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Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com In its last appearance at the State Class B Track Meet, the Chinook High School track team made the most of it, despite having just a handful of competitors. The Sugarbeeters qualified five girls for the state meet in Bozeman, but those five girls were good enough to score 27 points to finish seventh in the overall team standings. Missoula Loyola won the girls team title with 68 points, while Seeley-Swan was second with 62. On the...
Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre Northstars introduction to wooden bats was a cold one at best. However, the Northstars warmed up to hitting with the lumber, finishing 2-3 at the Tom Taleff Memorial Tournament over the weekend in Great Falls. Havre opened the tourney Friday evening with a 2-0 loss to the Great Falls Electrics. The Northstars managed just one hit - a single by Eric Fanning, souring a solid pitching performance by Sean Peterson. The... Full story
Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com Don Holst didn't want to be sitting in Missoula 10 years from now living with regret. After being unceremoniously fired after the 2002 season as the head coach of the University of Montana men's basketball coach, Holst has returned to the college basketball coaching world, accepting an assistant coaching position at Utah State on Tuesday, rejoining Aggies' head coach and former mentor Stew Morrill. "Don Holst is an exciting...
of passage GILDFORD - "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." A line from a Semisonic song served as an appropriate class motto for the six people who took the leap from high school to the future at the 2005 KG graduation on Sunday. The same could be said for the 14 students on the last flight of the Blue Sky Eagles in Rudyard on Saturday afternoon. They represented the end of one beginning. The new beginning starts in the fall, when the remaining students from both schools come together as the North... Full story
Dean Russell Clayborn, 59, of Havre died Monday, May 30, 2005, at the Clayborn farm from a tractor accident. A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Friday at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. A fellowship luncheon will be held at the Vets Club immediately after the service. Interment of the cremated remains will be held at the Clayborn farm. Dean was born in Havre on Aug. 4, 1945, to Margaret (Flatness) and Harold Clayborn. Dean graduated from Havre High School in 1965. On Aug. 6, 1966, he married Lorraine Vosen. They...
Larry Kline Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com By all accounts, the Havre school board will have a much easier task developing the 2006-2007 budget than it has had in years. An infusion of funding from the Legislature and the support of local voters will allow Havre Public Schools to maintain the level of services it offered to students this year and restore funding in some areas that had been cut. At a meeting Tuesday night, school officials presented budget proposals to the board. They would...
Larry Kline Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The city of Havre and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation got a little closer on Tuesday. Havre Mayor Bob Rice and five Havre City Council members sat down and spoke with members of the Chippewa Cree tribal council face-to-face, with the intent of bringing two communities that are geographic neighbors closer together in other ways. Tribal council members also had Gov. Brian Schweitzer's ear Tuesday, as he rounded out his tour of Montana reservation... Full story
Associated Press Writer HELENA - Montana and other states will have to get involved in the railroad business if they want to keep Amtrak passenger service, a Bush administration official said Tuesday. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta used a telephone news conference with Montana reporters to plug the administration's proposal, unveiled in mid-April, to transform Amtrak into a program relying on federal and state funding for its operation and local officials making decisions about rail service. The legislation would...
Ellen Thompson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com A local farmer who died Memorial Day in a tractor accident will be remembered Friday at a funeral service. Dean Russell Clayborn, 59, died Monday afternoon after his tractor rolled down a steep coulee. Clayborn was discovered soon afterward by neighbors on their way to the Clayborn residence, friend and neighbor Ed Nystrom said. "Apparently Mr. Clayborn got too close to the edge of a coulee and the load shifted on his tractor, sending it...
The (Kalispell) Daily Inter Lake POLSON (AP) - The Cessna banks hard, turning tightly with a wing pointed down toward the signal emanating from a radio collar on one of the wolves in Northwest Montana's Hog Heaven Pack. The wolf is hidden in a timber thicket far west of Polson, and no more than 200 yards away is a mother bison with a calf. These bison are not wild. They are livestock. Within a radius of no more than two miles is another collared wolf, two large clusters of bison and a single elk. The collared wolves of the...
A facility called Lewis' Overlook, commemorating Captain Meriwether Lewis' trip up the Marias River 200 years ago, will be dedicated Thursday at Lake Elwell. The project is a joint effort by the Marias Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, the North-Central Bicentennial Commission, the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, Liberty County, the Bureau of Reclamation, Chester High School Industrial Arts Shop, area 4-H groups and the Boy Scouts of America. The event starts at 11 a.m. and will run through...
Associated Press Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston - NASA's new administrator and Texas Republican Rep. Tom DeLay said Tuesday the space agency will have the necessary funding to implement President Bush's vision to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars. ''We have the money to do good things,'' said Michael Griffin, who has visited at least seven of NASA's centers since he was appointed in April. During a two-day visit at the home of human spaceflight, he spoke with astronauts, flight directors and other top administrators.... Full story
Damage to scenic road pegged at $20 million Associated Press Writer RED LODGE - Repairing stretches of the scenic Beartooth Highway damaged or destroyed by mudslides will cost about $20 million, with no estimate on when the work might be completed, officials told a town meeting Tuesday. The highway is a route to Yellowstone National Park's northeast entrance that winds over 10,940-foot Beartooth Pass. The late journalist Charles Kuralt called it ''the most beautiful roadway in America.'' But it is more than the scenery to... Full story
of passage GILDFORD - "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." A line from a Semisonic song served as an appropriate class motto for the six people who took the leap from high school to the future at the 2005 KG graduation on Sunday. The same could be said for the 14 students on the last flight of the Blue Sky Eagles in Rudyard on Saturday afternoon. They represented the end of one beginning. The new beginning starts in the fall, when the remaining students from both schools come together as the North...
Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com In its last appearance at the State Class B Track Meet, the Chinook High School track team made the most of it, despite having just a handful of competitors. The Sugarbeeters qualified five girls for the state meet in Bozeman, but those five girls were good enough to score 27 points to finish seventh in the overall team standings. Missoula Loyola won the girls team title with 68 points, while Seeley-Swan was second with 62. On the...
Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre Northstars introduction to wooden bats was a cold one at best. However, the Northstars warmed up to hitting with the lumber, finishing 2-3 at the Tom Taleff Memorial Tournament over the weekend in Great Falls. Havre opened the tourney Friday evening with a 2-0 loss to the Great Falls Electrics. The Northstars managed just one hit - a single by Eric Fanning, souring a solid pitching performance by Sean Peterson. The...
Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com Don Holst didn't want to be sitting in Missoula 10 years from now living with regret. After being unceremoniously fired after the 2002 season as the head coach of the University of Montana men's basketball coach, Holst has returned to the college basketball coaching world, accepting an assistant coaching position at Utah State on Tuesday, rejoining Aggies' head coach and former mentor Stew Morrill. "Don Holst is an exciting...
Dean Russell Clayborn, 59, of Havre died Monday, May 30, 2005, at the Clayborn farm from a tractor accident. A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Friday at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. A fellowship luncheon will be held at the Vets Club immediately after the service. Interment of the cremated remains will be held at the Clayborn farm. Dean was born in Havre on Aug. 4, 1945, to Margaret (Flatness) and Harold Clayborn. Dean graduated from Havre High School in 1965. On Aug. 6, 1966, he married Lorraine Vosen. They... Full story
Larry Kline Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com By all accounts, the Havre school board will have a much easier task developing the 2006-2007 budget than it has had in years. An infusion of funding from the Legislature and the support of local voters will allow Havre Public Schools to maintain the level of services it offered to students this year and restore funding in some areas that had been cut. At a meeting Tuesday night, school officials presented budget proposals to the board. They would...
Larry Kline Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The city of Havre and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation got a little closer on Tuesday. Havre Mayor Bob Rice and five Havre City Council members sat down and spoke with members of the Chippewa Cree tribal council face-to-face, with the intent of bringing two communities that are geographic neighbors closer together in other ways. Tribal council members also had Gov. Brian Schweitzer's ear Tuesday, as he rounded out his tour of Montana reservation...
Associated Press Writer HELENA - Montana and other states will have to get involved in the railroad business if they want to keep Amtrak passenger service, a Bush administration official said Tuesday. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta used a telephone news conference with Montana reporters to plug the administration's proposal, unveiled in mid-April, to transform Amtrak into a program relying on federal and state funding for its operation and local officials making decisions about rail service. The legislation would... Full story
Ellen Thompson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com A local farmer who died Memorial Day in a tractor accident will be remembered Friday at a funeral service. Dean Russell Clayborn, 59, died Monday afternoon after his tractor rolled down a steep coulee. Clayborn was discovered soon afterward by neighbors on their way to the Clayborn residence, friend and neighbor Ed Nystrom said. "Apparently Mr. Clayborn got too close to the edge of a coulee and the load shifted on his tractor, sending it...
The (Kalispell) Daily Inter Lake POLSON (AP) - The Cessna banks hard, turning tightly with a wing pointed down toward the signal emanating from a radio collar on one of the wolves in Northwest Montana's Hog Heaven Pack. The wolf is hidden in a timber thicket far west of Polson, and no more than 200 yards away is a mother bison with a calf. These bison are not wild. They are livestock. Within a radius of no more than two miles is another collared wolf, two large clusters of bison and a single elk. The collared wolves of the...
A facility called Lewis' Overlook, commemorating Captain Meriwether Lewis' trip up the Marias River 200 years ago, will be dedicated Thursday at Lake Elwell. The project is a joint effort by the Marias Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, the North-Central Bicentennial Commission, the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, Liberty County, the Bureau of Reclamation, Chester High School Industrial Arts Shop, area 4-H groups and the Boy Scouts of America. The event starts at 11 a.m. and will run through... Full story
Associated Press Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston - NASA's new administrator and Texas Republican Rep. Tom DeLay said Tuesday the space agency will have the necessary funding to implement President Bush's vision to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars. ''We have the money to do good things,'' said Michael Griffin, who has visited at least seven of NASA's centers since he was appointed in April. During a two-day visit at the home of human spaceflight, he spoke with astronauts, flight directors and other top administrators....
