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The Montana Playwrights Network and Havre's Montana Actors' Theatre are partnering together this season on the upcoming play "The Vorbit Incident." The Vorbit Incident was written by Missoula playwright Jay Kettering and will be showcased on The Little Theatre stage Oct. 11,12, 17-19 and 24-26, directed by MAT's Marketing Director Andi Daniel. Jay Pyette, the executive director of MAT and the northern highlands regional representative on the Montana Playwrights Network board...
Editor’s note: This version clarifies that the Hill County Sheriff’s Office sent a deputy coroner to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to determine the cause and manner of death of a fatality there. Rocky Boy Police Department confirmed this morning that the department is investigating a death resulting from a shooting which took place Thursday morning. The department referred any further questions to investigators who were unavailable for comment by print deadline today. Hill County Sheriff and Coroner Jamie Ross confi...
Havre Police Department A First Street business caller reported Thursday at 9:13 a.m. that it looked as if someone tried to break in through the drive-through window. -- Jasmine Rose Small of Billings, 24, was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license, during a vehicle stop on Fifth Avenue Thursday at 9:21 p.m. Hill County Sheriff's Office Deputies were called to a U.S. Highway 2 West business Thursday at 1:36 p.m. to investigate a drug...
Laura Rain and the Caesars are performing live at Old Station Brewing Co. Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 6 to 9 p.m., just a few days after a Montana band will travel to Havre to perform. "We are really excited to be in Havre again, we are so fortunate and people were so great to us last time that we are looking forward to it," Rain said. She added that her and the band were in Havre just over a year ago, 2018, and this year, they will be performing some new songs from their upcoming...
Less than a year after the Havre Holiday Village Mall was sold, the mall is once again up for sale in an auction, according to Catalyst Commercial Properties Agent Ryan Pachek, who is listed as the realtor for the sale, but he was unable to provide more information because he had to attend a meeting this morning. Holiday Village Mall General Manager Michael Liese said that the sale is not expected to impact the operations of the mall. “We hope to find a buyer that can give the center the needed attention it deserves and resto...
Press release WILD HORSE - U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations Area Port of Sweetgrass would like to remind travelers the Port of Wild Horse will resume winter hours on Oct. 1. The port will operate from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Wild Horse is a permit port, which means a permit is required to import commercial merchandise. The Area Port of Sweetgrass is ready to review applications and issue permits for commercial merchandise to be imported into the...
Press release Arthur Wade Bickford was born in Havre, Montana, Jan. 26, 1934, one of eight children, to Henry and Mary (Smith) Bickford. His father was a general laborer who eventually worked for the railroad, while his mother performed various jobs. Wade liked horses but had no experience as a cowboy until Matt Morgan offered him a job exercising horses for the Border Patrol at age 13. He was ecstatic to have this opportunity where soon his natural talent as a horseman was...
Press Release On Sept. 5, 1934, the day Charles Leon Callahan Jr. was born, his father, Charles Callahan Sr., loaded his mother, Ernestine (Watson) Callahan into a cattle truck in Lafayette, Alabama, and drove her to the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also delivered a load of cattle to market. Charles's parents divorced a few years later, and by age 4 he was living much of the time with aunts and uncles on their South Carolina farms while his mother worked as a...
Winter is coming. It’s all everybody can talk about. This weekend’s storm is going to descend from the frozen Arctic wasteland of Canada’s hinterlands, envelop the Rockies in snow, roll it down the Rocky Mountain Front and sucker punch us right in the middle of autumn. And just like that, winter is coming. Then it’s going to sit around all week, astraddle of our prone bodies, poking us in the chest like it’s trying to type a letter to grandma. Sure it’s cool when winter come...
A cutline on a photo with a front-page story in Monday’s edition of the Havre Daily News misidentified the club putting on the Kiwanis Pancake Feed....
Judy Loendorf and or Steve Mulonet, service officers for Montana VeteransAffairs will be visiting the following locations and times to meet with veterans who are interested in applying for benefits. Any veterans interested in applying for benefits need to bring a copy of their discharge paperwork, DD214, with them. Wednesday, Oct. 9, Shelby, Courthouse, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cut Bank, Glacier County Courthouse Annex Room 19, 1:30–3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, Browning, Eagle Shield Building, 9–11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, Gla...
Press release SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The U.S. Army announced at the Pentagon that it will achieve its nationwide recruiting goal of 68,000 new soldiers this year. As part of the overall goal, Salt Lake City Army Recruiting Battalion hired about 500 new soldiers from Montana. “Our recruiters work hard finding the right people to fill our ranks,” said Lt. Col Raphael Vasquez, who leads the recruiters in the battalion. “We are thankful to the community for supporting the decision of local youth to be part of something bigger...
You know, Lord, it’s time to dig out the comforters tucked away when summer arrived; we’ll fluff them up, air them out and put them on the beds so that we’ll be nice and warm and comfortable. When we were kids at home, Mom made comforters; she pieced tops into lovely designs. Sometimes she used a pattern; sometimes she’d just sew material pieces together. Daddy made a quilting frame consisting of four one-by-fours on which he tacked narrow canvas strips. These four wooden boards were then placed over four dining room chairs...
Wednesday, Sept 25, 2019, at 7:30 a.m., students gathered at the flagpoles of Havre High School and Havre Middle School to enjoy pancakes, donuts and orange juice and spend some time praying for their schools. I had the privilege of bringing the donuts and orange juice for the Havre Middle School gathering. I arrived at 7:30 a.m. and one student was at the flagpole. I went into the school office to make sure our presence was known and welcomed by the school administration. When I came back out, at least 20 students were...
Out our way, who you are is a lot more important than who you say you are. This is especially true when it comes to the gospel message. Most of us recall the scandals of Jim and Tammy Bakker, Jimmy Swaggert, Kenneth Copeland and the like, and the damage done to the Christian faith by them. Back in the ’80s. Billy Graham was putting together one of his last Crusades and I was working with other pastors building team and promoting the effort when the various scandals began to pop up. Suddenly we found congregations and a large...
In their weekly press conference, both Montana State head coach Jeff Choate and Montana head coach Bobby Hauck were blunt. In fact, Choate went so far as to say he didn't care at all about the last four weeks, and wasn't interested in discussing it. The reason both coaches were fired up? Big Sky Conference play is here. The Bobcats (3-1), now ranked seventh in the FCS, have a home date with a potent Northern Arizona squad Saturday to begin league play, while the No. 19 Grizzli...
The Havre High football team did not have the game the Blue Ponies were hoping for last Friday, but they'll look to start fresh tonight. Havre will be playing another talented and tough team in the Miles City Cowboys. The Blue Ponies have not had the best of luck in the past against the Cowboys, but the team knows a new season can bring about new possibilities and opportunities. Havre coach Ryan Gatch is looking forward to the upcoming road-game against Miles City. "Friday we...
By Havre Daily News Staff With a wicked winter storm fast approaching, the Havre High golf teams managed to get step one of the 2019 postseason in. Thursday in Sidney, the Blue Ponies took part in the 2019 Eastern A Divisional Tournament, held at the Sidney Country Club, where Havre qualified three boys and one girl for next week's state tournament. "I was proud of all of our kids," Havre High head coach George Ferguson said. "Sidney is a tough course, the weather was tough,...
Homecoming is a unique and special time on any college campus. And it's no different at Montana State University-Northern. And that's why the Northern football team is focused and determined to make Saturday's 2019 homecoming game a rousing success. The Lights (0-3, 1-3) host the No. 25 Montana Tech Orediggers (2-1, 2-1) Saturday inside Blue Pony Stadium. And with a huge announcement set to be made prior to kickoff, and a forecast that calls for cold, wind and snow, not to...
Press release Leo Morales IV graduated Sept. 20, at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. His next assignment is with the Fifth Bombing Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base as a weapons systems officer on a B-52 Bomber. Morales was born and raised in San Diego. His grandfather Leo Morales Jr., a member of the Miwok tribe, served in the U.S. Navy for 26 years, His wife, Leo Morales IV's grandmother, Ellajean DeMontiney, was born in Rocky Boy, Montana, and is an elder with the...
EMMITSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Fire Service will honor one firefighter, who died in the line of duty, from Montana during the 38th National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service Sunday, Oct. 6. He is among the 92 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2018 and 27 firefighters who died in previous years who will be remembered at the official national service at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Fire Chief Tom O. Martin, of the Black Eagle Volunteer Fire Department, 61, died Aug. 19, 2017, at his residence w...
Running backs in football are an essential part of the offense. For the team, it's always a highly energized moment when a running back rushes down the field or breaks through the line for a score. Some running backs are patient and systematic, waiting for the right opportunity to break out into the open field and make a great play. Other running backs are physical and aggressive, preferring to run through and steamroll their competition. A great running back is a mix of...
By Keith J. Doll Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission Jim Shawlee was born in Afghanistan on July 8, 1877. He came to America from Afghanistan in 1905, then to Havre in 1907. He rented a place to stay on the south side of First Street between First and Second Avenues and started selling his tamales. At first he carried them in a basket, then he sold them out of a tamale wagon. Jim put his business east of the Grand Hotel, it would seat up to 10 people. In 1913, C...
Dedication, leadership, work ethic. Those are all things an offensive linemen needs to have to be successful at the collegiate level. Those things, are every bit as important to an offensive lineman as size, strength, and intelligence. Montana State University-Northern senior Trenton Woodward checks all those boxes, and then some. After all, through a tumultuous time in Northern's football history, Woodward has remained a pillar of the program, and that's because he has one...
