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The air is turning colder and we've even seen some snow here and there. So, that no doubt signals that hunting season on the Hi-Line, and across Montana is now in full swing. Last weekend, the general antelope season get underway, and now, we're just one week away from the start of the general deer and elk seasons. Here's a look at some important dates that hunters should know about as hunting season kicks into high gear. For antelope, the 900 series runs until Nov. 11, while...
Havre Daily News hosted a local candidate forum Wednesday night at Montana State University's Applied Sciences Center in Hensler Auditorium, with Hill County candidates in contested races introducing themselves and answering some questions from the moderator and the audience. Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel moderated the forum, asking each candidate questions about their respective positions. Republican Penny Hadford and incumbent Democrat Hill County...
More than 50 people came out to the public forum at Montana State University-Northern's Applied Technology Center Wednesday, many of the candidates for the Montana Legislature spoke on issues and answered questions from the audience. Candidates were given two minutes to speak and answer each question during the forum. Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel moderated the event and thanked everyone for attending the forum. House District 28 Kegel asked House District 28 candidates,...
Our beloved brother, father, and grandfather, Michael Wendland Kaftan, 57, died in his sleep on October 7, 2018. Michael was born in Sidney, Montana, to Robert and Genevieve Kaftan on November 3, 1960. Raised in Havre, Montana, he graduated Havre High School in 1979. On December 29, 1982, Michael married Pat Forman, with whom he had two sons. The couple later divorced but remained friends. Family was most important to Michael. He was the proud father of sons, Tyler and Jason,...
Patricia A. Hedges, 84, passed away on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, due to natural causes at Northern Montana Care Center. Visitation will be from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 14, 2018 at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel. A Vigil service will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 14, 2018, and a funeral Mass will be at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, October 15, 2018, all at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. Patsy’s family has suggested honorariums be made in her name to the St. J...
Sylvia D. Murray, 75, passed away Tuesday, October 9, 2018, due to natural causes at her residence. A visitation will be held from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m. at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel Friday, October 12, 2018. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 13, 2018, at the Havre Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Sylvia’s family has suggested memorial donations be made in her name to the Fort Assiniboine Genealogical Society, c/o Virginia Nabor, 130 Centurian, Havre, MT 59501. Holland & Bonine F...
Havre Police Department An 11th Street caller asked Wednesday at 8:17 a.m. to speak with an officer about suspicious activity. -- A caller in the Third Avenue alley reported a vehicle crash Wednesday at 9:49 a.m. -- Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. a caller reported a vehicle fender bender in a First Street parking lot. -- Officers were asked Wednesday at 12:52 p.m. to give assistance to someone on Second Street. -- A caller on 19th Street asked for assistance Wednesday at 7:50 p.m....
A front-page story in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about Conor Burns’ campaign for the representative seat in House District 28, running against Rep. Jacob Bachmeier and independent candidate Bob Sivertsen, misreported some of Burns’ history. He was deployed to the Persian Gulf in January 2001, before the 9/11 attacks, and was stationed in San Diego, California, in 2003. When he moved to Havre, he transferred his VFW membership to VFW Post 497, but has not been active due to scheduling confl...
Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney spoke to people in Havre Wednesday about Initiative 185, which would raise taxes on tobacco, e-cigarettes and vaping products to help fund HELP - Montana's Medicaid expansion - and other services in the state. "I think it's important to kind of set the record straight on what's being said and some of the confusion that's been thrown into this issue during the campaign," Cooney said. "Simply put, big tobacco companies are dumping millions of dollars into...
Rocky Boy resident Gavin Tyrone Sutherland is set to be arraigned this afternoon in Great Falls on a charge of second degree murder stemming from a death on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation in July. FBI spokesman Douglas Davis said Sutherland was charged Wednesday in the murder of Shannon Dora Cole Licht, who was found dead in her residence the morning of July 7. A charging document said that when Sutherland was interviewed Oct. 3, he waived his Miranda rights and told the investigator, “I killed my sister … I choked her” after...
Being sick gives new meaning to the much overworked cliché, “There is no place like home.” Home to warm sunshine. Home to my own bed. Home. The rainy season is nearing the end. The “boys” tell me that while I was shivering up north, down here, 40 days and 40 nights, storms of Biblical proportions dumped rain and wreaked havoc. I feel like I have been away a very long time. All I cared about was my own bed. My house still had a roof. If it floated away with me in it, so be it. Being home this soon had not been my intentio...
The Havre High volleyball team has been on a roll in recent weeks, winning five of their last six matches. However, the Blue Ponies won all those matches at home, and now it’s time to see if they can carry over that success to the road. This week, Havre will get two chances to prove its prowess on the road, starting tonight in Browning, when HHS will battle its former Central A rival. The Ponies and Indians will get things started tonight approximately at 7. Havre will then h...
I walked out of Washington-Grizzly Stadium last Saturday a broken man. Yeah, I know that’s a little dramatic, but for any of you who saw the Montana Grizzlies’ loss to Portland State, you can understand that being broken might not be a stretch. On the long journey from the stadium back to my traditional parking spot in downtown Missoula, I didn’t say maybe more than two words to my wife. But in my head I said a lot. In the 10-15 minutes it takes to slog back downtown, I basic...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights don't open their season for two more weeks, when they take on Eastern Oregon in a Cascade Conference dual. But this week inside the wrestling room the Lights are still preparing to take the mat. That's because Saturday, Northern will host its annual MSU-N Alumni Dual. The friendly rivalry between past and presents Lights annually kicks off Northern's wrestling season and, while things are generally pretty light-hearted, that...
