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Emily Mayer All of the October 1893 issues of The Havre Advertiser are missing on microfilm and do not resume until Nov. 2. So, for October, we will visit what was happening in Havre in 1898, when it was only incorporated for five years. The following information comes from the Sept. 30, 1898, issue of The Milk River Eagle for this, the 39th installment of this series celebrating Havre’s 120th anniversary of incorporation. Elections were going on this week in 1898, so there w...
A sinkhole opened up on 3rd Street, close to the 5th Avenue intersection, early this morning. Bullhook could be seen running perpendicular to 3rd Street through the approximately four-foot long hole in the middle of the road. Kachina Detonancour, an employee at Taco Treat, was one of the first to discover the hole in the street when she arrived at work around 7:45 a.m. “I was worried about all the school buses that come down this street, so I blocked the hole with trash c...
BOZEMAN . (AP) — A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton unearthed in Montana in 1988 looks like it'll be staying in Big Sky Country a little longer due to the government shutdown. The Wankel T. rex was scheduled to leave the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University in Bozeman next Friday and be trucked across the country to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on a 50-year loan. The Museum of the Rockies had requested a Federal Express semitrailer to haul the fragile cargo. On Friday, the museums and the U.S. A...
BILLINGS (AP) — A second case of the livestock disease brucellosis in just over a week has turned up in a Montana cattle herd, coinciding with new restrictions on animals exported to Texas because of worries that infections could spread beyond the region. Friday test results from a federal animal health laboratory confirmed the latest infection in a bull that came from a herd of about 550 cattle in southern Montana's Park County, state veterinarian Marty Zaluski said. Another case was confirmed in a Madison County cow S...
New charges of embezzlement at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation have been filed in federal court, with four people and a corporation pleading not guilty in federal court in Great Falls. Former state Rep. Tony Belcourt, D-Box Elder, also a former Chippewa Cree Tribe Business Committee member, his wife, Hailey Belcourt, psychologist James Howard Eastlick Jr., Hunter Burns and the Hunter Burns Construction company of Box Elder pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of embezzling federal funds, theft from a tribal government r...
4-year-old Garilee Henderson has died in a one-vehicle rollover juat outside Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The Montana Highway Patrol says the woman was traveling east on Upper Box Elder Road at 7:15 a.m. Thursday. Authorities said she failed to negotiate a sweeping turn. Her sport utility vehicle left the road and rolled several times. Highway Patrol said speed and alcohol were a factor in the crash. The woman was thrown from the SUV and died at the scene....
Did you know you can get a flu shot too early? The present scramble to get flu shots early concerns me. I am afraid that this rush is based on financial gain to those giving the immunizations, particularly chain pharmacies, and not actual facts of influenza in Montana ... or is based on recommendations that apply to the East Coast but not the West in general, and certainly not Montana. More than 75 percent of the population of the United States lives within 200 miles of the east coast; national recommendations for early...
Pamville News editor’s note: The following column is an editor’s note from Pamville News editor. In a show of solidarity with all of the people placed on furlough due to the government shutdown caused by the complete incompetent failure of the House and Senate members to do their job to keep the United States running, North 40 columnist Pam Burke is not writing a column this week. Upon hearing this, as the editor of Pamville News, I sent one of our bravest reporters aro...
Laurel — Efforts are underway at Indian reservations around the state to organize people to demand that reservations be corruption-free. The group met in Havre Wednesday night with representatives of five of the state’s seven reservations. No one has been hurt more by corruption at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and the Blackfeet Reservation than residents of those reservations. More often, we are seeing residents object to having federal money designed to help them be stolen by tribal big shots. Formation of this group is...
Garilee Henderson, 31, of Rocky Boy, passed away on Thursday, October 3, 2013, due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. Wake services will be held beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and will continue until her funeral service which will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. Burial will follow in Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements, and you can leave your memories and condole...
Anita Coffrin Hull (Wilford), 94 of Bellingham, Wash., passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 29, 2013. She was born Sept. 14, 1919, in Mona, Mont., to Everett and Belva Coffrin. Anita graduated from the University of Montana in 1968 and later studied abroad in Avignon, France. She was a longtime member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She loved studying the meaning and origin of words, reading literature and writing short stories. Anita was a wonderful hostess and enjoyed...
Ann D. Kuhr of Havre, Mont., passed away on Sept. 18, 2013, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, Idaho. Anndy, as her friends and family knew her, was a magical force full of style and grace, who devoted her life to family, friends and community and made countless dreams come true. She was born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y. She met and married the love of her life, Max, at the University of Michigan while in college. When East met West, they formed an unbreakable bond. Carrying h...
The Havre Police Department has issued a release warning people of a scam where the confidence artists claim to be police officers. The release said scammers are calling people — from numbers listed as with a 406 area code — and telling them a warrant has been issued for their arrest for missing jury duty. The scammers tell the people they must pay a fine or they will be arrested, and give instructions on where to send the money, saying that they might be able to get the money back after going to court. In actuality, peo...
Havre Police Department A 54-year-old Havre man was issued a summons for a suspended or revoked driver’s license and criminal contempt after officers received a 7:42 a.m. Thursday call about a man driving away from the the police department after a 24/7 Sobriety Program check-in at the police station. ——— A 35-year-old Havre man was arrested for theft and possession of drug paraphernalia after officers received a 11:18 a.m. Thursday call to assist another agency on River Road. ——— A 49-year-old Havre man was issued a summ...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Five people who are accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus aid from Montana's Chippewa Cree tribe have pleaded not guilty to four charges in a new indictment. Former state Rep. Tony Belcourt, his wife, Hailey, and three others entered their pleas Thursday in U.S. District Court in Great Falls. They are accused of diverting some of the $33 million in federal funding the tribe received in 2009 and 2010 for construction of a water pipeline to the Rocky Boy's Indian R...
Black-footed ferrets were released into the bison conservation area at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation Thursday. The ferrets have been decimated by human expansion and farming, as well as a plague that lowered both the numbers of ferrets and their main prey: prairie dogs. “The fate of the ferret is very linked with the fate of the prairie dog,” said John Hughes, a wildlife biologist from Wellington, Colo. The black-footed ferret is very, if not completely, dependant upon pra...
A 31-year Havre High School history teacher continues to add to knowledge at the high school, outside of his returning from retirement to substitute teach. Jim Magera, who started teaching at Havre High in 1981 and retired in the spring of 2012, has donated between 1,500 and 2,000 — possibly more — books from his extensive collection, which he started acquiring as a youth close to 60 years ago. Magera said donating the books wasn’t an easy decision — “It’s kind of tough to ge...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team has proven to be unbeatable at home so far this fall. And if the Skylights can take that same type of winning to the road, this season could turn out to be the best in Northern history. The Skylights are already 2-0 in Frontier Conference road matches this season, but starting tonight in Butte, MSU-N faces its toughest road trip to date. Tonight, the Skylights (5-0, 13-4) visit a much-improved Montana Tech squad at 7, and...
One down, two more to go for the Havre High volleyball team this weekend. But the first of three matches didn’t go as planned for the Central A Blue Ponies. Thursday night the Ponies faced the CMR Rustlers in Great Falls. The Rustlers defeated the Ponies in three games by scores of 25-17, 25-12, and 25-12. With the loss the Ponies record is now 3-6 overall, but remains 1-1 in the conference. Game one against the Rustlers was the Ponies’ most competitive showing of Thursday night as they put up 17 points in the loss. But wit...
It’s homecoming week in Montana, and both the Montana State Bobcats and the Montana Grizzlies have huge showdown at home on Saturday. In Bozeman, the No. 8 Bobcats host No. 16 Northern Arizona in a critical Big Sky Conference clash, and both teams are riding high coming into Saturday’s tilt at Bobcat Stadium. Last Saturday, MSU (1-0, 3-2) opened Big Sky play with a thrashing of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. In that game, the Cats welcomed back senior qua...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights are in the midst of a three-game, month-long journey keeping them away from home, and out of Blue Pony Stadium. But that journey could very well help decide the Frontier Conference championship at season’s end. Northern’s road trip started last Saturday when the Lights stunned then No. 15 UM-Western in Dillon, 33-21. Now, MSU-N will try and do it all over again as the No. 19 Lights (4-1, 4-1) clash with the No. 16 Rocky Mou...
In a sport where you get just one opportunity to compete at home each season, the Havre High cross country teams are looking to take full advantage of hosting the annual Havre Invite. Saturday, the Blue Ponies won’t be on the road, and they won’t be worrying about executing on a strange course. Instead, the Ponies will host the Havre Invite on the campus of Montana State University-Northern in Havre. The race begins and ends on the lawn in front of Cowan Hall. And the mid...
The Havre High football team has surpassed the midway point of the 2013 football season. And while the postseason is still at least four weeks away, the Blue Ponies play an extremely important conference game tonight. Playing on the road, the Central A Ponies (2-2-1, 1-0) will face the conference favorite Belgrade Panthers in Belgrade at 7. Anything is still possible in the conference standings as the rest of the regular season unfolds, but right now, this game looks like it...
Saturday night marks the second meeting between Havre High and Browning on the volleyball court this season. But while a Central A conference win is on the line, Saturday also marks a special day for the Blue Pony seniors. Before facing the Indians at the Havre High gymnasium on Saturday, six HHS seniors will be honored on senior night. This will be the last time the HHS seniors play volleyball on their home court, and the six girls deserve one last win in front of home fans....
A simple description of 5-9, 165 pounds might best describe the majority of the prep football players across the state. But narrow the focus to the surrounding Hi-Line area, bring up the fact that this player has spent the majority of his free time over the last half a decade in the weight room in an effort to get better, and a specific local athlete may come to mind. And while there are plenty of high school football players that get better in the weight room, there are also...
