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Man sentenced for tackling sister A man received a 10-day sentence in the county jail Monday in District Court for drunkenly tackling his sister. Alion Eagleman Sr. pleaded guilty to and received a 10-day sentence, with credit for 10 days served, on the misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, amended from a felony charge of partner of family member assault. The sentence was suspended for six months, and during that time, Eagleman is not allowed to drink alcohol or enter bars. The investigation into Eagleman began Aug. 23...
St. Jude Thaddeus School will celebrate it's centennial anniversary this weekend with a barbecue, games, and maybe even bagpipe performers. The 100th Anniversary Celebration will start Friday at 5 p.m. with a barbecue in the school parking lot, where hamburgers and hot dogs will be served with a free-will donation. On Saturday, St. Jude's will participate in the Havre Festival Days parade, which is scheduled to began at 10 a.m. Afterward,there will be an open house at the...
Havre Area Chamber of Commerce The winning Havre Festival Days button numbers for Sept. 14 are: 726 421 993 214 108 7 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....
With 52 days left until Election Day, state and local Republican candidates will be in Havre Saturday, to introduce themselves to voters at the Hill County GOP Festival Day's Candidate Reception in Pepin Park. "We (will) serve refreshments, then candidates talk and then people can interact and mingle with them," said Andrew Brekke, chair of the Hill County Republicans. Brekke said that aside from 2014, the Hill County Republicans have hosted an event during Festival Days every election year for the past several election...
Members of the Chippewa Cree Tribe on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation will hold a prayer march Thursday to show solidarity with those on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Taralyn Writing Bird, who organized the march with a few friends, said many on Rocky Boy want to show support for protesters in North Dakota but do not have the means to travel there to do so. Writing Bird said the march which will start at noon in the parking lot of the former Stone Child College a...
Press release HELENA — Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau is honoring two Montana schools that serve a large share of low-income children for their excellence in achievement. Harlem High School in Harlem and Ridge View Elementary School in Belgrade received the 2016 Distinguished Schools Award through the Office of Public Instruction and National Title I Association. “Excellence can be found in each of Montana’s public schools,” Superintendent Juneau said, “I’m proud to present Ridge View and Harlem High with...
Some Havre High School students are raising funds to go to the presidential inauguration in January, and are offering people the chance to have some pizza and help with the trip. Lindsey Manuel-McInerney, advisor of the nonprofit, nonpartisan citizenship education organization CloseUp group at Havre High School, said the Havre group usually travels to Washington in the spring to participate in the CloseUp Foundation Washington program but with the presidential election this year, she decided to go in January. “We couldn’t pas...
Editor, Again, the City of Havre is proposing to annex business’s and land extending west along U.S. Highway 2 including but not limited to; The Holiday Village Mall, Hill Co. Electric, Northwestern energy, Havre Ford, and the AmericInn. Currently these business’s reside in the county, pay county taxes and pay for all the services they receive. Despite huge resistance and expensive litigation, the greedy City of Havre continues to attempt annexing this area into the city limits. If the annexation is approved, this will aff...
Press release Jon Tester announced Monday that Harlem was among five Montana towns that will receive nearly $2 million in federal funding to improve their water and waste disposal infrastructure. As a result of a court order that found that the discharge from Harlem’s wastewater management system into the nearby Milk River violated environmental standards, the city managed to raise enough money to overhaul their current system. Part of this was a $4.9 million grant from USDA Rural Development’s Water and Waste Disposal Loan G...
Havre City-County Airport board will meet Thursday at 3 p.m. at the airport terminal with the following agenda: 1. Approval of Aug. 18 minutes. 2. Correspondence. 3. Reports: (A) Manager (B) Inspection (C) Finance (D) Engineer 4. Public comments 5. Unfinished business (A) Big hangar repair status a. Siding b. Roof (B) 08-26 Runway Project update. (C) Taxiway and Apron Area Project update 6. New business T Hangar rental bids 7. Approval of September claims....
Havre Police Department Officers made two arrests Tuesday at 1:34 p.m. near Washington Avenue. Melinda Rose Cochran of Havre, 35, was arrested for driving without insurance and on a Justice or City court warrant, and Joshua David Rainingbird of Box Elder, 34, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant —— Rachel Nicole Blaquiere of Rocky Boy, 35, was arrested on a shoplifting charge after a First Street business caller reported Tuesday at 3:13 p.m. that a shoplifter was in custody. —— Someone was issued a summons after a...
or the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team, and many others like the Skylights, the start of a new season is always exciting. But it comes with a price. It usually means you don't get to play at home for the first three weeks of the season. For Northern senior setter Emily Russell, and the Skylights, that's always the case. Northern is always on the road for the first three weeks of the regular season. But that all changes on Friday night, and Russell, a former...
The Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s golf teams opened the 2016 Frontier Conference season, playing a tough golf course and facing some difficult weather conditions. The Lights and Skylights were at the season-opening Montana Tech Invitational, which was held Monday through Tuesday at the Butte Country Club. The Lights finished with a team total of 983, which was seventh place overall. The Skylights placed sixth in the women’s tournament with a team total...
It’s been known for some time that Havre High’s Parker Filius was going to wrestle for a big-time college program, the only thing that wasn’t known was where. That was until the three-time state champion verbally committed to Purdue University Tuesday night. Purdue, which is a member of the Big Ten Conference, was the final selection for Filius after much deliberation. The senior narrowed his choices this fall and after visiting a number of other schools, Filius chose to be...
Thursday High School Volleyball Big Sandy vs Chinook CJI vs North Star Rocky Boy at Cut Bank High School Golf Havre at Billings Central Friday High School Football Havre at Sidney, 6 p.m. Chinook vs Ft. Benton, 7 p.m. CJI vs GFCC, 7 p.m. Big Sandy vs Heart Butte, 7 p.m. Rocky Boy at Conrad, 7 p.m. High School Volleyball Box Elder vs Big Sandy High School Golf Havre at Laurel High School X-Country Havre at Lewistown Invite College Volleyball Skylights vs RMC, 7 p.m. Hockey...
A group of five musicians in a yet-to-be-named band came together for a two-hour practice session the evening of Aug. 29. Carrying their drumsticks and guitar cases, they met for only the second time as a group at the Hounds Lounge, a dog-boarding facility that doubles as the residence of Matthew Springer, one of the group’s three guitarists and vocalists. With the sounds of dogs barking on the other side of the building, the five bandmates chatted as they adjusted the knobs on amplifiers and warmed up on their i...