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A Havre man said he is running for Hill County justice of the peace because he believes he has been unfairly treated and targeted for retaliation by local law enforcement and judges and wants to stop that from happening to anyone else. Bruce Grant is challenging Judge Audrey Barger in her bid for re-election in the nonpartisan race. Grant, who said he was born in Harlem in 1963, said his most recent troubles started when a police officer searched his house at 1 a.m. a few...
The Hill County justice of the peace said she is running for a third term because if someone can help other people, they should. "The reason I want to do it is because I feel that I make a difference," she said. Barger faces Bruce Grant in the nonpartisan race for the seat. Barger, who said she was born in Malta in 1961 and then moved with her family to Polson, didn't think her life would take her this direction while she was growing up. "I never dreamed I would be a judge,"...
The sixth-grade Montana history classes at Havre Middle School got a crash course in archaeology from former history teacher Jima Magera. From Monday to Wednesday, Magera had been bringing in his own personal collection of Native American artifacts and sharing them with the students of HMS. Magera taught for 45 years and 31 of those years were in Havre, he said. He started in Box Elder and taught there for a few years. It took Magera some time before he became a history...
Bullhook Community Health Center in Havre is making strong efforts to combat opioid drug addiction in the community, offering many different treatments and resources to help people live clean productive lives, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Suzanne Lockwood said. Havre is not facing anything that isn’t being faced across the country, Lockwood said, with Havre, compared to the national figures, having a lower rate of drug-related deaths. She added Bullhook offers counseling, medically assisted treatment and a variety of o...
Havre Police Department Officers at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday investigated a car-motorcycle crash on First Street. -- After receiving a call at 8:32 p.m. from First Street West in which the caller said a person went into a casino and left two young children in a vehicle, officers issued a summons to Leonie Candace Webb of Dodson, 53, on a charge of endangering the welfare of children. -- After a caller from First Street West at 1:56 this morning reported a disturbance outside of an...
The Hill County Mosquito Control District Board will meet Monday at 5:15 p.m. in the district office at the Road and Weed Shop Comples, 1405 West Second St., Havre. The meeting agenda is: 1) Review minutes from previous meeting 2) Correspondence 3. Unfinished business a) Budget update b) Larvicide aplications c) Fogging applications 4. New Business a) Budget review b) Meeting dates for 2019 c) Purchase order approval d) Report on NWMCA Conference e Contract with Weed District 5. Announcements — Non-action items 6. Public C...
Earl O. Wasson, a WWII U.S. Army veteran and farmer, passed away at Hi-Line Retirement Center in Malta on October 13, at the age of 101 years. Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M., Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Kirkwood Memorial Chapel. Interment with military honors will be in the Malta Cemetery Earl Ordean Wasson was born to Orrin F. Wasson and Clara Christofferson Wasson at Velva, North Dakota, on February 28, 1917. He graduated from Velva High School. In 1937, he came...
The Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team enjoyed quite the ride the past few years. From multiple trips to the NAIA national tournament, appearances in the Frontier Conference championship game and countless NAIA All-Americans and Frontier Conference honors, the Skylights have cemented themselves as a premier team in women’s basketball. But, that ride came to a grinding halt a year ago, as devastating injuries set Northern back on its way it to a 3-15 rec...
Press release District 4 HRDC will be closed from noon to 1p.m. Monday for a Staff Appreciation Luncheon....
Press release The Havre High School speech and debate team is hosting a tournament Saturday, Oct. 27, and is inviting people to judge at the tournament. “We are contacting people and, as always, we are having a great response, but we don’t want to miss anyone,” head coach Tim Leeds said. “I know we have lost contact with some people who have retired, changed jobs or changed phone numbers or emails, and some people who haven’t judged for Havre High before might be interested. They can sign up online or contact me if they want...
Amari Ahenakew is 2 years old and she has a fatal rare disease that requires her family to travel across Montana to get the medical help she needs. Amari was diagnosed with pyruvate carboxylase deficiency type A on June 19, 2017, her father, Lyle, said. The National Organization for Rare Disorders describes PC deficiency as a genetic disorder that inhibits the body's ability to produce the necessary fuel for energy and neurotransmitters important for brain function. There are...
Editor, I am a member of the Hill County Park Board and we would like to give a special thanks to Associate Professor Terri Hildebrand, Ph.D., from Montana State University-Northern’s College of Art, Sciences and Education. Terri, with assistance from Lou Hagener, who is part of the grazing committee for Beaver Creek Park, and some of her students have taken on a long-term project to create and maintain a set of natural resource monitoring data on the ecological health and functioning of natural resources of Hill C...
I should have a good ten years of health ahead of me, since the last time I was this sick with a head cold was a good ten years ago. The prevailing wisdom is, if you don’t medicate a cold, it will wear itself out in two weeks. If you do medicate a cold, it will hang on fourteen days. In these two miserable weeks, I’ve hardly left my bed. Medical advice from the young men on the Rancho; Tequila. Medical advice from my cousin Jim; Whiskey. My Medicine Cabinet is empty. My fri...
The second half of the Frontier Conference volleyball season is about to begin. And the Montana State University-Northern Skylights are still in search of their first conference win. But, if the Skylights (0-6, 1-17) are going to get that first league win this week, they'll have to do it on the road. After the bye week, Northern resumes its four-match road trip tonight, with a visit to Montana Tech in Butte. The Skylights will then head west to battle Lewis-Clark State...
The Havre High volleyball team has been stringing together a lot of wins recently, however, only one of those victories came within the Central A conference. But, after playing six of their last seven matches against non-conference opponents, the Blue Ponies will play three straight against Central A teams to close out the season, starting tonight with Livingston. The Rangers and Ponies, who will be meeting for the second time in 2018, will play inside the HHS gymnasium, with...
For every cross country team in the state of Montana, there is one goal, and that's to peak at the All-Class state meet. Well, for every classification, the state meet is Saturday in Missoula and that means crunch time has finally arrived. For the Havre High cross country teams, the work started back in August and at the first meet in Cut Bank in early September. Now, fresh off the Eastern A Fall Classic, both Blue Ponies teams will head to Missoula for the Class A state...
