ID compliant license. During the 2017 Legislative Session, with the passage of Senate Bill 366, Montana’s Legislature and governor directed MVD to create an opti...

  • Pony spikers gearing up for prestigious Electric City Classic

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Before the Havre High volleyball team gets into the heart of its schedule this season, it has one more tournament to play and that will take place this weekend, at the Electric City Classic in Great Falls. The Blue Ponies, who have already played in two tournaments so far this season in the Eastern A Tip-Off in Havre and the Windy City Classic last weekend in Livingston, will face a field that is filled mostly with Class AA teams. The action gets underway Friday and continues...

  • Havre High harriers look to make strides in Malta

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    After testing themselves as individuals at the Cut Bank Time Trials, both Havre High cross country teams will face their first team test this Saturday at the Malta Invitational. The meet will also be the first time that Kadia Miller, an All-State performer a season ago for the Blue Pony girls, will compete after not having enough practices to run in Cut Bank last Friday. "She has enough practices now and she's looking great," HHS head coach Josh Holt said. "She looks like she...

  • Skylights closing in on the start of Frontier Conference play

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team has played eight matches so far in 2018, and the young Skylights are still searching for their first win. The Skylights (0-8) will look for that win this weekend in Great Falls. Northern closes out the non-conference season with four matches at the University of Providence Tournament, which runs Friday and Saturday at the McLaughlin Center. And while Northern has yet to find the win column, it doesn't mean the Skylights...

  • NAMI support group meeting every Tuesday

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Press release After a successful first meeting, a support group for people dealing with mental illness is now meeting every Tuesday. Crystal Laufer of NAMI Havre said the support group will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. every Tuesday in the basement at 625 Fourth Ave. People can call Laufer at 879-6646 for more information....

  • Outdoors: Be a good steward of the land this hunting season

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Montana FWP Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to remind hunters and all outdoor enthusiasts to be good stewards of the land and respect both private and public property. A press release says that the FWP Region 6 Advisory Committee raised the need for more public outreach. Every hunting season, there are reports of vandalizing of Block Management Area boxes, hunters driving off road, illegal trespassing, hunters being shot over, littering, and livestock being shot. Some...

  • Trump and Rosendale are right for Montana

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Today, President Donald J. Trump will make his third visit to Montana to advocate for conservative leadership and the successes that come with it — namely, more jobs and higher wages. President Trump understands that we need a leader who will represent Montanan values: integrity, hard work, and the pursuit of the American Dream. We’re currently benefiting from a booming economy that has impacted all of our businesses and a Republican-led Congress that is proud to protect the freedoms and values that Jon Tester has for...

  • Looking out my Back Door: Little things mean a lot

    Sondra Ashton|Updated Sep 6, 2018

    When one has pared one’s life down to the bare essentials, little things take on incredible importance. I arrived in Mexico City with 40 minutes to make my connection. Airports are designed in such a way that domestic flights and international flights are situated at opposite ends of the real estate. I think it is a universal law. Having had previous experience with said law, I always request wheel-chair service. Rogerio ran, and I do mean ran, with me from deplane to r...

  • Letter to the Editor - Congress needs to protect SNAP

    Updated Sep 6, 2018

    Editor, As the Montana Association of Christians, we advocate for a more compassionate and just world that recognizes the inherent dignity of each person, regardless of economic status. Jesus both models feeding the hungry and teaches that when we feed or quench the thirst “of the least of these” we are blessing God (Matthew 14:13-21 and Matthew 25:31-46). On behalf of our neighbors grappling with hunger and economic insecurity, we write this letter to express our support for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. We...