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Articles from the September 14, 2015 edition


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  • Havre woman loses baby, partner in a month

    John Kelleher|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Last week, Jackie Roberts and her significant other, Craig Lawrence, were mourning the loss of their infant, Daymean Duwayane Lawrence, who they buried Sept. 3. The baby's death was devastating to them, and they would sometimes go out for rides in the beautiful Hi-Line countryside to calm their nerves. That's what they were doing Thursday when, for some reason, the Ford Explorer Craig was driving went off Secondary Highway 232 north of Havre, rolled over and killed Craig. Now...

  • Havre Festival Days winning button numbers for Sept. 14

    Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Havre Area Chamber of Commerce The winning Havre Festival Days button numbers for Sept. 14 are: 669 720 660 148 404 282 835 Winners can bring their buttons to the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce office at 130 5th Avenue to claim their prizes. More winning numbers will be announced each day this week....

  • Northern remembers

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    At Montana State University-Northern Friday, American flags lined walkways walked on by veterans and citizens in remembrance of the 9-11 attacks in 2001. Chancellor Greg Kegel opened up the ceremonies at a podium in the courtyard in front of the Vande Bogart Library. Montana veterans hoisted an American flag and gave a gun salute before Professor Norton Pease shared his experience in New York City as the planes came down. "If the September 11th attacks did not happen, I can...

  • Volunteers clean, remember volunteer, during local cleanup

    John Kelleher|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Kim Cripps was at the nerve center for Havre Pride activities Saturday morning. That's not unusual. For more than two decades, she's been organizing the effort to clean up the city twice a year - at springtime and the weekend before Festival Days. Community groups were invited to fan out throughout the community and pick a summer's worth of trash that had accumulated in open spaces, across fields and on streets throughout Havre. They were supposed to come between 9 a.m. and...

  • Number of Canadian visitors to Hi-Line falls

    Alex Ross|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Signs that read “Havre Welcomes Canadians” still grace the windows of stores and restaurants throughout the city, but with their currency falling in value, area businesses say they are seeing fewer Canadians. “It's been real heavy,” said Scott Young, owner of Norman’s, a western clothing and apparel store on 3rd Avenue. “They're not coming down anymore.” The Canadian dollar as of Friday afternoon is worth 75 cents to the U.S dollar, and has been experiencing a decline in value over the past year. Unlike the U.S dollar, the st...

  • Recycling program continues to grow

    John Kelleher|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Havre Pride wasn’t the only project that had a successful weekend. Recycle Hi-Line had its monthly recycle drive at Pacific Steel & Recycling. More people are bringing materials and more are separating the material by class, more recycling is being accomplished and there is less work for volunteers to do, according to Christy Keto of Recycle Hi-Line. People were anxious to come out, she said, because it was a gorgeous day. She credited the work of “a hardworking handful of volunteers and grateful recyclers” “We appreci...

  • Hill County Sheriff's Office talking pay increases

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Deputies and dispatchers for the Hill County Sheriff’s Office are having their union representative discuss with the county and sheriff a possible pay increase. HCSO employees have salaries as decided through a matrix. The starting salary for a dispatcher is $24,955 and the starting salary for deputies is around $36,470. The union representative, Darcy Dahl, met with Sheriff Don Brostrom and County Commissioner Mark Peterson last week to talk about possibly giving the employees a raise in pay. “What’s in his budget is in hi...

  • For the Record, Sept. 14, 2015

    Updated Sep 14, 2015

    Havre Police Department James Lawrence Daychild, 43, of Havre was arrested, on charges of criminal contempt and violation of conditions of release, while he was in the police station lobby at 11:01 a.m. Friday. —— Christie M Stump, 33, was arrested on charges of theft and two counts of obstructing a peace officer and on a Justice or City court warrant, and Crystal Rae Bear, 43, of Havre was issued a summons on a charge of obstructing a peace officer after officers investigated a 3:12 p.m. Friday report at the police dep...

  • HHS spikers make progress

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    The Havre High volleyball team had a solid second weekend on the court, and even though it didn’t find itself in the win column much over the weekend in Great Falls, the Blue Ponies again took a step forward. On the opening day of the Electric City Classic in Great Falls, the Ponies posted a 1-5-1 record on the first day of pool play, Then, the Ponies lost two of three matches in the consolation bracket of the tournament Saturday. “We got our serve going a lot better in thi...

  • Pony harriers finally make season debut

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    The Havre High cross country teams had to wait an extra week to start its 2015 season but finally got a chance to do so Saturday in Malta. And in their first completion of the season both the Havre High boys and girls teams ran well in the Malta Invitational as the boys took home a second-place showing, while the girls finished fifth. “I thought (the teams) did a fantastic job,” HHS head coach Josh Holt said. “They were really strong running and a few kids surprised me with...

  • Warp passing MHSA all-time marks

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    There is no doubt that Havre High quarterback Dane Warp broke the Montana record for most touchdown passes for 11-man football Friday against Miles City. Yet, there is still some debate about whether or not Warp has broken the Montana High School Association record for passing yards. As far as the MHSA record book is concerned, the record coming into the season was 8,907 yards, a mark set by former Billings Senior quarterback Mark Desin. Entering his senior season, Warp had...

  • Cowboys break Ponies in Miles City

    Chris Peterson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    The Havre High football team went to Miles City looking to make amends for a slow start to the 2015 season. Yet, what ensued after the opening kickoff, is the exact opposite of what the Blue Ponies had intended. The game between the two long time non-conference rivals was competitive for a quarter, then the Cowboys showed their superiority in a 54-28 rout last Friday night at Denton Stadium in Miles City. “Miles City played very well. They were well-coached and sound f...

  • HHS golfers place in Lewistown

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    The Havre High golf teams are hitting the stretch run of the 2015 season. And last Friday, the Blue Ponies played the same course they'll play at the Central A Divisional tournament in two weeks. Havre was at the Lewistown Invitationa Friday, where the HHS boys finished second with a team total of 349, while the Ponies girls shot a 445 to place third. Individually, the Pony girls got a stellar round from senior Randi Gabrielsen, who shot 91 to place third overall. Fellow senio...

  • Rocky shuts out Northern

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    If the Montana State University-Northern Lights are going to break out for their first win of the 2015 season, they're going to have to wait another week. Because the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears were having none of it. RMC shut out the Lights 46-0 Saturday at Herb Klindt Field in Billings, sending Northern to an 0-3 start to the season. The Lights also fell to 0-2 in the Frontier Conference. And while Northern played the Battlin' Bears (2-1, 1-1) tough in the numbers...

  • Skylights go 3-1 in North Dakota

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 14, 2015

    The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team was looking to use the last weekend of the non-conference season to fine tune, and get ready for Frontier Conference play. And after four more tough matches, the Skylights accomplished that goal. MSU-N went 1-1 in two matches Friday in Jamestown, North Dakota, before moving on to Valley City, North Dakota, for two more wins Saturday. The 3-1 weekend at the North Dakota tourney gives MSU-N an 8-8 record after four weeks of n...