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After 40 years living in Havre, Ed Matter is running for City Council. The retired radio station manager is seeking to fill the Ward 1 seat held by Pam Hillery who is retiring. He will face off against engineer Douglas Vance in the local elections. Matter said he had been mulling a bid for City Council for a long time, but the lure of an open seat, encouragement by Council President Andrew Brekke and a growing interest in the proposed bond measure to repair city streets,...
LODGE POLE — Carmen O. Moccasin, 29, a BIA firefighter, died Monday, Oct. 12 at her home. Wake services will be 7 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 14, at the Chief Nosey Center in Lodge Pole. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Thursday, at the Chief Nosey Center. Burial will be in Lodge Pole Cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left at www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com....
Great Northern Fair Manager Mike Sharp has been fired. Hill County Personnel Manager Emily Meyer confirmed that Sharp’s employment was terminated last week by the Great Northern Fair Board. She said she could comment no further. Alma Seidel, chair of the fair board, said she could say nothing about what happened. She said she would have to consult with County Attorney Gina Dahl to determine if she was allowed to say anything at a later date. “I really, really would like to say something,” she said. “But I have to check w...
Political office is something Douglas Vance never thought he would pursue. Nonetheless, he now finds himself mounting a campaign for Havre City Council. Vance, a vice president with Herberly and Associates, an engineering consulting firm, is running for the seat in Ward 1 held by Pam Hillery, who is not seeking re-election. He will go up against former school board member and retired KXEI station manager Ed Matter in the elections. Ballots will be mailed out Wednesday. When...
On adopting the $30 million street renovation renovation program? Matter: For— While acknowledging the proposed streets program will be “a huge amount of money” and it would have been cheaper to redo the streets years ago, “that doesn't change the fact that something needs to be done now.” Vance: For — “I think if we are going to live here, we need to take care of it.” On adopting a city manager form of government: Matter: Unsure — “The city manager idea I really like, but I am not so sure we can afford it.” Vance: Unsure...
A meeting about the possibility of opening a Native American Center in Havre will be held at 6 p.m. at the Havre-Hill County Library meeting room. This meeting will be a potluck, and the public is invited to attend....
From My Neighbor in Need The website http://www.myneighborinneed.org/havre rovides local citizens a way to ask for help from their community and a way for the community to give back. Current Needs My Neighbor in Need — An older woman who recently had surgery is in need of a used, clean or new full-size bed system with mattress and box spring. She is currently sleeping on a broken-down twin bed that is causing her great pain. Valley Furniture is able to provide a new full-size bed system for a discounted price of $349 which i...
Havre Police Department After a resident from 1st Street Northeast requested to talk to an officer about another tenant at 11:09 a.m. Monday, officers investigated the complaint. —— Kelly Schroeder Schwartzkopf, 45, of Havre was issued a summons on a charge of dog registration and vaccination required after a 13th Street West caller reported Monday at 3:24 p.m. a dog had bit her 4-year-old son. Hill County Sheriff’s Office Heather Rose Cochran, 27, of Harlem was arrested on a Justice Court warrant at Hill County Deten...
Havre city officials certainly aren't playing politics with the proposed $30 million streets repair program. There couldn’t be a worse time to present to residents a tax hike that will average more than $200 a year. Residents were just hit with a major increase in sewer rates because of a Washington- and Helena-mandated $10 million in upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant. While the state and the feds mandated the improvements they came with orders but no cash to help Havre taxpayers foot the bill. The city also has t...
On Saturday, Oct. 11, at 4 o'clock, Jim's children, Jesse and Diane, came to take our Dad and husband home to the Lord. Anyone who knew Jim, or "King Fish" as he liked to tease his family, would understand his wish not to have a funeral. He was preceded in death by two of his children, Jesse and Diane. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Joyce; two daughters, Dorothy and Judy (Mark); granddaughters, Candice and Jessica; as well as brothers, Joe and Daryl, and sister,...
Press release Rachel Nystrom of Havre Optometric Clinic has earned national certification as an optician. The American Board of Opticianry announced that Nystrom passed national competency examinations and the National Opticianry Competency Exam to be designated as a certified optician. The competency examination is a job-related test which measures knowledge in opticianry, the field of turning a doctor's prescription into actual eyeglasses or other vision aids and related...
Shane Ketchum, Box Elder Football The Box Elder Bears are on an unprecedented roll, and there are many reasons why. But in their latest win, senior Shane Ketchum was a huge reason. Ketchum scored five touchdowns in the Bears' 80-26 destruction of Westby-Grenora last Saturday. He caught a pair of TD passes, ran for two more, including a 65-yarder and scored on a 77-yard kickoff return as he racked up nearly 200 yards of total offense. Ketchum is a four-year starter for the...
Volleyball district tournaments are getting closer and closer, and with next weekend being a weekend off for many area high school volleyball teams, this past week’s matches were big. In perhaps the biggest match of the District 6C East season, the Chinook Sugarbeeters all but locked up another conference title when they beat the Chester/J-I Hawks last Thursday night in Chinook. The win kept Chinook unbeaten in conference play with just two matches to go. One of those is a r...
The Montana State University-Northern Rodeo team wrapped up its fall slate of rodeos recently at the UM-Western Rodeo in Dillon. George Marcenko and Tucker Hould came away with the UM-Western Team Roping Championship. They roped two steers in 13.6 seconds to claim the title. "George scored really well, and they both roped really smart, I was glad to see what they've been doing in practice come together," said head coach Doug Kallenberger. The duo helped to lead the Lights to...
Season-openers are never easy. Season-openers on the road are even more difficult. But the Montana State University-Northern men’s basketball team found a way to overcome both obstacles this past weekend. The Lights trekked north to Red Deer, Alberta, for an exhibition game and two regular season contests to open their 2015-16 season, and they came away with a pair of wins. Northern opened the year by beating Red Deer College Thursday night in an exhibition game, then the L...
The Chester/J-I Hawks and the Chinook Sugarbeeters have been on a collision course all season long. The two teams will meet this Wednesday in what will be the de facto Northern C championship game. But, this past weekend, in each team's final game before their showdown at Hoon Field, both the Hawks and the Beeters took care of conference foes to set up a highly-anticipated matchup of two of the five undefeated teams remaining in 8-Man football. In Chester, the Hawks battled...
